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Levente Littvay

Senior Research Fellow

Levente Littvay (Levi) is Research Professor at HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, ex-CEU Professor, two-time recipient of the university's Teaching Award, teaching research design, stats, voting behavior, political psychology, electoral, and US politics. University of Nebraska-Lincoln PhD. Taught numerous methods workshops globally and online, convenor of one of Europe’s largest methods schools, founder of MethodsNET, Presidium member of the Hungarian Political Science Association and head of Team Survey in Team Populism. Active in ESS and CSES, secured ~1M EUR in grants to study survey and quantitative methods, twin and family studies, and the psychology of radicalism and populism. Awards include the European University Institute’s Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellowship (2019-20), the 2022 Giovanni Sartori Prize , and 2017 Morton Deutsch Award. Associate Editor for Social Sciences at Twin Research and Human Genetics. Books include Contemporary US Populism in Comparative Perspective and Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling, also published in Mandarin Chinese.