Sarah de Lange

Research Topics

far right, populism, liberal democracy, new lines of conflict in politics and society

Sarah L. de Lange is Professor of Political Pluralism at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. From 2016 to 2022 she held the Dr. J.M. Den Uyl chair, a chair established by the Wiardi Beckman Foundation.
Her research interests include societal cleavages, political parties, and extremism, populism, and radicalism in a European context. Her recent research projects focus on the emergence of new political oppositions in Europe on that basis of, amongst others, geographical, generational, and educational divides, and their impact on the functioning of democracy. She is also an expert on Dutch politics, and in 2024 the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics has appeared with Oxford University Press, which she has co-edited with Carolien van Ham, Paul ‘t Hart and Tom Louwerse.