@charlottekuberka.bsky.social and I are organizing a football match during EPSS in Belfast! ⚽️ If you are interested please fill out the form by Friday: forms.gle/PwYoedqu7NzF... All skill levels are welcome! Email/DM us if you have any questions. And please spread the word!

Published last year: T. Huijsmans and W. van der Brug. “Place-Based Resentment and Party Support in Multiparty Systems: A Study of Three Consecutive Elections in the Netherlands”. In: Electoral Studies 96 (2025), p. 102963. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102963.

🚨 Last day for paper proposals! 🚨

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Happy to see my new article out in the Journal of European Public Policy @jeppjournal.bsky.social! As the green transition produces new lines of conflict in Europe, I provide an account of how place shapes discontent with climate policies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

🚨 8 days left to apply! @svenhegewald.bsky.social and I a are happy to answer questions of prospective applicants.

Don't forget to register for our @epssnet.bsky.social pre-conference on Place and Politics. Either just as an audience member, or as a presenter or discussing. Deadline May 20th. Please reach our to @lawrencemckay.bsky.social or me with any questions! And don't hesitate to share with others

For those at @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast this June: If you're interested in Place & Politics and want to join our discussions on the (potential) impact of the research in this field, make sure to register for the pre-conference that @lawrencemckay.bsky.social and I are organizing! 👇

For those at @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast this June: If you're interested in Place & Politics and want to join our discussions on the (potential) impact of the research in this field, make sure to register for the pre-conference that @lawrencemckay.bsky.social and I are organizing! 👇

I am looking for a PhD student to support my ERC Consolidator project INEQCHANGE: Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe. ⏰ deadline: 31 May

📢 We're hiring for my project RESPOL on residential mobility & electoral realignment 📍 University of Hamburg 📅 4y, 75% FTE 🔍 pol behavior, comp politics, regional inequalities 📊 quant, administrative & survey data Please share with talented MA students! 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Why rural areas vote Republican despite worse health outcomes Rural America has moved toward Republicans even as Republican governance helps explain worse health outcomes New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Michael Shepard www.niskanencenter.org/why-rural-ar...

Voor Villamedia breiden we onze analyse van het succes van de FvD en de normalisering van extreemrechts uit met een reflectie op de rol van de media en doen we aanbevelingen hoe zij zich tot extreemrechts kunnen verhouden om de democratie te beschermen www.villamedia.nl/artikel/de-g...

FVD is de grootste landelijke winnaar van de verkiezingen. Met @sldelange.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social & Andrej Zaslove betoog ik dat deze partij extreemrechts is en dat die groei dus zeer zorgwekkend is. stukroodvlees.nl/de-groei-van...

Blog - Schokkend maar niet verrassend Expertonderzoek bevestigt: Trumps tweede periode is een keiharde aanval op democratie en rechtstaat in de VS. Nog nooit knalde een democratie zo hard omlaag in de ranking. Maar de betonrot gaat er dieper dan 1 jaar Trump. stukroodvlees.nl/schokkend-ma...

Nieuwe blog: Vertrouwen in verkiezingen maar blijvende onvrede over politiek: eerste bevindingen van het Nationaal Kiezersonderzoek 2025 https://stukroodvlees.nl/?p=18498

Nieuw van het Nationaal Kiezersonderzoek: een kennisnotitie met eerste analyses van de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen van 2025 🗳️ Zie: www.dpes.nl/wp-content/u... Begin juni volgt het volledige NKO-rapport, met een bredere en diepere analyse van de verkiezingen. Hieronder alvast wat eerste inzichten 👇

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences. The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September. The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe. 🗓 Deadline: May 17 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

New paper @jhppl.bsky.social (w/ Michael Shepherd & Alee Lockman) where we find Americans who grew up (socialized) in rural areas are more likely to own guns, support the NRA, & hold more conservative firearm policy attitudes over the lifespan, even after moving away. 1/ doi.org/10.1215/0361...

🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social ! It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment 👇 [1/5] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢Today a great new book on urban-rural divides got published! 🚜🌇 In 'Rethinking Rural Politics' a large group of experts paints a detailed picture of what rural politics means in the US nowadays, and how to explain geographic political divides. Open access www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

📢Today a great new book on urban-rural divides got published! 🚜🌇 In 'Rethinking Rural Politics' a large group of experts paints a detailed picture of what rural politics means in the US nowadays, and how to explain geographic political divides. Open access www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights... Some key findings...

Uw voornemen voor 2026: koester de democratie en word ergens lid van www.groene.nl/artikel/goed...

"word lid van een politieke partij. En van een vakbond. Steun kritische media. Doneer aan organisaties die zich inzetten voor democratie en mensenrechten. (...) word actief in een buurtvereniging, sportclub of vrijwilligersorganisatie." @leoniedejonge.bsky.social 💪🏻 www.groene.nl/artikel/goed...

