Dr. Mathilde van Ditmars
SNF Postdoc-Forscherin (Prof. Dr. Alexander H. Trechsel)
T +41 41 229 55 88 • Raum 3.B14 • Mathilde.VanDitmars@unilu.ch
CV
Dr. Mathilde M. van Ditmars ist Postdoc-Forscherin am Politikwissenschafltichen Seminar, im SNF-finanzierte Projekt DIGIPOL (2021-2025) unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. A.H. Trechsel. Ihre Forschung liegt an der Schnittstelle von politischem Verhalten, politischer Soziologie und Familiensoziologie. Sie ist spezialisiert auf die Erforschung der politischen Sozialisation, mit der Anwendung quantitativer Methoden unter Verwendung von Paneldaten. Bevor sie 2019 als Oberassistentin an die Universität Luzern kam, war sie als Postdoc-Forscherin am Leiden University College tätig. Van Ditmars promovierte 2017 am European University Institute in Florenz mit einer Dissertation über die Auswirkungen verschiedener Familiendynamiken auf politische Sozialisationsprozesse. Sie war Gastforscherin in Berlin (DIW), Köln (Gesis EUROLAB) und Lausanne (FORS). Zuvor erwarb sie ihren MSc (res.) in Sozialwissenschaften an der Universität Amsterdam und war Dozentin am Politischen Institut der gleichen Universität.
Forschung
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
- Vergleichendes politisches Verhalten
- Politische Soziologie
- Gender und Politik
- Europäische und Niederländische Politik
Publikationen
- Ares, M., & Van Ditmars, M. M. (2022). Intergenerational Social Mobility, Political Socialization and Support for the Left under Post-industrial Realignment. British Journal of Political Science, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7139681
- Van Ditmars, M. M. (2022). Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology. European Journal of Political Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12517
- van Ditmars, M. M. (2020). Opposing Forces? Intergenerational Social Mobility and the Transmission of Political Ideology. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 46 (3), 369–395. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2020-0019
- Van Ditmars, M. M., Maggini, N., & Van Spanje, J. (2020). Small winners and big losers: strategic party behaviour in the 2017 Dutch general election. West European Politics, 43 (3), 543–564. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2019.1655959
- 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
- Van Ditmars, M. M., Maggini, N., & Van Spanje, J. H. P. (2021). The 2017 Dutch general election: how small parties campaigned more strategically. In De Sio, L. & Lachat, R. (Hrsg.), Conflict Mobilisation or Problem-Solving?: Issue Competition in Western Europe (S. 35–56). Oxon and New York: Routledge.
- Lorenzi, J., & Van Ditmars, M. M. (2019). Austria, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland: Old and New Winning Formulas of the Populist Radical Right. In Hutter, Swen & Kriesi, Hanspeter (Hrsg.), European party politics in times of crisis. (S. 261–280). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108652780
- Van Ditmars, M. M. (22. Dezember 2021). Krijg je ideologie met de paplepel ingegoten? [Do you get your ideology at home?]. Abgerufen von https://stukroodvlees.nl/krijg-je-ideologie-met-de-paplepel-ingegoten/
- Van Ditmars, M. M. (21. April 2021). Maken dochters hun ouders progressiever? [Do daughters make their parents more progressive?]. Abgerufen von https://stukroodvlees.nl/maken-dochters-hun-ouders-progressiever/
Achievements
- Socio-political consequences of the digital revolution: a new cleavage? (Panel-)Beitrag, Annual General Conference, European Political Science Association, Prague, 2022
- Political gender gaps and life course transitions in Western Europe. (Panel-)Beitrag, European Political Science Association (EPSA) 2021 Annual General Conference, European Political Science Association (EPSA), Held online, 2021
- Parental separation and (young) adults’ political ideology. (Panel-)Beitrag, Annual Meeting of the Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW), University of Bern, Bern (held online), 2021
- Political socialization in European multiparty systems: the intergenerational transmission of mothers’ and fathers’ left-right ideology. (Panel-)Beitrag, Annual Meeting of the Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW), Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW), Luzern, 2020
- The gender gap in political interest: interplay of genes and gendered socialization? (Panel-)Beitrag, Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Lisbon, 2019
- Who continues to vote for the left? The effect of intra- and intergenerational social mobility on support for social-democratic parties in the UK and Switzerland. (Panel-)Beitrag, European Political Science Association Annual General Conference, European Political Science Association (EPSA), Belfast, 2019
- Political preference formation across social classes: self-selection or workplace socialization? Politics and Society Workshop Series 2022. The Individual and Contextual Effects of Economic Scarcity on Political Integration., Milan, 2022
- Parental separation and young adults’ political ideology. Seminar in Politics and Society, Turin, 2021