Dirck de Kleer
@dirckdekleer.bsky.social
PhD Student in Social and Political Science @ Bocconi University.
I study illiberal politics in liberal democracies. See ddkleer.github.io for more.
I check in here once every week or so.
I study illiberal politics in liberal democracies. See ddkleer.github.io for more.
I check in here once every week or so.
Just reposting this: Wilders (PVV) may have lost seats, but combined the Dutch far right is still as big as ever. Only down by ~1 percentage point since last elections.
Dutch election coverage focuses on Wilders' (PVV) loss of parliamentary seats. Fair enough. But if we zoom out, the combined far-right vote share is down just 1.2 percentage points since last time. I plotted some data below:
October 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Just reposting this: Wilders (PVV) may have lost seats, but combined the Dutch far right is still as big as ever. Only down by ~1 percentage point since last elections.
Dutch election coverage focuses on Wilders' (PVV) loss of parliamentary seats. Fair enough. But if we zoom out, the combined far-right vote share is down just 1.2 percentage points since last time. I plotted some data below:
October 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Dutch election coverage focuses on Wilders' (PVV) loss of parliamentary seats. Fair enough. But if we zoom out, the combined far-right vote share is down just 1.2 percentage points since last time. I plotted some data below:
Hello APSA-goers, @alonsoroman.bsky.social and I are presenting work on far-right success and hostility against minorities today at 10:00 in the panel "The Sources and Consequences of Anti-Democratic Attitudes in Diverse Societies". Pass by if you can!
September 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hello APSA-goers, @alonsoroman.bsky.social and I are presenting work on far-right success and hostility against minorities today at 10:00 in the panel "The Sources and Consequences of Anti-Democratic Attitudes in Diverse Societies". Pass by if you can!
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📢 New Publication 📢
📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change
It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries?
(with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto)
Short 🧵
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change
It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries?
(with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto)
Short 🧵
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Green backlash and right-wing populism - Nature Climate Change
This Review considers research on the politics of climate policies. Climate policies, through their economic and cultural repercussions, impact public climate attitudes and voting behaviour, which in ...
www.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
📢 New Publication 📢
📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change
It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries?
(with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto)
Short 🧵
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change
It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries?
(with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto)
Short 🧵
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
On my way to Groningen. To try the famous 'eierbal', of course. But also to present work in progress on the radical right in legislative committees at the Politicologenetmaal 2025.
June 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
On my way to Groningen. To try the famous 'eierbal', of course. But also to present work in progress on the radical right in legislative committees at the Politicologenetmaal 2025.
Yes, false. I checked this with LISS Panel Data some time ago: social democrats don't flow to the far right much. Not now, not in earlier elections. (old WIP plot, might need to resuscitate this at some point..).
June 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Yes, false. I checked this with LISS Panel Data some time ago: social democrats don't flow to the far right much. Not now, not in earlier elections. (old WIP plot, might need to resuscitate this at some point..).
Great advice by @catherinedevries.bsky.social on breaking down bigger research projects. For my fellow grads: 4 years ago I would have felt guilty not sitting in front of my screen. Over the years I've realized that my most productive moments are spent away from my screen.
😶🌫️ You’re not blocked. You’re just trying to write the whole thing at once.
🧵 about writing, Einstein & big projects.
Prompted by great Q @dirckdekleer.bsky.social: How do I break down a big project into writing tasks that feel manageable?
🔗 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/youre-not-...
🧵 about writing, Einstein & big projects.
Prompted by great Q @dirckdekleer.bsky.social: How do I break down a big project into writing tasks that feel manageable?
🔗 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/youre-not-...
You’re Not Blocked: You’re Just Trying to Write the Whole Thing at Once
Break the Work Before It Breaks You
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Great advice by @catherinedevries.bsky.social on breaking down bigger research projects. For my fellow grads: 4 years ago I would have felt guilty not sitting in front of my screen. Over the years I've realized that my most productive moments are spent away from my screen.
Reposted by Dirck de Kleer
🚨 New paper 🚨 with @pstanig.bsky.social forthcoming at @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 about the political consequences of climate-related disasters 🌲💦⚠️
Pre-print 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
Summary 🧵👇
Pre-print 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
Summary 🧵👇
November 29, 2024 at 12:49 PM
🚨 New paper 🚨 with @pstanig.bsky.social forthcoming at @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 about the political consequences of climate-related disasters 🌲💦⚠️
Pre-print 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
Summary 🧵👇
Pre-print 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
Summary 🧵👇
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#Polisky
🗂️ Call for papers Bocconi University-Columbia Universiy Conference on Political, Social, & Economic Inequality
🔄 Yearly occurring conference, inaugural conference at Bocconi, June 19-20, 2025.