Rural America is often talked about as if it’s one place with one story. It isn’t. Rural demographers break down 6 commonly-held myths about rural America, and why getting them wrong has real consequences (thread) ⬇️ buff.ly/q9pGEtI

Ik gaf een nogal deprimerend eindejaarsinterview aan @markla94.bsky.social van het NRC Handelsblad.

Nieuwe blog: Progressiever in steden en radicaal-rechtser aan de randen https://stukroodvlees.nl/?p=18344

New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇

New publication!📢 @jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)

"How Regions That Don’t Matter Vote for Parties That Don’t Bother" What an absolutely BRILLIANT subtitle of this fascinating new article by @evertmeijers.bsky.social & @jvanslageren.bsky.social that perfectly captures this ironic paradox of (Dutch) politics.

Publication Alert: @evertmeijers.bsky.social and I examined the spatial orientation of MPs in NL. We studied whether MPs' region of origin matters and the parties' electoral consequences. We show a paradox: peripheral places don't reward parties that pay attention to them doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

Reminder: next Wednesday we host @tevoelker.bsky.social at the AMCIS Seminar who will talk on the Far Right, with our colleagues Jaron Harambam and @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social as discussants. ⬇️ More info + registration below @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

Dit was heel leuk om te doen! En inmiddels heb ik ook wat meer tijd gehad om naar alle analyses te kijken. Daarover sprak ik met @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social en @hakhverdian.bsky.social in de @stukroodvlees.bsky.social podcast. Luister hier (of in je podcast feed): stukroodvlees.nl/aflevering-1...

Er zijn uitstekende rapporten die tonen dat Nederlandse verkiezingen onder experts en kiezers breed vertrouwen genieten. www.kiesraad.nl/adviezen-en-... Wat helpt zijn onze politieke cultuur, de evenredigheid, de decentrale organisatie, het stemmen met potlood, en de telling door vrijwilligers.

Het was een eer deel te mogen nemen aan de NPO1 uitslagenavond en samen met mijn academic buddy @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social aan de desk te zitten. Maar zonder ons datateam @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social @emilymiltenburg.bsky.social en Cato waren wij echter nergens geweest.

On November 12, AMCIS is hosting a talk by @tevoelker.bsky.social on how the far right shapes public debates. UvA colleagues Jaron Harambam (sociology) and @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social (political science) are discussants @evazschirnt.bsky.social Info + registration here: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

Upcoming AMCIS Seminar: On 12 Nov. @tevoelker.bsky.social talks about "Mainstreaming the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates" - just 2 weeks after the Dutch elections! Info & Registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even... @aissr.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social

Although not yet available to read (January 2026!), very happy to see our book on political trust online. Co-edited with @mfair.bsky.social and available open access, we think it'll be a useful addition to the field. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r...

Just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised? 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/7 🧵

In de nieuwste aflevering van de @stukroodvlees.bsky.social podcast ben ik te gast om te praten over wonen als verkiezingsthema. Wat mij betreft moeten we het daarbij hebben over wonen als ongelijkheidsvraagstuk, zoals onverdiende voordelen voor huiseigenaren stukroodvlees.nl/aflevering-1...

Voor de vaste Kamercommissie voor Binnenlandse Zaken schreven Josje den Ridder (SCP) en ik een factsheet over vertrouwen in de politiek. Een enorme literatuur samengevat, met focus op NL. Het wezen, de oorzaken, de trends, en de democratische gevolgen: parlementenwetenschap.nl/wp-content/u...

I'm very honored to have received the Frances Rosenbluth Best Paper Prize for the best paper published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social in 2024, together with Jonathan Rodden. Many thanks to the Editorial Board for appreciating our study! Here is the paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If it helps anyone sleep tonight, we don't find these percentages in our own data across Europe (May-June 2025). Largest shares of 'ambivalents' are found in Poland (30%) and Spain (34%), but overall a majority supports democracy while rejecting autocracy.

New study out today—“Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised?“ finds a substantial political cleavage between urban and rural populations in multiple European countries. Place-based affective polarization is associated with voting along liberal vs nationalist divide #PoliticalScience

🚨 New research! 🚨 Check out this recent article by @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social and Wouter van der Brug on place-based resentment and populist voting in the Netherlands. Free to read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎓 Vacature: Postdoc Sociologie (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Bijna 4 jaar aan de slag met onderzoek én onderwijs binnen een fijne onderzoeksgroep? Dan is dit iets voor jou.👇

📢 Publication alert: Our paper "Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes" - with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @griambau.bsky.social, ‬ and Andreu Rodilla - is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

📢 Our new paper on the rural/urban background of legislators in European national parliaments is now available in @electoralstudies.bsky.social ! 👇

New publication with Wouter van der Brug in Electoral Studies! What is the role of place-based resentment for voting behavior in multiparty systems? We took data from the Dutch parliamentary elections in '17, '21 and '23 to find out. (1/4) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...