Kris Deschouwer | Biography

Kris Deschouwer is emeritus professor of political science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has also held temporary and visiting positions at the University of Bergen, the European University Institute, the Université de Lille, the Université d ’Aix-en-Provence, Canberra National University, the Universität Mannheim and the University of Siena. From 2018 to 2021 he was the Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research.

His research and teaching have covered several fields in comparative politics, including political parties, electoral behaviour and electoral systems, the governance of divided societies, political representation, nationalism and regionalism, and federal-type political systems. He is the author of The Politics of Belgium. Governing a Divided Society (Routledge Macmillan 2012) and the editor of Mind the Gap. Political Participation and Representation in Belgium (Rowman & Littlefield 2017).