Month: April 2019

On 29 April, ACES and VICES organise the Amsterdam live-stream of the “Maastricht debate” of the candidates for the presidency of the European Commission. The debate will be followed by a discussion with Gareth Davies (VU, tbc), Katjana Gattermann (UvA), Alessandro Nai (UvA), and Lukas Otto (UvA, tbc). Five candidates – Violeta Tomič (Party of European Left), Frans Timmermans…

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Alyt Damstra (together with Laura Jacobs, Mark Boukes and Rens Vliegenthart) publishes timely paper on the impact of immigration news on anti-immigrant party support in JEPOP. Alyt and co-authors found that, over time, general immigration news positively impacted anti-immigrant party support, while other parties’ support did not increase. Read the paper here.

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The members of Joost’s NWO VIDI project Legal action against politicians, present their papers at the MPSA Conference in Chicago. They present a total of zeven papers.

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