Tim Mickler
Senior assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. T.A. Mickler
- Telephone
- 071 5276199
- t.a.mickler@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2727-5173
Tim Alexander Mickler is a senior assistant professor and institute manager Finance at the Institute of Political Science.
Tim Alexander Mickler is a senior assistant professor and institute manager Finance at the Institute of Political Science.
His research focuses on inner-party structures and parliaments, in particular legislative organisation and decision-making procedures, from a comparative perspective.
He studied political science at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and received his PhD (cum laude) from Leiden University in 2017. His dissertation on the selection criteria and reporting requirements of standing committee members in the Dutch Tweede Kamer, the German Bundestag and the Irish Dáil Éireann was shortlisted for the ECPR Jean Blondel PhD Prize.
As institute manager, Tim is responsible for the department’s financial operations, including budget planning and monitoring, financial reporting, and addressing financial matters.
› Curriculum vitae Tim Mickler
PhD supervision
Tim Mickler is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- determinants and consequences of legislative organisation
- structural and behavioural roots of legislative behaviour
See for more information on PhD positions:
Senior assistant professor
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Political Science
Institute manager Finance
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Political Science
- Mickler T.A. (2024), De weg naar eerlijke beloningen: de rol van onafhankelijke vergoedingsinstellingen in Australië, Nieuw-Zeeland, Zweden en het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Den Haag: Adviescollege Rechtspositie Politieke Ambtsdragers.
- Kopecky P., Louwerse T.P., Mickler T.A., Nagtzaam M.A.M., Otjes S.P. & Vonno C.M.C. van (8 July 2024), Rudy Andeweg: een veelzijdig en betrokken politicoloog. Stuk Rood Vlees. [blog entry].
- Otjes S.P. & Mickler T.A. (2024), Cincinnatus in de polder: progressieve, statische en regressieve ambitie van Nederlandse lokale politici. Den Haag: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties.
- Kleef C. van, Mickler T.A. & Otjes S.P. (2023), The partisan foundations of parliamentary speech: how parliamentary party groups decide who gets to speak for them, Party Politics : .
- Mickler T.A. (16 February 2023), Bestrijd mogelijke belangenverstrengeling door oud-politici met een gedragscode. NRC.nl.
- Vollaard H., Binnema H., Blok L. de, Kolk H. van der, Mickler T. & Otjes S. (2023), Burgers en boeren in beweging: het kiezersonderzoek in provincies en waterschappen van 2023. Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht.
- Mickler T.A. & Otjes S.P. (2023), De partijkeuze in provincie en waterschap. In: Vollaard H., Binnema H., Blok L. de, Kolk H. van der, Mickler T. & Otjes S. (Eds.), Burgers en boeren in beweging : het kiezersonderzoek in provincies en waterschappen van 2023. Den Haag: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties.
- Mickler T.A., Otjes S.P. & Willumsen D.W.M. (2022), Who gets to speak for the party?: How parliamentary party groups assign spokespersonships. ECPR General Conference 22 August 2022 - 26 August 2022.
- Mickler T.A. (2022), Parliamentary committees in a party-centred context: looking behind the scenes. Library of Legislative Studies. Abingdon, Oxon/New York, NY: Routledge.
- Mickler T.A. (9 March 2021), Moeten er regels komen voor post-parlementaire carrières?. StukRoodVlees. [blog entry].
- Mickler T.A. (28 September 2021), Deutschland hat gewählt – en nu?. StukRoodVlees. [blog entry].
- Mickler T.A. & Otjes S. (3 November 2021), Formeren bij de buren. StukRoodVlees. [blog entry].
- Mickler T.A. (2021), The Determinants of Committee Membership in Belgium and the Netherlands, Politics of the Low Countries 3(3): 225-257.
- Mickler T.A. (14 November 2021), Schande roepen over 'draaideurpolitici' volstaat niet . NRC Handelsblad.
- Mickler T.A., Otjes S.P. & Willumsen D.M. (2021), Who gets to speak for the party?: How parliamentary party groups assign spokespersonships. ÖGPW Tag der Politikwissenschaft 26 November 2021 - 26 November 2021.
- Mickler T.A., Otjes S. & Willumsen D.M. (2021), Who gets to speak for the party?: How parliamentary party groups assign spokespersonships. 2021 EPSA Virtual Annual Meeting 24 June 2021 - 25 June 2021.
- Otjes S. & Mickler T.A. (5 November 2019), Werkwijze Tweede Kamer moet steviger op de schop. StukRoodVlees. [blog entry].
- Mickler T.A. (Ed.) (2019), Editor Book Reviews Section Acta Politica: Palgrave.
- Mickler T.A. (2019), What Happens after Assignments? The Room for Manoeuvre of Committee Members in the Bundestag and the Tweede Kamer, Parliamentary Affairs 72(2): 445-463.
- Martin S. & Mickler T.A. (2019), Committee Assignments: Theories, Causes and Consequences, Parliamentary Affairs 72(1): 77-98.
- Mickler T.A. (Ed.) (2018), Editor Book Reviews Section Acta Politica: Palgrave.
- Mickler T.A. (2018), Not So Random After All? - Revisiting Committee Assignments in Dáil Éireann, Irish Political Studies 33(1): 112-135.
- Mickler T.A. (2018), Who Gets What and Why? Committee Assignments in the German Bundestag, West European Politics 41(2): 517-539.
- Mickler T.A. (2018), Who Goes Where? Committee Assignments in the Tweede Kamer, Parliamentary Affairs 72(1): 99-118.
- Mickler T.A. & Otjes S. (6 September 2018), Door sterkere commissies een sterker parlement. Stuk Rood Vlees. [blog entry].
- Mickler T.A. (22 February 2017), Parliamentary committees in a party-centred context : structure, composition, functioning (Dissertatie. Institute of Political Science, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Andeweg Rudy B. & Koole Ruud A.
- Mickler T.A. (2017), Committee autonomy in parliamentary systems - coalition logic or congressional rationales?, Journal of Legislative Studies 23(3): 367-391.
- Mickler T.A. (Ed.) (2017), Editor Book Reviews Section Acta Politica: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Mickler T.A. (2013), Standing committee assignments in the German Bundestag – Who gets what in within-party negotiations?, German Politics 22(4): 421-440.
- Mickler T.A. (2011), Der Europaausschuss des dänischen Folketing. Eine Analyse der Verhandlungsmandate, Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 42(3): 632-647.