Wouter van der Brug

Wouter van der Brug publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wouter van der Brug sits on this spectrum.

Wouter van der Brug D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wouter van der Brug sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Best Publications

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

  Wouter Van Der Brug;Meindert Fennema;Jean Tillie

  879
  Citations

• Immigration, Europe and the ‘new’ cultural dimension

  Wouter Van Der Brug;Joost Van Spanje

  674
  Citations

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

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

  648
  Citations

• 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

  634
  Citations

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

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

  560
  Citations

• 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

  461
  Citations

• Issue ownership and party choice

  Wouter van der Brug

  397
  Citations

• 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

  304
  Citations

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

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

  292
  Citations

• Protest or mainstream? How the European anti‐immigrant parties developed into two separate groups by 1999¹

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  291
  Citations

• The Economy and the Vote

  Unknown

  280
  Citations

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

  Unknown

  274
  Citations

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

  Wouter van der Brug;Anthony Mughan

  272
  Citations

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

  Joost Van Spanje;Wouter Van Der Brug

  268
  Citations

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

  Wouter van der Brug

  250
  Citations

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

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

  239
  Citations

• Religion and party choice in Europe

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

  200
  Citations

• 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

  199
  Citations

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

  Wouter van der Brug;C. van der Eijk

  173
  Citations

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

  Erika van Elsas;Wouter van der Brug

  172
  Citations

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

  W. van der Brug;M. Fennema

  168
  Citations

• Media coverage of right-wing populist leaders

  Linda Bos;Wouter van der Brug;Claes de Vreese

  143
  Citations

• 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

  125
  Citations

• Religious intolerance and Euroscepticism

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

  119
  Citations

• 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

  119
  Citations

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

  Linda Bos;Wouter van der Brug

  110
  Citations

• Voters' Perceptions and Party Dynamics:

  Wouter van der Brug

  99
  Citations

• 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

  92
  Citations

• 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

  87
  Citations

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

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

  68
  Citations

• 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

  63
  Citations

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

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

  44
  Citations