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Overview

Hilde Coffé is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a strong focus on political science and international relations, gender studies, sociology, communication, and strategy and management.

The main topics addressed in Coffé's work include:

  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception

Frequent publication venues featuring Coffé's research are:

  • European Journal of Politics and Gender
  • Frontiers in Political Science
  • Journal of Women Politics & Policy
  • Parliamentary Affairs
  • British Politics

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Coffé include:

  • "How candidate characteristics matter: Candidate profiles, political sophistication, and vote choice," 2020, Politics
  • "Masculinity, sexism and populist radical right support," 2023, Frontiers in Political Science
  • "Are all politics masculine? Gender socialised personality traits and diversity in political engagement," 2020, European Journal of Politics and Gender

Additional papers connected to their research collaboration are:

  • "When Do Männerparteien Elect Women? Radical Right Populist Parties and Strategic Descriptive Representation," 2022, American Political Science Review
  • "Climate Belief and Issue Salience: Comparing Two Dimensions of Public Opinion on Climate Change in the EU," 2021, Social Indicators Research

Coffé has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Robin Devroe
  • Audrey Vandeleene
  • Bram Wauters
  • Ana Catalano Weeks
  • Bonnie M. Meguid

Best Publications

  • Same Game, Different Rules? Gender Differences in Political Participation

    Hilde Coffé;Catherine Bolzendahl

  • Toward an Empirical Characterization of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

  • Fertile grounds for extreme right-wing parties: Explaining the Vlaams Blok's electoral success

    Hilde Coffé;Bruno Heyndels;Jan Vermeir

  • Institutional performance and social capital. An application to the local government level.

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

  • How Friendship Network Characteristics Influence Subjective Well-Being

    Mariska van der Horst;Hilde Coffé

  • Community Heterogeneity: A Burden for the Creation of Social Capital?†

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

  • Explaining the gender gap in radical right voting: A cross-national investigation in 12 Western European countries

    Tim Immerzeel;Hilde Coffé;Tanja van der Lippe

  • Education and support for representative, direct and stealth democracy

    Hilde Coffé;Ank Michels

  • Are ‘Good’ Citizens ‘Good’ Participants? Testing Citizenship Norms and Political Participation across 25 Nations:

    Catherine Bolzendahl;Hilde Coffé

  • Gender Gaps in Political Participation Across Sub-Saharan African Nations

    Hilde Coffe;Catherine Bolzendahl

  • Women Stay Local, Men Go National and Global? Gender Differences in Political Interest

    Hilde Coffé

  • Do Individual Factors Explain the Different Success of the Two Belgian Extreme Right Parties

    Hilde Coffé

  • Participation in Bridging and Bonding Associations and Civic Attitudes: Evidence from Flanders

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

  • Citizenship Norms in Eastern Europe

    Hilde Coffé;Tanja van der Lippe

  • When Do Männerparteien Elect Women? Radical Right Populist Parties and Strategic Descriptive Representation

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  • Young people, parents and radical right voting. The Case of the Swiss People’s Party

    Hilde Coffé;Marieke Voorpostel

  • Social Capital and Community Heterogeneity

    Hilde R. Coffé

  • Transitions in Partnership and Parental Status, Gender, and Political and Civic Participation

    Marieke Voorpostel;Hilde Coffé

  • The adaptation of the extreme right's discourse, The case of the Vlaams Blok

    Hilde Coffe

  • Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies. A Comparative Analysis . Edited by van W. van Deth, José Ramón Montero, and Anders Westholm. (Routledge, 2007.)

    Hilde Coffé

  • Competing with the radical right Distances between the European radical right and other parties on typical radical right issues

    Tim Immerzeel;Marcel Lubbers;Hilde Coffé

  • Citizens’ media use and the accuracy of their perceptions of electoral integrity:

    Hilde Coffé

  • Gender, gendered personality traits and radical right populist voting:

    Hilde Coffé

  • Towards an empirical characterization of bridging and bonding social capital [Zur empirischen Charakterisierung von heterogenen (bridging) und homogenen (bonding) Arten des Sozialkapitals]

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

Frequent Co-Authors

Benny Geys
Benny Geys BI Norwegian Business School
Tanja van der Lippe
Tanja van der Lippe Utrecht University
Marcel Lubbers
Marcel Lubbers Utrecht University
Jeroen Dewulf
Jeroen Dewulf Ghent University
Rosie Campbell
Rosie Campbell King's College London
Susan Banducci
Susan Banducci University of Exeter

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