Ingrid van Biezen
Professor of Comparative Politics
- Name
- Prof.dr. I.C. van Biezen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3779
- vanbiezen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7124-2002
Ingrid van Biezen is Professor in Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science.
Short CV
Ingrid van Biezen is Professor in Comparative Politics. She studied at Leiden University, from which she also received her PhD. She has subsequently worked at the University of Birmingham and has been a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and a research fellow at Yale University and the University of California, Irvine.
› Curriculum vitae & publications Ingrid van Biezen (PDF)
Research
Her research interests lie primarily in the field of comparative politics, political parties and party systems, and democratisation and institutional development. Her current research concentrates primarily on the various empirical and normative dimensions of party regulation and its implications for modern party democracy. In this context, she recently directed a large-scale research project Re-conceptualising party democracy, funded by the European Research Council.
More information about the project can be found on www.partylaw.leidenuniv.nl.
PhD supervision
Ingrid van Biezen is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD candidates to send research proposals in the areas of:
- Comparative politics
- Political parties and party systems
- Democracy and democratisation
See more information on PhD positions:
Professor of Comparative Politics
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Van Biezen I.C. (2015), Society, the state and the parties. Paper presented at the International Conference on “parties and governance in China and the West”, Tongji University, Shanghai, 21-22 September 2015. [lecture].
- Van Biezen I.C. (7 May 2010). De maakbare partijendemocratie? Over de (grond)wettelijke regulering van politieke partijen. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Kopecky P. & Van Biezen I.C. (31 August 2005), The state and the parties: Public funding, public regulation and party patronage in contemporary democracies. Conference on Political Parties and Political Development, National Democratic Institute. Washington DC, USA. [lecture].
- Van Biezen I.C. (14 April 2000), The Importance of Party Leaderships: Party Organization and Institutionalization in New Democracies. ECPR Joint Sessions. Copenhagen, Denmark. [lecture].
- Van Biezen I.C. & Mair P. (17 June 1999), Trends in Enrolment in Political Parties in European Polities, with Particular Reference to Youth Enrolment. Conference on Youth and Democracy, International IDEA. Stckholm. [lecture].
- Van Biezen I.C. (28 May 1998), The Predominance of Parliamentary Elites in New Democracies. Politicologenetmaal. Doorn. [lecture].
- Van Biezen I.C. (23 March 1998), The relationship between the Party in Public Office and the Extra-Parliamentary Party in New Democracies. ECPR Joint Sessions. Warwick, UK. [lecture].
- Van Biezen I.C. (27 February 1997), Building party organizations and the relevance of past models: a comparison of the communist and socialist parties in Spain and Portugal. ECPR joint sessions. Bern, Zwitserland. [lecture].
- Van Biezen I.C. (16 April 1997), Democratization and the development of party organizations. Department of Political Science, University of Sheffield. Sheffield, Engeland. [lecture].
- Van Biezen I.C. (2 October 1997), Parties, Parliament and Society: Emerging Party Organizations in New European Democracies. III Congreso Espanol de Ciencia Politica y de la Administracion. Salamanca, Spanje. [lecture].
- Van Biezen I.C. (27 March 1997), Building party organizations in Southern Europe: the communist and socialist parties in Spain and Potugal. studiedag POLYBIOS. Leiden. [lecture].
- Lid Raad van Toezicht
- Honorary faculty member