Fatih Erol, Ph.D. (he/him)

Fatih Erol is an incoming postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Science, International Relations, University of Mannheim. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher in political psychology at the University of Idaho and, before that, a research social scientist at the University of Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. from Koç University and held a pre-doctoral research appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His book, “Sleepy Citizenship: The Biopolitics of Rest in American Democracy”, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. His research spans comparative political behavior and political psychology, combining causal inference and measurement with multinational, multimode surveys, survey experiments, lab experiments, and physiological data collection. His work has appeared in Political Psychology, Electoral Studies, and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, among other outlets. He serves on the editorial board of Political Psychology and as a member of the Governing Council of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences.

Manuscripts

Erol, F., Micatka, N. K., & Ksiazkiewicz, A. (2026) Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation. Political Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/pops.70124
Erol, F., Ecevit, Y. A., & Kocapınar, G. (2024). Polarization congruence and satisfaction with democracy: A multinational investigation. Electoral Studies. DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102796
Erol, F. (2023). Threats and the conservative shift in public opinion: Comparative causal mediation analyses from Turkey. Southeast European & Black Sea Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2023.2189541

Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Erol, F. (2022). Linking sleep, political ideology, and religious observance: A multi-national comparison. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 34(3), edac020. DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edac020
Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Erol, F. (2022). Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors. Electoral Studies. DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102491
Erol, F. (2022). Terrorism mortality salience manipulation: A causal mediation analysis. Terrorism and Political Violence. DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2022.2060081

Books

Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Erol, F. (Publishing Agreement signed). Sleepy citizenship: The biopolitics of rest in American democracy. Oxford University Press (Series in Political Psychology).
Schuler, P., & Erol, F.. In the shadows of the founder: How founding leaders shape post-colonial national narratives.
 

Book Chapters

C¸ arko˘glu, A., & Erol, F. (2021). A text-as-data study of political communication in the 2018 Turkish elections. In A. C¸ arko˘glu & E. Kalaycıo˘glu (Eds.), Elections and public opinion in Turkey: Through the prism of the 2018 elections (pp. 70–102). London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003166047-5