Biography

Dr. Marc van de Wardt (1981) works as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Currently he is involved in the PATHWAYS research project on the descriptive and substantive representation of citizens of immigrant background in European national parliaments. The research he carries out in addition to PATHWAYS can be summarized in three research lines. First, he is interested in issue competition; a perspective on agenda-setting that studies how politicians compete over the contents of the political agenda by selectively emphasizing their preferred issues. Second, he studies party birth and party death. Third, he is engaged in a research project on the reasons why parties change their policy platform.

Before joining the PATHWAYS project, he was involved as a PhD candidate (dissertation supervised by Wouter van der Brug, Sarah de Lange and Catherine de Vries) in a research project entitled "Political conflict in five European systems: the role of citizens, the media, and parties in the politicization of immigration and European integration" funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Besides his PhD research in the area of political science, he also acquired master degrees in communication science and sociology (cum laude).

As a lecturer, he has taught numerous courses on statistical methods and research design. In addition, he has organized his own, theoretically oriented comparative politics courses on political parties, party systems and party competition.

Selected publications

Van de Wardt, Marc, Catherine E. De Vries & Sara B. Hobolt (2014) ‘Exploiting the cracks: Wedge issues in multiparty competition’. Journal of Politics 76(4): 986-999

Schumacher, Gijs, Marc van de Wardt, Barbara Vis & Michael Baggesen Klitgaard (Forthcoming) ‘How aspiration to office moderates the effect of government participation on party platform change’. American Journal of Political Science.

Van de Wardt, Marc (2015) ‘Desperate needs, desperate deeds. Why mainstream parties respond to the issues of niche parties’. West European Politics 38(1): 93-122.

Van de Wardt, Marc (2014) 'Putting the Damper on: do parties deemphasize issues in response to internal divisions among their supporters'. Party Politics 20(3): 330-340.

Van de Wardt, Marc (Accepted for special issue) ‘Conforming to the dominant discourse. Framing distance and multiparty competition’.

Van der Brug, Wouter, Daphne van der Pas, Marc van de Wardt, Marijn van Klingeren, Claes de Vreese, Sarah de Lange, Catherine de Vries, Hajo Boomgaarden and Rens Vliegenthart (2014), 'New lines of conflict: European integration and immigration'. In: Carsten K.W. De Dreu (eds) Social Conflict within and between Groups. London: Psychology Press.

De Vries, Catherine E. and Marc van de Wardt (2010) 'Eu Issue Salience and Domestic Party Competition', in Kai Opperman and Henrike Viehring (eds) Issue Salience in International Politics. London: Routledge, 173-187.

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