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Joost van Spanje is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily falls within the broad area of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, and Strategy and Management.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

Their frequent publication venues consist of:

  • Acta Politica
  • The International Journal of Press/Politics
  • Comparative European Politics
  • Social Forces
  • British Journal of Political Science

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Joost van Spanje include:

  • The Battle of Frame Building: The Reciprocal Relationship between Journalists and Frame Sponsors (2020, The International Journal of Press/Politics)
  • Prosecuted, yet popular? Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support (2020, Comparative European Politics)
  • A Time-Series Analysis of Contextual-Level Effects on Hate Crime in The Netherlands (2020, Social Forces)
  • Hate Speech Prosecution of Politicians and its Effect on Support for the Legal System and Democracy (2021, British Journal of Political Science)
  • Are would-be authoritarians right? Democratic support and citizens' left-right self-placement in former left- and right- authoritarian countries (2020, Democratization)

Joost van Spanje has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors including Laura Jacobs, Lisanne Wichgers, Rachid Azrout, Roderik Rekker, and Sjifra de Leeuw. Laura Jacobs is the most frequent co-author, having worked together on eight publications, followed by Lisanne Wichgers and Rachid Azrout with four co-authored works each.

Best Publications

  • Immigration, Europe and the ‘new’ cultural dimension

    Wouter Van Der Brug;Joost Van Spanje

  • Contagious Parties: Anti-Immigration Parties and Their Impact on Other Parties’ Immigration Stances in Contemporary Western Europe

    Joost van Spanje

  • The Party as Pariah: The Exclusion of Anti-Immigration Parties and its Effect on their Ideological Positions

    Joost Van Spanje;Wouter Van Der Brug

  • Covering the crisis: media coverage of the economic crisis and citizens' economic expectations

    Hajo G Boomgaarden;Joost van Spanje;Rens Vliegenthart;Claes H de Vreese

  • Explaining Campaign News Coverage: How Medium, Time, and Context Explain Variation in the Media Framing of the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections

    Andreas R. T. Schuck;Rens Vliegenthart;Hajo G. Boomgaarden;Matthijs Elenbaas

  • Owning the issues of crime and immigration: The relation between immigration and crime news and anti-immigrant voting in 11 countries

    Bjorn Burscher;Joost van Spanje;Claes H. de Vreese

  • Keeping the rascals in: Anti‐political‐establishment parties and their cost of governing in established democracies

    Joost Van Spanje

  • The Wrong and the Right: A Comparative Analysis of ‘Anti-Immigration’ and ‘Far Right’ Parties

    Joost van Spanje

  • So what's wrong with the EU? Motivations underlying the Eurosceptic vote in the 2009 European elections

    Joost van Spanje;Claes de Vreese

  • When news matters: media effects on public support for European Union enlargement in 21 countries

    Rachid Azrout;Joost Van Spanje;Claes De Vreese

  • Crime Story: The role of crime and immigration in the anti-immigration vote

    Elias Dinas;Joost van Spanje

  • Being intolerant of the intolerant. The exclusion of Western European anti-immigration parties and its consequences for party choice

    Joost Van Spanje;Joost Van Spanje;Wouter Van der Brug

  • Anti-Immigrant Party Support and Media Visibility: A Cross-Party, Over-Time Perspective

    R. Vliegenthart;H.G. Boomgaarden;J. van Spanje

  • Parties beyond the pale: Why some political parties are ostracized by their competitors while others are not

    Joost van Spanje;Joost van Spanje

  • How established parties reduce other parties’ electoral support: the strategy of parroting the pariah

    Joost van Spanje;Nan Dirk de Graaf

  • Talking Turkey: Anti-immigrant attitudes and their effect on support for Turkish membership of the EU:

    Rachid Azrout;Joost van Spanje;Claes de Vreese

  • Across time and space: Explaining variation in news coverage of the European Union

    Hajo G. Boomgaarden;Claes H. De Vreese;Andreas R.T. Schuck;Rachid Azrout

  • The good, the bad and the voter: The impact of hate speech prosecution of a politician on electoral support for his party

    Joost van Spanje;Claes de Vreese

  • Tainted Love : How Stigmatization of a Political Party in News Media Reduces Its Electoral Support

    Joost van Spanje;Rachid Azrout

  • Europhile Media and Eurosceptic Voting: Effects of News Media Coverage on Eurosceptic Voting in the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections

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  • New Parties in Government: Party Organization and the Costs of Public Office.

    Nicole Bolleyer;Joost van Spanje;Alex Wilson

  • The Battle of Frame Building: The Reciprocal Relationship between Journalists and Frame Sponsors:

    Lisanne Wichgers;Laura Jacobs;Joost van Spanje

  • Does ostracism affect party support? Comparative lessons and experimental evidence:

    Joost van Spanje;Till Weber

  • A threat called Turkey: Perceived religious threat and support for EU entry of Croatia, Switzerland and Turkey

    Rachid Azrout;Joost van Spanje;Claes de Vreese

  • A Time-Series Analysis of Contextual-Level Effects on Hate Crime in The Netherlands

    Laura Jacobs;Joost van Spanje

  • After All This Time? The Impact of Media and Authoritarian History on Political News Coverage in Twelve Western Countries

    Sjifra E de Leeuw;Rachid Azrout;Roderik S B Rekker;Joost H P Van Spanje

  • Are Populists Politically Intolerant? Citizens’ Populist Attitudes and Tolerance of Various Political Antagonists:

    Linda Bos;Lisanne Wichgers;Joost van Spanje

  • Martyrs for Free Speech? Disentangling the Effects of Legal Prosecution of Anti-immigration Politicians on their Electoral Support

    Laura Jacobs;Joost van Spanje

  • Small winners and big losers: strategic party behaviour in the 2017 Dutch general election

    Mathilde Maria Van Ditmars;Nicola Maggini;Joost Van Spanje

  • Hate Speech Prosecution of Politicians and its Effect on Support for the Legal System and Democracy

    Roderik Rekker;Joost van Spanje

  • Killing them softly? Two complementary studies on visibility and framing of new parties in the news:

    Joost van Spanje;Rachid Azrout

Frequent Co-Authors

Claes H. de Vreese
Claes H. de Vreese University of Amsterdam
Elias Dinas
Elias Dinas European University Institute
Rens Vliegenthart
Rens Vliegenthart Wageningen University & Research
Hajo G. Boomgaarden
Hajo G. Boomgaarden University of Vienna
Wouter van der Brug
Wouter van der Brug University of Amsterdam
Mark N. Franklin
Mark N. Franklin European University Institute
Andreas R.T. Schuck
Andreas R.T. Schuck University of Amsterdam
Nicole Bolleyer
Nicole Bolleyer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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