Christoph Niessen
Guest
- Name
- Dr. C.R. Niessen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- c.niessen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0245-6389
Christoph Niessen is a researcher in comparative politics.
Christoph Niessen is a researcher in comparative politics. His research deals with multi-level governance and deliberative citizen participation. More specifically, he has studied the determinants of evolving sub-state autonomy demands and statutes in Western Europe, and researched how deliberative democratic innovations are received by traditional decision-making actors. His work has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, the International Political Science Review, Sociological Methods & Research, Regional Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Politics & Society, Policy Sciences, Publius: the Journal of Federalism and Comparative European Politics.
Christoph holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve and Namur in Belgium, and an MA in Political Science from Central European University Budapest. Previously, he has been a postdoctoral Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh and Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. After joining the institute in 2022, he is currently an FWO research fellow at Antwerp University.
Guest
Assistant professor
- Niessen C.R. (2023), How do elected officials perceive deliberative citizens’ assemblies?. In: Reuchamps M., Vrydagh J. & Welp J. (Eds.), De Gruyter handbook of citizens’ assemblies. Berlin: De Gruyter. 325-336.
- Niessen C.R. (2023), Longitudinal QCA: integrating time through Change-Based Intervals (CBIs) and a Flexible Lag Condition (FLC), Sociological Methods and Research : .
- Niessen C.R. & Reuchamps M. (2022), Institutionalising citizen deliberation in Parliament: the permanent citizens' dialogue in the German-speaking community of Belgium, Parliamentary Affairs 75(1): 135-153.
- Niessen C.R. (2022), Measuring evolving regional autonomy demands and statutes: introducing the Sub-state Autonomy Scale (SAS), Regional Studies 56(9): 1589-1603.
- Jacquet V., Niessen C.R. & Reuchamps M. (2022), Sortition, its advocates and its critics: an empirical analysis of citizens' and MPs' support for random selection as a democratic reform proposal, INT POLIT SCI REV 43(2): 295-316.
- Dodeigne J., Niessen C.R., Sinardet D. & Reuchamps M. (2022), Identités et préférences des parlementaires envers le fédéralisme belge à l’aube d’une septième réforme de l’État, Courrier Hebdomadaire 7-8(2532-2533): 5-62.
- Sinardet D., Niessen C., Reuchamps M. & Dodeigne J. (2022), Kering richting herfederalisering zet zich door: onderzoek naar de institutionele voorkeuren van de Belgische parlementsleden, 29(10): 4-17.
- Niessen C.R. & Reuchamps M. (2022), Assemblée permanente. In: Petit G., Blondiaux L., Casillo I., Fourniau J.-M., Gourgues G., Hayat S., Lefebvre R., Rui S., Wojcik S. & Zetlaouï-Léger J. (Eds.), Dictionnaire critique et interdisciplinaire de la Participation. Paris: GIS Participation/Democracie.
- Niessen C.R. (2021), Federalization in the slipstream: how the German-speaking community of Belgium became one of the smallest federal entities in the world, Nations and Nationalism 27(4): 1026-1046.
- Reuchamps M., Boerjan H., Niessen C.R. & Randour F. (2021), More or less regional autonomy? A qualitative analysis of citizen arguments towards (de)centralization in Belgium, Comparative European Politics 19(2): 225-247.
- Dodeigne J., Niessen C.R., Reuchamps M. & Sinardet D. (2021), The effect of institutional affiliation and career patterns on (de)centralization preferences in advanced multi-level states: parliamentarians' support for (de)centralization in Belgium, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 51(2): 262-282.
- Xhardez C., Counet M., Randour F. & Niessen C.R. (2020), 50 ans de fédéralisation de l’État belge: institutions, acteurs, politiques publiques et particularités du fédéralisme belge. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia.
- Niessen C. (2020), Review of: Banting K & Kymlicka W. (2017), The Strains of Commitment. The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Oxford University Press 30(1): 117-119.
- Niessen C.R., Reuchamps M., Stjepanovic D. & Habra A. (2020), When have dyadic federations succeeded and when have they failed?: A comparative analysis of bipolar federalism around the world. In: Gagnon A.-G. & Tremblay A. (Eds.), Federalism, democracy and national diversity in the 21st century: challenges and opportunities. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 41-72.
- Niessen C.R. & Dodeigne J. (2019), The Flemish negative case: explaining the prevalence of regionalist demands without request for an independence referendum, Fédéralisme Régionalisme 19: .
- Niessen C. (2019), Understanding the occurrence and outcome of self-determination referenda in Europe: a conceptual and methodological introduction, Fédéralisme Régionalisme 19: online.
- Niessen C. (2019), When citizen deliberation enters real politics: how politicians and stakeholders envision the place of a deliberative mini-public in political decision-making, Policy Sciences 52(3): 481-503.
- Vandamme P.É., Jacquet V., Niessen C., Pitseys J. & Reuchamps M. (2018), Intercameral relations in a bicameral elected and sortition legislature, Politics and Society 46(3): 381-400.
- Niessen C.R., Schiffino N., Jacquet V. & Deschamps L. (2018), Critical candidates: elite attitudes towards the functioning of representative democracy. In: Vandeleene A., Winter L. de & Baudewyns P. (Eds.), Candidates, parties and voters in the Belgian partitocracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 341-363.
- Niessen C.R., Bouhon F. & Reuchamps M. (2016), Zwischen den Zeiten: die sechste Reform des belgischen Staates aus Perspektive der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft. In: Tübingen E.Z.F.F. (Ed.), Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2016. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 254-266.
- Bouhon F., Niessen C. & Reuchamps M. (2015), La Communauté germanophone après la sixième réforme de l’État : état des lieux, débats et perspectives, Courrier Hebdomadaire 21(2266-2267): 5-71.
- Providing counciling to the Parliament's Permanent Citizens' Dialogue