Vicente Valentim

Vicente Valentim is an assistant professor of Political Science at IE University and an Associate Member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD from the European University Institute in 2021. Before joining IE, Vicente was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He has held visiting positions at Stanford University, the Juan March Institute, and CSIC-IPP. Vicente is interested in comparative politics, political culture, and political behavior. Concretely, his work studies how democracies generate norms against behavior associated with authoritarianism, how those norms are sustained, and how they erode. Vicente’s work has been published or accepted in journals like the Journal of Politics (twice), British Journal of Political Science (twice), or Comparative Political Studies (twice). Among other awards, it has won the Jean Blondel Prize for best thesis written in an ECPR-member institution. His first book, "The Normalization of the Radical Right" will come out in 2024 both in English (Oxford University Press) and in Portuguese (Gradiva). More information about Vicente and his work can be found on his website: www.vicentevalentim.com.

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor of Political Science, IE University, Spain, 2024 - Present

• Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 2021 - 2024

Academic Background

• PhD in Political Science, European University Institute, Italy, 2021

• Master in Political Science, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, 2017

• BA in Music, Lisbon College of Music, Portugal, 2015

Selected Publications

• Dinas, E., Martínez, S., Valentim, V. (2024) “Social Norm Change, Political Symbols, and Expression of Stigmatized Preferences”. The Journal of Politics, 86(2)

• Valentim, V. (2021) “Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support”. Comparative Political Studies, 54(14): 2475–2511

• Valentim, V. (2024) “The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand”. Forthcoming in Oxford: Oxford University Press 

• Valentim, V. (2024) “Political Stigma and Preference Falsification: Theory and Observational Evidence”. Forthcoming in The Journal of Politics