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Associate Professor at Leiden University Researching political conflict & violence with data science Football enthusiast | Foodie | Travel addict RTs & Follows ≠ agreement

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With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

30.10.2025 07:01 👍 397 🔁 157 💬 6 📌 11

Eerste keer stemmen en ik dacht: wat kan er misgaan? Nou, dit!

29.10.2025 19:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Het Instituut @polscileiden.bsky.social is goed vertegenwoordigd bij de NOS uitslagenavond. Kersverse hoogleraar Nederlandse Politiek @sldelange.bsky.social is op televisie samen met Leids alumnus @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social (nu UvA) Op de radio alumna Josje den Ridder (nu SCP) en ikzelf

29.10.2025 07:40 👍 41 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 2

Voor de beste duiding staan vandaag en morgen overal politicologen tot uw dienst. Het zijn net pokemons, volg ze allemaal

29.10.2025 07:49 👍 52 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 0
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Eerste stemmen verkiezingen uitgebracht in meerdere gemeenten Alle berichten Belangrijke updates woensdag 29 oktober 2025 om 14:23 Luister dit artikel Deel dit artikel Wat als het vanavond ’too close to call’ wordt? Met liefst vijf partijen die volgens de peilin...

Too close to call? Floridase toestanden in Nederland? Ik sprak de @nrc.nl over het fenomeen hertelling www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

29.10.2025 13:42 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Tight race in Dutch election as anti-Islam populist Wilders' hope of power declines - BBC News Wilders was the clear winner last time Dutch voters went to the polls in November 2023, but this time the race is far tighter.

Election day also means a quick round up of my comments in the international media that have been published today. Pick your favorite language 🙂

www.bbc.com/news/article...

29.10.2025 07:06 👍 93 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 2
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Ready to rumble!

Live commentary on exit poll and results with @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social and yours truly from 8.30 PM till very late on NPO1

29.10.2025 16:08 👍 59 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1

Onthoud, politici rechts, links en in het midden:

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"

(Adam Przeworski)

29.10.2025 17:10 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

The first few reviews are in for my book 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (Hurst/OUP)!

Draper in 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Muzergues in 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘦́𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦̀𝘳𝘦: politique-etrangere.com/2025/06/19/p...

Dressler in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵: feps-europe.eu/inspiration/...

10.09.2025 12:06 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025 It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social and edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

08.09.2025 11:09 👍 38 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1

Interessant! @mrooduijn.bsky.social en @simonotjes.bsky.social zijn weer begonnen met hun serie "Plaatjes van de electoraatjes" over de kenmerken en opvattingen van de (potentiële) kiezers op een partij. Eerste aflevering: NSC.

05.09.2025 06:28 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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📊 New dataset and paper alert!
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Below follows a 🧵

29.08.2025 11:08 👍 94 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 1
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Als je naar de huidige peilingen kijkt (zie de laatste peilingwijzer van @tomlouwerse.nl) ziet het er naar uit dat de formatie lastig zal worden.
Nu zijn peilingen geen voorspellingen maar de trends (verdwijnen NSC, daling VVD, groei CDA,) maken het een lastig landschap.

31.08.2025 08:30 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 5

In tegenstelling tot de gangbare Nederlandse telling, tellen de meeste politicologen internationaal een nieuw kabinet als de partijpolitieke samenstelling wijzigt. Dus nu Schoof III (VVD/BBB) na Schoof II (VVD/NSC/BBB) en Schoof I (PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB).

22.08.2025 18:41 👍 88 🔁 21 💬 9 📌 4

Excited to share my chapter “#Computational Methods in International Relations” is out in the Handbook of #IR.

From Newton’s math to today’s algorithms; how computation helps us make sense of world #politics.

For those into data, code & global affairs:
doi.org/10.4337/9781...

03.07.2025 11:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Who Rallies Round the Flag? The Impact of the US Sanctions on Iranians’ Attitude toward the Government Abstract. While politicians often argue that economic sanctions can induce policy changes in targeted states by undermining elite and public support for th

If you’re curious the assassination of the IRGC commanders creates a rally around the flag. I suggest reading my recent coauthored article. #IRGC is not a liked in #Iran due to its participation in repression of oppositions. Some of Iranians actually celebrating it.

academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

13.06.2025 16:23 👍 26 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Consider two photos: one of an immigrant mother being separated from her child and another of a burning car. Which leads the news? Which focuses attention on the harms of mass deportations? A challenge of violent protest tactics is that they often shift attention away from the injustices they decry.

09.06.2025 12:57 👍 125 🔁 36 💬 7 📌 5

Congrats, Elia!

09.06.2025 19:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What kind of opposition do citizens want?

