Twan Huijsmans
Biographic Data
| ID | 388135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Twan Huijsmans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Twan |
| FAMILY NAME | Huijsmans |
| SIGNATURE | HUIJSMANS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3141-3313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Place, education, and voting along the transnational cleavage in Europe
The transnational cleavage captures a divide between those with cosmopolitan orientations who are more positive about international migration, trade, and governance and those with more nationalist outlooks. Recent research has demonstrated that polarisation along this cleavage in Europe is increasingly linked to urban-rural differences: people living in urban areas tend to be more cosmopolitan than people in rural areas, but existing studies have…
Political socialization across places: Differential Effects on Multiculturalist Attitudes in Urban and Rural Areas
Extensive literature shows that inhabitants from urbanized areas tend to have more multicultural attitudes than those from rural areas, and these differences seem especially pronounced among younger generations. To explore why, we study ‘the formative years of adolescence’ and focus on an often-overlooked mechanism in the literature: political socialization through discussing politics with various actors such as parents, peers, and teachers. We a…
The Great Global Divider? A Comparison of Urban-Rural Partisan Polarization in Western Democracies
This study is the first to measure urban-rural electoral divides in a way that facilitates comparisons beyond majoritarian democracies of the UK and North America. Based on national election results at the lowest available geographic level in fifteen countries covering roughly five decades, we present a measure for each election and political party, enabling comparisons over time and between countries with different electoral and party systems. W…
Track Differences in Civic and Democratic Engagement During Secondary Education: A New Panel Study From the Netherlands
Whether students educated in different ability tracks in secondary education develop different levels of civic and democratic engagement is yet unclear. To explore this issue, we focus on how schools bring students of different tracks and family backgrounds together, and whether such between-school differences are associated with varying growth rates in civic and democratic engagement during secondary education. Using newly collected 4-year panel…
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands
Stad-platteland verschillen in de politiek: Hoe woonplaats onze politieke opvattingen beïnvloedt
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: Explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes
Why some places don't seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment
Inhabitants of rural and peripheral areas in advanced democracies display higher levels of place resentment. They feel that their area is ignored by political elites, does not get its fair share of resources, and its values are disregarded by inhabitants of other areas. Place resentment is recognized in the literature as perceptions of socioeconomic, cultural and political inequalities. Existing quantitative work studied associations with objecti…
The Income Gap in Voting: Moderating Effects of Income Inequality and Clientelism
We investigated whether income gaps in voting turnout vary with country-level economic inequality, and whether this pattern differs between wealthier and less-wealthy countries. Moreover, we investigated whether the prevalence of clientelism was the underlying mechanism that accounts for the presumed negative interaction between relative income and economic inequality at lower levels of national wealth per capita. The harmonised PolPart dataset, …
Party competition over EU integration: Asymmetrical Impacts of External Shocks Across Regions
Using Voting Advice Application (VAA) data from the EU Profiler/euandi Trend File, we studied how parties’ positions towards European integration relate to their positions on other important issues, and how this varies across EP elections, and between European regions. We hypothesized that the association between parties’ EU-integration positions and their positions on other issues was affected by the three major crises that hit the European Unio…
Are cities ever more cosmopolitan? Studying trends in urban-rural divergence of cultural attitudes
Many scholars and pundits have argued that there is a growing urban-rural divide in political attitudes in the US and Europe. However, it is an empirical question whether and how differences in political attitudes between urban and rural areas have changed over time. In this study, we investigate the urban-rural divergence in cosmopolitan-nationalist attitudes in the Netherlands over the last four decades. We focus on attitudes towards issues of …
Are cities ever more cosmopolitan? Studying trends in urban-rural divergence of cultural attitudes
Many scholars and pundits have argued that there is a growing urban-rural divide in political attitudes in the US and Europe. However, it is an empirical question whether and how differences in political attitudes between urban and rural areas have changed over time. In this study, we investigate the urban-rural divergence in cosmopolitan-nationalist attitudes in the Netherlands over the last four decades. We focus on attitudes towards issues of …
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: Explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes
Why some places don't seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment
Inhabitants of rural and peripheral areas in advanced democracies display higher levels of place resentment. They feel that their area is ignored by political elites, does not get its fair share of resources, and its values are disregarded by inhabitants of other areas. Place resentment is recognized in the literature as perceptions of socioeconomic, cultural and political inequalities. Existing quantitative work studied associations with objecti…
The Great Global Divider? A Comparison of Urban-Rural Partisan Polarization in Western Democracies
This study is the first to measure urban-rural electoral divides in a way that facilitates comparisons beyond majoritarian democracies of the UK and North America. Based on national election results at the lowest available geographic level in fifteen countries covering roughly five decades, we present a measure for each election and political party, enabling comparisons over time and between countries with different electoral and party systems. W…
