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212
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Ruud Koopmans is affiliated with the Social Science Research Center Berlin in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences, with specific engagement in subfields such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, law, philosophy, and health.

Their work covers a range of topics including terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence; religion and society interactions; political conflict and governance; minority rights and languages; religious freedom and discrimination; political philosophy and ethics; and the intersections of violence, religion, and philosophy.

Recent publications by Koopmans include the following:

  • Scriptural legitimation and the mobilisation of support for religious violence: experimental evidence across three religions and seven countries, 2020, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Majority-Minority Constellations: Towards A Group-Differentiated Approach, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Index, 2022, Cambridge University Press eBooks

Koopmans has frequently collaborated with several researchers, notably Liav Orgad, with whom they have coauthored three publications. Other frequent coauthors include Eylem Kanol with two joint publications, and Dietlind Stolle with one.

Their work is published in several venues that include:

  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

Best Publications

  • New Social Movements In Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis

    Hanspeter Kriesi;Ruud Koopmans;Jan Willem Duyvendak;Marco G. Giugni

  • Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe

    Ruud Koopmans;Paul Statham;Marco Giugni;Florence Passy

  • Political Claims Analysis: Integrating Protest Event and Political Discourse Approaches

    Ruud Koopmans;Paul Statham

  • Discursive Opportunities and the Evolution of Right-Wing Violence in Germany

    Ruud Koopmans;Susan Olzak

  • Trade-Offs between Equality and Difference: Immigrant Integration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State in Cross-National Perspective

    Ruud Koopmans

  • Movements and media: selection processes and evolutionary dynamics in the public sphere

    Ruud Koopmans

  • Challenging the liberal nation‐state? Postnationalism, multiculturalism, and the collective claims making of migrants and ethnic minorities in Britain and Germany

    Ruud Koopmans;Paul Statham

  • New social movements and political opportunities in Western Europe

    Hanspeter Kriesi;Ruud Koopmans;Jan Willem Duyvendak;Marco G. Giugni

  • The dynamics of protest waves: West Germany, 1965 to 1989

    Ruud Koopmans

  • The making of a European public sphere: media discourse and political contention

    Ruud Koopmans;Paul Statham

  • Towards a european public sphere? Vertical and horizontal dimensions of europeanised political communication

    Ruud Koopmans;Jessica Erbe

  • Citizenship rights for immigrants: national political processes and cross-national convergence in western Europe, 1980-2008.

    Ruud Koopmans;Ines Michalowski;Stine Waibel

  • Protest in Time and Space: The Evolution of Waves of Contention

    Ruud Koopmans

  • Who inhabits the European public sphere? Winners and losers, supporters and opponents in Europeanised political debates

    Ruud Koopmans

  • Acts of Dissent: New Developments in the Study of Protest

    Dieter Rucht;Ruud Koopmans;Friedhelm Neidhardt

  • New Social Movements In Western Europe

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  • Challenging immigration and ethnic relations politics : comparative European perspectives

    Ruud Koopmans;Paul J. Statham

  • Explaining the rise of racist and extreme right violence in Western Europe: Grievances or opportunities?

    Ruud Koopmans

  • Political. Opportunity. Structure. Some Splitting to Balance the Lumping

    Ruud Koopmans

  • The rise of right-wing populist Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands: a discursive opportunity approach

    Ruud Koopmans;Jasper Muis

  • Migrant mobilization and political opportunities: variation among german cities and regions in cross-national perspective

    Ruud Koopmans

  • Rewarding Integration? Citizenship Regulations and the Socio-Cultural Integration of Immigrants in the Netherlands, France and Germany

    Evelyn Ersanilli;Ruud Koopmans

  • Religious Fundamentalism and Hostility against Out-groups: A Comparison of Muslims and Christians in Western Europe

    Ruud Koopmans

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Statham
Paul Statham University of Sussex
Marco Giugni
Marco Giugni University of Geneva
Jan Willem Duyvendak
Jan Willem Duyvendak University of Amsterdam
Michael Zürn
Michael Zürn Social Science Research Center Berlin
Hanspeter Kriesi
Hanspeter Kriesi European University Institute
Hans-Jörg Trenz
Hans-Jörg Trenz University of Copenhagen
John D. McCarthy
John D. McCarthy Pennsylvania State University
Dietlind Stolle
Dietlind Stolle McGill University
Bert Klandermans
Bert Klandermans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gary Alan Fine
Gary Alan Fine Northwestern University

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