INGRID VAN BIEZEN June 2015 Department of Political Science Leiden University PO Box 9555 2300 RB LEIDEN The Netherlands Phone: +31 71 527 3779 E-mail: [email protected]
QUALIFICATIONS
2001 PhD, Political Science, Leiden University 1993 MA, Political Science, Leiden University
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2009 - Professor of Comparative Politics, Leiden University 2008-09 Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Birmingham 2006-08 Reader in Comparative Politics, University of Birmingham 2004-06 Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Birmingham 2000-04 Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Birmingham 1999-2000 Assistant Lecturer, Leiden University
VISITING POSITIONS
2009 Visiting Fellow, Institute of German and International Party Law and Party Research, University of Düsseldorf (Summer) 2004 Visiting Fellow, Yale University, New Haven (Autumn) 2004 Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine (Summer) 2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Autumn) 2000 Visiting EUSSIRF Fellow, European University Institute, Florence (Spring) 1997 Visiting Research Fellow, Central European University, Budapest (Autumn) 1996 Visiting Research Fellow, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon (Summer) 1996 Visiting Research Fellow, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Juan March, Madrid (Spring)
PRIZES AND ACADEMIC HONOURS
2008 Nominated for the Emerging Scholar Award of the Political Organization and Parties (POP) Section, American Political Science Association (APSA) 2004 Shortlisted for the XIth Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Social Science Research, International Social Science Council / UNESCO 2003 Nominated for the Emerging Scholar Award of the Political Organization and Parties (POP) Section, American Political Science Association (APSA) 1998 Winner of the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), for the best paper presented at the 1997 ECPR Joint Sessions
1 PUBLICATIONS
Books and edited volumes
Regulating Political Parties: European Democracies in Comparative Perspective (co- editor and contributor, with Hans-Martien ten Napel), Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2014.
On Parties, Party Systems and Democracy: Selected Writings of Peter Mair (editor). Colchester: ECPR Press, 2014.
Party Regulation and Party Politics in Post-Communist Europe (co-editor, with Fernando Casal-Bértoa), special issue of East European Politics 30/3, 2014, 133 pp.
Contested Legitimacy: Paradoxes in the Legal Regulation of Political Parties (co-editor, with Ekaterina R. Rashkova), special issue of the International Political Science Review 35/3, 2014, 142 pp.
The Regulation of Party Politics: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective (co- editor, with Fernando Casal-Bértoa), special issue of South European Society and Politics 19/1, 2014.
Gender Politics and Party Regulation: Quotas and Beyond (co-editor, with Ekaterina R. Rashkova), special issue of Representation 49/4, 2013, 108 pp.
Old and New Oppositions in Contemporary Europe (co-editor, with Helen Wallace), special issue of Government and Opposition to commemorate the centenary of the birth of founding editor Ghiţă Ionescu, 48/3, 2013, 192 pp.
The State of the Parties: Party Democracy in the Twenty-First Century (editor and contributor), special issue of the European Review 16/3, 2008, 123 pp.
Political Parties in New Democracies: Party Organization in Southern and East-Central Europe. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, xv + 255 pp. --- Runner-up for the Stein Rokkan Prize ---
Financing Political Parties and Election Campaigns – Guidelines. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2003, 81 pp.
Published in French as Financement des partis politiques et des campagnes électorales – Lignes directrices, 89 pp.
In Italian: Finanziamento dei partiti politici e delle campagne elettorali – Linee direttrici. Ancona: Sapere 2000 Ediz. Multimediali, 2004, 94 pp.
Articles in refereed journals
‘Party Regulation and Party Politics in Post-communist Europe’ (with Fernando Casal- Bértoa), East European Politics 30/3 (2014): 295-314.
‘The End of Party Democracy as We Know it? A Tribute to Peter Mair, Irish Political Studies 29/2 (2014): 177-193.
2 ‘The Legal Regulation of Political Parties: Contesting or Promoting Legitimacy?’ (with Ekaterina R. Rashkova), International Political Science Review 35/3 (2014): 265-274.
‘Party Regulation in Post-Authoritarian Contexts: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective’ (with Fernando Casal-Bértoa), South European Society and Politics 19/1 (2014), pp. 71-87.
‘The Cartel Party and the State: Party-State Linkage in European Democracies’ (with Petr Kopecký), Party Politics 20/2 (2014), pp. 170-182.
‘The Decline of Membership-based Politics’ (with Thomas Poguntke), Party Politics 20/2 (2014), pp. 205-216.
‘Introduction. Gender Politics and Party Regulation: Quotas and Beyond’ (with Ekaterina R. Rashkova), Representation 49/4 (2013), pp. 393-400.
‘Old and New Oppositions in Contemporary Europe’, (with Helen Wallace), Government & Opposition 48/3 (2013), pp. 289-313.
