Joop van Holsteyn

TL;DR: In this paper, a counterfactual thought experiment was used to find that most voters put party above person, and less than ten percent put person above party, while a sizeable third category has a preference for an individual candidate as long as that candidate does not leave the party.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that Dutch voters are better able to make such calculations than traditionally has been assumed, under quasi-experimental conditions that involved what can be called coalition preference voting.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate whether their predictions have been correct and find that indeed religion and class have continued to lose importance and now are not useful for understanding voting behavior, while issues related to immigration may have become a new dimension in Dutch politics.

TL;DR: For over 40 years now, the debate on the hierarchical opinion structure within political parties has been colored by May's laws of General and Special curvilinear disparity as discussed by the authors, their essence is that,...