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Jos de Beus (1952) is professor of political theory at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam since 1999 (and chair in 1999-2002). He studied political science at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1971-1977 (cum laude) and took his doctoral degree in economic science at the University of Amsterdam in 1989 (Markt, democratie en vrijheid, Zwolle: Tjeenk Willink; annual price of the Dutch Political Science Association in 1990). De Beus was associate professor of welfare economics at the Department of Economic Science and Econometrics of the University of Amsterdam in 1977-1994; visiting scholar at the Harvard University Center for European Studies in 1991-1992; Stichting Socrates professor of political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente in 1991-1994; and professor of social philosophy and ethics at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Groningen in 1994-1998 (chair in1995-1998). De Beus chairs the ASSR seminar‘Political Theory and Social Sciences’(with Marcel Maussen and Robert van der Veen).
De Beus is presently member of the scientific board of Beleid & Maatschappij (Utrecht), Duitsland Instituut (Amsterdam) and Observatoire Social Européen (Brussels) as well as member of the GARNET Political Philosophy Group (Florence), and the special Commission ‘Europese integratie’ of the Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (The Hague). He is member of the Board of Trustees of the Fund for Central and East European Book Projects and the redactieraad sociale wetenschappen of Amsterdam University Press. De Beus is a teacher of Comenius Leergangen Groningen and Academia Vitae in Deventer. Since May 2006, he is president of the NKWP, the Dutch Political Science Association. In 2009-2010, like in 2007-2008 and 2008-2009, De Beus is one of the columnists of the weekly Dutch public television programme on politics called Buitenhof. De Beus lives in Hilversum with his wife Marjon van der Velden and two children (Florian, Madeleine). Inaugural lecture: Een primaat van politiek (A primacy of Politics), June 29 2001, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.Research Interests
De Beus tries to combine political theory and empirical approaches to politics in a historical perspective. His work in the 1980s concerned liberalism, while his work in the early 1990s concerned egalitarianism. His main interests today concern democratic communitarianism, in particular the transformation of representative democracy; the idea of international democracy; democratisation of the European Union; and democratic responses to globalisation.
De Beus was a member of the European research group EUROPUB, chaired by professor Ruud Koopmans (WZB/VU)in2001-2004. EUROPUB will publish its resultsin a volume forCambridge University Press, forthcoming. Together with dr. Jeannette Mak he wrote a Dutch book on the Europeanisation of the public sphere in the Netherlands called De kwestie Europa, hoe de EU doordringt tot de Nederlandse politiek. It has been published by Amsterdam University Press before the European Parliament Elections of June 2009. The main question is whether the European membership of the Netherlands and the penetration of European politics into Dutch government have engendered Europeanisation of political communication (in particular newspapers) and of mobilisation (in particular parties and social movements).In 2006 De Beus received a N.W.O. grant for writing a book called The Advance of Audience Democracy, Political Representation in Western Societies since 1989 and 2001. This book examines the conceptual, empirical and normative standing of Bernard Manin’s model of public politics (1995, 1997). The manuscript is currently in a process of asessment by a leading publisher in Great Britain.
Together with his Amsterdam colleagues Wouter van der Brug and Philip van Praag, De Beus is leading a major research project 2007-2011 called Political Legitimacy and Transformations of Party Democracy, sponsored by N.W.O in its overall programme Contested Democracy. He is responsible for the special project on rethinking the concept of throughput-oriented legitimacy in political science (Easton, Scharpf) in an era of public politics and so-called transparency movements, such as populism.
De Beus is planning a Dutch book on the development of ideas and parties in Dutch politics since Fortuyn and Van Gogh (Van oude en nieuwe politiek).
De Beus is a regular referee for the Dutch and Flemish Organisations for Scientific Research; university presses (including Yale University Press), and a number of journals, including European Journal of PoliticalResearch, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of PoliticalPhilosophy and Acta Politica.
Europub.com
Oratie (2001)
NWO Political Legitimacy and Transitions of Party Democracy (2008-2011)
Populist Leadership (2009)
Political dissatisfaction, book review (2009)
Amerikaanse democratie (2009)
Teaching Interests
The two main regular BA courses (second semester) of De Beus are ‘De democratische samenleving’ (with dr. Robert van der Veen), a course on democratisation in Western societies, non-Western societies, international affairs, and public administration, as well as ‘De toekomst van de representative democratie’(with dr. Joost Berkhout), a course on the tranformation of representative and participatory politics and the current crises of democracy in Western national states.
In semester I of 2009-2010 De Beus will not be able to give classes and lectures due to illness.
De Beus’s courses since 1999 include ‘The Political Theory of Supranational Democracy’ (ISHSS), ‘Internationalisme en kosmopolitisme in de rechtvaardigheidstheorie’, ‘De Derde Weg inde sociaal-democratie’, ‘DeEuropesepolitiekeruimte’, ‘Internationale democratisering’, 'Democratisering, nationalisme en geweld' (afstudeerproject) en 'Politieke denkers en stromingen' (afstudeerproject). De Beus gave an introduction into political science for the alfa-gammapropedeuse in Almere (2000-2002) as well as for the beta-gamma programme of the IIS in Amsterdam until 2009 (with dr. Otto Holman).
De Beus is coordinator of the track Political Theory and Political Behaviour of theMaster Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. De Beus was coordinator of the ASSR Social Science Research Master in the academic year 2006-2007. De Beus is winner of the 2005 teacher’s prize of Machiavelli, the Amsterdam association of students of political science.
Political Theory and Political Power
Democratische Samenleving
Politieke Theorie en Politiek Gedrag
Conservatisme voor gevorderden
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Public policy interests
De Beus is a regular contributor to Dutch journals, such as NRC Handelsblad, de Volkskrant and Trouw (op-ed page contributions, essays). Between 2005 and 2007 he was book reviewer for de Volkskrant.
De Beus is a columnist for the sunday television programme Buitenhof. He is absent in the first half of 2009-2010 due to illness.
De Beus is an active panel member in meetings of scientists, politicians and committed citizens. He was chairman of SISWO, the former academic organization forpromotion of policy sciences in social and urban policies (2000-2005). De Beus is member of the Partij van de Arbeid since 1975. He was member of the board of the Wiardi Beckman Stichting in 1994-2004.
Een Nederlandse marktstaat (2009)
De kwestie Europa, hoe de EU tot de Nederlandse politiek doordringt, Amsterdam UP (2009), met Jeannette Mak
Work in progress
Any reactions are welcome on the following articles:
De blik van de politicoloog (2006)
Truth about Audience Democracy and in It (2006)
Hedendaags leiderschap in de toeschouwersdemocratie (2006)
Krijgt Europa een publieksdemocratie? (2009)
How to Signal and Label a Political Crisis (2008)
Opportunisme in de Nederlandse politiek (2009)
De kwestie Europa
Voor studenten is een pdf-bestand toegankelijk van het boek De kwestie Europa, Hoe de EU tot de Nederlandse politiek doordringt. Amsterdam: University Press, mei 2009 (met Jeannette Mak).
De kwestie Europa pdf
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