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Dr. Mathilde M. van Ditmars is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science. Her research lies at the intersection of political behaviour, family sociology, and political psychology. She is specialized in political socialization research, with an application of quantitative methods using panel data. Before joining the University of Lucerne, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University College. Van Ditmars obtained her PhD in 2017 from the European University Institute in Florence, with a dissertation on the effects of different family dynamics (sibling gender composition; parental separation; social mobility) on political socialization processes. She has been a visiting researcher in Berlin (DIW), Cologne (Gesis EUROLAB), and Lausanne (FORS). Previously, she obtained her MSc (res.) in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam and was a lecturer in the Political Science Department of the same university.

Research

Major fields of research:

• Comparative political behaviour
• Political sociology
• Political psychology
• Political representation
• European and Dutch politics

Publications