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Overview

Matthijs Bogaards is affiliated with Central European University in Hungary and specializes in the social sciences, particularly political science and international relations, gender studies, anthropology, and the intersection of sociology and political science. Their research primarily focuses on themes such as social policy and reform studies, gender politics and representation, populism and right-wing movements, post-Soviet geopolitical dynamics, European and international law studies, European Union policy and governance, and political systems and governance.

Recent notable publications by Matthijs Bogaards include:

  • "Feminist institutionalism(s)" (2022) in Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
  • "Gendering De-Democratization: Gender and Illiberalism in Post-Communist Europe" (2022) in Politics and Governance
  • "Consociationalism and the State" (2023) in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
  • "The European Union: Consociational Past, Centripetal Future?" (2021) in Representation
  • "Refreshing Our Memory of a Classic: Mansfield and Snyder's Electing to Fight" (2023) in Civil Wars

The work of Matthijs Bogaards intersects with various academic venues, having been published in:

  • Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
  • Politics and Governance
  • Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
  • Civil Wars
  • Representation

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bogaards include Andrea Pető, Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann, Andreas Ufen, and Hager Ali.

The research contributions of Matthijs Bogaards reflect a multidisciplinary approach within the social sciences, addressing both theoretical and empirical questions relevant to contemporary political dynamics and gender studies in European contexts. This profile is based on a review of recent academic outputs, research topics, and collaborations to present a clear summary of Bogaards's scholarly focus.

Best Publications

  • How to classify hybrid regimes? Defective democracy and electoral authoritarianism

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Counting parties and identifying dominant party systems in Africa

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • De-democratization in Hungary: diffusely defective democracy

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • The favourable factors for consociational democracy: a review

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • The Uneasy Relationship between Empirical and Normative Types in Consociational Theory

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Crafting competitive party systems: Electoral laws and the opposition in Africa

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Dominant Party Systems and Electoral Volatility in Africa: A Comment on Mozaffar and Scarritt

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Measuring Democracy through Election Outcomes A Critique with African Data

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Where to draw the line? From degree to dichotomy in measures of democracy

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Measures of Democratization: From Degree to Type to War

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Consociational Interpretations of the European Union

    Matthijs Bogaards;Markus M.L. Crepaz

  • Ethnic party bans in Africa: an introduction

    Matthijs Bogaards;Matthias Basedau;Christof Hartmann

  • Exchange: Reexamining African Elections

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  • Electoral choices for divided societies: Multi-ethnic parties and constituency pooling in Africa

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • The Importance of Consociationalism for Twenty‐First Century Politics and Political Science

    Matthijs Bogaards;Ludger Helms;Arend Lijphart

  • Competitive authoritarianism in Africa revisited

    Matthijs Bogaards;Sebastian Elischer

  • Formal and Informal Consociational Institutions: A Comparison of the National Pact and the Taif Agreement in Lebanon

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Consociationalism and Centripetalism: Friends or Foes?

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Dominant political parties and democracy : concepts, measures, cases, and comparisons

    Matthijs Bogaards;Françoise Boucek

  • Ethnic party bans and institutional engineering in Nigeria

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Electoral systems : party systems and ethnicity in Africa

    Matthijs Bogaards

  • Ethnic Party Bans in Africa: A Research Agenda

    Matthias Basedau;Matthijs Bogaards;Christof Hartmann;Peter Niesen

  • Democracy and Social Peace in Divided Societies: Exploring Consociational Parties

    Matthijs Bogaards

Frequent Co-Authors

Staffan I. Lindberg
Staffan I. Lindberg University of Gothenburg
Andrew Reynolds
Andrew Reynolds University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama Stanford University
Arend Lijphart
Arend Lijphart University of California, San Diego
Svend-Erik Skaaning
Svend-Erik Skaaning Aarhus University
Marc F. Plattner
Marc F. Plattner National Endowment for Democracy

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