📆 Deadline: December 31, 2024
ℹ️ 500 words abstract form: accounts.google.com/v3/signin/id...
🗂️ Call for papers Bocconi University-Columbia Universiy Conference on Political, Social, & Economic Inequality
🔄 Yearly occurring conference, inaugural conference at Bocconi, June 19-20, 2025.
📆 Deadline: December 31, 2024
ℹ️ 500 words abstract form: accounts.google.com/v3/signin/id...
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November 28, 2024 at 11:39 AM
#Polisky
🗂️ Call for papers Bocconi University-Columbia Universiy Conference on Political, Social, & Economic Inequality
🔄 Yearly occurring conference, inaugural conference at Bocconi, June 19-20, 2025.
📆 Deadline: December 31, 2024
ℹ️ 500 words abstract form: accounts.google.com/v3/signin/id...
🗂️ Call for papers Bocconi University-Columbia Universiy Conference on Political, Social, & Economic Inequality
🔄 Yearly occurring conference, inaugural conference at Bocconi, June 19-20, 2025.
📆 Deadline: December 31, 2024
ℹ️ 500 words abstract form: accounts.google.com/v3/signin/id...
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Farmers are protesting in Westminster, what might the political consequences be?
Our research on farmer protests in 🇳🇱 provides some clues.
osf.io/preprints/os...
Bottom line: due to popularity of farmers + media bias, this likely creates major political headache for Starmer government.
🧵
Our research on farmer protests in 🇳🇱 provides some clues.
osf.io/preprints/os...
Bottom line: due to popularity of farmers + media bias, this likely creates major political headache for Starmer government.
🧵
OSF
osf.io
November 20, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Farmers are protesting in Westminster, what might the political consequences be?
Our research on farmer protests in 🇳🇱 provides some clues.
osf.io/preprints/os...
Bottom line: due to popularity of farmers + media bias, this likely creates major political headache for Starmer government.
🧵
Our research on farmer protests in 🇳🇱 provides some clues.
osf.io/preprints/os...
Bottom line: due to popularity of farmers + media bias, this likely creates major political headache for Starmer government.
🧵
Reposted by Dirck de Kleer
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
Together with @dirckdekleer.bsky.social & @simonvanteutem.bsky.social, I wrote a paper about public opinion about climate protests in 🇳🇱
We find a bias in public support for & tabloid reporting on protests, favouring farmers over climate activists 👇
osf.io/z7uvt
Together with @dirckdekleer.bsky.social & @simonvanteutem.bsky.social, I wrote a paper about public opinion about climate protests in 🇳🇱
We find a bias in public support for & tabloid reporting on protests, favouring farmers over climate activists 👇
osf.io/z7uvt
OSF
osf.io
June 28, 2024 at 1:20 PM
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
Together with @dirckdekleer.bsky.social & @simonvanteutem.bsky.social, I wrote a paper about public opinion about climate protests in 🇳🇱
We find a bias in public support for & tabloid reporting on protests, favouring farmers over climate activists 👇
osf.io/z7uvt
Together with @dirckdekleer.bsky.social & @simonvanteutem.bsky.social, I wrote a paper about public opinion about climate protests in 🇳🇱
We find a bias in public support for & tabloid reporting on protests, favouring farmers over climate activists 👇
osf.io/z7uvt
When does toxic speech cross the line? Well, it depends.. Read my @apsa.bsky.social summary of @franziskapradel.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social, @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social's recent APSR article on this here: politicalsciencenow.com/americans-sh...
Americans Show Little Support for Content Moderation of Toxic Speech -
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer, covers the new article by Franziska [...]
politicalsciencenow.com
April 5, 2024 at 6:12 AM
When does toxic speech cross the line? Well, it depends.. Read my @apsa.bsky.social summary of @franziskapradel.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social, @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social's recent APSR article on this here: politicalsciencenow.com/americans-sh...
What happens in the course of a 30-minute discussion about politics with strangers over Zoom? Read my @apsa.bsky.social summary of @sarahobolt.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social and James Tilley's great article on the polarizing effect of echo chambers politicalsciencenow.com/echo-chamber...
April 2, 2024 at 7:46 PM
What happens in the course of a 30-minute discussion about politics with strangers over Zoom? Read my @apsa.bsky.social summary of @sarahobolt.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social and James Tilley's great article on the polarizing effect of echo chambers politicalsciencenow.com/echo-chamber...
Book worms, what are the must-go bookstores I should visit in London?
January 19, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Book worms, what are the must-go bookstores I should visit in London?
