Tag: Jakob Kasper
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CPC Members Contribute to New Report on Young People’s Perspectives on Polarization
in NewsCPC members Jakob Kasper and Bert N. Bakker (together with their Hot Politics Lab colleague Gijs Schumacher) were happy to contribute to a report on young people’s perspectives on polarization, developed under the leadership of Judith van de Wetering and Eveline Crone at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The report was recently handed over to MP Lisa…
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IP-PAD Conference on Adolescents and Politics
in NewsOn Friday, November 7, 2025, the MSCA Doctoral Network IP-PAD (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Adolescence and Democracy) held a one-day conference on Adolescents and Politics, co-organized by CPC members Bert Bakker, Gustavo Couto de Jesus, Céline Laffineur, and Jakob Kasper. We welcomed over 40 participants at the University of Amsterdam for a day…
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The Measurement, Development and Affective Nature of Political Polarization
in PhD ProjectsPhD Candidate: J. Kasper In my first project, I examine how affective polarization can be measured in multi-party systems by focusing on subsets of ideologically diverse and sizable political groups within countries. In my second project, I connect research on affective polarization in political science with psychological theories of affect, updating existing theoretical frameworks and…