‘Deterring New Party Entry? The Impact of State Regulation on the Permeability of Party Systems’, (with Ekaterina Rashkova), Party Politics, published online 23 September 2012. DOI:10.1177/1354068812458616.
‘Models of Party Democracy: Patterns of Party Regulation in Post-War European Constitutions’ (with Gabriela Borz), European Political Science Review 4/3 (2012), pp. 327-359.
‘The Europeanization of Party Politics? Competing Regulatory Paradigms at the Supranational Level’ (with Fransje Molenaar), West European Politics 35/3 (2012), pp. 632-656.
‘Constitutionalizing Party Democracy: The Constitutive Codification of Political Parties in Post-war Europe’, British Journal of Political Science 42/1 (2012), pp. 187- 212.
‘Going, going, …… gone? The Decline of Party Membership in Contemporary Europe’, (with Peter Mair and Thomas Poguntke), European Journal of Political Research 51/1 (2012), pp. 24-56. Published online 17 May 2011.
‘The State of the Parties: Party Democracy in the Twenty-First Century’, European Review 16/3 (2008), pp. 263-269.
‘State Intervention in Party Politics: The Public Funding and Regulation of Political Parties’, European Review 16/3 (2008), pp. 337-353.
Reprinted in Keith Ewing, Jacob Rowbottom and Joo-Cheong Tham (eds.), The Funding of Political Parties. London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 191-205.
‘Democratic Theorists and Party Scholars: Why they don’t talk to each other, and why they should’ (with Michael Saward), Perspectives on Politics 6/1 (2008), pp. 21-35.
‘The State and the Parties: Public Funding, Public Regulation and Rent-Seeking in Contemporary Democracies’ (with Petr Kopecký), Party Politics 13/2 (2007), pp. 235-254.
3 ‘(Non) Comparative Politics in Britain’ (with Daniele Caramani), Politics 26/1 (2006), pp. 29-37.
‘On the Theory and Practice of Party Formation and Adaptation in New Democracies’, European Journal of Political Research 44/1 (2005), pp. 147-174.
‘Terrorism and Democratic Legitimacy: Conflicting Interpretations of the Spanish Elections’, Mediterranean Politics 10/1 (2005), pp. 99-108.
‘Political Parties as Public Utilities’, Party Politics, 10/6 (2004), pp. 701-722.
Reprinted in Michael Johnston (ed.) (2010). Public Sector Corruption. London: Sage.
‘The Long and Winding Road to Democracy in Spain’, Mediterranean Politics, 9/1 (2004), pp. 127-34. Review article.
‘The Place of Parties in Contemporary Democracies’, West European Politics, 26/3 (2003), pp. 171-84. Review article.
‘On the Predominance of State Money: Reassessing Party Financing in the New Democracies of Southern and Eastern Europe’ (with Petr Kopecký), Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2/3 (2001), pp. 401-29.
Reprinted in Paul Lewis and Paul Webb (eds.), Pan-European Perspectives on Party Politics. Leiden: Brill, 2003, pp. 97-125.
‘Party Membership in Twenty European Democracies, 1980-2000’ (with Peter Mair), Party Politics, 7/1 (2001), pp. 5-21.
‘On the Internal Balance of Party Power: Party Organizations in New Democracies’, Party Politics 6/4 (2000), pp. 395-417.
An earlier version was published in Hungarian as: ‘A párthatalom belső egyensúlyáról: pártok az új demokráciákban’, Politikatudományi Szemle 8/3 (1999), pp. 31-51.
Also published in Portuguese as: ‘Sobre o Equilíbrio Interno do Poder: as Organizações Partidárias nas Novas Democracias’, Análise Social 33/148 (1998), pp. 685-708.
‘Party Financing in New Democracies: Spain and Portugal’, Party Politics 6/3 (2000), pp. 329-42.
‘Building Party Organisations and the Relevance of Past Models: The Communist and Socialist Parties in Spain and Portugal’, West European Politics, 21/2 (1998), pp. 32-62.
Articles in non-refereed journals, book chapters, and editorials
‘More, and More Inclusive, Regulation: The Legal Parameters of Public Funding’, (with Daniela Piccio), in Robert G. Boatright (ed.), The Deregulatory Moment? A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2015, forthcoming.
4 ‘The Constitutionalization of Political Parties in Post-war Europe’, in Ingrid van Biezen and Hans-Martien ten Napel (eds.), Regulating Political Parties: The Netherlands in Comparative Perspective, Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2014, pp. 93-117.
‘Partijen en democratie: revitaliseren of herdefiniëren?’, in Sarah L. de Lange, Monique Leyenaar and Pieter de Jong (eds.), Politieke partijen: overbodig of nodig. Den Haag: Raad voor het openbaar bestuur, 2014, pp. 31-42.
‘Shaping Intra-Party Democracy: On the Legal Regulation of Internal Party Organizations’, (with Daniela Piccio), in William P. Cross and Richard S. Katz (eds.), The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 27-48.
