Jan Zilinsky, PhD

Phone: +49 89 907793-383
E-Mail: jan.zilinsky(at)tum.de

About me

Jan Zilinsky is a computational social scientist. His research is focused on interactions between information ecosystems, economic policies, and politics. He has published academic papers in various topics including economic evaluations, populism, electoral competition, and social media. His work has been published in leading journals such as APSR, Nature Communications, and Political Analysis and has been covered in major media outlets including the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Economist.

Website: www.janzilinsky.com

Jan is prepared to supervise theses on the following topics:

Generative AI in Politics or Social Science
American Politics
Economic policy
Globalization
Populism
Digital media

Summer term 2024/25

Title		Type	SWS
(SOT86089) AI, Society, and Governance (Project Week)		SE	2
(SOT86603) Telling Stories with R and Data Visualization		SE	2

Publications

2025

Lajevardi, Nazita; Zilinsky, Jan: Explaining 2020 Trump support: The role of anti-Muslim, pro-police, and anti-BLM attitudes. Electoral Studies 93, 2025, 102888 more…
Zilinsky, Jan; Bisbee, James: Economic evaluations and partisan faultfinding: when are respondents most likely to answer survey questions honestly? Political Science Research and Methods, 2025, 1-17 more…
Zilinsky, Jan; Theocharis, Yannis: Conspiracism and government distrust predict COVID-19 vaccine refusal. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12 (1), 2025 more…
Zoizner, Alon; Matthes, Jörg; Corbu, Nicoleta; de Vreese, Claes H.; Esser, Frank; Koc-Michalska, Karolina; Schemer, Christian; Theocharis, Yannis; Zilinsky, Jan: Can AI-Attributed News Challenge Partisan News Selection? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2025 more…

2024

Enders, Adam; Klofstad, Casey; Littrell, Shane; Miller, Joanne; Theocharis, Yannis; Uscinski, Joseph; Zilinsky, Jan: Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism. Political Psychology, 2024 more…
Jin, Soyeon; Zilinsky, Jan; Pradel, Franziska; Theocharis, Yannis: Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Online News Consumption during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 4, 2024 more…
Kim, Seo-young Silvia; Zilinsky, Jan; Brew, Brian: Donate to help us fight back: Political fundraising and toxic rhetoric online. Party Politics, 2024 more…
Pradel, Franziska; Zilinsky, Jan; Kosmidis, Spyros; Theocharis, Yannis: Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media. American Political Science Review (Volume 118 Number 1), 2024, 1-18 more…
Zilinsky, Jan; Theocharis, Yannis; Pradel, Franziska; Tulin, Marina; de Vreese, Claes; Aalberg, Toril; Cardenal, Ana Sofía; Corbu, Nicoleta; Esser, Frank; Gehle, Luisa; Halagiera, Denis; Hameleers, Michael; Hopmann, David Nicolas; Koc-Michalska, Karolina; Matthes, Jörg; Schemer, Christian; Štětka, Václav; Strömbäck, Jesper; Terren, Ludovic; Splendore, Sergio; Stanyer, James; Stępińska, Agnieszka; Van Aelst, Peter; Zoizner, Alon: Justifying an Invasion: When Is Disinformation Successful? Political Communication, 2024, 1-22 more…
Zilinsky, Jan; Tucker, Joshua A.; Nagler, Jonathan: The Trump Advantage in Policy Recall Among Voters. American Politics Research, 2024 more…

2023

Gregory Eady, Tom Paskhalis, Jan Zilinsky, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler & Joshua A. Tucker: Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior. Nature Communications 14 (62), 2023 more…

2022

Bisbee, James; Zilinsky, Jan: Geographic Boundaries and Local Economic Conditions Matter for Views of the Economy. Political Analysis, 2022, 1-7 more…
Kim, Seo-young Silvia; Zilinsky, Jan: Division Does Not Imply Predictability: Demographics Continue to Reveal Little About Voting and Partisanship. Political Behavior, 2022 more…