Kris Deschouwer is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 politicologist and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a Flemish university located in Brussels, Belgium. It has two campuses referred to as Etterbeek and Jette.The university's name is sometimes abbreviated by "VUB" or translated to "Free University of Brussels"...

. He was a member of the Coudenberg group

Coudenberg group

The Coudenberg group was a Belgian federalist think-tank, it was named after the place where the members met, the Coudenberg, one of the seven hillocks on which the centre of Brussels has been built...

, a Belgian federalist think tank

Think tank

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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 degree in Sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 and in Political Science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 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

European University Institute

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 in Florence

Florence

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

University of Bergen

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. In 2004 he held the Chaire d'Honneur de la ville de Lausanne at the Université de Lausanne. Since 2003 he is co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research.

Books

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.

Source

• Kris Deschouwer
• Personalia and publications
• Interview with Kris Deschouwer
• "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
• "Comprendre le nationalisme flamand", Kris Deschouwer, Fédéralisme Régionalisme, Volume 1 : 1999-2000 - Nationalisme et démocratie