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Dr Laszlo Horvath

Positions held:
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    I joined 糖心logo入口 in 2021, where I direct the MSc in Political Communication and help organise the 糖心logo入口 Centre for British Political Life.聽Previously, at the University of Exeter, I taught quantitative methods and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on several projects investigating media exposure and media effects in the UK. My research interest are in digital politics and governance, and more recently, public engagement in science-based policy.

    Highlights

    • recent paper: "Everyday Political Agency Online" at

    • recent paper: "The trust in government gap: National trust, local trust, and compliance" at

  • Research

    Research

    Research Centres and Institutes

    Research projects

    Evaluating civic technologies for local political engagement

    Abstract

    with Ben Worthy

    Civic technologies include a range of tools and platforms designed to support civic engagement. They might, for example, provide information about community initiatives or allow citizens to raise local issues with councillors.

    Do they enhance public inclusion?聽This project will produce empirical evidence to help policymakers and civic groups design and promote specific interventions. It will include a large-scale survey experiment with UK adults and a follow-up community study in a local library.

    Industry and community partners:

    • mySociety
    • Tate South Lambeth Library

    Exploring citizens' responses to science in public policy through natural language processing and conjoint experiments

    Abstract

    with聽Deborah Mabbett

    Outcomes
    • 聽on British Academy Evidence Hub
    • 糖心logo入口 press release聽with further links to BA and CST communications
    • 聽on LSE British Politics & Policy
    • 聽published聽at The Political Quarterly
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions within 糖心logo入口:
    3

    I welcome enquiries from students who are interested in undertaking research in any聽areas related to political communication broadly (e.g. the democratic performance of the media, citizens' trust in media institutions, misinformation and fact-checking, media and campaign effects) as well as digital technologies in governance and politics.

    Current doctoral researchers

    • SACHA MARTEN
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      The Gamergate Effect: why are some fandoms radicalised by the Far Right?
    • DANIEL GIBBONS
      Nature of supervision:
      PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      A Machine Republic?: AI, Child Welfare, and the Limits of State Knowledge
    • FIONA DENT
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      To explore and identify the novel effects of Large Language Models and Generative AI on political agency

    Teaching

    I am delivering core teaching for the MSc in Political Communication and postgraduate quantitative methods.

    Teaching modules

    • Digital Politics
    • Political Communications: Media, Campaigns, and Citizens
    • Applied Social Data Analysis in R
    • Governing by Numbers (Level 5)
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Banducci, S. and Horvath, Laszlo and Stevens, D. (2026) . Political Studies ISSN 0032-3217.
    • Banducci, S. and Horvath, Laszlo and Stevens, D. (2026) . Politics, Groups, and Identities ISSN 2156-5503. (In Press)
    • Horvath, Laszlo (2026) . The Political Quarterly ISSN 0032-3179. (In Press)
    • Horvath, Laszlo and Stevens, D. and Banducci, S. and Popp, R. and Coan, T. (2024) . Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 5 (1),
    • Antonucci, L. and D'Ippoliti, C. and Horvath, Laszlo and Krouwel, A. (2023) . Sociological Research Online 28 (1), pp. 110-131. ISSN 1360-7804.
    • Zhirnov, A. and Antonucci, L. and Thomeczek, J.P. and Horvath, Laszlo and D鈥橧ppoliti, C. and Mongeau Ospina, C.A. and Krouwel, A. and Kersting, N. (2023) . European Sociological Review ISSN 0266-7215.
    • Stevens, D. and Banducci, S. and Horvath, Laszlo (2023) . Politics and the Life Sciences ISSN 0730-9384.
    • Horvath, Laszlo and James, O. and Banducci, S. and Beduschi, A. (2023) . Government Information Quarterly 40 (4), pp. 101876. ISSN 0740-624X.
    • Stevens, D. and Banducci, S. and Horvath, Laszlo (2023) . Frontiers in Political Science 5, ISSN 2673-3145.
    • Horvath, Laszlo and Banducci, S. and James, O. (2022) . Journal of Experimental Political Science 9 (1), pp. 1-13. ISSN 2052-2630.
    • Horvath, Laszlo and Banducci, S. and Blamire, J. and Degnen, C. and James, O. and Jones, A. and Stevens, D. and Tyler, K. (2022) . BMJ Open 12 (1), ISSN 2044-6055.
    • Brown, L. and Horvath, Laszlo and Stevens, D. (2021) . Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 31 (S1), pp. 335-347. ISSN 1745-7289.
    • Everitt, J. and Horvath, Laszlo (2021) . Frontiers in Political Science 3, ISSN 2673-3145.
    • Antonucci, L. and Horvath, Laszlo and Kutiyski, Y. and Krouwel, A. (2017) . Competition & Change 21 (3), pp. 211-229. ISSN 1024-5294.

    Book

    • Banducci, S. and Horvath, Laszlo and Kolpinskaya, E. and Stevens, D., eds. (2025) . Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781399531283.

    Book section

    • Horvath, Laszlo (2025) . In: Nai, A. and Gr枚mping, M. and Wirz, D. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035301430.
    • Haong, J. and Patterson, D. and Banducci, S. and Tyler, K. and Stevens, D. and Blamire, J. and Degnen, C. and Horvath, Laszlo (2025) . In: Tyler, K. and Banducci, S. and Degnen, C. (eds.) Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times: Fractured Lives in Britain. Routledge. ISBN 9781032593135.
    • Stevens, D. and Banducci, S. and Kolpinskaya, E. and Horvath, Laszlo (2024) . In: Jackson, D. and Parry, K. and Harmer, E. and Lilleker, D. and Wright, S. and Firmstone, J. and Thorsen, E. (eds.) UK General Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign. Bournemouth University. pp. 115-115. ISBN 9781910042373.
    • Banducci, S. and Horvath, Laszlo and Kolpinskaya, E. and Stevens, D. (2022) . In: Rudolph, T.J. (ed.) Handbook of Politics and Public Opinion. Elgar Handbooks in Political Science. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781800379602.

    Monograph

    • Horvath, Laszlo and Mabbett, Deborah (2024) . London, UK: The British Academy.
    • Horvath, Laszlo and Banducci, S. and Stevens, D. (2020) . APSA Preprints Cambridge University Press (CUP).

    Other

    • Horvath, Laszlo and Mabbett, Deborah (2023) . LSE British Politics and Policy London School of Economics.

    External Repositories