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Joost van Spanje

Royal Holloway, University of London

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About

Joost van Spanje is Professor of Politics in the University of London, and Associate Professor of Political Communication in the University of Amsterdam. His London team investigates if and how the news media cover new parties, and electoral effects of such coverage in 19 countries since 1950. His Amsterdam team studies effects of legal action against anti-immigration parties on public opinion in 21 countries since 1965. Joost has published 35 SSCI-ranked journal articles as well as the 2018 monograph entitled Controlling the Electoral Marketplace: How Established Parties Ward Off Competition. In this book he studies how established parties react to the presence of challenger parties in 15 countries since 1944. Joost argues, and demonstrates empirically (based on experiments, surveys, and election outcomes), that a particular combination of strategies reduces far left and far right parties’ electoral support. Joost previously conducted research at the University of Oxford, the EUI in Florence, and New York University. Invited talks he has given include lectures at Oxford, WZB, Exeter, UCM, and Stanford. In recent years Joost has won the Annual Political Science Award, an NWO Veni grant, an NWO Vidi grant, and an ERC Consolidator grant. These individual research grants add up to awards of over €3,000,000. In addition, his students nominated him for the 2017 University of Amsterdam Lecturer of the Year Award. Joost's media experience includes TV interviews given to Al Jazeera and France 24, and Australian, Brazilian, British, Canadian, German, Italian, and US national news media.

Research Interests

Cleavages, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Elections, Elites, European Politics, European Union, Extremism, Government, Green Politics, Integration, Media, Migration, Party Manifestos, Political Competition, Political Parties, Populism, Voting, Campaign, Coalition, Courts, Immigration, Internet, Methods, Quantitative, Social Media, Communication, Comparative Perspective, Electoral Behaviour, Euroscepticism, Experimental Design, Field Experiments, Lab Experiments, Party Systems, Public Opinion, Survey Experiments, Survey Research, Voting Behaviour, Big Data, Empirical

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