CURRICULUM VITAE Kees van Kersbergen
PERSONAL DATA
Name: Cornelis Johannes (Kees) van Kersbergen
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1 October 1958
Nationality: Dutch
Civil Status: Married, no children
Address: Jozef Israelsstraat 58, 6521 MZ Nijmegen
Telephone: ++ 31 (0)24 3234515 (private)
Email:cj.van.kersbergen@fsw.vu.nl
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1978 Gymnasium , Coornhert Gymnasium, Gouda (NL)
1980 Undergraduate Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Major: Political Science
Minors: History Economics Mass Communication
1984 Master in Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Major: Political Science
Minors: Philosophy Economic Theory
Thesis: “Van de krisis in de Nederlandse politiek tot de politiek van Nederland in de krisis. Een aanzet tot geschiedschrijving van de Nederlandse politiek in de periode 1970-1984”, Amsterdam (July 1984) (From the Crisis of Dutch Politics to the Politics of the Netherlands During the Crisis)
Post-doctoral
Courses:
1987/88: Statistics (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
1988/89: Econometrics and Econometric Testing (European University
Institute, Florence, Italy)
1989: Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection (University of Essex, Colchester, England):
- Contingency tables
- Causal models and Structural Equations
- Advanced Causal Modelling 2003/4 Academic Leadership
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1982–1984: Student Assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1984–1987: Scientific Assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1987–1991: Researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy
1989–1991: Research Assistant at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy
1991–1997: Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1997–2003: Full professor (“gewoon hoogleraar”) of Political Science (National Political Systems and Dutch Politics) at the Nijmegen School of Management of Nijmegen University
2001–2003: Director of the research programme in Economics, Public Administration and Political Science (“Institutional Shifts in Government and Governance in a Comparative and International Perspective”) at the Nijmegen School of Management of Nijmegen University
2003–: Full professor ((“gewoon hoogleraar”) of Political Science,Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2002–2010 (projected): Chair of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Programme “Shifts in Governance”
2003–: Director of the research programme of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies (CCSS)* of the Faculty of Social
Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2004– Chair of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies (CCSS)* of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2004–: Head of Department, Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
* The Centre for Comparative Social Studies (CCSS) accommodates the strongest research of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Centre is multidisciplinary by design. First, because the Faculty of Social Sciences accommodates three different disciplines (Anthropology, Political Sciences, and Sociology), and three multidisciplinary programs (Communication Sciences,Administration and Organization Sciences, and Culture, Organization and Management).
Secondly, and equally important because some other disciplines are involved in the activities of the Centre (Law, Criminology, Literature, Economics, and Life Sciences). The CCSS was created to stimulate excellent research in the social sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. This objective is aimed at in a variety of different ways. In the first place, by attracting talented
researchers to occupy so called strategic chairs. In the second place, by binding reputed scholars to the CCSS as International Fellows. In the third place, by inviting faculty members as FSSFellows. In the fourth place, by training talented students in the context of a Research Master Program and the PhD-Program. In the fifth place, by hosting or supporting international workshops, seminars, editorship, and other scholarly activities that are relevant to the Centre's domain. Finally, by building and maintaining international networks that facilitate research collaboration and student and staff exchange.
