Kris Deschouwer is a Belgian political scientist and emiritus professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He was a member of the Coudenberg group, a Belgian federalist

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. His research is on the consequences of the institutional complexity of Belgium for political actors and for political parties in particular.

Education

He obtained a master's degree in

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and in

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at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1981 and in 1987, he obtained a PhD in Political Science.

Career

He started his career at the VUB in 1988, where he has been teaching general introduction to political science, comparative politics, Belgian politics and parties and elections. In 1999, he was a research fellow at the European University Institute in

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. From 1987 until 1993, he was associate professor at the Department of Comparative Politics of the

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. In 2004, he held the Chaire d'honneur de la ville de Lausanne at the

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. Between 2003 and 2009, he was co-editor of the

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Select publications

* Kris Deschouwer, Pascal Delwit, Marc Hooghe, Stefaan Walgrave (eds), ''Les voix du peuple. Le comportement électoral au scrutin du 10 juin 2009'', Bruxelles, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2010.

References

External links

"Een kieskring voor alle Belgen?"
Kris Deschouwer, Workshop Paviagroep, Januari 2006
"Une circonscription fédérale pour tous les Belges?"
Kris Deschouwer and Philippe van Parijs, groupe PAVIA groep Vrije Universiteit Brussel alumni Living people Belgian sociologists Belgian political scientists Flemish academics Year of birth missing (living people) {{Belgium-bio-stub