Wouter Veenendaal
Professor by Special Appointment Kingdom Relations
- Name
- Prof.dr. W.P. Veenendaal
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- w.p.veenendaal@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5572-4669
Wouter Veenendaal is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Institute of Political Science.
Wouter Veenendaal is Professor by Special Appointment in Kingdom Affairs, and Associate Professor of Comparative Politics.
He completed his studies and PhD at Leiden University, and in 2014 his dissertation was awarded the Annual Thesis Prize of the Dutch Political Science Association.
Veenendaal’s research examines the effects of population size on politics and democracy, with a specific focus on politics in small (island) states. He is (co)author of Politics and Democracy in Microstates (Routledge, 2014), Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds (Oxford University Press, 2018), Population and Politics: The Impact of Scale (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Ongemak: Zes Caribische Eilanden en Nederland (Prometheus, 2022).
In 2016 Veenendaal acquired an NWO Veni-grant for his research project When Things Get Personal: Explaining Political Stability in Small States (2017–2020). At this moment he is working on his NWO Vidi-project Downsize My Democracy? The Democratic Consequences of Decentralization (2021-2026), which studies the performance of local and regional democracy in European countries.
Since 2024 Veenendaal holds the Professor Chair Democratic Representation in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was established by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. In the context of this Chair, he studies the relations between the European Netherlands and the six Caribbean islands in the Kingdom. Veenendaal has been seconded for this Chair to the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW), where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher between 2014 and 2017 as part of the NWO-sponsored project Confronting Caribbean Challenges.
› Curriculum vitae Wouter Veenendaal
PhD supervision
Wouter Veenendaal is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- democracy and democratization
- small states and territories
- clientelism and informal politics
- Kingdom Affairs
See for more information on PhD positions:
Professor by Special Appointment Kingdom Relations
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
Associate professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Veenendaal W. (29 May 2017), Enduring Non-Sovereignty: Politics in the Dutch Caribbean Islands after the Constitutional Reforms of 2010. Guest Lecture at University College Utrecht, 29 May 2017. [lecture].
- Veenendaal W. (5 February 2017), Liechtenstein’s Populists Gain Ground. Interviewed by for POLITICO. [interview].
- Veenendaal W. (2017), Caribbean Decolonization and Independence. Guest Lecture at the Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, 15 March 2017. [lecture].
- Country Analyst