Liesbet Hooghe

About

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 from 1994 to 2000, and moved to Chapel Hill in 2000. Hooghe has held fellowships and visiting professorships at numerous institutions including Cornell University, Nuffield Oxford, the EUI in Florence, WZB Berlin, VU Amsterdam, Konstanz University, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, IAS Vienna, Sciences Po-Paris, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Amsterdam. Her research and teaching primarily focus on comparative politics, multilevel governance, international organization, political behavior, and measurement. She has made significant contributions to the study of European integration, federalism, and political polarization, and has been recognized with several awards including the APSA Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award in 2017, the Martha Derthick Award in 2023, two honorary doctorates in 2024, and the EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies in 2025. Hooghe is the principal investigator of an advanced European Research Grant on transnational and local triggers, social networks, and group identities, which seeks to explain political polarization in Europe and the US.…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Law
• Social Science
• Geography
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Library science
• Philosophy

Selected publications

• Language difference and regional authority

  Regional & Federal Studies · 2020 · 131 citations

  First published online: 14 October 2020

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• The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine

  European Union Politics · 2024-03-18 · 86 citations

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  Support for Ukraine against Russian aggression has been strong across Europe, but it is far from uniform. An expert survey of the positions taken by political parties in 29 countries conducted mid-2023 reveals that 97 of 269 parties reject one or more of the following: providing weapons, hosting refugees, supporting Ukraine's path to European Union membership, or accepting higher energy costs. Where the perceived threat from Russia is most severe, we find the greatest levels of support for Ukrai…

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• Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective

  European Journal of Political Research · 2023-04-11 · 74 citations

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  Abstract A large and growing body of research draws attention to the rising salience of socio‐cultural and identitarian issues and, potentially, the emergence of a new political cleavage that divides voters on those issues. However, the micro‐foundations of this transformation are less well understood. Here we take a voter‐perspective to evaluate how party competition has been restructured in the eyes of the voter. We leverage measures of citizens’ self‐reported probabilities to vote for alterna…

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• Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic

  European Journal of Political Research · 2022-01-31 · 65 citations

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  Abstract How do political parties respond to external shocks? Using an original survey of political parties across Europe conducted in June 2020 and Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) data on partisan ideological positioning, we argue that the pre‐existing ideological stances of Europe's political parties shaped their response to emerging Covid‐19 policy issues, including the tension between economic normalization and containment, legal versus voluntary enforcement and the role of science in polic…

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• The Social Bases of Political Parties: A New Measure and Survey

  British Journal of Political Science · 2022-02-11 · 57 citations

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  Abstract This article proposes a measure of the social structuration of political parties. The measure has some distinctive virtues. It assesses the social bases of partisanship from the standpoint of the political party, and it provides a simple and transparent method for assessing the relative weight of social-structural and behavioral factors for party composition. We illustrate the power of this measure through a comparison of political parties in 30 European countries since 1975.

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Frequent coauthors

• Gary Marks

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  178 shared

• Tobias Lenz

  36 shared

• Arjan H. Schakel

  31 shared

• Jeanine Bezuijen

  26 shared

• Besir Ceka

  Davidson College

  22 shared

• Sara Niedzwiecki

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  21 shared

• Sarah Shair‐Rosenfield

  19 shared

• Sandra Chapman Osterkatz

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  19 shared

Awards & honors

• APSA Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award (2…

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