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Prof. dr. S.L. (Sarah) de Lange

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Challenges to Democratic Representation
Photographer: Michiel Goudswaard

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15578
    1001 NB Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    Biography

    Sarah L. de Lange is Professor of Political Pluralism at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. From 2016 to 2022 she held the Dr. J.M. Den Uyl chair, a chair established by by the Wiardi Beckman Foundation.

    Sarah L. de Lange is is currently working on a project funded by the NWO entitled 'Generational differences in determinants of party choice'. The project examines how the mechanisms that explain voting behaviour differ between younger and older generations. She supervises five PhD students: Laura Mulder, Linet Durmuşoğlu, Nick Martin, Thomas Jocker, and Twan Huijsmans. She has previously worked on three large-scale research projects: Sub-National Context and Radical Right Support in Europe funded by a ORA grant, 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 NWO and Newly Governing Parties: Success or Failure?, funded by a Veni grant of the NWO.

    Sarah L. de Lange has been a Jean Monnet Fellow in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Research at the European University Institute and a visiting scholar at the Goethe University. 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 supervised by 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, Electoral Studies, Ethical Perspectives, European Journal for Political Research, European Political Studies, Government and Opposition, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Party Politics, Patterns of Prejudice, Political Studies, Politics and Governance, Regional Studies and West European Politics and a number of edited volumes. Her latest edited volume, entitled Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe: Into the Mainstream? has appeared with Routledge in 2016. 

    Functions

    • Member of the Advisory Board of ProDemos
    • Member of the Advisory Board of Networking European Citizenship Education (NECE)
    • Member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Social History (IISH)
    • Member of the editorial board of Acta Politica and Political Studies Review

    Research interests

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

    Teaching areas

    • Comparative politics
    • Introduction to political science
    • 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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  • Publications

    2023

    • Durmuşoğlu, L. R., de Lange, S. L., Kuhn, T., & van der Brug, W. (2023). The Intergenerational Transmission of Party Preferences in Multiparty Contexts: Examining Parental Socialization Processes in the Netherlands". Political Psychology, 44(3), 583-601. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12861
    • de Lange, S., van der Brug, W., & Harteveld, E. (2023). Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon? Regional Studies, 57(3), 403-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2084527

    2022

    2019

    • van Ditmars, M. M., & de Lange, S. L. (2019). Differential representation? The gaps between mainstream and niche party representatives and their voters in The Netherlands. Acta Politica, 54(2), 295–314. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-018-0087-z [details]

    2018

    • Harteveld, E., Schaper, J., de Lange, S. L., & van der Brug, W. (2018). Blaming Brussels? The Impact of (News about) the Refugee Crisis on Attitudes towards the EU and National Politics. Journal of Common Market Studies, 56(1), 157-177. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12664 [details]
    • Pellikaan, H., de Lange, S. L., & van der Meer, T. W. G. (2018). The centre does not hold: Coalition politics and party system change in the Netherlands, 2002-12. Government and Opposition, 53(2), 231-255. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2016.20 [details]
    • de Lange, S. L. (2018). From Limited Multipartism to Extended Multipartism?: The Impact of the Lijst Pim Fortuyn, the Partij voor de Vrijheid and the Socialistische Partij on the Dutch Party System. In S. Wolinetz, & A. Zaslove (Eds.), Absorbing the Blow: Populist Parties and their Impact on Parties and Party Systems (pp. 55-82). London: ECPR Press. [details]

    2017

    • Rensmann, L., de Lange, S. L., & Couperus, S. (2017). Editorial to the Issue on Populism and the Remaking of (Il)Liberal Democracy in Europe. Politics and Governance, 5(4), 106-111. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v5i4.1328 [details]
    • Rensmann, L., de Lange, S. L., & Couperus, S. (Eds.) (2017). Populism and the Remaking of (Il)Liberal Democracy in Europe. Politics and Governance, 5(4).
    • Rooduijn, M., van der Brug, W., de Lange, S. L., & Parlevliet, J. (2017). Persuasive Populism? Estimating the Effect of Populist Messages on Political Cynicism. Politics and Governance, 5(4), 136-145. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v5i4.1124 [details]

