Merijn Oudenampsen is a political scientist and sociologist by training, specialized in the interdisciplinary study of political ideas. He presently teaches political science at the University of Amsterdam. Before that, he was a Marie Curie fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he worked on the book No Nonsense: A History of the Dutch Neoliberal Turn (Verso, 2026). He pursued his PhD at Tilburg University in 2018, charting the ideas behind the rise of right-wing populism in the Netherlands. A revised version of the PhD was published as The Rise of the Dutch New Right (Routledge, 2021), which received the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles Award. After his PhD, he worked at the University of Amsterdam on Market Makers, a research project on Dutch neoliberalism funded by a grant from the Dutch Research Council. Together with the historian Bram Mellink he wrote the book Neoliberalisme: Een Nederlandse Geschiedenis, which is now in its 6^th printing. He has published in leading journals such as Political Studies, Comparative European Politics, Economy and Society, Perspectives on European Politics, and the Journal of European Public Policy. Every three weeks, he writes a column for De Groene Amsterdammer.