‘Iet, wiet, waait, … weg? De afname van partijlidmaatschap in hedendaags Europa’ (with Peter Mair and Thomas Poguntke), Res Publica 54/3 (2012), pp. 387- 390.
‘Peter Mair and the Political Data Yearbook’ (with Richard S. Katz and Ruud Koole), European Journal of Political Research 50/7-8 (2011), pp. 867-868.
‘Political parties in post-war Europe: How political parties moved from being a threat to democracy to being its saviour, Britain in 2011 – Annual Magazine of the Economic and Social Research Council, 2011, pp.54-55.
‘Overheid en interne partijdemocratie’, Openbaar Bestuur, 2011, februari, pp. 18-23.
‘De maakbare partijendemocratie? Over de (grond)wettelijke regulering van politieke partijen’, Res Publica 52/4 (2010), pp. 513-530.
‘Campaign and Party Finance’, in Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi and Pippa Norris (eds.), Comparing Democracies: Elections and Voting in Global Perspective, 3rd ed. London: Sage, 2010, pp. 65-94.
‘Political Data in 2008’ (with Tim Bale), European Journal of Political Research 48/7-8 (2009), pp. 859-873.
‘Party Development in Democratic Spain: ‘Life-cycle, Generation or Period Effect?’, in Bonnie Field and Kerstin Hamann (eds.), Democracy and Institutional Development: Spain in Comparative Theoretical Perspective, 1997-2007. London: Palgrave, 2008, pp. 23-43.
‘Party Regulation and Constitutionalization: A Comparative Overview’, in Per Nordlund and Ben Reilly (eds.), Political Parties and Democracy in Conflict-Prone Societies: Regulation, Engineering and Democratic Development. Tokyo: UN University Press, 2008, pp. 25-47.
‘Political Data in 2007’ (with Tim Bale), European Journal of Political Research 47/7-8 (2008), pp. 877-891.
‘Political Data in 2006’ (with Tim Bale), European Journal of Political Research 46/7-8 (2007), pp. 853-866.
‘Spain and Portugal’ (with Jonathan Hopkin), in Colin Hay and Anand Menon (eds.), European Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp 101-116.
5 ‘Political Data in 2005’ (with Richard S. Katz), European Journal of Political Research 45/7-8 (2006), pp. 1023-1034.
‘Political Parties’ (with Peter Mair), in Paul Heywood, Eric Jones, Martin Rhodes and Ulrich Sedelmeier (eds.), Developments in European Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 97-116.
‘Party Organisation in Multi-Level Contexts’, (with Jonathan Hopkin), in Dan Hough and Charlie Jeffery (eds.) Devolution and Electoral Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006, pp 14-36.
‘Political Parties’, in Neil C. Tate (ed.) Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizens' Rights and Responsibilities, 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006.
‘Political Data in 2004’ (with Richard S. Katz), European Journal of Political Research 44/7-8 (2005), pp. 919-928.
‘The Presidentialization of Spanish Democracy: Sources of Prime Ministerial Power in Post-Franco Spain’ (with Jonathan Hopkin), in Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb (eds.), The Presidentialization of Politics: A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 107-127.
‘Political Data in 2003’ (with Richard S. Katz), European Journal of Political Research 43/7-8 (2004), pp. 919-926.
‘Political Finance in Southern Europe: Italy, Portugal and Spain’ (with Karl-Heinz Nassmacher), in Karl-Heinz Nassmacher (ed.), Foundations for Democracy: Approaches to Comparative Political Finance. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2001, pp.131-54.
‘Verkiezingen in Paraguay: Verslag van een Waarnemer [Elections in Paraguay: an Observer’s Report]’, Facta 6/6 (1998), pp. 12-15.
Book reviews
Review of Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison, The Future of Our Democracies: Young Party Members in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave), in West European Politics 33/6 (2010), pp. 1397-1398.
Review of Conor O’Dwyer, Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press), in Slavonic & East European Review 4/1 (2008), 764-766.
Review of Peter Burnell (ed.), Globalising Democracy: Party Politics in Emerging Democracies (London and New York: Routledge), in Democratization 15/1 (2008), pp. 187-189.
‘Manifestos move East’, review of Hans-Dieter Klingemann et al. (2006). Mapping Policy Preferences II: Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments, in Eastern Europe, European Union and OECD 1990-2003 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), in EPS Reviews 6/4 (2007), pp. 446-449.
Review of Paul Gready (ed.), Political Transition: Politics and Cultures (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press), in Democratization 11/3 (2004), pp. 165-166.
6 Review of Hubert Tworzecki, Learning to Choose: Electoral Politics in East-Central Europe (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press), in Democratization 11/2 (2004), pp. 130-131.
Review of Kurt Richard Luther and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (eds.), Political Parties in the New Europe: Political and Analytical Challenges. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), in Political Studies Review 1/3 (2003), pp. 495-496.