    2016

    • Akkerman, T., de Lange, S. L., & Rooduijn, M. (2016). Inclusion and mainstreaming? Radical right-wing populist parties in the new millennium. In T. Akkerman, S. L. de Lange, & M. Rooduijn (Eds.), Radical right-wing populist parties in Western Europe: into the mainstream? (pp. 1-28). (Extremism and democracy). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315687988 [details]
    • Akkerman, T., de Lange, S. L., & Rooduijn, M. (2016). Into the mainstream? A comparative analysis of the programmatic profiles of radical right-wing populist parties in Western Europe over time. In T. Akkerman, S. L. de Lange, & M. Rooduijn (Eds.), Radical right-wing populist parties in Western Europe: into the mainstream? (pp. 31-52). (Extremism and democracy). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315687988 [details]
    • Rooduijn, M., van der Brug, W., & de Lange, S. L. (2016). Expressing or fuelling discontent? The relationship between populist voting and political discontent. Electoral Studies, 43(1), 32-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2016.04.006 [details]

    2015

    2014

    • Rooduijn, M., de Lange, S. L., & van der Brug, W. (2014). A populist Zeitgeist? Programmatic contagion by populist parties in Western Europe. Party Politics, 20(4), 563-575. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068811436065 [details]
    • van Heerden, S., de Lange, S. L., van der Brug, W., & Fennema, M. (2014). The immigration and integration debate in the Netherlands: discursive and programmatic reactions to the rise of anti-immigration parties. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(1), 119-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2013.830881 [details]

    2013

    • de Lange, S. L., & Akkerman, T. (2013). Λαϊκιστικά κόμματα στο Βέλγιο: μία περίπτωση ηγεμονικής φιλελεύθερης δημοκρατίας. In C. Mudde, & C. Rovira Kaltwasser (Eds.), Λαϊκισμός στην Ευρώπη και την Αμερική: Απειλή ή διόρθωση για τη δημοκρατία (pp. 71-98). Athens: Επίκεντρο. [details]

    2012

    • Akkerman, T., & de Lange, S. L. (2012). Radical right parties in office: incumbency records and the electoral cost of governing. Government and Opposition, 47(4), 574-596. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.2012.01375.x [details]
    • Rooduijn, M., de Lange, S. L., & van der Brug, W. (2012). Een populistische tijdgeest? Discursieve reacties op het succes van populistische partijen in West-Europa. Sociologie, 8(1), 152-172. https://doi.org/10.5117/SOC2012.1.ROOD [details]
    • de Lange, S. (Guest ed.) (2012). Politiek en samenleving in het post-Fortuyn tijdperk. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 39(2).
    • de Lange, S. L. (2012). New alliances: why mainstream parties govern with radical right-wing populist parties. Political Studies, 60(4), 899-918. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00947.x [details]
    • de Lange, S. L., & Akkerman, T. (2012). Populist parties in Belgium: a case of hegemonic liberal democracy? In C. Mudde, & C. R. Kaltwasser (Eds.), Populism in Europe and the Americas: threat or corrective for democracy? (pp. 27-45). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [details]
    • van der Brug, W., Fennema, M., de Lange, S., & Baller, I. (2012). Radical right parties: their voters and their electoral competitors. In J. Rydgren (Ed.), Class politics and the radical right (pp. 52-74). (Routledge studies in extremism and democracy; No. 16). Routledge. [details]

    2011

    2010

    • de Lange, S. L., & Guerra, S. (2010). The league of Polish families between East and West, past and present. In M. Minkenberg (Ed.), Historical legacies and the radical right in post-Cold War Central and Eastern Europe (pp. 123-155). (Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society; No. 100). Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag. [details]

    2009

    2007

    • Pellikaan, H., de Lange, S. L., & van der Meer, T. W. G. (2007). Fortuyn's legacy: Party system change in the Netherlands. Comparative European Politics, 5(3), 282-302.
    • de Lange, S. L. (2007). A new winning formula? The programmatic appeal of the radical right. Party Politics, 13(4), 411-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068807075943

    2005

    • Thijssen, P., & de Lange, S. L. (2005). Explaining the differential electoral appeal of the Vlaams Blok in the districts of Antwerp. Ethical Perspectives, 12(2), 231-258.
    • de Lange, S. L., & Mudde, C. (2005). Political extremism in Europe. European Political Science, 4, 476-488.

