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Ingrid van Biezen

Ingrid van Biezen

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Political Science

D-Index
24
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7130
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1643
National Ranking
51

Overview

Ingrid van Biezen is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly work predominantly intersects the fields of political science, international relations, and communication.

Their research topics encompass various aspects of political systems and governance, electoral systems and political participation, social media and politics, as well as European Union policy and governance. These areas reflect a broad engagement with contemporary political structures and communication dynamics.

Van Biezen's publication record includes contributions to notable venues such as the Scientific Repository of Open Access of Portugal (RCAAP), Bestuurswetenschappen, British Journal of Political Science, and Government and Opposition. Among recent works are:

  • Sobre o equilíbrio interno do poder: as organizações partidárias nas novas democracias (2024), published in Scientific Repository of Open Access of Portugal (RCAAP)
  • Communicerende vaten? De ontwikkeling van lokale partijen ten opzichte van landelijke partijen (1917-2018) (2021), published in Bestuurswetenschappen
  • JPS volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2021), published in British Journal of Political Science
  • GOV volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2024), published in Government and Opposition

Frequent collaborators in van Biezen's research include Geerten Waling, Cristina Bodea, Tobias Böhmelt, Paul Bou-Habib, and Shaun Bowler. This network highlights interdisciplinary and international cooperation in their work.

Best Publications

  • Going, Going, ...Gone? The Decline of Party Membership in Contemporary Europe

    Ingrid Van Biezen;Peter Mair;Thomas Poguntke

  • Party Membership in Twenty European Democracies, 1980-2000

    Peter Mair;Ingrid van Biezen

  • Political Parties in New Democracies: Party Organization in Southern and East-Central Europe

    Ingrid van Biezen

  • Political Parties as Public Utilities

    Ingrid van Biezen

  • The State and the Parties Public Funding, Public Regulation and Rent-Seeking in Contemporary Democracies

    Ingrid van Biezen;Petr Kopecký

  • The decline of membership-based politics

    Ingrid van Biezen;Thomas Poguntke

  • Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies How parties organize in the 21st century

    Thomas Poguntke;Susan E Scarrow;Paul D Webb;Elin H Allern

  • On the theory and practice of party formation and adaptation in new democracies

    Ingrid Van Biezen

  • On the Internal Balance of Party Power: Party Organizations in New Democracies

    Ingrid van Biezen

  • Constitutionalizing Party Democracy: The Constitutive Codification of Political Parties in Post-war Europe

    Ingrid Van Biezen

  • The cartel party and the state: Party-state linkages in European democracies

    Ingrid van Biezen;Petr Kopecký

  • Political parties in new democracies

    Ingrid van Biezen

  • State Intervention in Party Politics: The Public Funding and Regulation of Political Parties

    Ingrid Van Biezen

  • Party Financing in New Democracies Spain and Portugal

    Ingrid van Biezen

  • Deterring new party entry? The impact of state regulation on the permeability of party systems:

    Ingrid van Biezen;Ekaterina R Rashkova

  • Shaping Intra-Party Democracy: On the Legal Regulation of Internal Party Organizations

    Ingrid van Biezen;Daniela Romée Piccio

  • Democratic Theorists and Party Scholars: Why They Don't Talk to Each Other, and Why They Should

    Ingrid van Biezen;Michael Saward

  • The Presidentialization of Spanish democracy: sources of Prime Ministerial power in Post-Franco Spain

    Ingrid van Biezen;Jonathan Hopkin

  • Models of party democracy: patterns of party regulation in post-war European constitutions

    Ingrid van Biezen;Gabriela Alina Borz

  • Building party organisations and the relevance of past models: The communist and socialist parties in Spain and Portugal

    Ingrid Van Biezen

  • Party regulation and party politics in post-communist Europe

    Fernando Casal Bértoa;Ingrid van Biezen

  • Terrorism and Democratic Legitimacy: Conflicting Interpretations of the Spanish Elections

    Ingrid Van Biezen

  • The End of Party Democracy as We Know It? A Tribute to Peter Mair

    Ingrid van Biezen

  • On the predominance of state money: Reassessing party financing in the new democracies of Southern and Eastern Europe

    Ingrid van Biezen;Petr Kopecký

  • The Europeanisation of Party Politics? Competing Regulatory Paradigms at the Supranational Level

    Ingrid van Biezen;Fransje Molenaar

  • Non)Comparative Politics in Britain

    Ingrid van Biezen;Daniele Caramani

  • Old and New Oppositions in Contemporary Europe

    Ingrid van Biezen;Helen Wallace

  • Party Regulation in Post-Authoritarian Contexts: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective

    Ingrid van Biezen;Fernando Casal Bértoa

  • The legal regulation of political parties: Contesting or promoting legitimacy?:

    Ekaterina R Rashkova;Ingrid van Biezen

  • INTRODUCTION: GENDER POLITICS AND PARTY REGULATION. QUOTAS AND BEYOND

    Ingrid van Biezen;Ekaterina R. Rashkova

  • Looking back at 50 years Acta Politica

    Kees Aarts;Ingrid van Biezen

  • manifestos move east

    Ingrid Van Biezen

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Mair
Peter Mair European University Institute
Thomas Poguntke
Thomas Poguntke Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Jonathan Hopkin
Jonathan Hopkin London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard S. Katz
Richard S. Katz Johns Hopkins University
Helen Wallace
Helen Wallace University of Sussex
Michael Saward
Michael Saward University of Warwick

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