Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Cossu, Elena, and Caterina Froio. 2025. ‘How Terror Attacks Shape Political Agendas on Multiculturalism in France’. Politics and Governance 13(0). doi:10.17645/pag.9743.

Cossu, Elena. 2024. ‘Application of Natural Language Processing to the Electoral Manifestos of Parties Characterised by Populist Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe’. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics 10(4): 6–33. doi:10.17356/ieejsp.v10i4.1230.

Cossu, E. (2023a). Clustering and Analysing Relevant Policy Dimensions of Populist, Left-Wing, Centrist, and Right-Wing Parties across Europe. Central European Journal of Public Policy, 17(1), 41–54. https://doi.org/10.2478/cejpp-2023-0004 (GitHub Code)

Cossu, E. (2023b). The Economic Effect Of Populist Rhetoric In Hungary. Online Journal of Modelling the New Europe, 41, 105–138. https://doi.org/10.24193/OJMNE.2023.41.05

Cossu, E. (2021). Understanding Contemporary Populism Through the Latin American Experience. AARMS – Academic and Applied Research in Military and Public Management Science, 20(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.32565/aarms.2021.3.4

Borges Aguiar G. M., & Cossu E. (2019). The Gravity Model for Trade Theory. Köz-gazdaság, 14(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.14267/RETP2019.03.25

In Progress

Rovny, J., Cossu, E., & Sattelmayer, L. The Social Bases of Democracy

Cossu, E., Cointet, J., Froio, C., Lachat, R., & Rovny, J. Conceptualizing Illiberalism Using Natural Language Processing

Cossu, E., & Mishra, S. Extremely Large and Efficient Neural Architecture for Political Polarization Prediction

Cossu, E. Mapping the Content of Illiberal Speech in Europe

Cossu, E., Tranos, E., Wolf, L., & Zhu, R. The dynamics of economic clusters in the UK using a novel, granular and bottom‑up industrial classification

Cossu, E., Tranos, E., Wolf, L., & Zhu, R. Clustering within buildings? The case of London

Cossu, E., Tranos, E., Wolf, L., & Zhu, R. Building an Atlas of Economic Activities using open web data

Reports

Cossu, E., Cointet, J.-P., Froio, C., Lachat, R., & Rovny, J. (2023). Literature Review on How to Measure Illiberalism Using Text Data. SciencesPo. https://www.authlib.eu/literature-review-how-to-measure-illiberalism-using-text-data/

Duysak, E., Thornton, I., Cossu, E., Martin, A., Martin, I., D’Arcy, Wishart, R., Philips, D., & Dimova, S. (2023). Yorkshire and Humber COVID-19 campaign pilot: Evaluation report (GOV-15058). UK Health Security Agency. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/652fe1fc92895c000ddcb9c3/Yorkshire-and-Humber-COVID-19-campaign-pilot-evaluation-report.pdf

Kerr, J., Morgan, MacNaboe, L., Cossu, E., Barton-Crosby, J., Fugard, A., & Sciarra, A. (2023). LNK Educate: Feasibility and pilot study. Youth Endowement Foundation. https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/evaluations/lnk-educate/

Other Publications

2024, Populists in Europe: A Political Group with Its Distinct Policy Preferences?, AuthLIB Blog

2022, A Small Country Trying To Go Big, A Big Union Trying Not To Go Small, Australian Institute of International Affairs

2021, Chinese vaccine diplomacy in Latin America could change the international order, ECPR The Loop

2020, Book Review: The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century by Rodrigo Aguilera, LSE Review of Books