Review of Alfred Stepan, Arguing Comparative Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press), in Democratization 9/1 (2002), pp. 212-214.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Large grants
€748,733 Confronting Caribbean Challenges: Hybrid Identities and Governance in Small-scale Island Jurisdictions, NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research), co-applicant (lead applicant: Prof. G. Oostindie, Leiden University), 2014-18. €1,620,000 Re-conceptualizing Party Democracy, European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant under the FP7 scheme, sole applicant, 2008-13 (ERC_Stg07_205660). See: www.partlylaw.leidenuniv.nl £140,000 The Constitutional Regulation of Political Parties in Post-War Europe, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) First Grant, sole applicant, 2008-09 (RES-061-25-0080). £105,000 Devolution and Party Adaptation: the British Case in Comparative Perspective, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant under the programme Devolution & Constitutional Change, co-applicant with Dr. Jonathan Hopkin (London School of Economics) and Dr. Catherine Fieschi (University of Nottingham), 2002-05 (L219252105).
Small grants
2004 Political Parties and Modern Democracy: Perspectives from Democratic Theory, British Academy research grant, sole applicant, £5,000. 2000 Research grant from the EUSSIRF (European Union Social Science Information Research Facility) Programme of the TMR (Training and Mobility of Researchers) Large-Scale Facilities Programme of the European Commission (DG XII), c. € 2,500. 1995-99 PhD research grant from the Foundation for Law and Public Administration of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS
Invited lectures and presentations
‘Searching for Evidence of the Cartel: Are Public Funding Regimes Exclusionary?’(with Daniela Piccio), paper presented at the workshop “The Deregulatory Moment in Campaign Finance”, Remich, Luxembourg, 5-8 July 2013.
‘Politieke partijen en democratie: revitaliseren of herdefiniëren?’, Raad voor het openbaar bestuur, 18 april 2013.
7 ‘Going, going, … gone – The end of party democracy as we know it? A tribute to Peter Mair’, inaugural Peter Mair memorial lecture, delivered at the PSAI annual conference, 20 October 2012, Londonderry.
‘Going, Going…..Gone? The Decline of Membership-based Politics’ (with Thomas Poguntke), paper presented at ‘Responsive or Responsible Parties? Parties, Democracy, and Global Markets – A Conference in Honour of Peter Mair, EUI, 26-28 Sept 2012.
‘Political Parties and the State: Patterns of Party-State Linkage in European Democracies’ (with Petr Kopecký), paper presented at ‘Responsive or Responsible Parties? Parties, Democracy, and Global Markets – A Conference in Honour of Peter Mair, EUI, 26-28 Sept 2012.
‘Re-conceptualizing Party Democracy: Models of Party Regulation in Post-War Europe’, Centre for Voting and Parties, University of Copenhagen, 12 January 2011.
‘Party Finance Regimes: Public vs. Private Funding’, paper prepared for the Workshop on Legislation and Financing of Political Parties, UNDP, Tunisia, 12-13 May 2011.
‘Models of Party Regulation: Patterns and Paradoxes of State Intervention in Party Politics’, European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) dissemination conference, Brussels, 18-19 November 2010; also delivered at Leiden University, 6 December 2010; University of Nijmegen, 8 December 2010.
‘Shaping Intra-Party Democracy: On the Legal Regulation of the Internal Party Organization’, Workshop on Intra-Party Democracy, Carleton University, Ottawa, 30-31 August 2010 and 22-23 September 2011.
‘Models of Party Democracy: On the Legal Regulation of Political Parties in Post-War Europe’, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 10 March 2010.
‘Legislating Political Parties’, Roundtable on Political Parties in Elections & Prohibition and Dissolution of Political Parties, OSCE/ODIHR Brussels, 17-18 February 2010.
‘Going, Going, … Gone? Party Membership in the 21st Century’, University of Oslo, 18 June 2009; also delivered at the University of Bergen, 24 September 2009.
‘Constitutionalizing Party Democracy: The Place of Political Parties in Post-War European Constitutions’, Leiden University, 28 November 2008; also delivered at the University of Exeter, 4 March 2009, and the University of Bergen, 25 September 2009.
‘State Intervention in Party Politics: The Public Funding and Regulation of Political Parties’, University of Nottingham, 18 November 2008.
‘Campaign and Party Finance’, experts meeting on Campaign Finance, Carter Center, Atlanta, 1 October 2008.
‘Public Law and the Funding of Political Parties’, Political Finance Workshop, Law School, King’s College London, 29 May 2008.
‘Changing Modes of Representation? Political Parties between Society and the State’, Symposium on Parties and Ideology, University of Birmingham, 14 May 2008.
