Ingrid van Biezen
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Ingrid van Biezen is Professor
of Comparative Politics
at Leiden University
. From 2000 to 2009 she was based in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham
. She studied for her PhD
at Leiden. Her research interests include comparative European politics, political parties
and party systems in Europe
, democratisation, Southern Europe
, and post-communist
politics. She is the author of Political Parties in New Democracies: Party Organization in Southern and East-Central Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Ingrid van Biezen is currently directing a large comparative research project (Re-conceptualizing democracy) on political parties and democracy through a focus on party law. The project is funded by the European Research Council
.
Professor
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of Comparative Politics
Comparative politics
Comparative politics is a subfield of political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the comparative method. Arend Lijphart argues that comparative politics does not have a substantive focus in itself, but rather a methodological one: it focuses on "the how but does not specify...
at Leiden University
Leiden University
Leiden University , located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. The royal Dutch House of Orange-Nassau and Leiden University still have a close...
. From 2000 to 2009 she was based in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
. She studied for her PhD
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at Leiden. Her research interests include comparative European politics, political parties
Political Parties
Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy is a book by sociologist Robert Michels, published in 1911 , and first introducing the concept of iron law of oligarchy...
and party systems in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, democratisation, Southern Europe
Southern Europe
The term Southern Europe, at its most general definition, is used to mean "all countries in the south of Europe". However, the concept, at different times, has had different meanings, providing additional political, linguistic and cultural context to the definition in addition to the typical...
, and post-communist
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
politics. She is the author of Political Parties in New Democracies: Party Organization in Southern and East-Central Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Ingrid van Biezen is currently directing a large comparative research project (Re-conceptualizing democracy) on political parties and democracy through a focus on party law. The project is funded by the European Research Council
European Research Council
The European Research Council is the independent body that funds investigator-driven frontier research in the European Union . It is part of the Seventh Research Framework Programme ....
.