Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
S.L. de Lange
S.L. (Sarah) de Lange
Afdeling Politicologie University of Amsterdam


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Biography

Sarah L. de Lange is Assistant Professor of Qualitative Methodology in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, where she is currently working two large-scale research projects. The first is the project Political Conflict in Five European Systems: The Role of Citizens, the Media, and Parties in the Politicisation of Immigration and European Integration funded by a Conflict & Security grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the second the project Newly Governing Parties: Success or Failure?, funded by a Veni grant of the NWO. She has previously been a Jean Monnet Fellow in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Research at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her dissertation, entitled From Pariah to Power: Explanations for the Government Participation of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in West European Parliamentary Democracies, was supervisedby Cas Mudde and was nominated for the thesis award of the Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP), in 2009.

Her main research interests concern parties, party families, and party systems. Her work is broad in geographical scope and examines party politics in a range of East and West European countries. Her publications have appeared in Acta Politica, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Comparative European Politics, Ethical Perspectives, European Political Studies, Party Politics, and a number of edited volumes. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy and is the book reviews editor of the e-Extreme, the Standing Group’s quarterly newsletter.

Current research interests

  • Coalition formation theories
  • Models of party competition
  • Parties, party families and party systems
  • Populism and radicalism
  • Qualitative methodology, especially case selection, causality, concept formation, and mixed method research designs

Teaching areas

  • Methodology and statistics
  • Political parties and party systems
  • Populism and radicalism
  • War in Political Theory

Curriculum Vitae

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Dissertation

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Dissertation