8 ‘The Legal Regulation and Constitutionalization of Political Parties: An Overview’, Conference on Political Party Development in Conflict-Prone Societies, Australian National University and International IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance), Sydney, 15-16 June 2007.
‘The Constitutionalization of Political Parties in Europe’, Conference on Party Models, European University Institute, Florence, 8-9 November 2006.
‘Political Party Development and Party Regulation’, Conference on Political Party Development in Conflict-Prone Societies, Clingendael Institute for International Relations, The Hague, 26-27 October 2006.
‘The Regulation of Party Financing in Comparative Perspective’, Roundtable on Party Funding at the EPOP (Elections, Public Opinion and Parties) Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, 8-10 September 2006.
‘The Regulation of Party Financing in Comparative Perspective’, International Conference on the Regulation of Political Party Financing, UK Electoral Commission, London, 5-7 September 2006.
‘The Pros and Cons of Public Funding’, Workshop on Party Funding, Sir Hayden Philips Review of the Funding of Political Parties in the UK, London, 11 July 2006.
‘Political Parties as Public Utilities: the Comparative Experience’, Conference on Party and Election Finance: Consequences for Democracy, University of Calgary, 25- 26 May 2006.
‘Guidelines and recommendations for the financing of political parties and election campaigns’, Symposium on The Global Evaluation of Political Financing and Corruption, GRECO (Group of States Against Corruption), Council of Europe, Strasbourg, March 2006.
‘The State and the Parties: Public Funding, Public Regulation and Party Patronage in Contemporary Democracies’ (with Petr Kopecký), Conference on Political Parties and Political Development, National Democratic Institute, Washington DC, 31 August, 2005.
‘Can the public funding of parties in new democracies prevent corruption and illicit political finance?’, Conference on Building Democratic Governance through Transparency and Participation, Transparency International, Europe and Central Asia regional meeting, Yerevan, Armenia, 18-20 June 2004.
‘Party Organization in Multi-Level Contexts: Theory and Some Comparative Evidence’ (with Jonathan Hopkin), Conference on UK Devolution in Comparative Perspective, Strathclyde University, January, 2004.
‘Trends in Enrolment in Political Parties in European Polities, with Particular Reference to Youth Enrolment’ (with Peter Mair), Conference on Youth and Democracy, International IDEA, Stockholm, 17-19 June 1999.
Conference papers and presentations
‘The Juridification of Party Politics: On the Legal Status and Functions of Political Parties’, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Warsaw, 29 March-2 April 2015.
9 ‘Do Cartel Parties Exist? Longitudinal Data from Eastern and Western Europe’ (with Daniela Piccio), paper presented at the Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption (RC20) of the International Political Science Association, Paris, 9-11 July 2013.
‘Searching for Evidence of the Cartel: Are Public Funding Regimes Exclusionary?’(with Daniela Piccio), paper presented at the 20th International Conference of Europeanists, CES, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013.
‘Breaking the Cartel: The Effect of State Regulation on Newcomer Entry’ (with Ekaterina Rashkova), paper presented at the ECPR-IPSA Joint Conference, Sao Paulo, 16-19 February 2011; also delivered at the ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, 25-27 August 2011.
‘The Role of Supra-National Organizations in Party Regulation’, paper presented at the symposium on Political Parties and Public Law: The Netherlands in Comparative Perspective, Leiden University, 25 June 2010.
‘The Europeanization of Party Regulation’, (with Fransje Molenaar), paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Münster, 22-27 March 2010.
‘Patterns of Party Regulation in post-war European Constitutions’ (with Gabriela Borz), paper presented at the International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile, 12-16 July 2009.
Available as ‘The Place of Political Parties in National Constitutions: A European Overview’, Working Paper No. 1 in the series on the Legal Regulation of Political Parties: www.partylaw.bham.ac.uk/pdfs/wp0109.pdf
‘Going, Going, … Gone? Party Membership in the 21st Century’ (with Peter Mair and Thomas Poguntke), paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Lisbon, 14-19 April 2009.
‘Constitutionalizing Party Democracy: The Constitutive Codification of Political Parties in Post-war Europe’, paper presented at the EPOP (Elections, Public Opinion and Parties) Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 12-14 September 2008.
A revised version is available as Working Paper No. 3 in the series on the Legal Regulation of Political Parties: www.partylaw.bham.ac.uk/pdfs/wp0309.pdf
‘The Nationalization of Party Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: Trajectories, Conditions, Outcomes’ (with Daniele Caramani), paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Rennes, 11-16 April 2008.
‘Life-cycle, Generation or Period Effect? Party Development in Post-Franco Spain’, paper prepared for the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 12-15 April 2007 and (revised) for the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 30 August-2 September 2007.
‘Cleavage Structuring in Western vs Central and Eastern Europe: State Formation, Nation-Building and Economic Modernisation’ (with Daniele Caramani), paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Helsinki, 7-12 May 2007.
