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Chris Claassen is Professor of Political Behaviour at the University of Glasgow. His research sits at the intersection of public opinion, comparative politics, and political psychology, with a particular focus on what citizens think about democracy, race and immigration, and political identities, and why. He works primarily with large-scale survey data, original surveys and experiments, and quantitative methods for measuring latent attitudes.
His research has been published in leading journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Analysis. In 2021 he received a Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded to outstanding early-career scholars in the UK whose work has had international impact. His research has also been featured in outlets such as The Economist, The Washington Post, and The Conversation.