Matthijs Rooduijn and Sarah de Lange argue that recent developments provide fertile ground for the resurgence of agrarian populism. The rise of the Dutch Farmer-Citizen Movement gives an idea of what such a resurgence might look like in the years to come
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Matthijs is interested in parties, voters, socio-political divides and public opinion.
By means of an interdisciplinary approach (i.e., combining perspectives from the fields of comparative politics, political psychology, political sociology and political communication), he studies the transformation of, and challenges to, contemporary liberal democracies.
Specifically, he focuses on topics such as populism, the far left and right, ingroup-outgroup thinking, political discontent, and polarisation.
