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Matthijs Rooduijn
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Political scientist | Professor of Transdisciplinary Social Science | University of Amsterdam | Hot Politics Lab | The PopuList | Stuk Rood Vlees | Parties, voters, populism, far right, and liberal democracy

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 3d
Great to see this new paper out, brilliantly led by @isabellareb.bsky.social! Very happy to have been part of this team, also with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social.

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 3d
Marlon U., oprichter en vertegenwoordiger van de uiterst rechtse Vrijmoedige Studenten Partij (VSP), voerde schrikbewind op de VU www.parool.nl/amsterdam/ho...
Hoe student Marlon U. de Vrije Universiteit al jaren teistert met intimidatie en geweld, zonder dat de universiteit ingrijpt: ‘Ik maak je dood, ik sla je kankerbek in’
Marlon U. (25), leider van de rechts-conservatieve studentenpartij VSP, teistert al drie jaar lang studenten en medewerkers aan de Vrije Universiteit. Hij zingt naziliedjes, intimideert, vernielt, bed...
www.parool.nl

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Isabella Rebasso @isabellareb.bsky.social · 3d
🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior
Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...
link.springer.com

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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 4d
Extremist links emerge on Forum local election candidate lists www.dutchnews.nl?p=263229
Extremist links emerge on Forum local election candidate lists
www.dutchnews.nl

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 4d
Call for papers for our workshop on electoral politics at the Poletmaal2026 in Ghent on June 11-12. Please join Amber Voets, Chloe de Grauwe, and myself for great discussions of our changing electoral landscape and explanations for voter behavior politicologenetmaal.eu/workshops-20...

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dr. Marina @drmarina.bsky.social · 5d
Bannon: "We're gonna have #ICE surround the polls coming november. We are not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." Heeft de regering Trump de uitspraken van extremist Steve Bannon bevestigd of ontkend?

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 5d
What Sofia is too modest to explicitly say in her post below, is that - in addition to our PRR youth wings book - she has a solo one coming out with OUP in June on grassroots women in the PRR:

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Sara Berkeljon @saraberkeljon.bsky.social · 6d
Kandidaten gemeenteraad FvD waren betrokken bij extreemrechtse organisaties als Geuzenbond, NVU en Voorpost (met Ben Meindertsma):

www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/kan...
Kandidaten FvD voor verkiezingen gemeenteraad waren actief bij extreemrechtse organisaties
Op de kieslijsten van Forum voor Democratie voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen staan kandidaten die actief zijn binnen extreemrechtse organisaties. Van de leden van de jongerenpartij die in 2020 in ops...
www.volkskrant.nl

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Dr. Jan Philipp Thomeczek @drphilphil.bsky.social · 7d
Super proud that our 9-country-study is finally published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social!
A Populist Axis? Analyzing Connections Between Populist, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Political Space
👉Populist axis exists, effect on voice choice differs by country
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A Populist Axis? Analyzing Connections Between Populist, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Political Space - Andrei Zhirnov, Jan Philipp Thomeczek, Lorenza Antonucci, Michele Scotto di Vettimo, Roa...
What makes populist parties successful? What is the contribution of populist ideas to their appeal? How do they affect a voter’s choice? In this article, we tre...
journals.sagepub.com

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Merijn Oudenampsen @merijnoudenampsen.org · 10d
Lijkt erop alsof dit de klassieke onderhandelingstactiek is: extra rechts insteken, zodat ze straks heel gul wat aan GL-PvdA kunnen gunnen. Zowel op Groen als op Rood is het opvallend karig.

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Hessel Nieuwelink @hnieuwelink.bsky.social · 10d
*** reflecties bij regeerakkoord over burgerschapsonderwijs***

In het regeerakkoord wordt een en ander gezegd over burgerschapsonderwijs. Er wordt ingezet op bevoegde leraren in het mbo. Hieronder vat ik kort de maatregelen samen:

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 10d
Lees dit interview met Steven Levitsky, een van de meest vooraanstaande democratie-onderzoekers., over de staat van de democratie in de VS. „Ik vond mezelf altijd een doemdenker. Maar het is veel, veel erger dan ik had verwacht.”
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
‘Ik vond mezelf altijd een doemdenker. Maar het is veel, veel erger dan verwacht’, zegt Harvard-politicoloog Levitsky over Trump
Steven Levitsky | politicoloog: In tegenstelling tot zijn eerste termijn is er dit keer niemand in de Verenigde Staten die Donald Trump kan tegenhouden, ziet hoogleraar politicologie Steven Levitsky. ...
www.nrc.nl

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11d
Manchester capitalism rebranded as a lifestyle choice. It's what happens when the left withdraws from shaping identities around work, life, and politics. Individualism, conservatism ("marry early"), puritanism. They all shape how he will act politically. "Care for the sick? No, it's their own fault"

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 11d
Another morning, another article mentioning the "hard right"...

This may seem trivial but the use of terms that euphemise far-right politics and deflect from the threat they pose matters a lot

See @gsamaras.bsky.social 's brilliant article on the "hard right"

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Misuse, mislabelling, and the broken path of the ‘hard-right’: Challenging nonscientific political discourse | European Political Science | Cambridge Core
Misuse, mislabelling, and the broken path of the ‘hard-right’: Challenging nonscientific political discourse
www.cambridge.org

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 12d
Great op-ed by @catherinedevries.bsky.social on how attention has become a geopolitical weapon. And why Europe should stop falling for Trump’s “geopolitical clickbait” (love the term):
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries
Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries
www.theguardian.com

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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 12d
🚨 If populist rhetoric isn't persuasive, why do populists keep winning? 🚨

Our new paper (and first published registered report) shows populism's real electoral power may be mobilization, not persuasion—though policy positions still matter far more for voting.

alexanderkustov.org/files/Kustov...

