Visiting Researchers
Academic year 2022 – 2023
March – June 2023
Maurits Meijers
Department of Political Science, Radboud University, Netherlands
Maurits Meijers Assistant Professor for Political Science at the Department of Political Science at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Political Science (graduated with a summa cum laude) from the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany.
His research focuses on questions on political representation and the competition between political parties. His work has been published in academic journals such as European Journal of Political Research, The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, and Party Politics. Maurits is also co-initiator of the Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey (POPPA).
June – September 2022
Charlotte Cavaillé
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, U .S.A.
Dr Charlotte Cavaillé is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Previously, she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and an assistant professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Through her research, which has appeared in the Journal of Politics and the American Political Science Review, Cavaillé examines the dynamics of popular attitudes towards redistributive social policies at a time of rising inequality, high fiscal stress, and high levels of immigration. She is currently turning her dissertation, which received the 2016 Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award, into a book manuscript entitled Asking for More: Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality. Building on that work, she also studies the relationship between immigration, the welfare state, and the rise of populism. Cavaillé received her PhD in government and social policy from Harvard University in 2014.
Academic year 2019-2020
August 2018 – December 2019
Marta Rebolledo
Department of Public Communication, University of Navarra, Spain
Dr Marta Rebolledo is an Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Department of Public Communication and Deputy Director of the Political and Corporative Communication master program at the University of Navarra.Her research interests include political marketing, election campaigns, and transparency and public communication from institutions. She has recently been involved on a research project entitled ‘Politainment in the post-truth era: new narratives, clickbait and gamification’ that focuses on the development of communicative political activity in the context of entertainment; and she is currently working on the relevance of emotions in the electoral processes from the perspective of candidates’ communication strategies and the effects on political behavior.
September 2019
Peter Dinesen
Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Peter Dinesen studies social and political attitudes and behavior. Although he is a political scientist by training, his research falls in the intersection between political science, sociology and psychology. In his work ,he looks at how various social and political attitudes are formed.
Academic year 2018-2019
October, 2018
Joanna Everitt
Depart,ment of political Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Dr. Joanna Everitt is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John specializing in Canadian politics, gender differences in public opinion, media coverage of male and female party leaders and its impact on leadership evaluations, identity politics, and voting behaviour in Canadian Elections.
April 6 – 13, 2019
Elin Naurin
Department of Political Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Elin Naurin is a Wallenberg Academy Fellow and an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. She has a wide research interest in theories and practices of representative democracy. Specific interests are parties’ election pledges and politicians’ responsiveness to public opinion. She also studies adult politial socialization, especially the role of pregnancy for individual’s’ political opinions, behavior and knowledge about politics.
Academic year 2017-2018
May 1-31, 2018
Sergiu Gherghina
Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Sergiu Gherghina is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Glasgow. His research interests lie in party politics with emphasis on party organization, legislative and voting behavior, and use of direct democracy. His recent work extends that focus to the study of citizens’ democratic preferences and political parties’ instrumental use of referendums.
May 14-18, 2018
Christopher Cochrane
Department of Political Science,University of Toronto, Canada
Christopher Cochrane is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Author of Left and Right: The Small World of Political Ideas (MQUP, 2015) and co-author, with Rand Dyck, of Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches (Nelson, 2014). Co-investigator of Digging Into Linked Parliamentary Data, an international and interdisciplinary collaboration investigating the written records of parliamentary speech in Canada, the UK, and the Netherlands. Interested in ideology and political disagreement in Canada and other democratic countries.
March 23-29, 2018
Leonie Huddy
Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, U.S.A.
Leonie Huddy is a Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She studies political behavior in the United States and elsewhere through the lens of intergroup relations, with a special focus on gender, race, and ethnic relations. Her recent work extends that focus to the study of partisan identities in the United States and Western Europe.