Dr. Melle Scholten

On this page, you can find an overview of my major research projects and advanced papers. For my published work, please see "List of Publications".

I do not hold ius promovendi and thus am unable to react to inquiries about PhD supervision. Please see the University of Twente webpage on their PhD program for more information.

Political Economy of Migration

My main research interest is the political economy of migration. In my dissertation, I examine how international migration affects countries of origin. My future research will focus predominantly on further exploring how and why migration affects global politics.

• Investing in Voice: Remittances and Varieties of Political Participation.

  Book project under contract with Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Elements in Comparative Political Behavior

• The Paradox of Migrant Rights and Outward Remittances.
• Solidarity Across Borders: Return Migration and the Transnational Origins of Labor Power in Mexico. With Ana Isabel López García
• Return Migration in the Context of Ongoing Conflict: Evidence from a Survey of Ukrainian Refugees.
• Compassion through Immersion: Can Interactive Media Shape Attitudes to Immigrants? With Manon Sieurin
• Remittances and Development in the Digital Age. With Ghita Chraibi and Alexander Yarkin

Globalization

I have been broadly trained in International Political Economy analysis through the Open Economy Politics framework. Several of my ongoing coauthored projects use this perspective to analyze how individuals, states, and firms are embedded in the global economy.

• Fiscal Consolidation and Support for the Common Currency. With Nicola Nones

  Accepted at Journal of Common Market Studies

• Complex Global Value Chains and Economic Interdependence: A New Look at the Opportunity Costs Argument. With Phuong Pham

  Revised and resubmitted at Review of International Political Economy

• Globalization, Government Partisanship, and Labor Strike Intensity

Invited to revise and resubmit at European Journal of Political Research

• (Re-)Paying the Price: COVID Relief Funds and Far Right Electoral Gains in the Netherlands (2021-23). With Sonal Pandya

Political Science Methods and Causal Inference

While all of my research aims to take challenges of causal inference seriously, I am also involved in a handful of projects that directly look to contribute to the political methodology literature on this topic.

• Validating Individual Estimates from Conjoint Experiments. With Kirill Zhirkov and Fabian Guy Neuner
• CloudResearch and Lucid as Sources of Conjoint-Experimental Data in Political Science. With Kirill Zhirkov and Fabian Guy Neuner