    2003

    2019

    2018

    • Zuure, J., & de Lange, S. L. (2018). Over een onbevreesd openbaar bestuur dat voorbereid is op verontwaardigde burgers. In S. L. de Lange, & J. Zuure (Eds.), #WOEST : De Kracht van Verontwaardiging (pp. 8-35). Amsterdam: AUP. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L., & Zuure, J. (Eds.) (2018). #WOEST: de kracht van verontwaardiging. Amsterdam: AUP. [details]

    2016

    • Akkerman, T., de Lange, S. L., & Rooduijn, M. (Eds.) (2016). Radical right-wing populist parties in Western Europe: into the mainstream? (Extremism and democracy). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315687988 [details]

    2014

    • Kruiter, A. J., & de Lange, S. L. (2014). De toekomst van de gemeenteraad. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 41(2), 143-145. https://doi.org/10.5553/benm/138900692014041001004 [details]
    • Kruiter, A. J., & de Lange, S. L. (2014). Over kennislacunes en lokale mogelijkheden. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 41(1), 50-52. https://doi.org/10.5553/benm/138900692014041001008 [details]
    • de Lange, S. L., Leyenaar, M., & de Jong, P. (2014). Politieke partijen: overbodig of nodig? Den Haag: Raad voor het openbaar bestuur. [details]
    • de Lange, S., & Hakhverdian, A. (2014). Onderzoeksvaardigheden. In M. Moret, & M. Maussen (Eds.), Academische vaardigheden voor politicologen. - 2e gewijzigde editie (pp. 90-109). Amsterdam: Bacheloropleiding politicologie, College sociale wetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam. [details]
    • van der Brug, W., van der Pas, D., van de Wardt, M., van Klingeren, M., de Vreese, C., de Lange, S., de Vries, C., Boomgaarden, H., & Vliegenthart, R. (2014). New lines of conflict: European integration and immigration. In C. K. W. de Dreu (Ed.), Social conflict within and between groups (pp. 151-165). (Current issues in social psychology). Psychology Press. [details]

    2013

    • de Lange, S. L. (2013). Openbaarheid als elfde gebod? B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 40(4), 431-432. https://doi.org/10.5553/Benm/138900692013040004008 [details]
    • de Lange, S. L. (2013). Vinger aan de polls: peilers, pers en politicologen over opiniepeilingen. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 40(2), 168-170. [details]
    • de Lange, S., & Hakhverdian, A. (2013). Onderzoeksvaardigheden. In M. Maussen, & M. Moret (Eds.), Academische vaardigheden voor politicologen (pp. 89-105). Amsterdam: College Sociale Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam. [details]

    2012

    • Rooduijn, M., de Lange, S. L., & van der Brug, W. (2012). Een populistische tijdgeest? Discursieve reacties op het succes van populistische partijen in West-Europa. In J. Uitermark, M. Oudenampsen, B. van Heerikhuizen, & R. van Reekum (Eds.), 'Power to the people!': een anatomie van het populisme (pp. 174-194). Boom Lemma uitgevers. [details]
    • de Jong, P., & de Lange, S. L. (2012). Europa, burgerschap en democratie: over de gespannen relatie tussen burgers en Europa en mogelijkheden om die te ontspannen. Den Haag: Raad voor het openbaar bestuur. [details]
    • de Lange, S. (2012). Fortuyn was geen voorloper: de erfenis van Fortuyn in Europees perspectief. In J. Schinkelshoek, & C. Rotteveel Mansveld (Eds.), De erfenis van Fortuyn: de parlementaire en politieke nalatenschap van Pim Fortuyn (pp. 10-12). (Montesquieu-reeks; No. 1). Den Haag: Montesquieu Instituut. [details]
    • de Lange, S. (2012). Politiek en samenleving in het post-Fortuyn tijdperk. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 39(2), 114-128. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L. (2012). Elk nadeel heeft zijn voordeel: paradoxen en utopieën over politiek en sociale media. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 39(3), 320-321. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L. (2012). Radical right-wing populist parties in office: a cross-national comparison. In U. Backes, & P. Moreau (Eds.), The extreme right in Europe: current trends and perspectives (pp. 171-194). (Schriften des Hannah-Arendt-Instituts für Totalitarismusforschung; No. 46). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L., van der Brug, W., & Baller, I. (2012). Konkurrenten oder Gegner? Der Aufstieg grüner und radikaler rechtspopulistischer Parteien. In E. Meijers (Ed.), Rechtspopulismus in Europa (pp. 57-76). Planet Verlag. [details]

