Ingrid van Biezen


Ingrid van Biezen is Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University, 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.

Education

Ingrid van Biezen studied for her masters and her PhD at Leiden University.

Career

From 2000 to 2009 she was based in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.
She is currently directing a large comparative research project on political parties and democracy through a focus on party law. The project is funded by the European Research Council.

Books

*