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Marcel Lubbers is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly work spans several interconnected fields, most notably sociology and political science, political science and international relations, demography, communication, and safety research.

The research topics addressed by Lubbers reflect a focus on migration, refugees, and integration, as well as populism and right-wing movements. Other key areas include electoral systems and political participation, migration and labor dynamics, nonprofit sector and volunteering, social and intergroup psychology, and tourism, volunteerism, and development.

Lubbers has contributed to several academic journals, with frequent publications in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Mens & Maatschappij, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Acta Politica, and Social Science Research.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Lubbers include:

  • Working class economic insecurity and voting for radical right and radical left parties, 2022, Social Science Research
  • Assessing the 'Why' in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations, 2023, VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
  • Nationalism in Europe: Trends and Cross-national Differences in Public Opinion, 2020, European Review
  • Socio-Structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: A Resource-Based Approach, 2022, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • A cosmopolitan explanation of the integration paradox: a mixed methods approach, 2022, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Lubbers has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Peer Scheepers, Niels Spierings, Maikel Meijeren, Take Sipma, and Lieselotte Blommaert.

Best Publications

  • Extreme right-wing voting in Western Europe

    Marcel Lubbers;Mérove Gijsberts;Peer Scheepers

  • Who Fears What? Explaining Far-Right-Wing Preference in Europe by Distinguishing Perceived Cultural and Economic Ethnic Threats:

    Geertje Lucassen;Marcel Lubbers

  • Individual and contextual characteristics of the German extreme Right–Wing vote in the 1990s. A test of complementary theories

    Marcel Lubbers;Peer Scheepers

  • Euro-scepticism and radical right-wing voting in Europe, 2002-2008: Social cleavages, socio-political attitudes and contextual characteristics determining voting for the radical right

    Han Werts;Peer Scheepers;Marcel Lubbers

  • Divergent trends of euroscepticism in countries and regions of the European Union

    Marcel Lubbers;Peer Scheepers

  • Generational differences in ethnic and religious attachment and their interrelation. A study among Muslim minorities in the Netherlands

    Mieke Maliepaard;Marcel Lubbers;Mérove Gijsberts

  • Exposure to Newspapers and Attitudes toward Ethnic Minorities: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Maurice Vergeer;Marcel Lubbers;Peer Scheepers

  • Extreme right-wing voting in Western Europe

    Marcel Lubbers;Mérove Gijsberts;Peer Scheepers

  • More than Two Decades of Changing Ethnic Attitudes in the Netherlands

    Marcel Coenders;Marcel Lubbers;Peer Scheepers;Maykel Verkuyten

  • Explaining the Trend in Extreme Right‐Wing Voting: Germany 1989–1998

    Marcel Lubbers;Peer Scheepers

  • Political versus Instrumental Euro-scepticism: Mapping Scepticism in European Countries and Regions

    Marcel Lubbers;Peer Scheepers

  • The development of a national registration form to measure the prevalence of pressure ulcers in The Netherlands.

    Bours Gj;Halfens Rj;Lubbers M;Haalboom

  • Exclusionistic electorates: extreme right-wing voting in Western Europe

    M. Lubbers

  • Nationalistic attitudes and voting for the radical right in Europe

    Marcel Lubbers;Marcel Coenders

  • French Front National voting: A micro and macro perspective

    Marcel Lubbers;Peer Scheepers

  • Support for radical left ideologies in Europe

    Mark Visser;Marcel Lubbers;Gerbert Kraaykamp;Eva Jaspers

  • Explanations of Political Euro-Scepticism at the Individual, Regional and National Levels

    Marcel Lubbers;Peer Scheepers

  • Ethnic Competition and Opposition to Ethnic Intermarriage in the Netherlands: A Multi-Level Approach

    Jochem Tolsma;Marcel Lubbers;Marcel Coenders

  • Parental religious transmission after migration: The case of Dutch Muslims

    Mieke Maliepaard;Marcel Lubbers

  • Objections to Asylum Seeker Centres: Individual and Contextual Determinants of Resistance to Small and Large Centres in the Netherlands

    Marcel Lubbers;Marcel Coenders;Peer Scheepers

  • A longitudinal study of euroscepticism in the Netherlands: 2008 versus 1990

    Marcel Lubbers;Eva Jaspers

  • Regarding the Dutch `Nee' to the European Constitution A Test of the Identity, Utilitarian and Political Approaches to Voting `No'

    Marcel Lubbers

  • Religion as Catalyst or Restraint of Radical Right Voting

    Tim Immerzeel;Eva Jaspers;Marcel Lubbers

  • The Authoritarian Dynamic

    Marcel Lubbers

Frequent Co-Authors

Peer Scheepers
Peer Scheepers Radboud University
Maykel Verkuyten
Maykel Verkuyten Utrecht University
Gerbert Kraaykamp
Gerbert Kraaykamp Radboud University
Hilde Coffé
Hilde Coffé University of Bath
Tanja van der Lippe
Tanja van der Lippe Utrecht University

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