Research Interests

constituency and local representation, legislative behaviour, satisfaction with democracy, vaccine acceptance and hesitancy

Selected Publications

Papp, Zsófia, Julien Navarro, Federico Russo & Laura Emőke Nagy (2024) Patterns of democracy and democratic satisfaction. Results from a comparative conjoint experiment. European Journal of Political Research, 63(4): 1445-1470. 

Papp, Zsófia & Godfred Bonnah Nkansah (2023) The political component of COVID-19 vaccine choice. Results from a conjoint experiment. Public Health, 217: 33-40.

Papp, Zsófia (2022) Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study. Political Geography, Vol. 97, 102652. 

Papp, Zsófia (2022) The Indirect Effect of Electoral Rules on Citizens’ Satisfaction with Democracy. A Comparative Study. Swiss Political Science Review; 28(1): 1-20. 

Papp, Zsófia (2019) Votes, money can buy. The conditional effect of EU Structural Funds on government MPs' electoral performance. European Union Politics, 20(4): 543–561.

Research Projects

Current projects

Electoral rules, representative roles and satisfaction with democracy – NKFIH FK 131569

Legislator responsiveness and satisfaction with democracy – János Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

REDIRECT – The REpresentative DIsconnect: diagnosis and strategies for RECTification – Funded by the EU’s Horizon-Europe programme (Call: HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01 - Democracy in Flux. Grant Number: 101095142)

Former projects

2019-2021 – Linkage as a source of satisfaction. Legislators’ responsiveness and citizens’ satisfaction with democracy – Incubator - Collaborative Research Projects Fund; HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences

2016-2018 – Legislator work and electoral performance – NKFIH PD 115747

2016-2019 – Personal accountability: legislator activities and (s)electoral outcomes – János Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences