Curriculum Vitae

School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin
alona.dolinsky1@ucd.ie · alonadolinsky.com · Google Scholar · ORCID
Last updated: September 2026. A PDF version is available on request.

Academic Positions

Affiliations

Education

Research Projects

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

• Accepted – August 2026. “Challenges for multilingual computational text analysis researchers: Evidence from a Survey of Social Scientists.” Acta Politica (with Martijn Schoonvelde, Christian Baden, Fabienne Lind, Christian Pipal, Guy Shababo, Mariken A.C.G. van der Velden, and Avital Zalik).
• 2026. “Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals.” British Journal of Political Science 56: e37 (with Lena Maria Huber and Will Horne). [article, database, replication materials]
• 2026. “The growing importance of new cleavages and policy outcomes.” Parliamentary Affairs (with Thomas Prosser). [article]
• 2025. “Equivalence and Validity in Multilingual Computational Text Analysis: A Validation Framework.” Computational Communication Research 7(1) (with Fabienne Lind, Martijn Schoonvelde, Christian Baden, Christian Pipal, and Mariken A.C.G. van der Velden). [article]
• 2024. “Is Matilda Playing it? Gender in Computational Text Analysis Methods.” Computational Communication Research 6(1): 1–26 (with Mariken A.C.G. van der Velden). [article]
• 2023. “Parties’ Group Appeals Across Time, Countries, and Communication Channels—Examining Appeals to Social Groups via the Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset.” Party Politics 29(6): 1130–1146. [article]
• 2022. “What Determines Parties’ Choice of Incumbent-Renomination Methods? The Case of the UK Labour Party, 1979–2019.” Representation 58(4): 585–601. [article]

Book Chapters

• 2026. “Candidate Selection and Political Representation.” The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Representation, edited by André Freire, Eva Önnudóttir, Andrea Pedrazzani, and Hermann Schmitt (with Gideon Rahat). [link]

Manuscripts Under Review

• “Detecting and Classifying Multilingual Group Appeals.” Political Analysis (with Will Horne and Lena Maria Huber). [OSF pre-print]
• “Social investment and realigning ideologies and parties – a state-of-the-field review of changes in the demand and supply of social policies in Europe.” Politics & Policy (with Thomas Prosser).

Published Datasets

• 2026. “PSoGA: Sentence-Level and Manifesto-Level Social Group Appeals in Party Election Manifestos across Eight European Democracies, 1970–2025.” (with Lena Maria Huber and Will Horne). doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FVI3QW, Harvard Dataverse.
• 2025. “ManifestoVault V1.0: Annotated full-text general election manifestos at the natural-sentence level of three European countries 1970–2025.” (with Lena Maria Huber and Will Horne). doi.org/10.34894/VKQSPO, DataverseNL.
• 2022. “PGAD: Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset.” doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NZQGST, Harvard Dataverse.

Published Reports, Invited Blog Posts and Book Reviews

• 2022. Report: “Integrated standards and context-sensitive recommendations for the validation of multilingual computational text analysis.” OPTED Project (with Christian Baden, Fabienne Lind, Christian Pipal, Martijn Schoonvelde, Guy Shababo, and Mariken A.C.G. van der Velden). [link]
• 2022. Book Review: “Policy-making in coalition governments. The Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact Under Coalition Governance, by David Fortunato, Cambridge University Press 2021.” European Political Science 21: 657–659. [link]
• 2021. Book Review: “The Reshaping of West European Party Politics: Agenda-Setting and Party Competition in Comparative Perspective, by Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Oxford University Press 2019.” Representation 59(2): 357–363. [link]
• 2021. Blog Post: “What determines parties’ choice of incumbent-renomination methods? The case of Labour, 1979–2019.” LSE British Politics and Policy. [link]
• 2021. Blog Post: “The State of Israeli Politics: Elections and Group Appeals.” Political Studies Association. [link]
• 2019. Blog Post: “What do parties say and who do they say it to? Election campaigns as more than just policy appeals.” LSE Department of Government. [link]

Software and Large Language Models

• 2026. “GroupAppeals: A Python Package for Analyzing Social Group Appeals in Political Texts.” (with Will Horne and Lena Maria Huber). [GitHub, PyPI]
• 2025. “mDeBERTa NLI Stance Detection.” (with Will Horne and Lena Maria Huber). [HuggingFace]
• 2025. “mDeBERTa NLI Policy Detection.” (with Will Horne and Lena Maria Huber). [HuggingFace]
• 2025. “mDeBERTaV3 Bilingual Token Classifier.” (with Will Horne and Lena Maria Huber). [HuggingFace]
• 2025. “mDeBERTa Group-Category Classifier.” (with Will Horne and Lena Maria Huber). [HuggingFace]