‘Democratisation and the Development of the Party Systems on the Iberian Peninsula’, working paper, South African Institute of International Affairs, November 2005.
10 ‘Democracy and Political Parties’ (with Richard S. Katz), paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Granada, 14-19 April 2005.
‘How Political Parties Shape Democracy’, working paper 04-16, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine, 1 November 2004.
‘Political Parties and the Making of Modern Democracy’, paper presented at Yale University, 12 October 2004.
‘Party Organization in Multi-Level Contexts: Theory and Some Comparative Evidence’ (with Jonathan Hopkin), paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 2-5 September, 2004.
‘How Political Parties Shape Democracy: Perspectives from Democratic Theory’, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Uppsala, 13-18 April 2004.
‘Parties, Organization, Democracy: How Political Parties Shape Democracy’, paper presented at the International Conference of Europeanists, CES, Chicago, 11- 13 March 2004.
‘Party Formation and Social Cleavages: Comparative Reflections on New Democracies’, paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, 28-31 August 2003.
‘Limits to Public Funding: Political Finance in New Democracies’, paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Boston, 29 August-1 September 2002.
‘Patterns of Party Organization in New Democracies: a Comparative Assessment of Southern and East-Central Europe’, paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Boston, 29 August-1 September 2002
‘Political Parties between Society and the State: Lessons from New Democracies in Europe’, paper presented at the International Conference of Europeanists, CES, Chicago, 14-16 March 2002.
‘Party Organization in East-Central Europe: a Comparative Assessment’, paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Canterbury, 6-8 September 2001.
‘Patterns of Party Development in New Democracies’, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Grenoble, 6-11 April 2001.
‘The Importance of Party Leaderships: Party Organization and Institutionalization in New Democracies’, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Copenhagen, 14-19 April 2000.
‘The Predominance of Parliamentary Elites in New Democracies’, paper presented at the Politicologenetmaal, Doorn, 28-29 May, 1998.
‘The Relationship between the Party in Public Office and the Extra-Parliamentary Party in New Democracies’, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Warwick, 23-28 March 1998.
‘Parties, Parliament and Society: Emerging Party Organizations in New European Democracies’, paper presented at the III Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración, Salamanca, 2-4 October 1997
11 ‘Building Party Organizations and the Relevance of Past Models: A Comparison of the Communist and Socialist Parties in Spain and Portugal’, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Bern, 27 February - 4 March 1997. --- Winner of the ECPR Rudolf Wildenmann Prize ---
‘Democratization and the Development of Party Organizations’, paper presented at the University of Utrecht, 9 February 1996.
‘Political Parties in Southern and East-Central Europe: Two Questions for Comparative Analysis’ (with Petr Kopecký), paper presented at the Polybios PhD Summer School, Nijmegen, 19-23 June 1995.
‘New Democracies in Europe: The Emergence and Institutionalization of Party Organizations’, paper presented at Leiden University, 1995.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Universities of Birmingham, Leiden, and Johns Hopkins)
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
. Advanced Political Analysis (MPhil) . State of the Art: the Comparative Method (MPhil) . Colloquium Comparative Politics (MA) . Political Parties and Democracy (MA) . Democracy and Democratisation in Contemporary Europe (BA and MA) . Bachelor Project Comparative Politics (BA) . West European Politics (BA) . Comparative European Government (BA) . Advanced Case Studies in Comparative Politics (BA) . State and Subversion in Southern Europe (BA) . Theories and Concepts in Political Science (BA) . Dutch Politics (BA)
Extra-curricular (postgraduate) teaching
2007 – PhD Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems, European University Institute, Florence (2007-09), VUB and ULB Universities Brussels (2010-12), Lüneburg (from 2013), September. 2010 Graduate Seminar ‘Democracy and Government’, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 10-12 March. 2006-08 Chevening Fellowship Programme ‘What Democracy Means’, Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy (CSSD), University of Birmingham, sponsored by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). 2005 PhD Summer School on Political and Strategic Communication, Mannheim University, 20 July. 2003 PhD Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems, Keele University, 11 September.
PHD STUDENTS / RESEARCH FELLOWS
PhD dissertations supervised to completion
Wouter Veenendaal (2013). Politics and Democracy in Microstates: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Size on Contestation and Inclusiveness (co- supervised with Jan Erk), Leiden University.
12 -- Winner of the Jaarprijs Politicologie, annually awarded by the Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP) for the best PhD dissertation.
Oniel Francisco Díaz Jiménez (2012). The professionalization of election campaigning in Mexico: a study on continuity and change in presidential campaign practices and communications, 1988-2006 (co-supervised with David Bailey), University of Birmingham.
Olli Hellmann (2009). Political Party Organisation in East Asia: Towards a New Framework for the Analysis of Party Formation and Change, University of Birmingham.
