Rick van Well
Lecturer
- Name
- R.L. van Well MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- r.l.van.well@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7989-3862
Rick van Well is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science.
Rick van Well is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University. His main areas of research include government and parliament, political parties, electoral behaviour and local politics.
Van Well is coordinator of the Dutch Parliamentary Study 2025. This is a comprehensive study on the functioning of the Dutch parliament. For this eighth study in a series that started in 1968, all members of the Senate and House of Representatives are approached for a personal interview.
Furthermore, Van Well is involved in Dr Tom Louwerse’s research project Who Opposes? as a PhD candidate. His PhD study focuses on explanations of government-opposition relations in parliament.
As one of the Faces of Science of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), he regularly writes about his work as a young researcher in academia. Previously, Van Well was a researcher at ProDemos - House for Democracy and the Rule of Law. He completed a Bachelor in Political Science (2016) and a Research Master in Political Science and Public Administration (2018) at Leiden University.
Lecturer
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
Researcher
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap