Associate Professor

Alessandro Nai is Associate Professor of Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles on the dark sides of politics – the use of negativity and incivility in election campaigns in a comparative perspective, the (dark) personality traits of political figures, and radical partisanship in voters. Recent books are Dark Politics (2024, Oxford University Press, with J. Maier, winner of the 2024 ISPP Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book) and The Psychology of Attack Politics (2025, Routledge, with L. Otto and C. Vargiu). From 2025 he is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Political Research.

Keywords: Negative campaigning; Political psychology; Dark politics; Radical partisanship; Political violence

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