Current PhD students
Nienke Bos. Restricting Democracy for the Sake of Democracy: Explaining Party Ban Initiations across Europe (co-supervised with Petr Kopecký), Leiden University, 2014-2018.
Charlotte de Roon. Political Youth Organizations in the Political Arena of Western Democracies, Leiden University, 2014-2018.
Fransje Molenaar. Designing the rules of the game: the development of party law in post-transitional Latin America (co-supervised with Ruud Koole and Imke Harbers), Leiden University, 2010-2015.
Honorata Mazepus. Political legitimacy in undemocratic regimes: The case of Russia (co-supervised with André Gerrits), Leiden University, 2011-2015.
Research Fellows
Fernando Casal-Bértoa (2010-2013), Post-doctoral Fellow on the ERC project Re- conceptualizing Party Democracy.
Ekaterina Rashkova (2010-2013), Post-doctoral Fellow on the ERC project Re- conceptualizing Party Democracy.
Daniela Piccio (2010-2013), Research Associate on the ERC project Re- conceptualizing Party Democracy.
Evangelos Kyzirakos (2008-2010), Research Associate on the ERC project Re- conceptualizing Party Democracy.
Gabriela Borz (2008–2009), Research Associate on the ESRC project on The Constitutional Regulation of Political Parties in Post-War Europe.
EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS
2014 – Member editorial board British Journal of Political Science 2012 – Member editorial board Revista Opinião Pública 2012 – Member editorial board Politics and Governance 2011 – Member editorial board Amsterdam University Press (Social Sciences) 2011 – Member scientific board ECPR Press 2011 – Co-editor Acta Politica, official journal of the Dutch Political Science Association
13 2011 – Member editorial board West European Politics 2010–11 Series editor, Studies in European Political Science, ECPR/Routledge 2009 – Member editorial board Party Politics 2008–11 Member scientific committee Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas 2006 – Member editorial board Government and Opposition 2005-11 Member editorial board Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 2003–09 Co-editor Political Data Yearbook, published in association with the European Journal of Political Research
EXTERNAL CONSULTANCY AND ACADEMIC ADVICE
Consultant for the UNDP / Parliamentary Development: • Workshop on the legislation and financing of political parties in Tunisia, UNDP and Kawakibi Centre for Democratic Transitions, Tunis, 12-13 May 2011.
Consultant for the OSCE / ODIHR (Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights): • Expert Group ODIHR-Venice Commission Guidelines on Political Party Regulations, Warsaw, 18-20 May 2011. • Roundtable on Legislation pertaining to Political Parties, Brussels, 17-18 February 2010.
Academic adviser to the Electoral Commission and the Sir Hayden Philips Review of the Funding of Political Parties in the UK: . ‘The Regulation of Party Financing in Comparative Perspective’, invited presentation to the International Conference on the Regulation of Political Party Financing, Electoral Commission, London, 5-7 September 2006. . ‘Principles of Party Funding’, discussion and opinion piece on the online forum (forum.partyfundingreview.gov.uk), September 2006. . ‘The Pros and Cons of Public Funding’, presentation to a workshop on party funding, London, 11 July 2006.
Consultant for the Council of Europe: • Rapporteur for the workshop ‘Building and Strengthening Democratic Institutions’, Forum for the Future of Democracy, Moscow, 18-19 October 2006. • Consultant for GRECO (Group of States Against Corruption), adviser on the Global Evaluation of Political Financing and Corruption, March – June 2006. • Rapporteur for the workshop ‘Democratic Institutions and Political Parties – governance and decision making’, conference on The Future of Democracy in Europe, Barcelona, 17-19 November 2004. • Moderator at the conference on Ethical Standards in the Public Sector, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 31 March – 1 April 2004. • Author of the handbook Financing Political Parties and Election Campaigns – Guidelines; published under the auspices of the Council of Europe. • Adviser on the integrated project ‘Making Democratic Institutions Work, 2002-2004.
Consultant for Transparency International, Building Democratic Governance through Transparency and Participation, first Europe and Central Asia regional meeting, Yerevan, Armenia, 18-20 June 2004.
Participant in the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS), presidential and legislative elections in Paraguay, May 1998.