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Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social · 12d
📅 The schedule of the 5th @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Summer School on Concepts & Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics now online!

tinyurl.com/f73yym3b
⏳ One month left to apply

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SGED26 - Schedule at a Glance
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 12d
Today in @theguardian.com, I argue that Donald Trump’s foreign-policy playbook is increasingly about attention capture, or what I call geopolitical clickbait.

Plus I outline why this matters for Europe & what to do about it.

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries
Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries
www.theguardian.com

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 13d
Good piece by @jonhenley.bsky.social on how European far-right parties and voters are responding to Trump.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘Enemy of Europe’? How Trump’s push for Greenland spooked far-right allies
Leaders and voters who formerly applauded US president’s aims have been growing increasingly uneasy
www.theguardian.com

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 13d
New paper!! I'm very proud of all my coauthors. This project started as an internship by @cvalebeek.bsky.social and @delaneypeterson.bsky.social with me and Daniel Komáromy. Both are now PhD candidates in our faculty, and it’s great to still be working with them as colleagues!
cvalebeek.bsky.social Carmen van Alebeek @cvalebeek.bsky.social · 13d
How can stable personality traits explain less stable PRR voting? Daniel Komaromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I test whether negative contact with immigrants 'activates' these traits. Mostly, it doesn't. But: initial exposure and out-group definition may matter.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 13d
Image by Luiso García 👏
Picture of an ICE agent in front of a wall with the U.S. flag with a shadow of a Klansman.

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Carmen van Alebeek @cvalebeek.bsky.social · 13d
How can stable personality traits explain less stable PRR voting? Daniel Komaromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I test whether negative contact with immigrants 'activates' these traits. Mostly, it doesn't. But: initial exposure and out-group definition may matter.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 13d
Really happy this work with @fraraffaelli.bsky.social found a home at EJPR. We show that growing up at times of high salience of immigration produces cohorts of voters who are more likely to vote for parties that they agree with specifically on immigration.

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From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2026 Leonardo Carella and Francesco Raffaelli This paper considers how issue salience environments affect long-term patterns of political choice via processes of political socialization. Drawing on the well-known ‘impressionable years’ hypothesis, we theorize that voters who grew up in high-immigration salience contexts subsequently exhibit higher levels of voter-party agreement on immigration (issue congruence). We find support for this hypothesis from two studies, which leverage cross-sectional variation within cohorts in exposure to immigration salience in voters’ formative years. The first employs congruence data from a survey of 10 European countries, linked to historical salience data from the Comparative Manifesto Project. The second is a within-country study, measuring salience and congruence from two long-running German public opinion survey series. The analysis suggests that growing up at times when immigration is high on the political agenda can have long-term consequences for the relationship between voters’ preferences on that issue and their political choices, shedding light on the mechanism behind ‘generational realignment’.

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 20d
A crisis has broken out within the PVV of Geert Wilders. Seven MPs have left the party due to dissatisfaction with its current course.
nos.nl/artikel/2598...
Opstand in de PVV tegen Wilders' aanpak: deel fractie vertrekt
Zij hebben zich in een fractievergadering uitgesproken tegen de koers en het beleid van de partijleider.
nos.nl

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Simon Otjes @simonotjes.bsky.social · 20d
Als de zeven PVV dissidenten zich aansluiten bij JA21 zal Dilan Yesilgöz plotselingen ervan overtuigd raken dat er toch een meerderheidskabinet nodig is "gezien de internationale situatie" www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...
Live PVV-crisis | Zeven PVV'ers gaan verder in aparte fractie
Goedemiddag en welkom in dit liveblog. Hier houden we je op de hoogte van de laatste ontwikkelingen rondom de crisis in de PVV, waar zeven kritische Kamerleden zijn opgestapt.
www.nu.nl

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 21d
The English version of my op ed for @lemonde.fr is now available:

www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, sociologist: 'Far-right violence is now official US government policy and practice'
OP-ED. When the poet Renee Nicole Good was killed during a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal government defended the killer.
www.lemonde.fr

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Simon Otjes @simonotjes.bsky.social · 23d
Dit is een heel belangrijk artikel van Lotte Schrijver, Marcel Lubbers en @takesipma.bsky.social. Het laat zien dat naar mate kiezers migratie als een belangrijker thema zien zij een grotere kans hebben om PVV te stemmen, *onafhankelijk* van hun positie over migratie.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 25d
Apologies for being self-referential but
Abstract of the paper "How Mainstream Politician Erode Norms": "How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggest that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender."

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 25d
Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 25d
The EU’s centrist powers need to move to the right to reflect the new political reality, the leader of the European People’s Party Manfred Weber has told in an exclusive interview with POLITICO.
Europe shifted right — it’s time centrists do too, says Manfred Weber
EPP chief says he still wants to work with traditional allies, but they need to adapt.
www.politico.eu

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Dominik Schraff @dschraff.bsky.social · 25d
Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
Associate Professor in sociology with focus on quantitative methods
At The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Society and Politics, a position as Associate Professor in Sociology with focus on quantitati...
www.stillinger.aau.dk