Principal Investigators
Maurits J. Meijers
Maurits is an Associate Professor of Political Representation at Radboud University in Nijmegen. His research focuses on political representation, party competition, and democracy, with a particular emphasis on EU politics and the quality of representation. His work has been published in leading journals, including European Journal of Political Research, The Journal of Politics, and Comparative Political Studies.
In 2019, he was awarded a VENI grant from NWO for the project “Credible or Capricious? The Reputational Cost of Party Policy Change.” He received the KNAW Early Career Award in 2020 and, in 2024, an ERC Starting Grant for the project “Deception in Democracy: Political Lying Accusations and Their Effects on Democratic Citizenship.”
Find him on his personal website, Google Scholar, Twitter and the Radboud University website.
Andrej Zaslove
Andrej is an Associate Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His research focuses on comparative politics, political parties, populism, and political behavior. He has a particular interest in measuring populism (both supply and demand), as well as the intersections of populism with democracy, gender, and its impact on party systems, and foreign policy.
For more information, visit his profiles on Google Scholar, and the Radboud University website.
Robert A. Huber
Robert is a Professor of Political Science Methods at the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. He earned his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2018. Prior to joining the University of Salzburg, Robert served as a lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Reading. Additionally, he holds the position of co-editor-in-chief at the European Journal of Political Research (until the end of 2024) and the Populism Seminar. Robert’s primary research focus revolves around examining how globalisation poses new challenges to liberal democracy. He utilises state-of-the-art methods to investigate areas such as trade policy, climate and environmental politics, and populism. His work has been featured in journals, including the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, and Political Analysis.
You can find more information at his webpage: www.robertahuber.com
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, Victor Bouemar (all 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.