14 ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
Internal
2014 – Head of Department, Political Science, Leiden University 2013-14 Research Director, Political Science, Leiden University 2010-12 Chair, PhD Selection Committee, Political Science, Leiden University 2009-11 Chair, Board of Examiners, Political Science, Leiden University 2009-11 Chair, MA Dissertation Prize, Political Science, Leiden University 2005-06 Deputy Director of Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham 2003-08 Research Director, Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham 2003-06 Member RAE Research Review Committee, Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham 2003-09 Official Representative of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), University of Birmingham 2001-07 Web-coordinator and administrator, Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham 2000-03 Co-ordinator Erasmus year abroad programmes, Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
External
2015 – Member Supervisory Board Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy 2011 – Member Advisory Board Electoral Integrity Project. 2011 – Member Jury Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Social Science Research. 2011 Member Jury Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes, West European Politics. 2011 – Member Advisory Board Political Parties Database Working Group. 2011 – Member Advisory Board Institut für Deutsches und Internationales Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung, University of Düsseldorf. 2011-12 Member Advisory Board National Integrity Systems Assessment, Transparency International, Netherlands. 2011 Chair Research Assessment Panel, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. 2010 – Member Selection Committee Open Competition PhD and post-doc grants (Onderzoekstalent), and early- and mid-career researchers (VENI, VIDI), NWO (Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research). 2010-12 Member Best Paper Award Committee European Politics and Society (EPS), Organized Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2009-11 Member Steering Committee European Politics and Society (EPS), Organized Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2009 – Member Global Standards Advisory Group, International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) 2009 – Member Scientific Advisory Committee, Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR), European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO), Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence 2007 External examiner, National University of Maynooth, Ireland 2005-09 External examiner, University of Salford, MA Politics and Contemporary History
15 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Referee and book reviewer
Academic journals: Acta Politica, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Democratization, Comparative European Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, East European Politics and Societies, Ethics & Global Politics, European Political Science, European Political Science Review, European Journal of Political Research, European Urban and Regional Studies, Governance, International Journal of Iberian Studies, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Journal of Legislative Studies, Local Government Studies, Mediterranean Politics, Party Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Studies, Political Studies Review, Politics, Representation, Scandinavian Political Studies, Slavonic and East European Review, South European Society & Politics, Swiss Political Science Review, West European Politics.
Academic publishers: Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge.
Professional organizations: British Academy, UK; European Research Council (ERC); European Science Foundation (ESF); Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK; Leverhulme Foundation, UK; Nuffield Foundation, UK; Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Conference and workshop organization
Party Regulation and Electoral Success: Re-visiting the Cartel Party (with Ekaterina Rashkova, Leiden University), panel at the ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, 25-27 August 2011. Political Parties and the State (with Petr Kopecký, Leiden University), section at the ECPR-IPSA Joint Conference, Sao Paulo, 16-19 February 2011. Including panels on Party Finance, Party Patronage, Political Corruption, Party Regulation, and Party Organization in Latin America. Political Parties and Public Law: The Netherlands in Comparative Perspective (with Hans-Martien ten Napel, Law Faculty, Leiden University), international symposium at Leiden University, 25 June 2010. Party Democracy and Party Law (with Gabriela Borz, University of Birmingham), panel at the meeting of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Santiago, Chile, 12-16 July 2009. The Nationalization of Party Systems in Central and Eastern Europe (with Daniele Caramani, University of St. Gallen), workshop at the ECPR Joint Sessions, University of Rennes, 11-16 April 2008. Comparative Campaign Communication: Bringing Political Parties back in (with Andrea Römmele, Mannheim University), panel at the meeting of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Fukuoka, 9-13 July 2006. Political Parties and Democracy (with Richard S. Katz, Johns Hopkins University), workshop at the ECPR Joint Sessions, University of Granada, 14-19 April 2005. Devolution and Party Politics: does it make a difference? (with Jonathan Hopkin, LSE), ESRC-funded workshop at the University of Birmingham, 8 July 2004. Democracy and Democratic Consolidation: the Role of Political and Social Actors (with Renske Doorenspleet, Leiden University), workshop at the annual meeting of the Dutch Political Science Association, Veldhoven, 25-26 May 2000.
16 Membership of professional organizations
. American Political Science Association (APSA); organized sections: Comparative Politics, European Politics and Society, Political Organizations and Parties, Representation and Electoral Systems . European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR); standing groups: Political Parties, Southern European Politics, Central and East European Politics . Political Studies Association (PSA); specialist groups: Elections, Public Opinion and Parties . Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek (NKWP) / Dutch Political Science Association
Media appearances (selection)
2012 The Economist, ‘Political Parties: Lonely at the Top’. 4 August, pp 52-53. 2010 Staatscourant, ‘Terughoudendheid geboden bij partijregulering’ [Restraint to be exercised in party regulation], 17 June. 2010 Arte TV: Dutch general elections special, 8 June. 2010 NOVA, Muiterij binnen de PVV? [Mutiny within the Party for Freedom?], 11 May. 2010 Leiden Unity FM, Haring & Van Es: Moet de partijendemocratie op de schop? [Should party democracy be renovated?], 9 May. 2010 BBC World Service, Politics in the UK: Financing Political Parties, 2 March. 2007 BBC Radio 4, Politics Show: Financing Political Parties, 22 December. 2002 BBC World Service, Europe Today: Presidential Elections in France, 30 April. 1999 BBC World Service: Youth Enrolment in Political Parties in Europe, 19 June.
LANGUAGES
Dutch (native) English and Spanish (fluent) French, Italian, German, Catalan (reading and basic speaking ability)
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