Maurits Meijers
Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Antwerp 🇧🇪 || ERC Starting Grant holder DEMO-LIES: Deception in Democracy: Political Lying Accusations and Their Effects on Democratic Citizenship"
- This is a fantastic resource! I was happy to contribute with a chapter on expert surveys together with Nina Wiesehomeier!
- After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersAfter 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersYou have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU? Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇 @bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.
- ▶️ European + EU Politics 👉🏽 Section chairs: @bjornhoyland.bsky.social @chriswratil.bsky.social 📢 This section welcomes work on politics in Europe, European integration & the EU, using qualitative or quantitative approaches, single-country or comparative. 1/
- Check out our new piece in EJPR!
- Are universities perceived as left-wing bastions? Are police officers seen as right-wing? And are judges considered impartial? In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- 🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersNew POPPA article out in Party Politics by Andrej Zaslove, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social: “The State of Populism: Introducing the 2023 Wave of the Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2
- Reposted by Maurits Meijers📘 64.4 Who accepts party policy change? @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social & @rdassonneville.bsky.social use 🗳️ data from 5 countries shows that many see change as necessary but populist attitudes strongly reduce acceptance. Read more:
- Bluesky hive mind! Does anyone use their iPad mini for reading and annotating papers? Are you happy with your choice, or do you wish you had a bigger model?
- Reposted by Maurits Meijers1/ 🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper? We built one: ✅ $1/chapter ✅ Modular & flexible ✅ Written by top scholars ✅ Full (free!) instructor resources 🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
- The research is so clear about what the effects of this copycat behaviour is. It's inexplicable why political leadership is so resistant to evidence-based political strategy.
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersHet NL en D "Nee" tegen een EU begroting van ruim 1% BNP staat in schril contrast met hun enthousiasme voor 5% voor de NAVO. Onderliggende gedachte: de EU klein houden, zodat nationale politici zich groot kunnen voelen. Terwijl juist nu een sterke EU keihard nodig is voor onze veiligheid en welvaart
- Quebec: "Hold my beer" In Quebec, the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) will fine anglophone shopkeepers in anglophone Quebec communities for saying "Hi!" before "Bonjour!"
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersVoor mijn nieuwe Nederlandse volgers, hier zijn enkele andere Nederlandstalige experts op het gebied van uiterst-rechts om te volgen: @sldelange.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social
- Very happy to see this out! We show that defending democracy against autocratizing incumbents is possible, but an uphill battle!
- Online first: "Defending democracy: investigating the efficacy of elite democratic defence in a competitive information environment" by @jmvanlit.bsky.social & @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... #Academicsky #Polisky
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersPrecies. Als een democratisch midden (dat bereid is te besturen) onderling geen alternatieven biedt, komen de middenpartijen gezamenlijk symbool te staan voor de status quo. Kiezers die ontevreden zijn over de status quo, vinden de alternatieven dan alleen nog bij niet-democratische partijen.
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersTwo fully funded PhD positions in political science at the University of Antwerp in @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social's new and very cool ERC project on disinformation and representation. Great opportunity! www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersDid you know that @epssnet.bsky.social will honor your #EPSA membership? Sign up today! epssnet.org/sign-up/#join That said, your membership dues are staying with EPSA & EPSS is starting with zero financial funds. So if you can, consider paying for an EPSS membership to help us get off the ground.
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersThe fabulous @frederikthieme.bsky.social will present results from a large-scale field experiment on the mobilization of young voters tomororw @epsanet.bsky.social #epsa2025 @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social
- Can traditional campaign tools still mobilize young voters in the digital age? 📬 With @heikekluever.bsky.social, I present evidence from a field experiment ahead of the 2024 European elections targeting first-voters. Join us after sleeping in on Saturday 🙌 #epsa2025 ⏰: Sat, 11:20 📍: -1.A.06
- Amazing initiative! I joined today, and you should, too!
- 🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
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- 🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
- 🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science! Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES @uantwerpen.be 🇧🇪 We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️ 💥 4-yr fully funded 📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025 🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug Details + apply 👇
- Very happy to see this published! Thanks for the great collaboration in these last 5 (!) years, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social & @francesconicoli.bsky.social !
