A short journey into Lieven De Winter’s long bibliography
(2022) The Winter of Democracy: Partitocracy in Belgium — ISBN: [978-2-39061-246-9], p. 21-35, published
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- Lieven De Winter’s bibliography is long, very long. It is in fact the mere illustration of the tremendous bulk of his academic works, throughout a rich scientific career. In order to grasp the diversity of his intellectual contribution to the field of political science and beyond, we have organized this short journey into Lieven De Winter’s long bibliography around four levels that lay the foundations for the chapters of this book. We first look at his contribution to the understanding of citizens, that is public opinion, and in particular their ethno-territorial identities, a sub-field where we can find at least one quarter of Lieven De Winter’s publications. His interest was not only on what he often, albeit never pejoratively, refers to the masses but also on the elites, and in particular the candidates, those who aspire and sometimes become the political elites. They act and interact within political parties, and this is our third level. One type of parties has specifically attracted the attention of Lieven De Winter: regionalist parties. This attention turned into a definition that remains the seminal definition of regionalist parties in the literature. Our fourth and last level, parliaments and governments, is overarching; it is where all first three levels end up and meet up: citizens elect candidates selected by political parties, that are also in charge of cabinet ministers’ nomination. No surprise that Lieven De Winter’s doctoral thesis, some 40 years ago, was on the Members of Parliament in Belgium.
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Vandeleene, A., & Reuchamps, M. (2022). A short journey into Lieven De Winter’s long bibliography. In Pierre Baudewyns, Marleen Brans, Min Reuchamps, Benoît Rihoux, Virginie Van Ingelgom (eds) (ed.), The Winter of Democracy: Partitocracy in Belgium (p. p. 21-35). Presses universitaires de Louvain. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/243469