RESEARCH OUTPUT

Note: Core team members are underlined; visiting fellows with*. Research is generally downloadable from the authors’ websites. If you cannot locate a paper, please send us an email.  

The projects below have received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 864724). 

Work in progress  

  • Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Spencer Corp*, Sayman Rohleder-Stribl*. TAN parties and European integration. In progress.
  • Jonne Kamphorst and Roxanne Rahnama. The struggles that bind us: Evidence from a survey experiment on cross-group mobilization history. R&R.
  • Jonne Kamphorst. The Left misunderstood: How voters’ perceptions of what matters to the Left benefit Right. R&R.
  • Jonne Kamphorst, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Ye Wang. Why men and women vote differently on the transnational divide. Under review.
  • Jonne Kamphorst and Tarik Abou-Chadi. Stepping out of the comfort zone: (How) can niche parties expand their electorate? Under review.
  • Jonne Kamphorst, Alex Davenport, Marcus Hagley, Elias Dinas, and Arnout van de Rijt. Is Iowa of Primary Importance? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach to Estimating the first-of-the-nation effect. Under review.
  • Jacob Gunderson* and Gary Marks. A gravity theory of voter flow. In progress.
  • Lukas Hohendorf, Micaela Großman and Julia Schulte-Cloos. Diverse candidates, diverse positions? Party line conformity in campaign positions by female and immigrant origin candidates for the German Bundestag. Under review.
  • Jonne Kamphorst. Hot labor summer: How union victories foster further unionization. In progress.
  • Julia Schulte-Cloos. Familiarity with the political role of ethnic minorities reduces voter bias against candidates of immigrant origin. In progress.
  • Julia Schulte-Cloos, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks. When voters punish democratic norm violations and when not. In progress.
  • Twan Huijsmans, Theresa Kuhn*, and Bram Lancee*. Urban-rural divides in perspective: Trends in urban-rural and educational differences underlying voting along the transnational cleavage in Europe. Under review.
  • Theresa Kuhn*, Achim Seimel, and John Michaelis. EUID: measuring European identity over four decades. Under review.
  • Bram Lancee*, Eva Zschirnt, and Maša Krajnc. Click to Reveal: Using restricted click stream analysis to reduce social desirability bias and track information seeking in conjoint analysis. In progress.

2026

2025

  • Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks. How does the educational cleavage stack up against the cleavages of the past? West European Politics (first online, Feb 2025) || https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2452789
  • Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Jonne Kamphorst, Julia Schulte-Cloos. Beyond the diploma divide: Field of education and ideological divisions among college educated. SSNR-5072375 (Feb 14, 2025) || https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5072375.
  • Peter A. Hall*. “Understanding How Political Economies Change.” In Marino Regini, ed. Handbook of Comparative Political Economy. Edward Elgar: 119-135.
  • David Attewell* and Delia Zollinger*. 2025. Educational network, social closure, and cleavage stabilization. British Journal of Political Science, first online October 30, 2025.
  • Jacob Gunderson*. Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: Introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset. West European Politics, first online Oct 24, 2025.
  • Jan Rovny, Jon Polk, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Marco Steenbergen, Milada A. Vachudova. The 2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey on Political Party Positioning in Europe: Twenty-Five Years of Party Positional Data. Electoral Studies 97 (October 2025): 102981.
  • Delia Zollinger* and David Attewell*. 2025. Updating Cleavage Theory for the 21st Century. West European Politics. 49(3), 591–616, first online Oct 6, 2025.

 

2024

  • Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Jonne Kamphorst. Field of education and political behavior: Predicting GAL/TAN voting. American Political Science Review (online first, Aug 1, 2024) || https://doi:10.1017/S0003055424000583
  • Stephanie N. Shady,* Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks. Division on the Christian Right in the US: Conservative pastors and the use of force. Politics & Religion 17(3): 367-388.
  • Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Ryan Bakker, Seth Jolly, Jon Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Vachudova. 2024. The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine. European Union Politics 25(3) (online first, March 18, 2024) || https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14651165241237136
  • Jonne Kamphorst. 2024. Too important to ignore? Why ambiguity and broad appeals fail with rising issue salience. The Journal of Politics.
  • Jonne Kamphorst and Robb Willer.  2024. Correcting misperceptions of the material benefits associated with union membership increases Americans’ interest in joining unions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences || https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321025121
  • Jona De Jong and Jonne Kamphorst. 2024. Separation by degrees: social closure by education levels strengthens contemporary political divides. Comparative Political Studies.
  • Emma Hoes, Jonne Kamphorst, and Andre Krouwel. 2024. Prominence over Proximity? The effects of terrorist attacks on party preferences for incumbent versus populist radical right parties. European Political Science Review.
  • Julia Schulte-Cloos and Veronica Anghel. 2024. Right-wing authoritarian attitudes, fast-paced decision-making, and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. Political Communication || https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2291538
  • Davide Angelucci, Luca Carrieri, and Nicolo Conti*. Party-based sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification. Government and Opposition 1-25 || https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2023.47
  • Luca Carrieri, Nicolò Conti*, and Matthew Loveless*. 2024. EU issue voting in European member states: The return of the pro-EU voter. West European Politics ||  https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2370121
  • Hanna Kleider*. 2024. Decentralisation and the Challenge of Territorial Inequality. Leverhulme Research Fellowship Application.
  • Theresa Kuhn*. 2024. Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity. Journal of European Public Policy 31(10): 3443-3464.

2023

  • Jeremy Ferwerda, Gabriele Magni, Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks. 2023. How crises shape circles of solidarity: Evidence from the COVID pandemic in Italy. Comparative Political Studies (first online, May 2023, accepted Nov 2022) || https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231169028
  • Ruth Dassonneville*, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks. 2023. Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective. European Journal of Political Research (first online, April 2023) || https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12590
  • Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Arjan H. Schakel. 2023. Multilevel governance. In: Daniele Caramani (ed.) Comparative Politics, Oxford: OUP, 193-210 (revised from 2020 edition).
  • Veronica Anghel and Julia Schulte-Cloos. 2023. COVID-19 related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy. European Journal of Political Research, 62 (2): 353-673.
  • Julia Schulte-Cloos and Lenka Drazanova. Shared identity in crisis : a comparative study of support for the EU in the face of the Russian threat. EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2023/48.
  • Luca Carrieri, Nicolo Conti*, and Marco Morini. 2023. Electoral mobilization, party support and EU issue voting: An analysis of five countries. Italian Political Science Review 1-19 || https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2023.1

 

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