Dr. Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti
Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti is a political scientist with a focus on comparative politics and political sociology, and specializes in quantitative social science. He works as a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Civil Society Research, a joint initiative of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the Institute of Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Previous to joining the WZB, Saldivia Gonzatti was a member of the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics at the University of Cologne (2017-2021), where he obtained his PhD in Political Science in 2022. He was a Visiting Scholar at PERIL at American University (2023) in Washington, DC and a Research Student Resident at Universidad Nacional de San Martín (2016) in Buenos Aires.
His research has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, Journal of European Public Policy, and Public Administration Review. He regularly communicates with civil society actors, politicians and policy-makers about his research. He has contributed with expert inputs to various media outlets, such as The New York Times, WIRED, ZDF heute journal, ZEIT Online, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, taz, and O Globo.
Selected Publications
[7] Saldivia Gonzatti, Kanol, Hunger & Hutter. 2026. The Demobilizing Effect of Violent Actions and Radical-Right Involvement on Public Support for Protest; Journal of Peace Research, Conditionally Accepted.
[6] Saldivia Gonzatti, Schürmann, Hunger & Hutter. 2026. How Confrontational Protest Shapes Public Opinion: Experimental Evidence from Climate Mobilization; Political Behavior, Forthcoming.
Replication
[5] Saldivia Gonzatti & Völker. 2025. Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream; European Journal of Political Research, 65(1), 101–123
DOI Link | Replication
Coverage in The Guardian and EUobserver
[4] Röth, Saldivia Gonzatti, Kaftan & Kaiser. 2025. Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data. Introducing Three Integrated Data Sets; British Journal of Political Science, 55:e19.
DOI Link | Replication | Data | Data Portal: http://multi-level-cross-level-politics.eu/ | Github Collaboration
[3] Grande & Saldivia Gonzatti. 2025. A Revolt of the Distrustful? Political Trust, Political Protest and the Democratic Deficit; Journal of European Public Policy, 32(8), 1986–2014.
DOI Link | Replication
Coverage in the FAZ and the SZ
[2] Völker & Saldivia Gonzatti. 2024. Discourse Networks of the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors Become Mainstream in Public Debates; Political Communication, 41(3), 353–372.
DOI Link | Replication
Coverage in the KATAPULT magazine (print)
[1] Varela Castro, Bustos & Saldivia Gonzatti. 2023. Reputation Management during a Public Health Crisis: Overcompensating When All Else Fails; Public Administration Review 83(5), 1234–1245.
DOI Link | Replication | ResearchGate