Dr Ryan Bakker

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Email
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Location
5.025, Colchester Campus
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Quantitative Political Analysis (GV207)
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Advanced Quantitative Political Analysis (GV300)
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Doctoral Research Seminar in Political Economy (GV971)
Current supervision
Previous supervision

Degree subject: Government
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 31/3/2025
Publications
Journal articles (25)
Martinez-Gallardo, C., de la Cerda, N., Bakker, R., Hartlyn, J., Hooghe, L. and Marks, G., . Party Politics
Zur, R. and Bakker, R., (2025). . Party Politics. 31 (2), 323-334
Hooghe, L., Marks, G., Bakker, R., Jolly, S., Polk, J., Rovny, J., Steenbergen, M. and Vachudova, MA., (2024). The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine. European Union Politics. 25 (3), 459-482
Taylor, Z., Lucas, J., Armstrong, DA. and Bakker, R., (2023). . Comparative Political Studies. 57 (8), 1339-1374
Bakker, R., Jolly, S. and Polk, J., (2022). . Political Science Research and Methods. 10 (2), 408-418
Jolly, S., Bakker, R., Hooghe, L., Marks, G., Polk, J., Rovny, J., Steenbergen, M. and Vachudova, MA., (2022). . Electoral Studies. 75, 102420-102420
Bakker, R., Rovny, J., Hooghe, L., Jolly, S., Marks, G., Polk, J., Steenbergen, M. and Vachudova, M., (2022). . European Journal of Political Research. 61 (4), 1155-1164
Bakker, R., Jolly, S. and Polk, J., (2020). . Journal of European Public Policy. 27 (2), 292-309
Struthers, CL., Hare, C. and Bakker, R., (2020). Bridging the pond: measuring policy positions in the United States and Europe. Political Science Research and Methods. 8 (4), 677-691
Clay, KC., Bakker, R., Brook, A-M., Hill, DW. and Murdie, A., (2020). Using practitioner surveys to measure human rights: The Human Rights Measurement Initiative鈥檚 civil and political rights metrics. Journal of Peace Research. 57 (6), 715-727
Bakker, R., Jolly, S. and Polk, J., (2018). Multidimensional incongruence and vote switching in Europe. Public Choice. 176 (1-2), 267-296
Justwan, F., Bakker, R. and Berejikian, JD., (2018). Measuring social trust and trusting the measure. The Social Science Journal. 55 (2), 149-159
Polk, J., Rovny, J., Bakker, R., Edwards, E., Hooghe, L., Jolly, S., Koedam, J., Kostelka, F., Marks, G., Schumacher, G., Steenbergen, M., Vachudova, M. and Zilovic, M., (2017). . Research & Politics. 4 (1), 205316801668691-205316801668691
Bakker, R., Hill, DW. and Moore, WH., (2016). How much terror? Dissidents, governments, institutions, and the cross-national study of terror attacks. Journal of Peace Research. 53 (5), 711-726
Bakker, R., de Vries, C., Edwards, E., Hooghe, L., Jolly, S., Marks, G., Polk, J., Rovny, J., Steenbergen, M. and Vachudova, MA., (2015). Measuring party positions in Europe. Party Politics. 21 (1), 143-152
Hare, C., Armstrong, DA., Bakker, R., Carroll, R. and Poole, KT., (2015). . American Journal of Political Science. 59 (3), 759-774
Weinberg, J. and Bakker, R., (2015). Let them eat cake: Food prices, domestic policy and social unrest. Conflict Management and Peace Science. 32 (3), 309-326
Bakker, R., Jolly, S., Polk, J. and Poole, K., (2014). . The Journal of Politics. 76 (4), 1089-1101
Bakker, R., Edwards, E., Jolly, S., Polk, J., Rovny, J. and Steenbergen, M., (2014). Anchoring the experts: Using vignettes to compare party ideology across countries. Research & Politics. 1 (3), 205316801455350-205316801455350
Crepaz, MML., Polk, JT., Bakker, RS. and Singh, SP., (2014). Trust Matters: The Impact of Ingroup and Outgroup Trust on Nativism and Civicness. Social Science Quarterly. 95 (4), 938-959
Bakker, R., Jolly, S. and Polk, J., (2012). Complexity in the European party space: Exploring dimensionality with experts. European Union Politics. 13 (2), 219-245
Weinberg, J. and Bakker, R., (2012). Betting the farm on high food prices: A consumer based approach to agriculture protection. The Social Science Journal. 49 (2), 191-201
HOOGHE, L., BAKKER, R., BRIGEVICH, A., DE VRIES, C., EDWARDS, E., MARKS, G., ROVNY, JAN., STEENBERGEN, M. and VACHUDOVA, M., (2010). Reliability and validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill expert surveys on party positioning. European Journal of Political Research. 49 (5), 687-703
Bakker, R., (2009). Re-measuring left鈥搑ight: A comparison of SEM and Bayesian measurement models for extracting left鈥搑ight party placements. Electoral Studies. 28 (3), 413-421
Marks, G., Hooghe, L., Steenbergen, MR. and Bakker, R., (2007). Crossvalidating data on party positioning on European integration. Electoral Studies. 26 (1), 23-38
Books (1)
Armstrong, DA., Bakker, R., Carroll, R., Hare, C., Poole, KT. and Rosenthal, H., (2014). . Chapman and Hall/CRC. 1466517158. 9781466517158
Reports and Papers (1)
Bakker, R. and Poole, KT., Bayesian Metric Multidimensional Scaling
Dataset (1)
Bakker, R., Hooghe, L., Jolly, S., Marks, G., Polk, J., Rovny, J., Steenbergen, M. and Vachudova, M., (2021).The Chapel Hill Expert Survey Trend File, 1999-2019