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Catherine E. De Vries

Catherine E. De Vries

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Political Science
Italy
2026

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Political Science

D-Index
44
Citations
11342
World Ranking
372
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Catherine E. De Vries is affiliated with Bocconi University in Italy and specializes in social sciences with a strong focus on political science and international relations. Their research spans various subfields including sociology and political science, strategy and management, finance, and development.

Their main topics of study include electoral systems and political participation, European Union policy and governance, social policy and reform studies, populism and right-wing movements, political influence and corporate strategies, political systems and governance, and international development and aid.

Recent papers by Catherine E. De Vries include:

  • Politicizing International Cooperation: The Mass Public, Political Entrepreneurs, and Political Opportunity Structures, 2021, International Organization
  • Crisis Signaling: How Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Affected Incumbent Support in Other European Countries, 2021, Political Science Research and Methods
  • Differentiated Integration in the European Union: Institutional Effects, Public Opinion, and Alternative Flexibility Arrangements, 2022, European Union Politics
  • Europe Belongs to the Young? Generational Differences in Public Opinion towards the European Union during the Eurozone Crisis, 2020, Journal of European Public Policy
  • Crisis Signaling: How Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Affected Incumbent Support in Other European Countries, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors working alongside Catherine E. De Vries include:

  • Sara B. Hobolt
  • Sven-Oliver Proksch
  • Jonathan Slapin
  • Kevin Arceneaux
  • Lisanne de Blok

Publication venues frequently chosen for work dissemination are:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • European Union Politics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
  • American Political Science Review

Book publications include works published by Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Zurich, and Latin America Research Commons eBooks. Notable titles are:

  • Political Entrepreneurs, 2020, Princeton University Press
  • Foundations of European Politics, 2021 and 2025, Oxford University Press
  • Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe, 2020, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach, 2021, University of Zurich
  • Populism: Origins and Alternative Policy Responses, 2022, Latin America Research Commons eBooks

Best Publications

  • Measuring party positions in Europe: The Chapel Hill expert survey trend file, 1999-2010

    Ryan Bakker;Catherine de Vries;Erica Edwards;Liesbet Hooghe

  • Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration

    Catherine E. De Vries

  • Reliability and validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill expert surveys on party positioning

    Liesbet Hooghe;Ryan Bakker;Anna Brigevich;Catherine De vries

  • Who’s Cueing Whom? Mass-Elite Linkages and the Future of European Integration

    Marco R. Steenbergen;Erica E. Edwards;Catherine E. de Vries

  • Public Support for European Integration

    Sara B. Hobolt;Sara B. Hobolt;Catherine E. de Vries

  • When dimensions collide: The electoral success of issue entrepreneurs

    Catherine E. De Vries;Sara B. Hobolt

  • Sleeping giant: Fact or fairytale?: How European integration affects national elections

    Catherine E. de Vries

  • Mean voter representation and partisan constituency representation: Do parties respond to the mean voter position or to their supporters?

    Lawrence Ezrow;Catherine De Vries;Marco Steenbergen;Erica Edwards

  • Taking Europe To Its Extremes

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  • Issue Entrepreneurship and Multiparty Competition

    Sara B. Hobolt;Catherine E. de Vries

  • Individual and contextual variation in EU issue voting: the role of political information

    Catherine E. de Vries;Wouter van der Brug;Marcel H. van Egmond;Cees van der Eijk

  • In Europe we trust? Exploring three logics of trust in the European Union

    Eelco Harteveld;Tom van der Meer;Catherine E De Vries

  • The Dynamics of Voters' Left/Right Identification: The Role of Economic and Cultural Attitudes

    Catherine E. de Vries;Armèn Hakhverdian;Bram Lancee

  • Turning against the Union?: The impact of the crisis on the Eurosceptic vote in the 2014 European Parliament elections

    Sara B. Hobolt;Catherine E. de Vries

  • Going green: Explaining issue competition on the environment

    Jae Jae Spoon;Sara B. Hobolt;Catherine E. de Vries

  • Exploiting the Cracks: Wedge Issues in Multiparty Competition

    Marc-Paul Van de Wardt;Catherine E De Vries;Sara B Hobolt

  • Why do parties change position? Party organization and environmental incentives

    Gijs Schumacher;Catherine E. de Vries;Barbara Vis

  • EU Issue voting; asset or liability: How European integration affects parties' electoral fortunes

    Catherine E. de Vries

  • Interests, Identity and Political Allegiance in the European Union

    Catherine E de Vries;Kees van Kersbergen

  • The cosmopolitan-parochial divide: changing patterns of party and electoral competition in the Netherlands and beyond

    Catherine E. De Vries

  • The struggle over dimensionality: A note on theory and empirics

    Catherine E. De Vries;Gary Marks;Gary Marks

  • Politicizing international cooperation: the mass public, political entrepreneurs and political opportunity structures

    Catherine E. De Vries;Sara B. Hobolt;Stefanie Walter

  • Crisis signaling: How Italy's coronavirus lockdown affected incumbent support in other European countries

    Catherine E. De Vries;Bert N. Bakker;Sara B. Hobolt;Kevin Arceneaux

  • Clarity of Responsibility Beyond the Pocketbook: How Political Institutions Condition EU Issue Voting

    Catherine E. de Vries;Erica E. Edwards;Erik R. Tillman

  • European Union issue voting in East and West Europe: The role of political context

    Catherine E de Vries;Erik R Tillman

  • In-group loyalty and the punishment of corruption

    Hector Solaz;Catherine E. De Vries;Roosmarijn A. de Geus

  • The Impact of EU Referenda on National Electoral Politics: The Dutch Case

    Catherine E. de Vries

  • Studying policy diffusion at the individual level : Experiments on nationalistic biases in information seeking

    Daniel M. Butler;Catherine E. De Vries;Hector Solaz

  • When Dimensions Collide: The Electoral Success of Issue Entrepreneurs

    Sara B. Hobolt;Catherine E. De Vries

  • When the money stops: Fluctuations in financial remittances and incumbent approval in Central Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

    Katerina Tertytchnaya;Catherine E. De Vries;Hector Solaz;David Doyle

  • Europe belongs to the young? Generational differences in public opinion towards the European Union during the Eurozone crisis

    Fabian Lauterbach;Catherine E. De Vries

  • Variable Opinions: The Predictability of Support for Unification in European Mass Publics

    Catherine de Vries;Marco Steenbergen

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara B. Hobolt
Sara B. Hobolt London School of Economics and Political Science
Marco R. Steenbergen
Marco R. Steenbergen University of Zurich
Wouter van der Brug
Wouter van der Brug University of Amsterdam
Gary Marks
Gary Marks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kevin Arceneaux
Kevin Arceneaux Sciences Po
Liesbet Hooghe
Liesbet Hooghe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James Adams
James Adams University of California, Davis
Lawrence Ezrow
Lawrence Ezrow University of Essex
Milada Anna Vachudova
Milada Anna Vachudova University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barbara Vis
Barbara Vis Utrecht University

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