Liesbet Hooghe

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Liesbet Hooghe (born December 1, 1962, in Oudenaarde, Belgium) is a Belgian political scientist, currently serving as the W. R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] She is also a research fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. In a list of 400 top political scientists at Ph.D. granting institutions in the US, published in Political Science & Politics (January 2019), she was ranked as the fifth most-cited woman scholar in political science. [2]

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Education

She graduated summa cum laude from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with a Licentiate in Political Sciences in 1984, and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from KU Leuven in 1989. She was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University in 1989–1990, and a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1991–1994). [3]

Academic appointments and honors

Hooghe was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in 1994, obtaining tenure in 1999. In 2000, she moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was promoted to full professor in 2004, and appointed W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor in 2011. [3] Between 2004 and 2016, she was also a chaired professor at the VU University of Amsterdam. [4]

She has held fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, the Wissenschaftszentrum at Berlin, the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, the Freie Universität Berlin, and visiting professorships at Sciences Po, Pompeu Fabra, and the Vienna IHS. In 2012, she was inducted as a Foreign Member into the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. [3]

Publications and leadership

Hooghe has published several scholarly books, special journal issues, and many articles in the leading journals of political science. [3]

She served as Chair of the European Union Studies Association (2007–2009), and was Chair of the European Politics & Society Section of the American Political Science Association (2003–2006). She received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2002–2003), Jean Monnet Fellowships (1996–1997; 2002–2003 declined), a Fellowship at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (2007–2008), and a Fellowship at the Research Center of the Free University of Berlin (2010–2011). [3] In 2017, she was awarded the Daniel J. Elazar Distinguished Federalism Award from the American Political Science Association.

Personal life

Hooghe is married to fellow political scientist Gary Marks. [5]

Recent research

Her academic reputation rests primarily on her conception of "multilevel governance"—how government is organized from the local to the global level. She has written extensively on the European Union and on sub-national government [6] and her publications have been translated in French, [7] German, [8] Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, and Chinese. [9]

Over the past fifteen years, Liesbet Hooghe, with her spouse Gary Marks, has sought to theorize the conditions of multilevel governance while striving to gain better information. [10] Much of her research and publications can be categorized under five broad topics: regional authority and multilevel governance; international authority and multilevel governance; party politics and public opinion on European integration; political elites and the European Commission; measurement and data collection. In May 2010, Professors Hooghe and Marks received a five-year European Research Grant to conduct research on the causes and consequences of multilevel governance.[ citation needed ]

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  4. ↑ ""Prof.dr. L. Hooghe (VU Political Science faculty directory)"". Archived from the original on October 12, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Home". Liesbet Hooghe.
  6. ↑ "Defining European Identity in a Divided Europe". citylab.com. May 8, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Défense européenne : bilan et perspectives de la politique conduite par la France". lesechos.fr. April 20, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
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