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RECENT WORK
Papers:
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- Beyond the diploma divide — field of education and ideological divisions among college educated. Working paper SSNR # 5072375 NEW
- How does the education cleavage stack up against the classic cleavages of the past? West European Politics (First View, Feb 2025) NEW
- Division on the Christian right: Republican pastors and the use of force. Politics and Religion (First View, Sept 2024)
- Field of education and political behavior: Predicting GAL/TAN voting. American Political Science Review (First View, Aug 2024)
- The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West. EUP (First View, March 2024)
Data:
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- RAI data on regional authority (1950-2018) for 96 countries (05/15/21)
- MIA data: international authority (1950-2019) || IO policy scope (1950-2017)
- CHES-Europe trend (1999-2019) || CHES-Latin America 2020 (06/01/22) || Speed CHES on Ukraine (02/08/24)
- NEW — 2024 CHES EDITION for 31 European countries (03/03/25)
Teaching:
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- Keys to European Politics – 13 videos on the EU, multilevel governance, and the transnational cleavage
- Catch-the-Eye Politics – The transnational cleavage: The societal shift that’s shaking up European politics (script by Jimmy Dögerl, Sept 2023)
- Field of education and the transnational cleavage — 2024 ECPR Stein Rokkan Keynote (March 2024)
BIO: Liesbet Hooghe is the W.R Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. She was born and educated in Belgium (KU Leuven), taught at the University of Toronto (1994-2000), and moved to Chapel Hill in 2000. Hooghe has had fellowships & visiting professorships at Cornell University; Nuffield, Oxford; the EUI, Florence; the WZB Berlin; VU Amsterdam; Konstanz University; Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst; Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; IAS Vienna; Sciences Po-Paris; the Free University of Berlin. She is a former chair of the European Politics & Society section of the APSA and of the European Union Studies Association.
In 2017 she received the APSA Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award. In 2023 Hooghe was awarded the Martha Derthick Award by the Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association for her co-authored book ‘Multi-Level Governance and European Integration.’ In 2024, she was the recipient of two honorary doctorates for her work on multilevel governance: on January 26, 2024, from Maastricht University, and on May 31, 2024, from the University of Lausanne. Hooghe is PI of a five-year advanced European Research Grant, Transnational – local triggers, social networks, and group identities (2021-2026), which seeks to explain political polarization in Europe and the US. The Transnational Lab is hosted at the RSCAS, EUI.
Hooghe’s research and teaching are chiefly in comparative politics, multilevel governance, international organization, political behavior, and measurement. She has published in the leading journals of political science. From 2010 to 2015, she was co-leading with Gary Marks an ERC-funded project on multilevel governance, summarized in four books published by Oxford University Press. To access data and publications, please click Regional authority (RAI) or International authority (MIA). Since 1999, Hooghe has also been a PI of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) on political parties; to access data, please click here.
CV (Dec 2024) || Google Scholar || hooghe@unc.edu || liesbet.hooghe@eui.eu
During 2025 Liesbet is at UNC Chapel Hill for the Spring and Fall semesters and at the EUI over the Summer.
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Last updated: March 4, 2025
