Joost van Spanje

Joost van Spanje has taken up a four-year postdoc position at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. Four years earlier, Joost was selected for admission to the doctoral programme of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. He was an exchange PhD student in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University (NYU) in 2006. Before this, he finished his Law (2001) and Political Science (2004) studies at the University of Amsterdam.

During his studies, Joost worked in the Dutch national parliament and at the University of Amsterdam. In the Dutch national parliament, he was a personal assistant to MP Otto Vos. At the University of Amsterdam, he was a lecturer at the Law Department and participated in several research projects. This and other research resulted in a number of publications in leading national and international journals such as West European Politics (WEP), Party Politics (PP) and the European Journal of Political Research (EJPR). Other research contributions were presented at various international conferences, including ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, ECPR General Conferences, and MPSA Annual National Conferences in Chicago.

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