Principal Investigators
Maurits J. Meijers
Maurits is an Associate Professor of Political Representation at the Department of Political Science at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
He holds a PhD in Political Science (graduated with a summa cum laude) at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. His research focuses broadly on political representation and the competition between political parties. Specifically, he is interested in representation and party competition in European Union politics as well as in questions concerning the quality of representation and democracy.
Find him on his personal website, Google Scholar, Twitter and the Radboud University website.
Contact Maurits via email: maurits.meijers@ru.nl
Andrej Zaslove
Andrej is an Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Andrej’s research examines populism and political parties. He focuses on measuring populism (citizens’ attitudes), on populism and democracy, on populism and foreign policy, on populism and gender, and on the influence of populism on party systems.
Find him on Google Scholar, and the Radboud University website.
Contact Andrej via email: a.zaslove@fm.ru.nl
Robert Huber
Robert is a Lecturer at the University of Reading. Before that he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Salzburg and completed his PhD at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on challenges to (liberal) democracy. Specifically, he has an interest in understanding empirically how populism and climate change exert pressure on liberal democratic governance.
Research Assistants
We are grateful for the research assistance of Margot Daris, Loran de Hollander and Lars Stevenson (in the first wave; all at Radboud) and Sanne Van Helmondt, Puck Overhaart (both at Radboud) and Grace Steffens (at the University of Salzburg) in the second wave. We could not have completed the project without their assistance. In addition, we would also like to thank Victor Ellenbroek and Benthe van Wanrooij for their research assistance. We would like to thank Annika Püschner (University of Salzburg) for her help with creating the STATA file.