Project Title: Assessing the Electoral Effectiveness of Mainstream-Party Candidates’ Democracy Rhetoric in Europe and the United States.
Justin’s doctoral research focuses on how mainstream-party politicians use rhetoric laden with notions of democracy and democratic backsliding in campaigns. The final project will test whether these narratives resonate with voters through survey experiments, interviews, and election data.
Justin is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Political Review and editorial assistant of the St Antony's Series at Palgrave Macmillan and of Perspectives on Politics. In 2025, he received an MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government) from St Antony's College, Oxford. His thesis focused on how autocrats employ strategies of indoctrination following mass nonviolent protest. From 2020 to 2023, Justin was assistant editor of the Journal of Democracy. He received his undergraduate in 2020 from Stanford University with honours in democracy, development and the rule of law.
