The Political Origins of Critical Social Science

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We study the emergence of “critical social science” as a political phenomenon, and investigate its political origins. Drawing on academic publication data we propose a measurement strategy that captures the output of critical social science at the level of universities, subnational locations and countries. Using our measure of critical social science, we chart its rise over time and space, and analyse its historical origins in radical student protest movements. Specifically, we look at whether the intensity and incidence of mass student protests 1968–1978 affects the university-level output of critical social science in the following decades.

Biography

Frederik Hjorth is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, where he leads the department's Danish and Comparative Politics research group.

Frederik's research focuses on political behavior and party politics. Substantively, his current research focuses especially on how citizens and mainstream parties respond to the rise of notionally extreme parties, in particular right-wing populist parties. What are the causes and consequences of political responses to extreme parties? And how do extreme parties themselves enter the political mainstream?

Methodologically Frederik Hjort is especially interested in using unstructured data such as text, tweets, or online metadata to study politics. In addition to his position at the Department of Political Science, he is affiliated with the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS).

Frederik's work has appeared or is forthcoming in political science journals including American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, and British Journal of Political Science. He has also published in other social science journals including American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Communication, and Nature Human Behavior. 

Organiser

Robert Klemmensen, Professor and responsible for research coordination at the Department of Political Science

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