After seemingly endless meetings online, meeting in-person is so unbelievably valuable 🤩

Get ready for lots of research from Team Science coming your way 🤝

@distasioval.bsky.social already gave a keynote summarising the state of the art... and there is still so much more to come 👏

Ja maar het is zo leuk om de jeugd van tegenwoordig te bashen 😊

And of course I needed to, again, debunk the persistent myth that Muslims would vote for Geert Wilders' PVV.

Read the full study here: doi.org/10.55271/pp0...

I have published a paper on voting for DENK and find that the biggest predictor of Muslims voting for DENK is the wish to put the interests of Muslims first. Written with @lizamugge.bsky.social, @hakhverdian.bsky.social and Daphne van der Pas.

doi.org/10.1080/0034...

The research I discuss about turnout amongst Muslims is from work in progress lead by @gefjonoff.bsky.social. Find the pre-print here:

Off, G., & van Oosten, S. (2025). Do gender patterns differ between the ethnic majority and Muslim minorities? doi.org/10.31219/osf...

But voters with a migration background in the Netherlands, France, and Germany, on the other hand, do not show a preference for politicians from their own group. This is what I show in this paper:
doi.org/10.31219/osf...

I also mentioned that in the U.S., Black/Asian/Latinx voters prefer politicians from their own group; this comes from the meta-analysis I published on the topic together with Liza Mügge and Daphne van der Pas:
doi.org/10.1057/s412...

Hughes, M.M. (2016) Electoral Systems and the Legislative Representation of Muslim Ethnic Minority Women in the West, 2000-2010. Parliamentary Affairs 69: 548–568. DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsv062.

The fact that in proportional electoral systems such as the Dutch one, Muslim women are actually more often represented in parliament than Muslim men shows that the selectorate consciously thinks in intersectional terms when choosing the politicians on their lists:

And that some politicians of colour (for example, Obama) distance themselves from their minority group in order to appeal to hesitant white voters, I got from:

Stephens-Dougan L (2020) Race to the Bottom. University of Chicago Press. DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226699035.001.0001.

The specific example that right-wing parties in the European Parliament actually use women to promote sexist policies comes from this study by Porzycki, Oshri, and Shenhav doi.org/10.1177/1465...

I talked about how right-wing parties use diversity to seemingly soften the seriousness of their policies. Anna Korteweg and Gokce Yurdakul call people from Muslim descent who take on anti-Muslim views and are embraced by right wing politicians and pundits “codebreakers”
doi.org/10.1177/0037...

I discussed the concept of “Symbolic Inclusion” which is a concept I borrowed from Rafaella Dancygier’s book:

Dancygier RM (2017) Dilemmas of Inclusion. Princeton University Press. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt1vwmgf2.

I also mentioned that Muslims can make up for the bias that voters have against them by taking on anti-stereotypical policy positions. The paper is still work in progress, but here is a taster:
www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/bestuur-en-o...

That voters have policy expectations of Muslim politicians, for example that they are homophobic, I published about here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.el...