Emeritus Professor of Political Science
Telephone: + 31 53 489 3280
Email: Jacques Thomassen
General information
Prof.dr. Jacques Thomassen is emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Behavioural, Management & Social Sciences. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Expertise
Democratic theory, political representation, electoral research and legitimacy in the European Union.
Recent publications
Recent books include:
- Carolien van Ham, Jacques Thomassen, Kees Aarts and Rudy Andeweg (eds.). 2017. Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis. Explaining trends and cross-national differences in established democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Jacques Thomassen (ed.). 2014. Elections and Democracy. Representation and Accountability. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Jacques Thomassen, Carolien van Ham, and Rudy Andeweg. 2014. De Wankele Democratie. Heeft De Democratie Haar Beste Tijd Gehad? Amsterdam: Prometheus.Bert Bakker.
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Curriculum Vitae
Jacques Thomassen received his doctorate in the Social Sciences from the (then) Catholic University of Tilburg in 1976. He was appointed professor of political science at the University of Twente in 1977. He is a member and former General Secretary of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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). He had a leading position in several national and international research programs. He was a founding member and first chair of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES).
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