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Pepijn Corduwener is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University specializing in political history with a focus on democracy and populism in Western Europe. He has published several articles and monographs on the rise and fall of people's parties, including 'History of Democracy in Western Europe 1918' (Oxford University Press, 2023) and 'The Problem of Democracy in Postwar Europe' (Routledge, 2017, paperback 2018). His expertise extends to Italian politics, highlighted in his work, 'Het Italiaanse Experiment. Een nieuwe geschiedenis van modern Italië' (2nd edition, Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2020), which examines Italy as a political laboratory in Europe. Corduwener held a VENI scholarship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, investigating the crisis of people's parties in Western Europe. He is currently exploring how democracies respond to media and technological innovations with an NWO XS scholarship. Additionally, he contributed to an edited volume on the consequences of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Western Europe, published by Routledge in 2019. Corduwener frequently appears as an expert commentator on topics related to Italy and democracy on Dutch and Belgian media platforms, including Nieuwsuur, VRT Journaal, Trouw, De Morgen, De Tijd, and BNR Nieuwradio.
Department of Psychology