Kostas Gemenis
Kostas Gemenis is an Assistant Professor of Politics and the Internet in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies. From 2018 to 2021 he was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and, previously, an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. From 2014 to 2021 he taught as an instructor at the ECPR Summer and Winter Schools of Methods and Techniques. His research interests include the study of elections and political parties, as well as the study of the design and impact of voting advice applications, and the proliferation of conspiracy theories in social media. In the context of his research, his proposal for a module to study conspiracy theories related to the COVID-19 pandemic was included in the 10th Round of the European Social Survey (ESS).
Ref. number | Date | Title | Funded by | Project role |
1 | 2018-2021 | The Political Economy of Growth Models | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies | Member of the research team, responsible for the call for tenders, the questionnair, and the pilot study. |
2 | 2012-2019 | PreferenceMatcher | Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA) | Member of the research team for creating voting advice applications in Greece, Germany, and the Netherlands. |
3 | 2014-2015 | Collective Action of Indignant Citizens in Greece (CAICG) | European Social Fund | Member of the research team for the telephone survey. |
4 | 2013-2014 | EUVOX 2014: Voting Advice Application for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament | European Parliament, Open Society Foundations, League of Young Voters in Europe | Member of the steering committee, responsible for the coding of political party positions, and member of the questionnaire research team. |
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
- Germann, M., Mendez, F., & Gemenis, K. (2023) Do Voting Advice Applications affect party preferences? Evidence from field experiments in five European countries. Political Communication, 40(5), 596-614.
- Gemenis, K. (2022) COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccination intentions among social media users. Statistics, Politics and Policy, 13(3), 279-296.
- Hanson, T., Helbling, M., Maxwell, R., Traunmüller, R., Gemenis, K., & Littvay, L. (2021) Developing a COVID-19 module for the European Social Survey. Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 3(1), 1-6.
- Gemenis, K. (2021) Explaining conspiracy beliefs and scepticism around the COVID-19 pandemic. Swiss Political Science Review, 27: 229–242.
- Gemenis, K. (2020) Ποιοί πιστεύουν στις θεωρίες συνωμοσίας για τον νέο κορωνοϊό; [Who believes the novel coronavirus conspiracy theories?] Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών [Greek Review of Social Research] 154: 97–108, doi: 10.12681/grsr.23523
- Bruinsma, B. & Gemenis, K. (2019) Validating Wordscores: The promises and pitfalls of computational text scaling. Communication Methods and Measures, 13: 212–227.
- Germann, M. & Gemenis, K. (2019) Getting out the vote with Voting Advice Applications. Political Communication, 36: 149–170.
- Gemenis, K., Mendez, F. & Wheatley, J. (2019) Helping citizens to locate political parties
in the policy space: A dataset for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, doi: 10.1163/24523666-00401002 - Gemenis, K. (2018) The impact of voting advice applications on electoral turnout: Evidence from Greece. Statistics, Politics and Policy, 9: 161–179.
- Gemenis, K. (2015) An iterative expert survey approach for estimating parties’ policy positions. Quality & Quantity 49: 2291–2306.
- Gemenis, K. & Nezi, R. (2015) Government-opposition dynamics during the economic crisis in Greece. Journal of Legislative Studies 21: 14–34.
- Gemenis, K., Konstantinidis, I. & Triga, V. (2015) Οι ηλεκτρονικοί σύμβουλοι ψήφου στην Ελλάδα [Voting advice applications in Greece]. Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία [Science and Society] 33: 177–210, doi: 10.12681/sas.102
- Gemenis, K. & Rosema, M. (2014) Voting advice applications and electoral turnout. Electoral Studies 36: 281–289.
- Gemenis, K. (2013) What to do (and not to do) with the Comparative Manifestos Project data. Political Studies 61(S1): 3–23.
- Gemenis, K. (2013) Estimating parties’ policy positions through voting advice applications: Some methodological considerations. Acta Politica 48: 268–295.
- Dinas, E. & Gemenis, K. (2013) The role of process incentives as a determinant of university students’ protest. European Political Science Review 5: 225–253.
- Gemenis, K. (2012) Proxy documents as a source of measurement error in the Comparative Manifestos Project. Electoral Studies 31: 594–604.
- Gemenis, K. (2012) The 2010 regional elections in Greece: Voting for regional governance or protesting the IMF? Regional & Federal Studies 22: 107–115.
- Dinas, E. & Gemenis, K. (2010) Measuring parties’ ideological positions with manifesto data: A critical evaluation of the competing methods. Party Politics 16: 427–450.
- Gemenis, K. & Dinas, E. (2010) Confrontation still? Examining parties’ policy positions in Greece. Comparative European Politics 8: 179–201.
- Gemenis, K. (2010) Winning votes and weathering storms: The 2009 European and parliamentary elections in Greece. Representation 46: 353–362.
- Gemenis, K. (2009) A green comeback in Greece? The Ecologist Greens in the 2007 parliamentary election. Environmental Politics 18: 128–134.
- Gemenis, K. (2008) The 2007 parliamentary election in Greece. Mediterranean Politics 13: 95–101.
Chapters in edited volumes and conference proceedings
- Gemenis, K. (2023) Using Facebook targeted advertisements to recruit survey respondents. In: 18th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/SMAP59435.2023.10255213
- Djouvas, C. & Gemenis, K. (2019) SmartCoding: An online platform for estimating political parties’ policy positions. In: 14th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/SMAP.2019.8864906
- Mendez, F., Gemenis, K. & Djouvas, C. (2014) Methodological challenges in the analysis of Voting Advice Application generated data. In: 9th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), pp. 142–148, doi: 10.1109/SMAP.2014.32
- Gemenis, K. & Van Ham, C. (2014) Comparing methods for estimating parties’ positions in Voting Advice Applications. In S. Marschall and D. Garzia, D. (eds.), Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. Colchester: ECPR Press, pp. 33–47.
- Gemenis, K. & Lefkofridi, Z. (2013) Greece: A critical assessment of Europeanization. In M. Mannin and C. Bretherton, eds. The Europeanization of European politics. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 95–107.
- CIS210 Introduction to Political Science
- CIS407 Research Design
- CIS418 Political Parties and Elections
- CIS486 Thematic Seminar Cluster Ι.Α. - Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis
- CIS164 Statistics for Social Sciences (2022-2023 academic year)
Qualification | Year | Awarding Institution | Department | Thesis Title |
PhD | 2010 | Keele University, United Kingdom |
| The impact of the European Union on political parties' environmental policy positions |
MA Political Science | 2005 | Leiden University, The Netherlands | Political Science | Ethnic groups in occupied countries: The logic of collaboration versus resistance |
BA (Hons) | 2003 | University of Macedonia, Greece | International and European, Economic and Political Studies |
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Period of Employment | Employer
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2021 | Today | Cyprus University of Technology | Limassol, Cyprus | Assistant Professor |
2018 | 2021 | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies | Cologne, Germany | Senior Researcher |
2010 | 2018 | University of Twente | Enschede, The Netherlands | Assistant Professor |
2010 | 2010 | Liverpool John Moores University | Liverpool, United Kingdom | Sessional Lecturer |
