CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

European University Institute, Florence
PhD degree in Political Science (expected 2008)
Thesis committee: Peter Mair (supervisor), Cees van der Eijk (supervisor), Mark Franklin, Michael Laver

New York University
Exchange PhD student at the Wilf Family Department of Politics (2006)
Supervisor: Michael Laver

European University Institute, Florence
Research Master degree in Political Science (2005)
Supervisors: Peter Mair, Cees van der Eijk

University of Amsterdam
"Doctoraal" (Bachelor's and Master of Arts degree) in Political Science (2004)
Supervisors: Philip van Praag, Cees van der Eijk

University of Amsterdam
"Doctoraal" (Bachelor's and Master of Laws degree) in Dutch law (2001)

Other relevant activities include attendance of
- the ECPR/University of Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection (2005, 2006, 2007),
- the ECPR/European University Institute Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems (2007) and
- the ECPR/University of Ljubljana Summer School in Methods and Techniques (2008).

Publications

One manuscript has recently received a "revise and resubmit," five others are currently under review for publication in leading political science journals using a double-blind peer-review system

Van der Brug, Wouter, and Joost van Spanje (2009). Immigration, Europe, and the 'new' cultural dimension. Forthcoming in the European Journal of Political Research.

Van Spanje, Joost (2008). Review of "The extreme right in Western Europe" by Elisabeth Carter (Manchester University Press, 2005). Party Politics 14 (2): 245-7

Van Spanje, Joost, & Wouter van der Brug (2007). The Party as Pariah. The Exclusion of Anti-Immigration Parties and its Effect on their Ideological Positions. West European Politics 30 (5): 1022-40

Van Spanje, Joost (2007). Pariah Parties and Political Exclusion. EUI Review 2007 (3): 35-6

Adriaansen, Maud, Wouter van der Brug & Joost van Spanje (2005). De kiezer op drift? (The Voter Adrift?). Pp. 218-243 in: K. Brants & Ph. van Praag Jr. (eds.). Politiek en media in verwarring - De verkiezingscampagnes in het lange jaar 2002 (Politics and Media in Confusion - The Electoral Campaigns in the Long Year 2002). Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis

Van der Vlies, Inge, & Joost van Spanje (2004). Checks, balances, public governance en de AFM (Checks, Balances, Public Governance and the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets). Nederlands Juristenblad 79 (27): 1340-1344

Van Spanje, Joost (2003). Een her-optredende overheid? (Reinventing Enforcement?). Nederlands Juristenblad 78 (11): 557-560

Barendrecht, Maurits, Inge van der Vlies & Joost van Spanje (2003). E-mocratie: Zestien vragen (E-mocracy: Sixteen Questions). Nederlands Juristenblad 78 (3): 118-123

Vos, Otto, & Joost van Spanje (2002). Goedbedoelde willekeur (Well-Meant Arbitrariness). Openbaar bestuur 12 (1): 8-10

Vos, Otto, & Joost van Spanje (2002). Staat en straf (State and Punishment). Nederlands Juristenblad 77 (22): 1062-1063

Paper presentations

- Guest lecture at the University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands (2008)
- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships competition, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK (2008)
- EUI Colloquium "Quantitative Analysis and Political Participation", Florence, Italy (2007)
- ECPR Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems, Florence, Italy (2007)
- ECPR General Conference, Pisa, Italy (2007)
- EUI Party Politics Working Group, Florence, Italy (2007)
- ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Helsinki, Finland (2007)
- MPSA Annual National Conference, Chicago, IL (2007)
- EUI Workshop "The Populist Radical Right", Florence, Italy (2007)
- NKWP Annual Meetings, The Hague, the Netherlands (2006)
- MPSA Annual National Conference, Chicago, IL (2006)
- ECPR General Conference, Budapest, Hungary (2005)
- EUV Workshop "Repression and right-wing extremism", Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany (2005)
- EUV Workshop "Europe and its borders", Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany (2004)
- ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Uppsala, Sweden (2004)
- NKWP Annual Meetings, Dordrecht, the Netherlands (2003)

Relevant Work Experience

University of Amsterdam
Research assistant / lecturer at the Department of Administrative and Constitutional Law (2002-2004)

University of Amsterdam
Assistant at the Department of Administrative and Constitutional Law (2001-2002)

Dutch National Parliament
Personal assistant to MP Otto Vos LLM (2000-2002)

Municipality of Amsterdam
Secretary of a governmental advisory board providing legal advice to the administrative authorities of the Zeeburg Quarter (2000)

Language Proficiency

Dutch (native); English (fluent); German, French and Italian (intermediate); Spanish (basic).

Statistical packages used

STATA, SPSS, MlWin, GLLAMM, Amos, CLARIFY, HLM

Membership of professional associations

- American Political Science Association (APSA)
- Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)
- Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP)
- ECPR Standing Group on Political Parties
- ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy

References

Professor Peter Mair (supervisor)
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute, Florence
email address: peter.mair(at)eui.eu

Professor Cees van der Eijk (external supervisor)
School of Politics
University of Nottingham
email address: cees.vandereijk(at)nottingham.ac.uk

Professor Mark N. Franklin (second reader dissertation)
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute, Florence
email address: mark.franklin(at)eui.eu