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Cynthia van Vonno is a senior assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University. Her research focuses on representation, parliamentary politics, and political parties. In 2013, she won the Casimir Prize, the award of Leiden's Faculty of Social Sciences for excellence in teaching.
Simon Otjes (1984) is a political scientist who has worked since 2019 as an assistant professor of Dutch Politics of Leiden University. His current research focuses on party politics in Europe, with a special focus on the Netherlands. He examines parties both in the electoral and legislative arena, and at the local, national and EU level. He has published in the American Journal of Political Science, the European Journal of Political Research and Party Politics.