Peer-reviewed work on digital technology, public opinion and political institutions, together with the applied projects and software that come out of it.
An open-source, theory-driven tool for zero-shot stance detection in text. I led the development team, built and containerised the public web application, and maintain the repository with reproducible workflows and documentation.
Expert work on digital democracy, connecting platform research to the questions that regulators, funders and civil society organisations have to answer.
Post-doctoral position on a GIZ-funded project on digital technology, governance and policy. Co-authored two research reports: Path to Power 2024: The 2024 Mexican General Election and Path to Power 2024: Global Democracy in the Age of Disruption.
Advanced research assistant on “Public Support in Challenging Times: Varieties of Crises, Elite Responses, and Executive Approval”.
McCoy, Jennifer, Juan S. Gómez-Cruces, Ozlem Tuncel & Levente Littvay. “Reducing Partisan Animus in Populist Contexts: Limitations of Shared Common Humanity and Perspective-Taking Interventions.” Chapter 14 in The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation. Routledge, Series: Extremism & Democracy.
Gómez-Cruces, Juan S. “Forecasting executive approval with social media data: opportunities, challenges and limitations.” Journal of Computational Social Science.
Carlin, Ryan E. & Juan S. Gómez-Cruces. “Trust in Latin American Governing Institutions.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, ed. Sandy Maisel. Oxford University Press.
An initial discussion of a possible project carries no charge. If a request falls outside my areas of work, I will say so, and suggest a colleague where I can.
juan@juangomezcruces.com