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Roland Kristo seeks to unpack the politics of macroeconomic misery. His research aims to better understand what shapes voter’s attitudes towards inflation and unemployment
Biography
Roland Kristo is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at UCL. His research focuses on the politics of macroeconomic misery. Prior to the PhD, he studied for an MSc in Data Science and Public Policy at UCL, and received a BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from King’s College London. He has also interned with the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London (IFS), and the Romanian Centre for European Policies in Bucharest (CRPE).
Research Title
The politics of macroeconomic misery: why do voters care about inflation and unemployment?
Research Summary
Roland’s PhD research seeks to unpack the politics of macroeconomic misery. His research aims to better understand what shapes voter’s attitudes towards inflation and unemployment, including how different types of voters, across different contexts, value inflation more or less than unemployment.
Research Interests
Political economy, political behaviour, elections, quantitative methods, text analysis.
Research Groups
Comparative Politics, Political Economy and Political Behaviour.