Jaap van Slageren

@jvanslageren.bsky.social

Assistant Professor Human Geography & Spatial Planning, Utrecht University. Tries to be a political geographer/sociologist. Populism | Democratic values | Political Geography| Comparative politics

Job opportunity!! Are you interested in studying new politicizations of science? And are you interested in how these politicizations could meaningfully be addressed in university education? Then we are looking for you! 🗓 Application deadline: 27 July 2026 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

PhD: Understanding the politization of university knowledge and education

Are you passionate about understanding the growing politicization of science and how to address these topics in university education?

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Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.

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📈 Our key finding: the rural–urban divide didn’t grow gradually. It *jumped* in 2016. Support for Republicans became much more strongly associated with living in rural areas in 2016—and this pattern then remained stable in 2020.

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Voor mijn Nederlandse vrienden: een blogje over de belangrijkste bevindingen op @stukroodvlees.bsky.social : "'Vergeten regio’s’ vergeten zelf hun regionale ambassadeurs"! stukroodvlees.nl/vergeten-reg...

‘Vergeten regio’s’ vergeten zelf hun regionale ambassadeurs - StukRoodVlees

Dat bepaalde delen van het land beter vertegenwoordigd zijn in het parlement dan andere is niets nieuws. Zo levert de Randstad al geruime tijd 2 tot 3 keer meer volksvertegenwoordigers per inwoner dan...

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Jaap van Slageren@jvanslageren.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Publication Alert: @evertmeijers.bsky.social and I examined the spatial orientation of MPs in NL. We studied whether MPs' region of origin matters and the parties' electoral consequences. We show a paradox: peripheral places don't reward parties that pay attention to them doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

De omgang van BBB met onafhankelijke democratische machten heeft bijzonder droevige en schadelijke vormen aangenomen. Steun voor noodrecht dat parlement en rechtspraak opzij schuift. Aanvallen op Raad van State. En inmiddels bij monde van minister Keijzer ook de NOS.