Research Projects:
1981/82: Research Project on “Parliament and Multinational Corporations”, University of Amsterdam (UvA)
1982/83: Research Assistant, Project “D66 and the New Middle Class”(UvA)
1983/84: Research Assistant, Project “The Liberation of Amsterdam. A Struggle for Power and Morality” (UvA)
1985/87: Research Assistant, Project “Social Democracy” (UvA)
1989–91: Research Assistant, “Changing Classes. Stratification and Mobility in Post-industrial Societies” (sponsored by the
Research Council of the European University Institute and the European Commission, Directory General for Social and Labor
Market Affairs, DG V) (European University Institute)
1991–1997: Political Institutions and Actors: Public Administration,Communication and Government Policy; Themes: a. The
influence of party politics on the performance of governments in multi-party systems: the paradox of conflict and cooperation;
b. The political context of social and economic welfare in capitalist democracies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1997–2001: Political Change (University of Nijmegen)
2001–2003: Institutional Shifts in Government and Governance in a Comparative and International Perspective (University of
Nijmegen)
2003– Multi-Layered Governance (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
University of Amsterdam, 1982–1987:
Supervision of Research Projects Conducted by Students; Introduction to Political Science;Introduction to the History of Political Ideas and Social and Economic History; Research Seminars; Supervision of Master Theses
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1991–1997:
Politics in the Netherlands; Comparative Political Science; Comparative Political Sociology; Workshops; Political Sociology; Introduction to Political Science; Concepts and Approaches; Supervision of Master and Doctoral Theses; Seminar “Classics of Political Science, Political Sociology and Public Administration”
University of Nijmegen, 1997–2003:
Introduction to Political Science; Political Sociology and Social Movements; Theories and Methods of Comparative Political Science; The State: Problems and Comparisons; Dutch Politics in Comparative Perspective; Various Master Classes, including “Epistemology”; “Power and Hierarchy”; “Foundations of Modern Social and Political Science”; State and Society in Comparative Perspective
Netherlands Institute of Government (National Research School for Public Administration and Political Science), 1997–2004:
Political Science: State of the Art Netherlands School of Public Administration, The Hague, 1998–2001:
Various courses on Politics, Society and Public Policy Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies 2000:
The Politics and Political Economy of Contemporary Welfare Capitalism.Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since 2003:
Institutional Approaches; Political Sociology; Introduction to Political Science: Power and Democracy; Political Concepts and Processes: State of the Art of Political Science, Supervision of Master and Doctoral Theses
PHD SUPERVISION/EVALUATION/MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEES
Mirjam Hertogh, “Geene wet, maar de Heer”: de confessionele ordening van het Nederlandse sociale zekerheidsstelsel (1870–1975), Tilburg, 1997 (member)
Markus Haverland, National autonomy, European integration and the politics of packaging waste, University of Utrecht, 1998 (member)
André Krouwel, The catch-all party in Western Europe 1945-1990: a study in arrested development, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1999 (member)
Conny Roggeband, Over de grenzen van de politiek. Een vergelijkende studie naar de opkomst en ontwikkeling van de vrouwenbeweging tegen seksueel geweld in Nederland en Spanje (supervisor)
Miranda de Vries, Governing with your closest neighbour : an assessment of spatial coalition formation theories, University of Nijmegen, 1999 (chair)
Anna van Vleuten, Dure vrouwen, dwarse staten: een institutioneel-realistische visie op de totstandkoming en implementatie van Europees beleid, University of Nijmegen, 2001 (chair)
Alexander van Kessel, “Ruggen recht, heren”. Hoe de Nederlandse christen-democraten het tegenover hun Duitse geestverwanten aflegden in het debat over het profiel van de Europese Volkspartij, University of Nijmegen, 2003 (member)
Noël Vergunst, The institutional dynamics of consensus and conflict: consensus democracy,corporatism and socio-economic policy-making and performance in twenty developed democracies (1965–1998), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2004 (co-supervisor; member)
Inge Bleijenbergh, Citizens who care: European social citizenship in EU-debates on childcare and part-time work, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2004 (member)
Jaap Woldendorp, The polder model: from disease to miracle? Dutch neo-corporatism 1965 – 2000, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2005 (member)
PHD SUPERVISION: current
Member of the supervision board of the research program ‘The distribution of responsibility for social security’ of the University of Amsterdam (PhD students; postdocs)