    2011

    • de Lange, S. (2011). Radicaal rechts-populistische partijen op het pluche. Openbaar Bestuur, 21(9), 2-6. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L. (2011). De complexe relatie tussen diplomademocratie en populisme. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 38(1), 93-97. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L. (2011). De opkomst van radicaal rechts populistische partijen in West-Europa en haar gevolgen. Christen democratische verkenningen, 2011(lente), 52-60. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L. (2011). Democratic audit: ten geleide. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 38(2), 229-230. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L., & Rooduijn, M. (2011). Een populistische tijdgeest in Nederland? Een inhoudsanalyse van de verkiezingsprogramma's van politieke partijen. In R. Andeweg, & J. Thomassen (Eds.), Democratie doorgelicht: het functioneren van de Nederlandse democratie (pp. 319-334). Leiden: Leiden University Press. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L., van der Brug, W., & Baller, I. (2011). Adversaries or competitors? The rise of green and radical right-wing populist parties. In E. Meijers (Ed.), Populism in Europe (pp. 47-66). Green European Foundation. [details]

    2008

    • Geysels, J., de Lange, S., & Fennema, M. (2008). Het cordon sanitaire en het ontluiken der democratie? Res Publica, 50(1), 49-64. [details]

    2007

    • de Lange, S. L. (2007). From pariah to power broker: The radical right and government in Western Europe. In P. Delwit, & P. Poirier (Eds.), Extreme droite et pouvoir en Europe (pp. 21-39). Brussels: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles.

    2003

    • Pellikaan, H., van der Meer, T. W. G., & de Lange, S. L. (2003). De positie van politieke partijen over het vraagstuk van de multiculturele samenleving. In H. Pellikaan, & M. Trappenburg (Eds.), Politiek in de multiculturele samenleving (pp. 160-187). Amsterdam: Boom.

    2022

    • de Lange, S. L., & Zuure, J. (2022). De jeugd van tegenwoordig vertegenwoordigt de toekomst. In Jongeren en het Zorgen voor hun Morgen (pp. 162-178). Raad voor het openbaar bestuur.

    2021

    2020

    2019

    2018

    2017

    • de Lange, S. (2017). Waarom oude witte mannen niet genoeg zijn en een volksbeweging nodig is. Socialisme en Democratie, 74(2), 24-31. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L. (2017). Voorbij de Politieke Crisis! Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Resarch (AISSR), University of Amsterdam.
    • de Lange, S. L. (2017). ‘5 voor 12’ voor de brede volkspartij. In Hoe Laat is het?: Liber Amicorum Jacques Wallage (pp. 85-89). Den Haag: Raad voor het openbaar bestuur. [details]

    2014

    2012

    • Bartlett, J., Birdwell, J., & de Lange, S. (2012). Populism in Europe: Netherlands. London: Demos. [details]

    2011

    • de Lange, S. L. (2011). Het populisme en de PVV [Bespreking van: B. Heijne (2011) Moeten wij van elkaar houden? Essay; D. Pels (2011) Het volk bestaat niet: leiderschap en populisme in de mediademocratie; M. Bosma (2010) De schijn-élite van de valse munters: Drees, extreem rechts, de sixties, nuttige idioten, Groep Wilders en ik; M. Fennema (2010) Geert Wilders: tovenaarsleerling]. Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis, 2011, 224-226. [details]
    • de Lange, S. L. (2011). [Review of: J. van Ostaaijen (2010) Aversion and accommodation: political change and urban regime analysis in Dutch local government: Rotterdam 1998-2008]. e-Extreme, 12(2), 7-8. [details]

    2010

    • de Lange, S. L. (2010). [Review of: Ö. Celep (2009) Extreme right-wing parties and democracy: the effects of extreme right-wing parties on the politics of consolidated democracies; N. Price (2008) The resurgence of the far-right in European politics: analysis of the French, Italian, Austrian, and Belgian cases]. e-Extreme, 11(2), 9-10. [details]

    Media appearance

    2018

    • van der Veer, H. A. A. (2018). A parliament beyond borders? Parties, nationality, and cooperation in the European Parliament. [details]

    2012

    • de Lange, S. L., & Mugge, L. M. (2012). Gender and Radical Right-Wing Populism: Ideological Variation Across Parties and Time. Nurnberg: Georg-Simon-Ohm-University of Applied Sciences.

    2021

    • Harteveld, E., van der Brug, W., de Lange, S. & van der Meer, T. (2021). Replication data (with rounded standardized macro variables) for "Multiple roots of the populist radical right: support for the Dutch PVV in cities and the countryside". EASY. https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-25u-s3af
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  • Ancillary activities
    • Gemeente Amsterdam
      Lid hoofdstembureau kieskring Amsterdam
    • IISG
      Lid Raad van Toezicht Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis