Sanne van Oosten

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PhD Research: Diversity in Political Representation - how do citizens assess politicians who look like them? Twitter: @sbvanoosten https://www.uva.nl/profiel/o/o/s.b.vanoosten/s.b.van-oosten.html
So which is most important? Stereotyping or projection? Turns out it really matters what your own views are. Flankers project their views onto politicians, whereas moderates stereotype.
The work by @amyelerman and @MeredithSadin inspired me to look into projection as well. Turns out, voters not only stereotype, they also project their views onto politicians.
Building on work by @tabouchadi I ask respondents what their own views are on same-sex adoption. I divide the responses in three categories: “anti-flankers” who fully disagree, “pro-flankers” who fully agree and “moderates” in the middle. Pro-flankers are the most common.
But do voters really expect Muslim politicians will be against same-sex adoption? Well, yes. Given the Homonationalist context Western Europe is moving towards, this is no surprise. See the work by @jkpuar on how LGBT-rights are weaponized to discredit Muslims.

🥳First time to ever win a prize in academia 🥳

My colleagues voted for me to win the outstanding collegiality award for helping colleagues.

I won the prize amongst PhDs and Postdocs, @eefjesteen for permanent staff.

Thanks so much for organizing @SLdeLange and @GijsSchumacher