Clint Claessen

Scholarship

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, working papers, public outreach and academic service.

Peer-reviewed

Articles in journals

  1. 2 Accruing career capital: How party leaders with more political experience survive longer 2024 · in Party Politics, 30(4): 719–735.
  2. 1 The winners of legislative mandate: An analysis of post-parliamentary career positions in Germany and the Netherlands 2021 · in European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 60 (1), pp. 25–45 · with Stefanie Bailer and Tomas Turner-Zwinkels.

In progress

Working papers

  • Voter signalling and coalition adjustment: Party competition and environmental speeches in the German Bundestag.
    with Denise Traber and Martijn Schoonvelde
  • Risen to the Top, but Put at a Disadvantage: Examining the role of career capital in gendered party leaders' political survival.
  • Picture-perfect: The relationship between party leader visibility and voting during party leader elections.
    with Maxime Walder and Anthea Alberto
  • Ideology or career? On the individual and structural reasons for joining youth parties.
    with Stefanie Bailer and Tamaki Ohmura

Beyond academia

Public outreach

Political science blogs

News & radio

  • Rechtspopulist Geert Wilders gewinnt Wahlen in den Niederlanden — 23 November 2023, SRF 10 vor 10, Switzerland.
  • Koolmees naar NS: Bewijst dit het bestaan van een Haagse baantjescarrousel? — 11 October 2022, Radio 1, The Netherlands.
  • Angriff auf das "Haus der Demokratie" — 7 January 2021, Telebasel, Switzerland.

Service to the discipline

Reviewing & conferences

Reviewer for

Journal of Politics · Comparative Political Studies · European Journal of Political Research · Party Politics · European Journal of Gender and Politics · European Union Politics · Swiss Political Science Review · Scandinavian Political Studies · Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies · Parliamentary Affairs · EPJ Data Science · Politics and Governance · Austrian Journal of Political Science · CPSS Conference 2024/25

Conferences attended

Europe

SISP 2023/24 · ECPR General 2021/23/24/25 · ECPR Parliaments 2016/21/23/25 · ECPR JS 2023 · COMPTEXT 2023/24/25 · EPSA 2021/22/23/24 · SPSA 2020/23/24/26 · AuPSA 2025 · Political Careers Conference 2022 · PSAI 2021/25 · GraPa 2021

North America

APSA 2022/24 · CPSA 2022/24