About

Since 2004 I am Professor of Social Science Research Methods at the University of Nottingham (UK), Previously I was Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam (NL). My expertise and resarch interests are partly substantive, and partly methodological. My substantive interests focus on comparative studies of public opinion, political parties, media, elections and citizen politics. I have been PI or Co-I of many projects in this area, including the Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies (DPES), the European Election Studies (EES) and the British Election Study (BES). My methodological interests include (comparative) survey research, measurement, latent variable modelling, analysis of complex datastructures, and data linking. Some of my book publications include: * Schmitt, Hermann, Paolo Segatti and Cees van der Eijk (eds.) 2021. Consequences of Context - How the Social, Political and Economic Environment Affects Voting. London: Rowman & Littlefield / ECPR Press, 2021. * Van der Brug, Wouter, Cees van der Eijk, and Mark N. Franklin. 2007. The Economy and the Vote: Economic Conditions and Elections in Fifteen Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Van der Eijk, Cees. 2018. The Essence of Politics. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. * Van der Eijk, Cees, and Mark N. Franklin. 1996. Choosing Europe? The European Electorate and National Politics in the Face of Union. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. * Van der Eijk, Cees, and Kees Niemöller. 1983. Electoral Change in the Netherlands: Empirical Results and Methods of Measurement. Amsterdam: CT Press. Some (co)authored articles include: * Van der Eijk, Cees. 2018a. ‘Selecting the Dependent Variable in Electoral Studies: Choice or Preference?’ In The Routledge Handbook of Elections: Voting behaviour and Public Opinion, edited by Justin Fisher, Edward Fieldhouse, Mark N. Franklin, Rachel Gibson, Marta Cantijoch, and Christopher Wlezien, 445–457. London: Routledge. * Van der Eijk, Cees, Wouter van der Brug, Martin Kroh, and Mark N. Franklin. 2006. ‘Rethinking the Dependent Variable in Voting Behavior: On the Measurement and Analysis of Electoral Utilities’. Electoral Studies, 25, no. 3: 424–447. * Van der Eijk, Cees. 2001. ‘Measuring Agreement in Ordered Rating Scales’. Quality and Quantity, 35: 325–341. * De Vries, Catherine E., Wouter van der Brug, Marcel H. van Egmond, and Cees van der Eijk. 2011. ‘Individual and Contextual Variation in EU Issue Voting: The Role of Political Information’. Electoral Studies 30, no. 1: 16–28. *

Research Interests

Cleavages, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Elections, European Politics, European Union, National Identity, Parliaments, Party Manifestos, Political Leadership, Political Methodology, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Psychology, Referendums and Initiatives, Representation, Social Movements, Voting, Political Sociology, Campaign, Candidate, Coalition, Methods, Quantitative, Regression, Electoral Behaviour, Euroscepticism, Party Systems, Political Ideology, Public Opinion, Survey Research, Voting Behaviour, Brexit, Empirical

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Political Communication
• Political Methodology
• Political Representation
• Political Psychology
• Political Parties
• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective