The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies
Edited by Robert Rohrschneider and Jacques Thomassen
Author Information
Edited by Robert Rohrschneider, Sir Robert Worcester Chair of Political Science, University of Kansas, and Jacques Thomassen, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Twente
Robert Rohrschneider is Sir Robert Worcester Distinguished Professor of International Public Opinion and Survey Research at the University of Kansas. He teaches Comparative Politics and his research focuses on Comparative Public Opinion, Political Parties, Democratic Representation in Western and Central-Eastern Europe.
Jacques Thomassen is an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is member and former secretary general of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has held visiting positions at the universities of Michigan, Harvard, Mannheim, the Australian National University, and the European University Institute. He published widely on issues of political representation, electoral behaviour, democracy, and legitimacy. He was a founding member of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) and participated in many other projects of comparative political research. Among his publications are Elections and Democracy: Representation and Accountability OUP 2014; Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis: Explaining trends and cross-national differences in established democracies OUP 2017.
Contributors:
Rudy B. Andeweg, Leiden University
André Blais, University of Montreal
Carles Boix, Princeton University and the University of Barcelona
Mark Bovens, the Utrecht University School of Governance
Wouter van der Brug, University of Amsterdam
Karen Celis, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Céline Colombo, the University of Zurich
Ruth Dassonneville, University of Montreal
Russell Dalton, UC Irvine
Jan W. van Deth, University of Mannheim
Zsolt Enyedi, Central European Universitya
Silvia Erzeel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
David Farrell, University College Dublin
Jorge M. Fernandes, University of Lisbon
Carolien van Ham, Radboud University Nijmegen
Eelco Harteveld, University of Amsterdam
Reuven Y. Hazan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Timothy Hellwig, Indiana University
Sören Holmberg, University of Gothenburg
Will Horne, Princeton University.
Reut Itzkovitch-Malka, The Open University of Israel
Richard S. Katz, The Johns Hopkins University
Alex Kerchner, Princeton University
Filip Kostelka, University of Essex
Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute
Zoe Lefkofridi, University of Salzburg
Tom Louwerse, Leiden University
Pedro C. Magalhães, University of Lisbon
Jane Mansbridge, Harvard Kennedy School
Thomas M. Meyer, University of Vienna
Pippa Norris, Harvard University
Mark Peffley, University of Kentucky
G. Bingham Powell Jr., University of Rochester
Anne Phillips, London School of Economics
Robert Rohrschneider, University of Kansas
Didier Ruedin, University of the Witwatersrand
Thomas Schillemans, Utrecht University School of Governance
Jaap van Slageren, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development
Peter Stone, Trinity College Dublin
Jacques Thomassen, University of Twente
Robert Thomson, Monash University
Markus Wagner, University of Vienna
Stephen Whitefield, University of Oxford
Christopher Wlezien, University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Zittel, Goethe-University Frankfurt