The Income Gap in Voting: Moderating Effects of Income Inequality and Clientelism
We investigated whether income gaps in voting turnout vary with country-level economic inequality, and whether this pattern differs between wealthier and less-wealthy countries. Moreover, we investigated whether the prevalence of clientelism was the underlying mechanism that accounts for the presumed negative interaction between relative income and economic inequality at lower levels of national wealth per capita. The harmonised PolPart dataset, …
Party competition over EU integration: Asymmetrical Impacts of External Shocks Across Regions
Using Voting Advice Application (VAA) data from the EU Profiler/euandi Trend File, we studied how parties’ positions towards European integration relate to their positions on other important issues, and how this varies across EP elections, and between European regions. We hypothesized that the association between parties’ EU-integration positions and their positions on other issues was affected by the three major crises that hit the European Unio…
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands
Track Differences in Civic and Democratic Engagement During Secondary Education: A New Panel Study From the Netherlands
Whether students educated in different ability tracks in secondary education develop different levels of civic and democratic engagement is yet unclear. To explore this issue, we focus on how schools bring students of different tracks and family backgrounds together, and whether such between-school differences are associated with varying growth rates in civic and democratic engagement during secondary education. Using newly collected 4-year panel…
Party competition over EU integration: Asymmetrical Impacts of External Shocks Across Regions
Using Voting Advice Application (VAA) data from the EU Profiler/euandi Trend File, we studied how parties’ positions towards European integration relate to their positions on other important issues, and how this varies across EP elections, and between European regions. We hypothesized that the association between parties’ EU-integration positions and their positions on other issues was affected by the three major crises that hit the European Unio…
Are cities ever more cosmopolitan? Studying trends in urban-rural divergence of cultural attitudes
Many scholars and pundits have argued that there is a growing urban-rural divide in political attitudes in the US and Europe. However, it is an empirical question whether and how differences in political attitudes between urban and rural areas have changed over time. In this study, we investigate the urban-rural divergence in cosmopolitan-nationalist attitudes in the Netherlands over the last four decades. We focus on attitudes towards issues of …
The Income Gap in Voting: Moderating Effects of Income Inequality and Clientelism
We investigated whether income gaps in voting turnout vary with country-level economic inequality, and whether this pattern differs between wealthier and less-wealthy countries. Moreover, we investigated whether the prevalence of clientelism was the underlying mechanism that accounts for the presumed negative interaction between relative income and economic inequality at lower levels of national wealth per capita. The harmonised PolPart dataset, …
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: Explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes
Why some places don't seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment
Inhabitants of rural and peripheral areas in advanced democracies display higher levels of place resentment. They feel that their area is ignored by political elites, does not get its fair share of resources, and its values are disregarded by inhabitants of other areas. Place resentment is recognized in the literature as perceptions of socioeconomic, cultural and political inequalities. Existing quantitative work studied associations with objecti…
Stad-platteland verschillen in de politiek: Hoe woonplaats onze politieke opvattingen beïnvloedt
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
The Great Global Divider? A Comparison of Urban-Rural Partisan Polarization in Western Democracies
This study is the first to measure urban-rural electoral divides in a way that facilitates comparisons beyond majoritarian democracies of the UK and North America. Based on national election results at the lowest available geographic level in fifteen countries covering roughly five decades, we present a measure for each election and political party, enabling comparisons over time and between countries with different electoral and party systems. W…
Track Differences in Civic and Democratic Engagement During Secondary Education: A New Panel Study From the Netherlands
Whether students educated in different ability tracks in secondary education develop different levels of civic and democratic engagement is yet unclear. To explore this issue, we focus on how schools bring students of different tracks and family backgrounds together, and whether such between-school differences are associated with varying growth rates in civic and democratic engagement during secondary education. Using newly collected 4-year panel…
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands
Place, education, and voting along the transnational cleavage in Europe
The transnational cleavage captures a divide between those with cosmopolitan orientations who are more positive about international migration, trade, and governance and those with more nationalist outlooks. Recent research has demonstrated that polarisation along this cleavage in Europe is increasingly linked to urban-rural differences: people living in urban areas tend to be more cosmopolitan than people in rural areas, but existing studies have…
Political socialization across places: Differential Effects on Multiculturalist Attitudes in Urban and Rural Areas
Extensive literature shows that inhabitants from urbanized areas tend to have more multicultural attitudes than those from rural areas, and these differences seem especially pronounced among younger generations. To explore why, we study ‘the formative years of adolescence’ and focus on an often-overlooked mechanism in the literature: political socialization through discussing politics with various actors such as parents, peers, and teachers. We a…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (4 works) · Social Capital and Networks (4 works)