Tom Louwerse is Associate Professor in Political Science and Director of Research at the Institute of Political Science.

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Tom Louwerse is Associate Professor in Political Science. His main areas of interest include political representation, parliaments, political parties, elections and polls in the Netherlands and in other established democracies. He teaches in the field of research methods, Dutch and comparative politics.

His main research project, Who opposes?, focuses on government-opposition cooperation in parliament and is supported by a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

His outreach activities include polling aggregation in the Netherlands, published by the public broadcaster NOS, and Ireland. Louwerse is a member of Young Academy Leiden and a founder and co-editor of the Dutch political science weblog StukRoodVlees.

Dr Louwerse studied political science at Leiden University, obtaining his Master’s degree in 2006 and his PhD in 2011. His PhD thesis, written under supervision of Prof. Rudy Andeweg and Dr Huib Pellikaan deals with the democratic mandate of political parties in Great Britain and the Netherlands. This dissertation was shortlisted for the ECPR Jean Blondel Prize. Before returning to Leiden, Tom Louwerse worked as an Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland from 2013 to 2015. In September 2015 Dr Louwerse was awarded the Emerging Scholars Award from the Organized Section on Political Organizations and Parties of the American Political Science Association.

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PhD supervision

Tom Louwerse is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:

• elections and electoral behaviour
• parliamentary behaviour
• political institutions and political parties

See for more information on PhD positions:

› Institute of Political Science: PhD

Activities