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Prof. Dr. Matthijs Bogaards



Professor of Political Science / ISS Program Coordinator
School of Humanities & Social Sciences - SHSS
Political Science
http://shss.jacobs-university.de/shss/iss/
Mailing Address:

Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
Germany

Email: m.bogaards@jacobs-university.de
Telephone: +49 421 200-3462
Fax: +49 421 200-3303
Office: Research IV, Room 64
Office Hours:

Monday 16.00 - 18.00

Research Interests:
Comparative Politics
Democratization
Political parties
Electoral systems
Divided societies
University Education:
2002
Post-Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Southampton

2000
Ph.D. Political Science, European University Institute, Florence

1994
Masters in Political Science, Leiden University
Masters in Public Administration, Leiden University
 
Fellowships and Awards:
2005
IUB Teaching Award (student prize)

2001
The Frank Cass Prize for the best article in Volume 7 (2000) of the journal Democratization
 
Funded Projects:
'Managing Ethnic Conflict Though Institutional Engineering: Ethnic Party Bans in Africa', with Matthias Basedau (Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg), Christof Hartmann (University Bochum), and Peter Niesen (University Darmstadt). Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (2006-2008).
 
Publications:
[Selected]
Journal articles

Forthcoming, 'Where to Draw the Line? From Degree to Dichotomy in Measures of Democracy', Democratization, forthcoming.

2010, 'Ethnic Party Bans in Africa: An Introduction', Democratization 17 (4), 599-617, with Matthias Basedau and Christof Hartmann.

2010, 'Ethnic Party Bans and Institutional Engineering in Nigeria', Democratization 17 (4), 730-749.

2010, Measures of Democratization: From Degree to Type to War, Political Research Quarterly, 63(2), 475-488.

2009, 'How to Classify Hybrid Regimes? Defective Democracy and Electoral Authoritarianism', Democratization, 16(2), 399-423.

2008, 'Dominant Party Systems and Electoral Volatility in Africa: A Comment on Mozaffar and Scarritt', Party Politics, 14 (1), 113-130.

2007. 'Measuring Democracy Through Election Outcomes: A Critique with African Data', Comparative Political Studies, 40 (10), 2007, 1211-1237.

2007. 'Elections, Election Outcomes and Democracy in Southern Africa', Democratization 14(1), 73-91.

2006. Guest-editor of a special issue on "Democracy and Power-Sharing in Multinational States" of the UNESCO International Journal of Multicultural Societies, 8(2).

2006. 'Introduction: Democracy and Power-sharing in Multi-national States', International Journal on Multicultural Studies, 8(2), 119-126.

2005. "The Italian First Republic: `Degenerated Consociationalism´ in  a Polarized Party System", West European Politics 28(3), 503-520.

2004. "Counting Parties and Identifying Dominant Party Systems in Africa", European Journal
of Political Research, 43(2), 173-197.

2003. "Electoral Choices for Divided Societies: Multi-Ethnic Parties and Constituency Pooling in Africa", Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 41(3), 59-80.

2002. "The Consociational Analogy of the EU: A Rejoinder to Crepaz with a Comment on Kaiser", European Union Politics, 3(4), 501-3.

2002. "Consociational Interpretations of the EU: A Critical Appraisal", European Union Politics, 3(3), 357-70, 376-81.

2000. "The Uneasy Relationship between Empirical and Normative Types in Consociational Theory", Journal of Theoretical Politics, 12(4), 395-424.

2000. "Crafting Competitive Party Systems: Electoral Laws and the Opposition in Africa", Democratization, 7(4), 163-190.

1998. "The Favorable Factors for Consociational Democracy: A Review", European Journal of Political Research, 33(4), 475-496.

1997. "Public Entrepreneurs in the Indian Administrative Service", The Indian Journal of Public Administration, 43(1), 1-34. Reprinted in: T.P. Sankarankutty Nair (ed.) Society and Politics, Issues and Perspectives: A Festschrift in Honour of Dr. P.J. Alexander, Indian Institute of Police Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, 1998, 339-371.

Chapters in edited books
Forthcoming, 'Political Parties', in David Anderson and Mic Cheeseman (eds.) Handbook of African Politics. Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming.

2010. 'Introduction: Setting a New Agenda for Research', with Françoise Boucek, in Matthijs Bogaards and Françoise Boucek (eds.) Dominant Political Parties and Democracy: Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons. Abingdon: Routledge, 1-19.

2010. 'Conclusion', with Françoise Boucek, in Matthijs Bogaards and Françoise Boucek (eds.) Dominant Political Parties and Democracy: Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons. Abingdon: Routledge, 219-229.

2009, 'Electoral Systems and Institutional Design in New Democracies', in Christian Haerpfer, Patrick Bernhagen, Ronald Inglehart & Christian Welzel (eds.) Democratization in a Globalizing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, pp.391-417.'

2008. "Comparative Strategies of Political Party Regulation", in Ben Reilly, Edward Newman & Per Nordlund (eds.) Political Party Regulation in Conflict-Prone Societies. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, pp. 48-66.

2007. "Electoral Systems, Party Systems, and Ethnic Conflict Management in Africa", in Andreas Mehler, Matthias Basedau, and Gero Erdmann (eds.) Votes, Money, and Violence: Elections in Africa, The Nordic Africa Institute, pp.169-194.

2005. 'Demokratie in Afrika südlich der Sahara', in André Kaiser and Wolfgang Leidhold (eds.) Demokratie - Chancen und Herausforderungen im 21. Jahrhundert. Münster: LIT Verlag, 135-176.

2005. 'Power-Sharing in South Africa: The African National Congress as a Consociational Party?", in S.J.R. Noel (ed.) From Power-Sharing to Democracy: Post-Conflict Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies. Toronto: McGill University Press. (A German version, translated by the author, was published in Afrika Spectrum 38(1), 2003, 47-68, under the title "Power-Sharing in Südafrika: Ist der ANC eine Konkordanzpartei?").

2004. "Electoral Systems and the Management of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans", in Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Ivan Krastev (eds.) Nationalism after Communism: Lessons Learned. Budapest: CEU Press, 247-266.

Edited Volume
Matthijs Bogaards and Françoise Boucek (eds.) (2010) Dominant Political Parties and Democracy: Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons. Abingdon: Routledge.
 
 
Research and Teaching Positions:
Fall 2000
Visiting Assistant-Professor, Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest

2001-2003
Permanent Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Division of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton

Spring 2008
Reseach Fellow, UN University for Peace, Costa Rica