Dr. Karen Umansky

Publications

Published:

• Umansky, Karen, Weber, Daniela, and Lutz, Wolfgang. (2025) "Revisiting the Role of Education in Attitudes toward Immigration in Different Contexts in Europe." Genus 81, 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-024-00238-9
• Umansky, Karen, Sened, Itai, and Kohler, Ulrich. (2025). "Business as Usual in the Face of the Populist Challenge? The AfD’s Entry Strategy and Mainstream Parties’ Responses to It." German Politics, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2025.2478921
• Giannetti, Daniela, Umansky, Karen, and Sened, Itai. (2024). "The Entry of the M5S and the Reshaping of Party Politics in Italy (2008–2018)." Government and Opposition, 59(2), 464–481. doi:10.1017/gov.2022.38
• Umansky, Karen; Spektorowski, Alberto; Busher, Joel (2020):  "Can Europe Recover from Its Latest Wave of Us-versus-Them Politics?" In European Studies: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Erik Jones. London: Agenda Publishers, Chapter 23.
• Umansky, Karen; Kohlenberger, Judith (2020): "Hunt or Be Hunted? The "Legitimate" Enemy Strategy of Radical Right Populist and Mainstream Parties - A Case Study of the 2017 Austrian General Election." In The New European National Populism: Lessons for School Education, eds. Manfred Oberlechner, Reinhard Heinisch, and Patrick Duval, 84-99.
• Umansky, Karen; Lutz, Wolfgang; Weber, Daniela (2019): "The Impact of Education and Age on Attitudes toward Immigration in Europe." IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-19-008.
• Umansky, Karen; Spektorowski, Alberto (2017): "From Notorious Anti-Europeans to Radical-Right Populists: Disillusionment with Democracy and What This Could Mean for European Solidarity." In Solidarity in the European Union: Challenges and Perspectives, ed. Angelos Giannakopoulos. Tel Aviv: S. Daniel Abraham Centre for International and Regional Studies of Tel Aviv University, 40-60.

Work in progress:

• Umansky, Karen; Kohler, Ulrich: "Using LLM to Estimate Party Positions in Multidimensional Political Spaces"