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Opposition parties play a crucial role in democracies. While scholars have extensively studied opposition behaviour and institutional powers, little is known about what citizens expect from opposition parties and how they evaluate these expectations being met. This study addresses this gap by examining citizens’ views on three key opposition roles - oversight, cooperation, and offering alternatives - and their perceived fulfilment across four countries: Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Based on a citizen survey, this study assesses how individual characteristics (democratic satisfaction, political interest, education) and institutional context are related to these views. Citizens across all four countries value cooperation. Preferences for the ‘alternative’ role vary between institutional settings. On the individual level, conflict-oriented and dissatisfied citizens value cooperation less, while those with higher education and political interest find oversight and cooperation more important.

What kind of opposition do citizens want? Abstract Opposition parties play a crucial role in democracies. While scholars have extensively studied opposition behaviour and institutional powers, little is known about what citizens expect from opposition parties and how they evaluate these expectations being met. This study addresses this gap by examining citizens’ views on three key opposition roles - oversight, cooperation, and offering alternatives - and their perceived fulfilment across four countries: Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Based on a citizen survey, this study assesses how individual characteristics (democratic satisfaction, political interest, education) and institutional context are related to these views. Citizens across all four countries value cooperation. Preferences for the ‘alternative’ role vary between institutional settings. On the individual level, conflict-oriented and dissatisfied citizens value cooperation less, while those with higher education and political interest find oversight and cooperation more important.

🧵 New research on what citizens expect from opposition parties in democracy published in @wepsocial.bsky.social. @elinazorina.bsky.social and I surveyed people in Canada, Denmark, Netherlands & UK to understand their views on opposition roles. doi.org/10.1080/0140...

09.06.2025 18:36 👍 49 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 3
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Aflevering 133 – Wilders blaast het kabinet op, met Henk van der Kolk en Simon Otjes - StukRoodVlees Geert Wilders heeft zijn steun aan het kabinet ingetrokken. En zoals het een extraparlementair kabinet betaamt met bewindspersonen op afstand van de politiek trekt hij ook al zijn bewindspersonen teru...

Media en politiek lopen weer als lemmings op 29 oktober af. stukroodvlees.nl/aflevering-1...

07.06.2025 08:18 👍 33 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 2
Grafiek met meest recente scores Peilingwijzer

Grafiek met meest recente scores Peilingwijzer

De Peilingwijzer is bijgewerkt met de nieuwste peiling van Ipsos I&O.

📊 📈 Alle cijfers & grafieken: https://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/

Bron Ipsos I&O: https://is.gd/EmlNjV

06.06.2025 16:02 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

De trend van de PVV is in de recentste Peilingwijzer eerder omhoog dan omlaag, en van de VVD andersom, maar: beide binnen de foutmarge.

Gevolg is wel dat de PVV nu duidelijk iets groter is dan de VVD (en GL-PvdA), want die verschillen vielen eerder binnen de foutmarge, en nu niet meer.

06.06.2025 16:07 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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When, not if: the fall of the Dutch cabinet - UK in a changing Europe Simon Otjes explains the recent fall of the government in the Netherlands prompted by the radical right-wing populist  PVV under Geert Wilders.

What happened in the Netherlands and what will happen next? I wrote a short piece about the collapse of the Dutch government for @ukandeu.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/when-not-if-...

04.06.2025 15:17 👍 29 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 1
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Wat als het kabinet binnenkort valt, de peilingen van nu zeteltallen worden, hoe zal het kabinet er dan uit zien? Het kabinet Timmermans I

08.03.2025 14:35 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 13 📌 1
Peilingwijzer 2023-2025

Peilingwijzer 2023-2025

In de @peilingwijzer.bsky.social staan momenteel drie partijen op gelijke hoogte aan kop: PVV, VVD en GL-PvdA. Maar tussen nu en nieuwe verkiezingen kan er nog veel gebeuren. Welke onderwerpen staan centraal? Welk frame over de kabinetsval domineert? peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/grafiek_tren...

03.06.2025 08:53 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0

Dutch coalition crisis: PVV ministers exit government. Wilders had asked for additional far-reaching measures on migration, breaking open the coalition agreement. Other parties were not prepared to do this.

03.06.2025 08:08 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

The PVV has left the Dutch coalition. What does this mean? Will there we be new elections? When? Who will win? Which government will form? 🧵

03.06.2025 08:12 👍 183 🔁 84 💬 5 📌 23

Seems plausible that future will involve post-college Advanced Placement-style proctored, subject-specific exams. Some research suggests national exams can help classroom dynamics because they put teacher and students on same team versus exam. Only works, though, to assess standardized knowledge.

08.05.2025 14:58 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

Wonderful that you join us @sabinecarey.bsky.social! Thank you for sharing your exciting research with us.

ps: I need to check my blusky account more frequently 😊

27.12.2024 19:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Meta’s user-hostile approach to links worked for Instagram but porting it to Threads was a mistake. Sharing is core to being human and, for text-first social networks, sharing links is essential. Writers, media, news junkies, etc don’t want to live in Meta’s or X’s or anyone’s “walled garden.”

17.11.2024 18:03 👍 50 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0