Marleen Romeijn, Analyzing the Transposition of European Union Directives in the Area of Social Policy (supervisor)
Sophie Lauwers, The Social Construction of Rational Choice? (supervisor)
Myrtille Hellendoorn, The Rise and Fall of the Dutch Bread Winner System 1950-1991 (cosupervisor)
Barbara Vis, The Politics of the Work–Welfare Mix. Identifying Patterns and Providing Explanations for Changes in Twenty Advanced Capitalist Democracies, 1985-2002 (supervisor)
Sabina Stiller, The Role of Ideational Leadership in German Welfare State Reform: towards an Explanation of Institutional Change (supervisor)
Onno Bosch, Publieke taken en overheidsoptreden: de publieke zaak en de privatisering van de Nederlandse spoorwegen (Public Tasks and State Intervention: the Public Cause and the Privatization of Dutch Railways) (co-supervisor)
Frans Becker, De transformatie van het politieke bestel: de Nederlandse politiek in de 21 eeeuw (The Transformation of the Political System: Dutch Politics in the 21st Century)(supervisor)
René Cuperus, Social Democracy and Populism in Europe (supervisor)
Rob ter Horst, Creatief versus sociaal kapitaal: hoe houden sportverenigingen zich staande? (Creative versus Social Capital: How do Sports Associations Survive?) (co-supervisor)
GRANTS/PRIZES/FELLOWSHIPS:
1987–1991: Grant of the Dutch Ministry of Education and of the European Community to conduct a PhD Research at the European
University Institute, Florence, Italy (Doctoral Dissertation: “Social Capitalism. A Study of Christian Democracy and the
Post-War Settlement of the Welfare State”, defended: December 1991, cum laude/with distinction)
1996: Seventh Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Social Science for Social Capitalism. A Study of Christian Democracy and the
Welfare State (London/New York: Routledge, 1995):
December 1996, Paris, at the General Assembly of the International Social Science Council (ISSC), by the ISSC, the Universidad Candido Mendes and the European Consortium for Political Research Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
1997: Honory Professorship, P.W. Segers-chair, Centre for Social Policy, Antwerp University, Belgium Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
2001: Grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) to write a background study for the strategic research
policy of NWO. (Shifts in Governance: Problems of Legitimacy and Accountability. The Hague June 2001[with Frans van Waarden]).
Research grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for a collaborative research project (universities of Leiden, Nijmegen and Utrecht): Analyzing European Union Policies: the Transposition of Directives.
2006–2010: Grant of the National Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) to write the concluding study of the Shifts in Governance programme (conditional on my acceptance).
MANAGERIAL (Current)
- Member of the Council of the European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA)
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Netherlands Institute of Governance (National research School)
- Chair of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Programme Committee “Shifts in Governance”
- Member of the Advisory Board for the National Programme for German Studies
- Member of the special committee for the preparation of research and teaching quality assessment of political science, public administration and communication science (National Chamber for Social-Cultural Sciences of the Union of Cooperating Dutch Universities)
EDITORIAL/REFEREE/EXPERT
- Member of the editorial board of the Amsterdam University Press (2000–)
- Member of the editorial advisory board of Acta Politica (2001–)
- Member of the advisory board of the Swiss Political Science Review (2001–)
- Member of the “referentencollege” of the Dutch Science Foundation (2004–)
- Member of the expert advisory board of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2006–)
- Member of the supervision board of the research program ‘The distribution of responsibility for social security’ of the University of Amsterdam (2005–)
- Member of the editorial board of Acta Politica (1997–2001)
- Member of the editorial board of ECPR-NEWS (1997–2001)
- Member of the editorial board of Openbaar Bestuur Internationaal (1995–1998)
- Member of selection committees for chairs in Political Science (University of Amsterdam,Antwerp University)
- Referee for West European Politics
- Referee for the Swiss National Science Foundation
- Referee for Comparative Political Studies
- Referee for Beleid & Maatschappij
- Referee for the European Journal of Political Research
- Referee for Party Politics
- Referee for Political Studies
- Referee for Public Administration
- Referee for the Netherlands’ Journal of Social Sciences
- Referee for Routledge
- Referee for the Danish Social Science Research Council of the Ministry of Science,
Technology and Innovation
LANGUAGES:
Mother tongue: Dutch
Foreign Languages: Reading Writing Speaking
English: Excellent Excellent Well
German: Well Reasonable Well
French: Reasonable Moderate Moderate
Italian: Well Moderate Reasonable
