Marcel van Egmond

Lecturer Research Methods

Marcel van Egmond is Lecturer in Research Methods at the Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam. 

Prior to this, he was responsible for the coordination of the 2009 European Election Study (www.piredeu.eu) at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. 

He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include comparative electoral behaviour, contextual effects, including media effects, social science research methods and methods of data collection, especially survey methods.

He has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland Social Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia, and as a researcher for a research firm focusing on media research. As a PhD student, he also spent time at the University of North Texas and at Trinity College, Dublin .

PIREDEU (European Election Study

Selected Publications

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Brandenburg, Heinz and Marcel van Egmond. (forthcoming). "Pressed into Party Support? Media Influence on Partisan Attitudes during the 2005 UK General Election Campaign" British Journal of Political Science.

Burgoon, Brian; Ferry Koster and Marcel van Egmond. (forthcoming). Support for Redistribution and the Paradox of Immigration. Journal of European Social Policy

de Vries, Catherine E.; van der Brug, Wouter; van Egmond, Marcel H.; van der Eijk, Cees. 2011. "Individual and contextual variation in EU issue voting: The role of political information." Electoral Studies, 30, 1, 16-28

van Egmond, Marcel; Baxter, Janeen; Buchler, Sandra; Western, Mark. 2010. "A stalled revolution? Gender role attitudes in Australia, 1986–2005" Journal of Population Research, 1-22

Western, Mark, Janeen Baxter, Jan Pakulski, Bruce Tranter, John Western, Marcel van Egmond, Jenny Chesters, Amanda Hosking, Martin O’Flaherty,and Yolanda van Gellecum. 2007. "Neoliberalism, Inequality and Politics: The Changing Face of Australia." Australian Journal of Social Issues.

Eijk, Cees van der, and Marcel van Egmond. 2007. "Political effects of low turnout in national and European elections." Electoral Studies 26 (3).

Egmond, Marcel van. 2007. "European Elections as Counterfactual National Elections." In European Elections & Domestic Politics: Lessons from teh past and scenarios for the future, ed. W. v. d. Brug, C. v. d. Eijk and M. Franklin. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

Jadot, Anne, and Marcel van Egmond. 2003. "Réconcilier l'individuel et le contextuel ? L'intérêt de la méthode multiniveaux en recherche électorale." Revue de la Maison française d'Oxford 1 (1):211-50.

Egmond, Marcel van. 2003. Rain falls on all of us (but some manage to get more wet than others): political context and electoral participation. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers.

Egmond, Marcel van, Nan Dirk de Graaf, and Cees van der Eijk. 1998. "Electoral Participation in the Netherlands: Individual and Contextual Influences." European Journal of Political Research 34 (2):281.

Rain falls on all of us (dissertation)

EuropeanElections as Counterfactual National Elections

Political effects of low turnout in national and European elections (ES)

Electoral participation in the Netherlands (EJPR)