Team

Principal Investigators

Maurits J. Meijers

Maurits is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics 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 PhD dissertation focused on the impact of Eurosceptic challenger parties on mainstream parties’ EU attitudes toward European integration in Western Europe. Other research interests include questions concerning responsiveness and agenda-setting in European Union Politics as well as the role populism and political radicalism and populism in European democracies.

Find him on his personal websiteGoogle ScholarTwitter 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 would like to thank the following people who have helped us with their research assistance over the years: Loran de Hollander, Margot Daris, Lars Stevenson, Victor Ellenbroek, Bente van Wanrooij, and Victor Bouemar.