- Online first: "Partisan cueing and preferences for fiscal integration in the European Union" by @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social & @francesconicoli.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... #Academicsky #Polisky
- I am proud to announce that I have been appointed Research Professor at the Dept of Political Science at University of Antwerp, starting in June 2025! I will leave Radboud University after having spent 9 wonderful years at the Department of Political Science in Nijmegen. 1/4
- I'm sad to leave the rich research environment in Nijmegen, but I am also eager for a new start in Antwerp. I am forever indebted to my Radboud colleagues for their love and support, their co-authorship and, above all, the fun we had! 2/4
- In particular, I would like to thank Andrej Zaslove for being my buddy and wonderful co-author. I would also like to thank Bertjan Verbeek and Carolien van Ham for the chances they have given me over the years. 3/4
- Today was my last full day at Radboud. 🥲 I will now take two months of leave before starting rejuvenated and fresh in Antwerp. In Antwerp, I will start my ERC Starting Grant project DEMO-LIES. Keep your eyes peeled for positions opening up soon! 4/4
- To most tarrifs seem like a foolish plan. However, if the goal is to maximize control over your economy, it makes perfect sense. Reducing dependencies on others will allow Trump to exert greater control over the US economy.
- This is what the waiting room of an ER in 🇳🇱 looks like. If you'd set a TV-series like The Pitt in a European, properly funded ER with limited waiting time, no mass shootings, no fentanyl epidemic it wouldn't make great TV. 🥱
- Reposted by Maurits Meijers📢 1 Week left! Call for Abstracts📢 Deadline for #PolEtmaal2025 is fast approaching! Are you working on gender, representation, or democratic processes? Join us in Groningen for the upcoming PolEtmaal, work-in-progress welcome! Submit your abstract here: politicologenetmaal.eu/call-for-pap...
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersWhen universities fall, democracy falls.
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersAcross 26 countries and using a database of 32M tweets, radical-right populist elites are the most likely to spread misinformation, finds @pettertornberg.bsky.social & @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersCountries, firms, states, universities: Stop caving on individual points! It is not about “antisemitism”, “DEI”,“trans athletes” or “wokeness”! It is about complete submission! Nothing else will be acceptable! You cannot win alone! United we stand a chance, divided we will fall!
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersThere is a tracker for how much of the Project 2025 agenda has been implemented. By the look of it, they will complete their agenda before their 180-day deadline, July 20, 2025. www.project2025.observer?sort=status-...
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersThrilled to welcome you back @sldelange.bsky.social together with the brilliant @tevoelker.bsky.social who will be visiting @SciencesPo_CEE during the same period. Can't wait to work together and have you both here!
- The revelation that Meta used pirated Libgen content for training its models is an important warning that open source material can be abused for commericial purposes. If publishing open access means, we give free input to LLMs, we might have to rethink terms and conditions.
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersEppo Bruins wil in de voorhoede blijven van landen waar wetenschappers voor kiezen. Daarom (checks notes): - heftige bezuinigingen - de-internationalisering (ten koste van studenten uit NL) - morele steun voor beurzen voor wetenschappers VS, te betalen via bezuinigingen op andere onderzoeksbeurzen
- Reposted by Maurits Meijers“Vlucht uit de VS en schuil op een Nederlandse universiteit. U vindt daar een stimulerende omgeving vol teleurgestelde en lamgeslagen collega’s die zojuist een grote ontslagronde hebben doorgemaakt…” fd.nl/opinie/15494...
- "There are two errors we must avoid if we want to get closer to the truth: we shouldn’t believe things that are false, and we shouldn’t discount things that are true...After all, the easiest way to never fall for misinformation is to simply never believe anything" www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- This is really extremely concerning
- Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersBravo colleagues 👇
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersNew paper out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! With Ian McAllister, we examine how party competition and party positions condition the presence and size of an age gap in voting for the left. A short 🧵 below! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Maurits MeijersYesterday, almost all our Associate Editors gathered for a productive Board meeting of Politics of the Low Countries. We discussed ongoing papers, our new publisher Radboud University Press, and the much-anticipated launch event at Politicologenetmaal 2025 in Groningen (Stay tuned!)
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersYesterday, I was protesting against budget cuts to higher education in the Netherlands
- Today was Nijmegen's turn for the relay strike against budgets cuts in higher education in the Netherlands. We protested against these irresponsible cuts on research and teaching. Stop the cuts! #WoInActie #DoeHetNiet!