My preparations for moving to London are in full swing
January 14, 2024 at 6:50 PM
My preparations for moving to London are in full swing
I'm really excited to be visiting the LSE this spring semester 🇬🇧. Can't wait! Thanks @florianfoos.bsky.social and @sarahobolt.bsky.social for making this happen!
December 16, 2023 at 8:18 AM
I'm really excited to be visiting the LSE this spring semester 🇬🇧. Can't wait! Thanks @florianfoos.bsky.social and @sarahobolt.bsky.social for making this happen!
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⚠️Polisky WP: What are the political consequences of plant disease epidemics 🌱🦠? @catherinedevries.bsky.social, Nico Bariletto and I answer this question studying the outbreak of Xylella that exterminated olive groves in Puglia starting in 2013. What we find? See thread ⬇️ or: osf.io/preprints/os...
December 6, 2023 at 2:17 PM
⚠️Polisky WP: What are the political consequences of plant disease epidemics 🌱🦠? @catherinedevries.bsky.social, Nico Bariletto and I answer this question studying the outbreak of Xylella that exterminated olive groves in Puglia starting in 2013. What we find? See thread ⬇️ or: osf.io/preprints/os...
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One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one:
The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students.
That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.
The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students.
That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.
November 3, 2023 at 8:38 PM
One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one:
The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students.
That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.
The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students.
That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.
Learned a lot summarizing
@acooperman.bsky.social 's new APSR
article. Communities that bloc vote can pressure local politicians to deliver crucial public services. Check the @apsa.bsky.social summary and original article below:
politicalsciencenow.com/small-groups...
@acooperman.bsky.social 's new APSR
article. Communities that bloc vote can pressure local politicians to deliver crucial public services. Check the @apsa.bsky.social summary and original article below:
politicalsciencenow.com/small-groups...
November 3, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Learned a lot summarizing
@acooperman.bsky.social 's new APSR
article. Communities that bloc vote can pressure local politicians to deliver crucial public services. Check the @apsa.bsky.social summary and original article below:
politicalsciencenow.com/small-groups...
@acooperman.bsky.social 's new APSR
article. Communities that bloc vote can pressure local politicians to deliver crucial public services. Check the @apsa.bsky.social summary and original article below:
politicalsciencenow.com/small-groups...
Hi #Polisky, I'm looking for a room/studio in London 🇬🇧 from Jan - Jun '24. If you know of a place, do let me know! dirck.dekleer[at]phd.unibocconi.it
I'm looking for a studio/room 🏘️ in London 🇬🇧 from January - June 2024 (Spring 2024). Know anyone who is (sub)leasing? Please DM me! 🙏🏼
November 3, 2023 at 11:16 AM
Hi #Polisky, I'm looking for a room/studio in London 🇬🇧 from Jan - Jun '24. If you know of a place, do let me know! dirck.dekleer[at]phd.unibocconi.it
I'm looking for a studio/room 🏘️ in London 🇬🇧 from January - June 2024 (Spring 2024). Know anyone who is (sub)leasing? Please DM me! 🙏🏼
October 7, 2023 at 2:43 PM
I'm looking for a studio/room 🏘️ in London 🇬🇧 from January - June 2024 (Spring 2024). Know anyone who is (sub)leasing? Please DM me! 🙏🏼
My first APSA Public Scholar summary is online. Had the pleasure of summarizing @turnbulldugarte.bsky.social and @bertous.bsky.social 's new APSR piece. They show that some LGBT+ support has intolerant roots 🏳️🌈. Find the summary and original article here: politicalsciencenow.com/dislike-of-i...
October 5, 2023 at 6:08 PM
My first APSA Public Scholar summary is online. Had the pleasure of summarizing @turnbulldugarte.bsky.social and @bertous.bsky.social 's new APSR piece. They show that some LGBT+ support has intolerant roots 🏳️🌈. Find the summary and original article here: politicalsciencenow.com/dislike-of-i...
Hi all! 👋 I'm a 3th-yr PolSci PhD student at Bocconi working on pol behavior. I'm interested in how ppl and politicians navigate the boundaries between extreme and moderate attitudes/behaviors. I'm visiting Princeton this Fall 2023. I'd love to get a coffee if you're in the area. ddkleer.github.io
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September 23, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Hi all! 👋 I'm a 3th-yr PolSci PhD student at Bocconi working on pol behavior. I'm interested in how ppl and politicians navigate the boundaries between extreme and moderate attitudes/behaviors. I'm visiting Princeton this Fall 2023. I'd love to get a coffee if you're in the area. ddkleer.github.io
Hi @profmusgrave.bsky.social! Thanks for creating the Polisky list, would love to be added. 🙏
September 20, 2023 at 9:40 PM
Hi @profmusgrave.bsky.social! Thanks for creating the Polisky list, would love to be added. 🙏