Sometimes the hostess suddenly puts a pile of sandwiches on the table. Sometimes a whole meal is cooked for him. And always, as sociologist Roy Kemmers says, the conversations he had with Freedom Party voters and people who don’t vote at all were ‘very nice.’
Kemers received his Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam at the beginning of June for his research on the discontent of populist and non-voter voters. The sociologist, who teaches at University College in central Rotterdam, has spent about ten years working on his research.