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersEuropeans! Drinking wine is the patriotic thing to do 🍷
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- Reposted by Maurits MeijersKeine Sondersitzungen, keine Talkshows, kein 5-Punkte Plan. Es ist klar, welches Ungleichgewicht in medialer und politischer Reaktion herrscht. Dennoch reagieren Medienvertrer:innen und Politik auf Kritik mit der plumpen Rückfrage ob sie denn über die realen Probleme der Menschen schweigen sollten.
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersTwee dagen na Motie Eerdmans waarin stond dat Nederland principieel tegen gezamenlijke leningen is. Maar wat hebben we aan dogma’s als onze bondgenoten een draai hebben gemaakt & meerderheid van 🇳🇱 publieke opinie 🇺🇦 wil steun & meer 🇪🇺 samenwerking op defensie wil? Mijn stuk @fd.nl ⤵️
- Reposted by Maurits Meijers"The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global person in 2024 is at levels last registered in 1985." Liberal democracy is now the least common regime type, hosting less than 12% of the world’s population. Meanwhile, autocracies are becoming more autocratic and democracies less democratic.
- PLC's archive is now also available open access! Join the open publishing revolution and submit your paper at www.plc-journal.eu!
- 📢 Great news! Politics of the Low Countries all back issues are freely available at www.plc-journal.eu! 🎉 Thanks to our former publisher Boom Uitgeverij, our full archive is also #OpenAccess. Check it out & stay tuned for new research! 📚✨ PLC is a 💎 diamond open access 💎 journal!
- It was great to present work on parties' willingness to compromise at this nice workshop in Münster last week using new @poppa-data.bsky.social. Thanks again to @friderikespang.bsky.social and Manon Westphal for organizing!
- Thanks again to all our wonderful workshop participants, it was a real pleasure to have you!! @rbellamy.bsky.social @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social @eliseroumeas.bsky.social @holgerkiik.bsky.social @karstenmause.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Maurits MeijersDay 1 of the national strikes against cuts in higher education and research 🟥 First op Leiden 💪🏽 @woinactie.bsky.social Students and parents: now is the time to fight for your, your kids’ and future generations’ education.
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersHappy #InternationalWomensDay! No excuse for #manels (on migration and/or the PRR)👇 @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @katybrown.bsky.social @drjpersian.bsky.social @caterinafr.bsky.social @sabinedvolk.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @saskiabonjour.bsky.social @emmyeklundh.bsky.social
- Indeed, the cowardice of the president of the Columbia University is inexcusable.
- Correction. APSA put out this statement: apsanet.org/wp-content/u... But I am really surprised by the lack of action.
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersThe problem with Dems chasing public opinion is that THE PUBLIC'S VIEW OF THINGS IS JUST MOVING IN RESPONSE TO WHAT POLITICAL FIGURES SAY AND IT'S VERY OBVIOUS IN THE DATA MY GOD
- The silence of associations like APSA, MPSA and SPSA as well as university provosts on the end of academic freedom in the US is deafening.
- The list of Trump's forbidden words that will get flagged at the US National Science Foundation. Most of them are social science standard terms like polarization, socio-economic or minority. gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersWe are hiring a new PhD candidate on Democracy by Design: "How App Characteristics Shape Youth Political Worldviews" Please share with your most talented students! Deadline: April 10 Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersUK employers are less likely to recruit disadvantaged ethnic minority graduates to entry-level professional roles, finds research led by Prof @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma... @ioe.bsky.social @nuffieldfoundation.org
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersWe are thrilled to anounce the release of the 2024 CHES-Europe at chesdata.eu/2024-chapel-.... As always, the data are freely available on the website. Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersOne of the best things I’ve ever listened to. Pair sets up some falsifiable claims about their wildly different beliefs and puts them to the test. You could motivate an entire semester of material based on this alone. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
- The question is....how much longer?
- "69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin" www.wsj.com/opinion/most...
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersDone ✔️
- Reposted by Maurits MeijersTomorrow there will be a summit in London where Starmer, Macron, and Zelenskyy will have to face the reality that flattery and deals will not get Ukraine security guarantees. This piece for @goodauth.bsky.social explains why it was worth a try, but likely doomed. goodauthority.org/news/trump-a...
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