Cornelis Wilhelmus Maria Antonia (Kees) Aarts (born May 24, 1959) is a Dutch

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

and Professor of Political Science at the Department of Public Administration (PA) of the

University of Twente The University of Twente (Dutch: ''Universiteit Twente''; , abbr. ) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. I ...

, particularly known for his work on comparative electoral behavior.

Biography

Born in

's-Hertogenbosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...

, Aarts studied political science at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

from 1977 to 1985, and received his PhD in 1990 at the

with a thesis entitled "Bodemverontreiniging en collectieve actie" (Soil pollution and collective action). In 1985 Aarts started as academic career as assistant professor at the

, where in 2005 he was appointed Professor of Political Science. Aarts also participates in the

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is an independent research institute in the field of the humanities and social and behavioural sciences founded in 1970. The instit ...

(NIAS), the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG) and the Netherlands Organisation for Business Economics and Management (NOBEM), and was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. His work focusses on the area of electoral and methodological research. He is also responsible for the National Election Studies and is currently Chairman of the Netherlands Electoral Research Foundation.

Selected publications

* Aarts, Cornelis WAM. ''Bodemverontreiniging en collectieve actie''. PhD Thesis, University of Twente, 1990. * Aarts, K., Huib Pellikaan, and Robert J. Van der Veen. ''Sociale dilemma's in het milieubeleid : een perspectief op de motieven, voorkeuren, intenties en het gedrag van burgers.'' Amsterdam : Het Spinhuis, 1995. * Aarts, K., Jacques Thomassen and Henk van der Kolk (eds.). ''Politieke veranderingen in Nederland 1971-1998 : kiezers en de smalle marges van de politiek.'' With Den Haag : Sdu Uitgevers, 2000. * Aarts, K. and Henk van der Kolk (eds.). ''Nederlanders en Europa : het referendum over de Europese grondwet''. With . Amsterdam : Bakker, 2005. Articles, a selection: * *

References

External links

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Kees Aarts at utwente.nl {{DEFAULTSORT:Aarts, Kees 1959 births Living people Dutch social scientists Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Amsterdam alumni University of Twente alumni Academic staff of the University of Twente People from 's-Hertogenbosch