Andrea Vik
About
I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). I have a research master’s (M.Sc.) in Communication Science with a spezialisation in political communication from the University of Amsterdam. During my masters, I worked part-time as a Junior Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and had a research internship as a Lab Assistant at The Behavioral Foundations Lab - Temple University.
My PhD is an integrated part of the UNREP project (UNelected REPresentatives: The Impact on Liberal Democracy in Europe) headed by Dr. Pieter de Wilde and funded by The Norwegian Research Council's FRIHUMSAM programme. The focus of my PhD will concern the psychological roots of the UNREP phenomena. I will benefit from psychological variables in order to obtain key insights into unelected representatives and how unelected representative claims can shape how citizens feel represented and the subsequent effects this may have on their view of liberal democracy. My PhD will as such incorporate several methods, such as twitter-based personality analysis, peer-assessments in personality, survey design and validation, and conjoint experimental design.
My specialization lays as such at the intersection of political communication and political psychology. My main research interest concerns the psychological foundations of citizens’ political behavior and beliefs, specifically; personality, identity, and emotions.
Knowledge Transfer
2023
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Academic lectureVik, Linn Andrea; De Wilde, Pieter; Aarøe, Lene; Treib, Oliver. (2023) Venturing Beyond the Vote: Routes to Feeling Represented Through Unelected Representation. . EPSA, European Political Science Association, Annual Meeting 2023-06-22 -
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Academic lectureVik, Linn Andrea. (2023) The Affective Turn in the Construction of Political Representation. The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Annual Meeting 2023-09-04 -
2022
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Academic lectureVik, Linn Andrea; De Wilde, Pieter. (2022) Reconceptualizing Feeling Represented. ISPP, Annual Meeting 2022 2022-07-14 -
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Academic lectureVik, Linn Andrea; De Wilde, Pieter; Treib, Oliver; Aarøe, Lene. (2022) Routes To Representation. ECREA, annual meeting, 2022 2022-10-19 -
2021
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Academic lectureVik, Linn Andrea; Vargiu, Chiara. (2021) Uncovering the Unelected: A Computational Personality Assessment of Unelected Representatives. ISPP Annual Meeting 2021-07-11 - 2021-07-13
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Academic lectureVik, Linn Andrea; de Wilde, Pieter. (2021) Feeling Represented: A New Approach to Measure How Citizens Feel Represented Through Representative Claims. ECPR Joint Sessions 2021-05-17 - 2021-05-21