Martin Rosema

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky

Very nice! I was also happy when seeing such a message in my inbox some days ago. 🥳

Workshop: Support for democracy and its institutions
On 11-12 June, the annual Dutch-Flemish Political Science Conference takes place in Ghent. We organize an panel on support for democracy and its institutions. Submit your paper proposal before March 15th!
politicologenetmaal.eu/workshops-20...

OpenVAA v0.1 Shiba is out now!

Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3

📢 Call for papers on political polarization!

@eelcoharteveld.bsky.social and I warmly invite you to our workshop on political polarization at the Politicologenetmaal in Ghent, Belgium on 11–12 June.

Submission deadline: 15 March 2026
More information: politicologenetmaal.eu/workshops-20...

Verdeling van de posten wordt morgen bekend • Geen nieuw ministerie van Digitale Zaken In dit liveblog lees je het laatste nieuws over de formatie van een nieuw kabinet.

Digitale zaken is Chefsache (dat zou het moeten zijn althans).

Het onderwerp verdient nu een Minister, met stevige portefeuille en geld, en niet alleen een staatssecretaris.

Hier kan men van bijv. Duitsland leren. En weer van Denemarken: sinds 2022 Digitaliseringsministerie.
nos.nl/liveblog/260...

Call for papers for our workshop on electoral politics at the Poletmaal2026 in Ghent on June 11-12. Please join Amber Voets, Chloe de Grauwe, and myself for great discussions of our changing electoral landscape and explanations for voter behavior politicologenetmaal.eu/workshops-20...

My co-chair Krista Ettlinger speaking in front of a meeting room with colleagues sitting in a square behind tables, with a bit of a view on old red-bricked houses through the large windows.

Jelle Turkenburg presenting in front of the same meeting.

View on the famous city hall buillding in neogothic style on the left plus a series of beautiful old facades of houses to the right of it, in evening light.

Thanks to 16 presenters from 12 universities we had a great panel on Democratic Innovation and Citizen Participation, which Krista Ettlinger and I co-chaired. All those people are an important reason why being part of this academic community is such a privilege.

Picture of six colleagues from the Public Administration department in Twente with happy faces in front of the NIG conference banner, from left to right: Spencer Poodiack Parsons, Jelle Turkenburg, Stefan Telle, Tafadzwa Karuma, myself and Igor Pessoa.

Time flies when you’re having fun. That surely applied to the annual conference of @nigovernance.bsky.social in Leuven this week. I am very grateful to the organisers, who did a great job. The picture shows me with five fabulous colleagues from our Public Administration department, who also joined.

Adrien Chanteloup presenting in the Piano Room

View on the meeting room with Adrien Chanteloup and about 25 people in the audience.

Already this is one of the highlights of the second day of the NIG conference in Leuven. The presentation by Adrien Chanteloup in a full room of the panel Citizen Participation and Democratic Innovation. @nigovernance.bsky.social

Meeting room with Julia Starrenburg presenting and the audience listing. The windows provide a view on nice old buildings.

Meeting room with Julia Starrenburg presenting and a black piano next to her, which mirrors a view on a row of colleagues in the audience.

De jaarlijkse conferentie van NIG is begonnen! Julia Starrenburg gaf een mooie presentatie in het panel Democratic Innovation and Citizen Participation, georganiseerd door Krista Ettlinger en mijzelf. Je kunt zien dat we in Leuven zijn en waarom deze zaal Piano Room heet. @nigovernance.bsky.social

This one is making the rounds.

But after a tense 🇪🇺 vs 🇺🇸 week it is needed.

Healthier, less poor, fairer, more equitable, safer.

🇪🇺 not perfect. But pretty good!

Tech companies’ access to UK ministers dwarfs that of child safety groups Exclusive: Amazon, Meta and X among firms holding hundreds of meetings with people at heart of government, data shows

Important and well researched piece on the extensive (!) lobbying access of big tech platforms and AI companies.

“A government of a sovereign state has a duty to its own citizens, not to the tech bros”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pagina van Belgische krant De Morgen waarop de cartoon te zien is.

