Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
J.H.P. van Spanje
dr.mr. J.H.P. (Joost) van Spanje
Afdeling Communicatiewetenschap University of Amsterdam


Kloveniersburgwal 48
1012 CX Amsterdam

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Joost van Spanje is assistant professor of political communication and quantitative methods at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam (UvA). He teaches several Bachelor's and Master's seminars, co-supervises two PhD students, and is involved in several research projects.


Joost specializes in political behavior, electoral studies and political communication. He holds a PhD degree from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Joost's PhD dissertation was "recommended for publication." No higher distinction is possible at the EUI. Inaddition, the thesis won the 2010 NKWP Dissertation Award as the best out of 52 political science PhD dissertations defended in 2009.


In 2006, Joost won an EUI scholarship and spent one semester at New York University (NYU) to follow courses and to work on his PhD dissertation. Before being selected for admission to the EUI's doctoral program, he obtained a 'doctoraal' (=Ba+Ma) degree in law (2001) and a doctoraal degree in political science (2004) from the UvA. During his studies, he worked as an assistant at the UvA (2001-2004) and for the Dutch national parliament (2000-2002).


Joost's research focuses on the quality of democracy in contemporary West European countries in general, and the following topics in particular:

 -   electoral campaigning in established democracies and its effects on party choice

 -   political responses to the presence of extremist political actors in established democracies

     (e.g., co-opting policy positions, building government coalitions, cordons sanitaires)

 -   legal responses to the presence of extremist political actors in established democracies

     (e.g., hate speech prosecution of politicians, monitoring parties, party bans)


This Spring Joost will present his work at the ICA Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, and at the NKWP/PI Annual Meetings in Amsterdam.

Publications in anonymously peer-reviewed international academic journals

Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H., & Spanje, J. van (forthcoming 2012). Anti-immigrant party support and media visibility: A cross-party, over-time perspective. Accepted for publication in: Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

 

Azrout, R., Spanje, J. van, & De Vreese, C. (forthcoming 2012).  When News Matters: Media Effects on Public Support for EU Enlargement in 21 Countries. Accepted for publication in: Journal of Common Market Studies.


Bolleyer, N., Spanje J. van, & Wilson, A. (forthcoming 2012). New Parties in Government:Party Organization and the Costs of Public Office. Accepted for publication in: West European Politics.


Spanje, J. van, Boomgaarden, H., Elenbaas, M., Vliegenthart, R., Azrout, R., Schuck, A., & De Vreese, C. (forthcoming 2012). Getting the message across: Perceived effectiveness of political campaign communication. Accepted for publication in: Journal of Political Marketing.


Franklin, M.,& Spanje, J. van (forthcoming 2012). How do established voters react to new parties? The case of Italy, 1985-2008. Accepted for publication in: Electoral Studies.


Desmet, P., Spanje, J. van, & De Vreese, C. (forthcoming 2012). Second-order institutions: National institutional quality as a yardstick for EUevaluation. Accepted for publication in: Journal of European Public Policy.


Schuck, A., Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H., Elenbaas, M., Azrout, R., Spanje, J. van, & De Vreese, C. (forthcoming 2012). Explaining campaign news coverage: How medium, timeand context explain variation in the media framing of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. Accepted for publication in: Journal of Political Marketing.

Spanje, J. van, & De Vreese, C. (2011). So what’s wrong with the EU? Motivations underlying the Eurosceptic vote in the 2009 European elections. European Union Politics, 12(3), 405-429.


Boomgaarden, H., Spanje, J. van, Vliegenthart, R., & DeVreese, C. (2011). Covering the crisis: Media coverage of the economic crisis and citizens’ economic expectations. Acta Politica, 46(4), 353-379.


Spanje, J. van (2011). The wrong and the right. A comparative analysis of ‘anti-immigration’ and ‘farright’ parties in contemporary Western Europe. Government and Opposition, 46(3), 293-320.

Dinas, E., & Spanje, J. van (2011). Crime story: The role of crime and immigration in the anti-immigration vote. The case of the Dutch LPF in 2002. Electoral Studies, 30(4), 658-671.

Spanje, J. van (2011). Keeping the rascals in. Anti-political-establishment parties and their cost of governing in established democracies. European Journal of Political Research, 50(5), 609-635.


Azrout, R., Spanje, J. van, & De Vreese, C. (2011). Talking Turkey: Anti-immigrant attitudes and their effect on support for Turkish membership of the EU. European Union Politics, 12(1), 3-19.

Spanje, J. van (2010). Parties beyond the pale. Why some political parties are ostracized by their competitors while others are not. Comparative European Politics, 8(3), 354-383.

Spanje, J. van (2010). Contagious parties. Anti-immigration parties and their impact on other parties’ immigration stances in contemporary Western Europe. Party Politics, 16(5), 563-586.

Spanje, J. van, & Brug, W. van der (2009). Being intolerant of the intolerant. The exclusion of Western European anti-immigration parties and its consequences for party choice. Acta Politica, 44(4), 353-384.

Brug, W. van der, & Spanje, J. van (2009). Immigration, Europe, and the 'new' cultural dimension. European Journal of Political Research, 48(3), 309-334.

Spanje, J. van, & Brug, W. van der (2007). The party as pariah. The exclusion of anti-immigration parties and its effect on their ideological positions. West European Politics, 30(5), 1022-1040.