Ingrid van Biezen

Ingrid van Biezen (born 1969) is Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University,^[1] and the editor of the political science journal Acta Politica.

Her research interests include comparative European politics, political parties and party systems in Europe, democratisation, Southern Europe, and post-communist politics.^[1]

Ingrid van Biezen studied for her masters and her PhD at Leiden University.^[1]

From 2000 to 2009 she was based in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.^[1]

She is currently directing a large comparative research project (Re-conceptualizing democracy) on political parties and democracy through a focus on party law.^[2] The project is funded by the European Research Council.^[3]

• van Biezen, Ingrid (2003). Financing political parties and election campaigns : guidelines. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Pub. ISBN 9789287153562.
• van Biezen, Ingrid (2003). Political parties in new democracies party organization in Southern and East-Central Europe. Basingstoke New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403903075.

• van Biezen, Ingrid (1998). "Building party organisations and the relevance of past models: The communist and socialist parties in Spain and Portugal". West European Politics. 21 (2): 32–62. doi:10.1080/01402389808425244.
• van Biezen, Ingrid (2003). "The place of parties in contemporary democracies". West European Politics. 26 (3): 171–184. doi:10.1080/01402380312331280648.
• van Biezen, Ingrid; Molenaar, Fransje (2012). "The Europeanisation of party politics? Competing regulatory paradigms at the supranational level". West European Politics. 35 (3): 632–656. doi:10.1080/01402382.2012.665744. S2CID 154698799.
• van Biezen, Ingrid; Mair, Peter; Poguntke, Thomas (January 2012). "Going, going, ... gone? The decline of party membership in contemporary Europe". European Journal of Political Research. 51 (1): 24–56. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2011.01995.x.
• van Biezen, Ingrid; Borz, Gabriela (November 2012). "Models of party democracy: patterns of party regulation in post-war European constitutions" (PDF). European Political Science Review. 4 (3): 327–359. doi:10.1017/S1755773911000294. S2CID 53063224.
• van Biezen, Ingrid; Helen, Wallace (July 2013). "Old and new oppositions in contemporary Europe". Government and Opposition. 48 (3): 289–313. doi:10.1017/gov.2013.11.

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