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Raluca Pahontu is a Lecturer in Political Behaviour in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. She is an Associate Member of the Nuffield College Centre and an Affiliate Centre at LSE. After joining King’s, Raluca worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the London School of Economics. She earned her DPhil in Political Science from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Raluca's research primarily focuses on the intersection of political economy and political behaviour, employing advanced quantitative methods to examine how various factors influence public policy and political decisions. She is particularly interested in the study of comparative political systems and has a research agenda that engages with the impacts of historical events and public policy on political behaviour. Raluca is also involved in supervising PhD students, especially those interested in the quantitative analysis of political economy topics. Her work emphasizes the significance of empirical research in understanding the effects of societal shocks on political preferences and outcomes.
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