Dept Public Administration

EMERITUS PROFESSORS

Prof.dr. J.J.A. Thomassen (Jacques)

Emeritus Professor of Political Science

Jacques Thomassen (1945) is Emeritus Professor of Political Science. After having worked at our university for more than three decades, he retired in 2010. He has published extensively on topics such as political representation, voting behaviour, and legitimacy in the European Union.

In 1976, Thomassen received his doctorate in the social sciences from the Catholic University of Tilburg, as it was then known (dissertation: Kiezers en gekozenen in een representatieve demokratie). He was appointed professor of political science at the University of Twente in 1977. He was a visiting scholar at the universities of Michigan, Harvard, and Mannheim, the European University Institute, and the Australian National University. He was twice a fellow in residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (NIAS). Thomassen held leading positions in several national and international research programmes, including as a founding member and the first chair of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). He also served as General Secretary of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), of which he remains a member.

Thomassen has received several forms of special recognition for his academic achievements, including a royal distinction in 2002, appointment as a distinguished professor (universiteitshoogleraar) in 2005, and an honorary medal from the university upon his retirement five years later. In 2018, he became an honorary member of the Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP), joining only three previous recipients, including Andries Hoogerwerf, to have received this recognition for their exceptional academic contributions.

Photo taken on the occasion of the farewell lecture by Jacques Thomassen in 2010.


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Selected publications (in chronological order)

  • Thomassen, J. (1976). Party identification as a cross-cultural concept: Its meaning in the Netherlands. In I. Budge, I. Crewe, & D. Farlie (Eds.), Party identification and beyond: Representations of voting and party competition (pp. 63–79). John Wiley & Sons.
  • Thomassen, J. J. A. (1994). Empirical research into political representation: Failing democracy or failing models? In M. K. Jennings & T. E. Mann (Eds.), Elections at home and abroad: Essays in honor of Warren Miller (pp. 237–265). University of Michigan Press.
  • Thomassen, J. (1994). Introduction: The intellectual history of election studies. European Journal of Political Research, 25(3), 239–245.
  • Thomassen, J. (1998). Support for democratic values. In H.-D. Klingemann & D. Fuchs (Eds.), Citizens and the state (pp. 383-416). Oxford University Press.
  • Thomassen, J., & Schmitt, H. (1997). Policy representation. European Journal of Political Research, 32(2), 165–184. 
  • Miller, W. E., Pierce, R., Thomassen, J., Herrera, R., Holmberg, S., Esaiasson, P., & Wessels, B. (Eds.) (1999). Policy representation in Western democracies. Oxford University Press.
  • Schmitt, H., & Thomassen, J. J. A. (Eds.) (1999). Political representation and legitimacy in the European Union. Oxford University Press.
  • Schmitt, H., & Thomassen, J. J. A. (2000). Dynamic representation: The case of European integration. European Union Politics, 1(3), 318–339. 
  • Thomassen, J. J. A., Aarts, K., & van der Kolk, H. (Eds.) (2000). Politieke veranderingen in Nederland 1971–1998: Kiezers en de smalle marges van de politiek. Sdu Uitgevers.
  • van Heffen, O., Kickert, W. J., & Thomassen, J. J. A. (Eds.) (2000). Governance in modern society: Effects, change and formation of government institutions. Springer Science & Business Media.
  • Thomassen, J., & Andeweg, R. B. (2004). Beyond collective representation: individual members of parliament and interest representation in the Netherlands. The Journal of Legislative Studies, 10(4), 47–69.
  • Thomassen, J. J. A., Noury, A. G., & Voeten, E. (2004). Political competition in the European Parliament: Evidence from roll call and survey analyses. In G. Marks & M. R. Steenbergen (Eds.), European integration and political conflict (pp. 141–164). Cambrigde University Press. 
  • Andeweg, R. B., & Thomassen, J. J. A. (2005). Modes of political representation: Toward a new typology. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 30(4), 507–528.
  • Berglund, F., Holmberg, S., Schmitt, H. & Thomassen, J. (2005). Party identification and party choice. In J. Thomassen (Ed.), The European voter: A comparative study of modern democracies (pp.106–124). Oxford University Press. 
  • Thomassen, J. (Ed.) (2005). The European voter: A comparative study of modern democracies. Oxford University Press. 
  • Aarts, K., & Thomassen, J. (2008). Dutch voters and the changing party space 1989–2006. Acta Politica, 43(2), 203–234.
  • Aarts, K., & Thomassen, J. J. A. (2008). Satisfaction with democracy: Do institutions matter? Electoral Studies, 27(1), 5–18.
  • Thomassen, J.J.A. (Ed.) (2009). The legitimacy of the European Union after enlargement. Oxford University Press.
  • Thomassen, J., & Rosema, M. (2009). Party identification revisited. In J. Bartle & P. Bellucci (Eds.), Political parties and partisanship: Social identity and individual attitudes (pp. 42–59). Routledge.
  • Mair, P., & Thomassen, J. (2010). Political representation and government in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 17(1), 20–35. 
  • Andeweg, R. B., & Thomassen, J. (2011). Pathways to party unity: Sanctions, loyalty, homogeneity and division of labour in the Dutch parliament. Party Politics, 17(5), 655–672.
  • Costello, R., Thomassen, J., & Rosema, M. (2012). European parliament elections and political representation: Policy congruence between voters and parties. West European Politics, 35(6), 1226–1248.
  • Thomassen, J. (2012). The blind corner of political representation. Representation, 48(1), 13–27.
  • Thomassen, J., van Ham, C., & Andeweg, R. (2014). De wankele democratie: Heeft de democratie haar beste tijd gehad? Prometheus Bert Bakker.
  • van Ham, C., Thomassen, J., Aarts, K., & Andeweg, R. (Eds.) (2017). Myth and reality of the legitimacy crisis: Explaining trends and cross-national differences in established democracies. Oxford University Press.
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