DAMIEN BOL
Associate Professor in Political Behavior
King's College London
I'm an Associate Professor in Political Science at King's College London and Director of the Quantitative Political Economy Research Group. Prior to that, I studied and worked at the Université de Montréal and UCLouvain. I've also held visiting positions at the Paris School of Economics and European University Institute.
I'm a political scientist by training but I frequently collaborate with economists trying to bridge the two disciplines. I study elections, voters and parties using surveys and exepriments. I try to understand people's experience of representative democracy across countries and political systems, and sometimes also to improve research methods in social sciences. Political scientists would say that I’m a rational choice analyst, but economists would say that I’m behaviorist. My fields are: comparative politics, political behavior (in polisci), behavioural economics and political economy (in econ). These last 10 years, I’ve coordinated a dozen of surveys and experiments in Western Europe, as well as Canada and Indonesia. To do so, I’ve been financially supported by the British Academy, the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, and the Montreal Centre for Democratic Citizenship.