Juraj Medzihorsky

I am an Assistant Professor in Social Data Science at the School of Government and International Affairs and Research Methods Centre, Durham University, and Project Manager for Statistical Computing at V-Dem. I previously worked at LSE Methodology, the University of Gothenburg, and CEU.

Research interests:

• Social Data Science, Methodology, Comparative Politics

Publications

Journal Article

• Lindberg, Staffan I. & Medzihorsky, Juraj (2020). Data for Politics: Creating an International Research Infrastructure Measuring Democracy. Patterns 1(4): 100056.
• Popovic, Milos, Jenne, Erin K. & Medzihorsky, Juraj (2020). Charm Offensive or Offensive Charm? An Analysis of Russian and Chinese Cultural Institutes Abroad. Europe-Asia Studies 72(9): 1445.
• Medzihorsky, Juraj (2019). Rethinking the D'Hondt method. Political Research Exchange 1(1): 1.
• Coppedge, Michael, Gerring, John, Knutsen, Carl Henrik, Krusell, Joshua, Medzihorsky, Juraj, Pernes, Josefine, Skaaning, Svend-Erik, Stepanova, Natalia, Teorell, Jan, Tzelgov, Eitan, Wilson, Steven L. & Lindberg, Staffan I. (2019). The Methodology of “Varieties of Democracy” (V-Dem)1. Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique 143(1): 107.
• Medzihorsky, Juraj, Popovic, Milos & Jenne, Erin K. (2017). Rhetoric of civil conflict management: United Nations Security Council debates over the Syrian civil war. Research & Politics 4(2): 205316801770298.
• Medzihorsky, Juraj (2015). Election Fraud: A Latent Class Framework for Digit-Based Tests. Political Analysis 23(4): 506.
• Medzihorsky, Juraj, Littvay, Levente & Jenne, Erin K. (2014). Has the Tea Party Era Radicalized the Republican Party? Evidence from Text Analysis of the 2008 and 2012 Republican Primary Debates. PS: Political Science & Politics 47(04): 806.

Education

• PhD Central European University (2007 — 2015)
• Visiting Student Polish Academy of Sciences (2011 — 2011)
• Visiting Scholar Columbia University in the City of New York (2010 — 2010)
• MA Central European University (2006 — 2007)
• Non-Degree Society for Higher Learning (2004 — 2006)
• Magister Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave (2001 — 2006)