Working Papers

• “Claim and Response: How Group Appeals Shape Voters’ Perceptions of Representation. Evidence from a Novel Survey of UK Voters.” (with Lena Maria Huber).
• “Defining and Classifying Group-Based Appeals: Toward a Unified Framework for Comparative Analysis.” (with Lena Maria Huber). [OSF pre-print]
• “Gendered Mediation in Personalised Campaigns: Media Bias Across Four Countries.” (with Susan Banducci and Hyerin Seo).
• “Parties, Groups, and Ideology: Changing Constellations in Post-Industrial Democracies.” (with Tristan Klingelhöfer and Marius Sältzer).
• “The Company They Keep: Group Appeals and Affective Polarization.” (with Jim Adams, Will Horne, and Lena Maria Huber).
• “More Than Symbols: How Women’s Representation Shapes Parties’ Electoral Appeals to Female Voters.” (with Maarja Lühiste, Lena Maria Huber, and Will Horne).
• “Representative Claims and Group Appeals.” (with Lucy Kinski and Lena Maria Huber).
• “Political Parties and Representational Claims—A political representation approach to group appeals.” (with Lena Maria Huber). [OSF pre-print]
• “Explanations for inequality and political efficacy: which causes which?” (with Joe Greenwood-Hau, Stefanie Reher, and Christine Stednitz).

Funding and Awards

Grants and Fellowships (Total: €1,295,330)

Awards

Teaching, Supervision and Mentoring

• Lecturer — 2026: Introduction to EU Politics (BA, University College Dublin), Comparative Political Representation (MA, University College Dublin); 2024–2025: Data Science: Visualisation and Analytics in R (VU Amsterdam); 2018, 2020: The Domestic Politics of Israel (Johns Hopkins University).
• Teaching Assistant / Junior Lecturer — 2015–2020: Introduction to Comparative Politics; Contemporary International Politics; Democracy and Elections (Johns Hopkins University); 2013–2014: Comparative Politics—Institutions and Processes (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
• Workshops & Guest Lectures — 2026: From Concept to Computation: Identifying Group Appeals in Text (COMPTEXT); 2024: Introduction to Visualization with R (COMPTEXT); Introduction to Automated Text Analysis (VU Amsterdam).
• Supervision — 2024: Primary and secondary supervisor of six MA theses (VU Amsterdam).
• Mentoring of PhD Students — Dylan Paltra (CONSTRUCT), Gilad Hurvitz (CONSTRUCT), Ambroos Verwee (Research Stay, VU Amsterdam).

Presentations

Invited Talks and Workshops

Conferences

• Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP): 2019, 2021, 2022, (2026)
• ECPR’s European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG): 2026
• The COMPTEXT Association: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI): 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
• European Political Science Association (EPSA): 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• American Political Science Association (APSA): 2019, 2024
• ECPR General Conference: 2021, 2024
• ECPR Joint Sessions: 2023
• International Communication Association (ICA): 2022
• UK Political Psychology: 2022
• Midwestern Political Science Association (MPSA): 2018, 2019, 2021

Professional Service

Committees

• EPSS Diversity Committee, since July 2025
• Network Institute Research Team, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2024–2025
• EPSA Diversity Committee, 2025
• Postdoc search, SPIRe, University College Dublin, 2022

Conference, Workshop and Panel Organizer

• 8th COMPTEXT Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, 2026
• 4th Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society (IWDS): Societally Engaged AI, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2025
• 6th COMPTEXT Annual Conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2024
• 4th COMPTEXT Annual Conference, University College Dublin, 2022
• EPSA Annual Conference, Diversity Panel on Academics with Disabilities, 2021, 2022

Reviewer

Grants: APSA Summer Centennial Center Research Grants (2025); IWDS Research Vouchers, Network Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2024).

Journals: American Journal of Political Science · British Journal of Political Science · Comparative Political Studies · Computational Communication Research · Electoral Studies · Frontiers in Political Science · European Journal of Political Research · European Political Science · Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties · Journal of European Public Policy · Parliamentary Affairs · Party Politics · Political Behavior · Political Studies · Politics · Representation · South European Society and Politics · West European Politics

Other Service

• Guest Speaker: SPIRe PhD Forum: Career Development, University College Dublin, 2021, 2023
• Expert Contributor: Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES), 2022, 2023
• Graduate Student Representative: Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2017–2018
• First-Year Undergraduate Advisor: Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013–2014

Additional Information

Professional Association Memberships: European Political Science Society · Political Studies Association of Ireland · American Political Science Association · COMPTEXT Association

Programming: R · Python · Qualtrics

Methods: Statistical modeling · NLP · Survey studies

Languages: Hebrew (native) · English (fluent) · Russian (conversational)