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Wouter van der Brug

Wouter van der Brug

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Political Science
Netherlands
2026

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Political Science

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54
Citations
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176
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Wouter van der Brug is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research is situated mainly within the Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Political Science and International Relations. Their work also spans related subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Strategy and Management, and Gender Studies.

Their publication record highlights extensive work on key topics including:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Social Media and Politics
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Are cities ever more cosmopolitan? Studying trends in urban-rural divergence of cultural attitudes (2021) published in Political Geography
  • Multiple roots of the populist radical right: Support for the Dutch PVV in cities and the countryside (2021) published in European Journal of Political Research
  • Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon? (2022) published in Regional Studies
  • The conditional effects of the refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and nationalism (2021) published in European Union Politics
  • Dealignment, realignment and generational differences in The Netherlands (2020) published in West European Politics

Wouter van der Brug frequently publishes in certain academic venues, such as:

  • Acta Politica
  • West European Politics
  • European Union Politics
  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Politics

Among frequent coauthors collaborating with Wouter van der Brug are:

  • Roderik Rekker
  • Eelco Harteveld
  • Sarah L. de Lange
  • Tom van der Meer
  • Sara B. Hobolt

The researcher's work is relevant to studies on populist right-wing movements, electoral behavior, and social attitudes, often with a geographic or generational dimension. Their analyses explore trends in political participation, immigration attitudes, and regional political resentment, primarily within the context of the Netherlands and broader European governance.

Best Publications

  • Anti-immigrant parties in Europe: Ideological or protest vote?

    Wouter Van Der Brug;Meindert Fennema;Jean Tillie

  • Immigration, Europe and the ‘new’ cultural dimension

    Wouter Van Der Brug;Joost Van Spanje

  • The Economy and the Vote: Economic Conditions and Elections in Fifteen Countries

    Wouter van der Brug;Cees van der EijK;Mark Franklin

  • Why some anti-immigrant parties fail and others succeed A two-step model of aggregate electoral support *

    Wouter Van Der Brug;Meindert Fennema;Jean Tillie

  • A populist Zeitgeist? Programmatic contagion by populist parties in Western Europe

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Sarah L de Lange;Wouter van der Brug

  • Rethinking the dependent variable in voting behavior: On the measurement and analysis of electoral utilities

    Cees van der Eijk;Wouter van der Brug;Martin Kroh;Mark Franklin

  • Issue ownership and party choice

    Wouter van der Brug

  • 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

  • Expressing or fuelling discontent? The relationship between populist voting and political discontent

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Wouter van der Brug;Sarah L. de Lange

  • Protest or mainstream? How the European anti‐immigrant parties developed into two separate groups by 1999<sup>1</sup>

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  • The Economy and the Vote

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  • How the Media Shape Perceptions of Right-Wing Populist Leaders

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  • Charisma, Leader Effects and Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties

    Wouter van der Brug;Anthony Mughan

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

    Joost Van Spanje;Wouter Van Der Brug

  • How the LPF Fuelled Discontent: Empirical tests of explanations of LPF support

    Wouter van der Brug

  • Euroscepticism and education: A longitudinal study of 12 EU member states, 1973–2010:

    Armen Hakhverdian;Erika van Elsas;Wouter van der Brug;Theresa Kuhn

  • Religion and party choice in Europe

    Wouter van der Brug;Sara B. Hobolt;Claes H. de Vreese

  • An experimental test of the impact of style and rhetoric on the perception of right-wing populist and mainstream party leaders

    Linda Bos;Wouter van der Brug;Claes H de Vreese

  • European Elections and Domestic Politics: Lessons from the Past and Scenarios for the Future

    Wouter van der Brug;C. van der Eijk

  • The changing relationship between left–right ideology and euroscepticism, 1973–2010

    Erika van Elsas;Wouter van der Brug

  • What causes people to vote for a radical right party? A review of recent work

    W. van der Brug;M. Fennema

  • Media coverage of right-wing populist leaders

    Linda Bos;Wouter van der Brug;Claes de Vreese

  • Are volatile voters erratic, whimsical, or seriously picky? A panel study of 58 waves into the nature of electoral volatility (the Netherlands 2006-2010)

    Tom W. G. van der Meer;Erika van Elsas;Rozemarijn Lubbe;Wouter van der Brug

  • Religious intolerance and Euroscepticism

    Sara B. Hobolt;Wouter Van der Brug;Claes H. De Vreese;Hajo G. Boomgaarden

  • Blaming Brussels? The Impact of (News about) the Refugee Crisis on Attitudes towards the EU and National Politics

    Eelco Harteveld;Joep Schaper;Sarah L. De Lange;Wouter Van Der Brug

  • Public images of leaders of anti-immigration parties: Perceptions of legitimacy and effectiveness

    Linda Bos;Wouter van der Brug

  • Voters' Perceptions and Party Dynamics:

    Wouter van der Brug

  • 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

  • Bounded volatility in the Dutch electoral battlefield : A panel study on the structure of changing vote intentions in the Netherlands during 2006-2010

    Tom van der Meer;Rozemarijn Lubbe;Erika van Elsas;Martin Elff

  • Mediated Leader Effects: The Impact of Newspapers’ Portrayal of Party Leadership on Electoral Support

    Loes Aaldering;Tom van der Meer;Wouter Van der Brug

  • The endogenous economy: ‘Real’ economic conditions, subjective economic evaluations and government support

    Cees Van Der Eijk;Mark N. Franklin;Froukje Demant;Wouter Van Der Brug

  • Gender Differences in Vote Choice: Social Cues and Social Harmony as Heuristics

    Eelco Harteveld;Stefan Dahlberg;Andrej Kokkonen;Wouter Van Der Brug

Frequent Co-Authors

Claes H. de Vreese
Claes H. de Vreese University of Amsterdam
Sara B. Hobolt
Sara B. Hobolt London School of Economics and Political Science
Meindert Fennema
Meindert Fennema University of Amsterdam
Matthijs Rooduijn
Matthijs Rooduijn University of Amsterdam
Hajo G. Boomgaarden
Hajo G. Boomgaarden University of Vienna
Joost van Spanje
Joost van Spanje Royal Holloway University of London
Patti M. Valkenburg
Patti M. Valkenburg University of Amsterdam
Holli A. Semetko
Holli A. Semetko Emory University
Rens Vliegenthart
Rens Vliegenthart Wageningen University & Research

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