Maurits Meijers and Andrej Zaslove address the ‘myth’ that populist beliefs among citizens are harmful for liberal democracy. Using insights from recent research, they argue that highly populist citizens are not more likely than other citizens to reject the principles of liberal democracy
Associate Professor of Political Representation, Department of Political Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Until August 2023, Maurits was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy.
He was also a Visiting Researcher at Montreal's Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship.
Maurits holds a PhD in Political Science (summa cum laude) from the Hertie School in Berlin.
His research focuses on questions pertaining to political representation and the competition between political parties.
Maurits' work has been published in academic journals including the European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, and Party Politics.
In 2020, he was awarded an Early Career Award from the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).
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