Een cartoon toont vier grote treden, waarop kleine witte mannetjes proberen te klimmen. Een groot bord luidt: 'Hoe word je een moderne autocraat - training'. Op de eerste trede staat een bord met de tekst 'Wees een narcist'; de mannetjes op deze trede kijken in spiegels. Op de tweede trede staat een bord met de tekst 'Ontken de realiteit'; de mannetjes op deze trede doen een quiz. De vraag op het scherm luidt: 'Klimaatverandering is A: Echt B: Nep'. Alle deelnemers kiezen het antwoord 'nep'. Op de derde trede staat een bord met de tekst 'Wijs de schuld aan'; een mannetje op deze trede geeft instructies aan de oproerpolitie, die een migrantenfamilie over de rand van een gigantische vuilnisbak duwt. De vuilnisbak is al gevuld met mensen die borden dragen met de teksten ‘Red de aarde' en 'Mensenrechten'. Op de vierde en laatste trede van de ladder staat een bord met de tekst 'Grijp de macht' en een rode stoel op een rode loper.

Nieuws voor onze zuiderburen: vanaf vandaag is er elke dinsdag een cartoon van mijn hand te vinden in @demorgen.be✨

Photo with, from left to right: Tom Veldkamp (with a microphone), myself (with an award certificate), and Machteld Roos (with a huge cake with lots of cream and some pieces of fruit). In the background a large purple screen with the text "Martin Rosema, second prize winner of the UT in the Media Award."

What a great way to start the year at work: members of our university’s executive board, Tom Veldkamp and Machteld Roos, announced that I am one of the recipients of the UT Media Awards. The nice certificate comes with a huge cake, which my wonderful colleagues enthusiastically helped to consume.

Hoogtepunt uit ons uur was Knights Of Cydonia van Muse, die ook tweemaal live heb gehoord tijdens hun geweldige concerten. Genieten geblazen.

Televisie met in beeld de uitzending van NPO Radio 2 Top 2000: mensen in het café tijdens het nummer “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” van U2. Dat staat vermeld in witte letters op een rode balk onderaan het scherm naast het logo van Top 2000.

Een van onze leukste familietradities is het Top 2000 Café bezoeken op oudjaarsdag. Vandaag waren we er voor de zevende keer bij. En de hele week staat de uitzending van de Top 2000 aan op tv. Uit mijn eigen stemlijst kwamen vandaag acht nummers langs, maar in andere uren.

npo.nl/luister/stem...

Caricature of Trump as the narrator in a nativity play

Pretty accurate picture by Peter Brookes. And there's more 👇

times.newsprints.co.uk/peter-brooke...

In 2020 Marta Gallina and I developed a kind of plan to write a paper on precisely that topic (but with no plans for field experiments). It never materialised, however, which makes me even more pleased that you focused on this, got the research done, and have it now published in such a great outlet.

Haha, I have just noticed it is a short article when I downloaded the pdf a few moments ago. I love the main question: do VAAs help voters to support parties they are closest to in terms of policy preferences or ideology. So relevant, but little focused on.

I second that comment. Indeed a great study! 👏 Hope to find time soon in the new year to read the article.

Thanks a lot, David.

Thanks a lot, Oliver. Those feelings and wishes are surely mutual. Wishing you a great Xmas break and start to the new year.

The painting is Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie in MoMA, New York City. This was first correctly dm’ed to me by @hiddeboonstra.bsky.social. A small gift will soon be on its way to you.

Wonderful advice, many thanks!

Thanks a lot, Bernd! Great words. I am curious which theoriee of decision making and policy making I will then recognise most in the coming years. ;-)

The gavel and my right arm are AI-generated. The painting, however, is very real. I’ll send a small gift to the first person who sends me a DM with the painter’s name, the title, and the location. Tips for my new role in a reply to this post are also very welcome.

Image of me holding a huge gavel, which is AI-generated. In the background an abstract painting with lines and small squares and rectangles in yellow, red and blue yellow on a white canvas.

Very happy to share that the Faculty Board has appointed me as the new Head of our Public Administration department, starting in January. I’m really looking forward to this new role, above all because our group is made up of a bunch of fantastic colleagues.

Interessant paper! Gefeliciteerd met de mooie publicatie. 👏

Picture of five album sleeves plus a list of the corresponding artists and album titles: 1. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 2. The Veils - Asphodels 3. Still Corners - Dream Talk 4. Talk Talk - It’s My Life 5. Kanadia - The Fire That’s Tearing Through Our Home

These were my favourite albums on Spotify in 2025. I had never listened much to Bob Dylan, but the wonderful biopic with a brilliant Timothée Chalamet made me listen a lot to his breakthrough album. The others are a true classic by Talk Talk and recent albums by The Veils, Still Corners and Kanadia.