Quantitative methods; Causal inference; Social media and politics; Populism in Europe and the Americas.

Bruno Castanho Silva is a Postdoc at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics at the University of Cologne. He studied International Relations at the Curitiba University Center, Brazil and at Tallinn University, Estonia and received his PhD in Political Science from the Central European University in 2017. Bruno Castanho Silva is an Associate Editor for Methods and Measurement at Frontiers in Political Science and leader of Text Analysis in Team Populism.

Published papers

• Politicians Unleashed? Political Communication on Twitter and in Parliament in Western Europe

  Castanho Silva, B., & Proksch, S. (2021). Politicians unleashed? Political communication on Twitter and in parliament in Western Europe. Political Science Research and Methods, 1-17.

• Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots

  SILVA, B. C., & PROKSCH, S. O. (2020). Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots. American Political Science Review, 1-7.