Dr Slava Mikhaylov

Lecturer in Political Science

• Name: Dr Slava Mikhaylov
• Position: Lecturer in Political Science
• Room: 2.01
• Telephone: +44 (0)207 679 4725
• Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 4969
• Email:  v.mikhaylov@ucl.ac.uk
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Introduction

Dr Slava Mikhaylov joined the Department in September 2010 as a Lecturer in Research Methods. He received his doctorate in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin. He has previously taught at Trinity College and London School of Economics. His research interests include political economy, methodology, energy politics, and leadership.

Publications

Articles

• "Economic voting in a crisis: the Irish election of 2011" (with Michael Marsh), Electoral Studies, forthcoming.
• "Natural Sentences as Valid Units for Coded Political Texts” (with Thomas Daubler, Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver). British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming. 
• “Coder Reliability and Misclassification in the Human Coding of Party Manifestos” (with Michael Laver and Kenneth Benoit), Political Analysis, 2012, 20(1): 78-91. Supplementary materials. Replication data available from Dataverse.
• “Scaling Policy Preferences From Coded Political Texts” (with Will Lowe, Kenneth Benoit, and Michael Laver), Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2011, 36(1, Feb): 123-155. Replication data available from Dataverse.
• "European Parliament elections and EU governance" (with Michael Marsh), Living Reviews in European Governance, 2010, 5 (4).
• “Treating Words as Data with Error: Estimating Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions” (with Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver), American Journal of Political Science, 2009, 53 (2): 495–513. Replication data available from Dataverse.
• “The significance of economy in the Russian bi-lateral treaty process” (with David Dusseault and Martin Hansen), Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2005, 38: 121-130.

Book chapters and edited publications

• “Utilitarian Advantage and Support for European Integration” (with Michael Marsh), in The Legitimacy of the European Union After Enlargement, Jacques Thomassen (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2009.
• European Elections after Eastern Enlargement: Preliminary Results from the European Election Study 2004 (with Michael Marsh and Hermann Schmitt, eds.), CONNEX: Mannheim, 2007.
• “I Love You, You Pay My Rent: the Game of Belarusian-Russian Integration” (with Alexander Baturo), in The CIS: Form or Substance, David Dusseault and Richard Sakwa (eds.), Helsinki University Press, 2006.

Data

• The Manifesto Project data extended to include the logit scales (introduced in "Scaling Policy Preferences From Coded Political Texts") and standard error estimates (introduced in “Treating Words as Data with Error: Estimating Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions”) available from Dataverse.

 Teaching

• Political Economy of Energy Policy (Fall 2012)
• Advanced Quantitative Methods (Fall 2012)
• PhD Research Seminar