Sophie Prantil is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Central European University, specializing in political behavior, party systems, and far-right populism. Her research focuses on the realignment and dealignment of working-class voters, with particular attention to the absence of strong far-right support in the Belgian region of Wallonia.
Using a mixed-methods approach, her work combines survey analysis, quantitative text analysis of party manifestos, and qualitative fieldwork, including elite interviews with political and labor actors. By examining Wallonia as a deviant case, her research contributes to broader debates on class-based voting, political cleavages, and variation in far-right mobilization.
She has presented her research at major international conferences and has experience as a teaching assistant in comparative politics and qualitative methods.
