Eelco Harteveld is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam. He studies and teaches political behavior, with a focus on populism and polarization.
His PhD thesis (available here), written at the Universities of Amsterdam and Gothenburg (Sweden), was nominated for the 2016 Thesis Award of the Dutch-Flemish Political Science Association. Eelco has published in (among others) European Union Politics, West European Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, and European Sociological Review. In 2018 he received an NWO Veni grant for a research project on affective polarization in Europe.
His current main research projects is the following.