Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Huijsmans, T., Kuhn, T., & Lancee, B. (2026). Place, Education, and Voting along the Transnational Cleavage in Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 1–31.
Huijsmans, T., & van Slageren, J. (2025). Political Socialization across Places: Differential Effects on Multiculturalist Attitudes in Urban and Rural Areas. Political Geography, 124.
Huijsmans, T., & van der Brug, W. (2025). Place-based Resentment and Party Support in Multiparty Systems: A Study of Three Consecutive Elections in the Netherlands. Electoral Studies, 96.
Huijsmans, T., & Rodden, J. (2024). The Great Global Divider? A Comparison of Urban-Rural Partisan Polarization in Western Democracies. Comparative Political Studies, 58(2), 261–290.
doi.org/10.1177/00104140241237458 · Code · Winner, Frances Rosenbluth Best Paper Prize (2025)
Huijsmans, T. (2023). Why Some Places Don’t Seem to Matter: Socioeconomic, Cultural and Political Determinants of Place Resentment. Electoral Studies, 83, 102622.
Huijsmans, T. (2022). Place Resentment in ‘the Places that Don’t Matter’: Explaining the Geographic Divide in Populist and Anti-immigration Attitudes. Acta Politica.
Huijsmans, T., Harteveld, E., van der Brug, W., & Lancee, B. (2021). Are Cities Ever More Cosmopolitan? Studying Trends in Urban-Rural Divergence of Cultural Attitudes. Political Geography, 86.
Huijsmans, T., Rijken, A. J., & Gaidyte, T. (2022). The Income Gap in Voting: Moderating Effects of Income Inequality and Clientelism. Political Behavior, 44(3).
Huijsmans, T., & Krouwel, A. (2021). Party Competition over EU Integration: Asymmetrical Impacts of External Shocks across Regions? European Political Science Review, 13(4).
Huijsmans, T., Nivette, A. E., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2021). Social Influences, Peer Delinquency, and Low Self-control: An Examination of Time-varying and Reciprocal Effects on Delinquency over Adolescence. European Journal of Criminology, 18(2).
Huijsmans, T., Eichelsheim, V. I., Weerman, F., Branje, S. J. T., & Meeus, W. (2019). The Role of Siblings in Adolescent Delinquency Next to Parents, School, and Peers: Do Gender and Age Matter? Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 5(2).
van de Werfhorst, H., ten Dam, G., Geven, S., Huijsmans, T., Mennes, H., Mulder, L., van Slageren, J., & van der Meer, T. (2025). Track Differences in Civic and Democratic Engagement During Secondary Education: A New Panel Study from the Netherlands. The British Journal of Sociology.

Book chapters and reports

Working papers

  • Huijsmans, T. The ‘Meso-level’ as a Lens for Evaluating Politics: The Role of Economic Circumstances in the Place, the Job, and the Family for Individuals’ Political Trust. Presented at the EPSS conference 2026, Belfast.
  • Huijsmans, T. Between Personal Finances and the National Economy: The Meso Level in Political Trust Formation. Revised & resubmitted OSF page
  • Huijsmans, T., & Rodden, J. Crossing the Density Divide: Party Systems and Urban-Rural Coalitions. — OSF page
  • McKay, L., & Huijsmans, T. Bridges across the Urban-Rural Divide: The Role of Social Connections for Reducing Place-Based Resentment. Presented at * APSA Annual Conference 2026, Boston* and Beyond the Divide: ECR Conference on the Political Dimensions of Place-Based Inequalities in Urban & Rural Life, London School of Economics, April 2026. Preprint

Datasets and codebooks

  • Harteveld, E., Huijsmans, T., Vermeulen, F., & Van der Meer, T. (2025). Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2025 (DPES/NKO 2025). doi.org/10.17026/SS/ZBNO8O. Amsterdam: SKON.
  • Huijsmans, T., Harteveld, E., Vermeulen, F., & Van der Meer, T. (2025). Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2025 (DPES/NKO 2025): Research Description and Codebook. doi.org/10.17026/SS/ZBNO8O. Amsterdam: SKON.
  • Huijsmans, T., & Rodden, J. (2024). Urban-Rural Electoral Divides Dataset + Codebook (URED). — OSF page.
  • Huijsmans, T., Rijken, A. J., & Gaidyte, T. (2019). Harmonised Polpart Dataset + Codebook. — OSF page.
  • Van der Meer, T. W. G., Mulder, L., Mennes, H., Thijs, P., Wanders, F., van Slageren, J., Huijsmans, T., Aizenberg, E., Kranendonk, M., La Roi, C., van den Berg, B., van Alebeek, C., Geven, S., Rosmalen, M., Kempen, S., Ten Dam, G., & Van de Werfhorst, H. (2025). ADKS (Adolescentenpanel Democratische Kernwaarden en Schoolloopbanen). doi.org/10.17026/SS/20Z4IB