Hello! My name is Andrés Schelp. I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University. My primary subfield is International Relations.
Hello! My name is Andrés Schelp. I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University. My primary subfield is International Relations.
My research agenda lies at the intersection of the politics of knowledge and social pressure in world politics. I study how international evaluations of countries' performance are constructed and how they shape elite decision-making and public evaluations. My work focuses primarily on formal democracy evaluations, such as Freedom House ratings, and secondarily on informal cross-national comparisons that shape foreign policy and domestic preferences. I draw on survey experiments, quantitative text analysis, and archival research.
My research agenda lies at the intersection of the politics of knowledge and social pressure in world politics. I study how international evaluations of countries' performance are constructed and how they shape elite decision-making and public evaluations. My work focuses primarily on formal democracy evaluations, such as Freedom House ratings, and secondarily on informal cross-national comparisons that shape foreign policy and domestic preferences. I draw on survey experiments, quantitative text analysis, and archival research.
My dissertation paper, "Swaying or Being Swayed? Assessing the Evaluative Authority of the Freedom House Democracy Ratings and the U.S. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Foreign Policy section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) at the 2025 Annual Meeting. My work has been supported by the Political Science Department and the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern University.
My dissertation paper, "Swaying or Being Swayed? Assessing the Evaluative Authority of the Freedom House Democracy Ratings and the U.S. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Foreign Policy section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) at the 2025 Annual Meeting. My work has been supported by the Political Science Department and the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern University.
Before coming to Northwestern, I worked as an academic assistant at the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI), a preeminent Latin American think tank advising on foreign policy and multilateral diplomacy. I received my B.A. from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2016) and my M.A. in International Politics and Economy from San Andrés University (Argentina, 2021).
Before coming to Northwestern, I worked as an academic assistant at the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI), a preeminent Latin American think tank advising on foreign policy and multilateral diplomacy. I received my B.A. from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2016) and my M.A. in International Politics and Economy from San Andrés University (Argentina, 2021).