Christoph Niessen — the Research Portal

Personal profile

Introduction

Research Areas:

Multi-level governance ; (multi)nationalism ; deliberative democracy ; democratic innovations.

Doctoral Research Project (2018-2021):

Why Territorial Communities Demand and Why States Grant Self-governance. A Comparative Analysis of Autonomy Building in Western Europe.

Supervision: Prof. Jérémy Dodeigne (UNamur) & Prof. Min Reuchamps (UCLouvain).

Diplomas

2017 : Master of Arts in Political Science (spec. Constitutional Politics)
Central European University

2016 : Master en Sciences politiques (spéc. Finalité approfondie)
Université catholique de Louvain

2016 : Certificat universitaire en Philosophie
Université catholique de Louvain

2014 : Bachelier en Sciences politiques
Université catholique de Louvain

Fingerprint Fingerprint is based on mining the text of the person's scientific documents to create an index of weighted terms, which defines the key subjects of each individual researcher.

3 Similar Profiles

political decision making Social Sciences

citizen Social Sciences

Belgian Social Sciences

stakeholder Social Sciences

politician Social Sciences

decision-making process Social Sciences

parliament Social Sciences

autonomy Social Sciences

Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Projects 2018 2019

1 Active

Why National Minorities Mobilize and Why States Grant Self-rule. A Comparative Analysis of Autonomy Building in Western Europe

Niessen, C. & Dodeigne, J.

1/01/18 → 31/12/19

Project: Research

Research Output 2015 2019

2 Citations
1 h-Index
8 Paper
6 Article
3 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
1 Chapter

Book review of ‘The Strains of Commitment. The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies’, edited by Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka (Oxford University Press, 2017)

Niessen, C., 16 Jan 2019, In : Regional and Federal Studies. 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Inter-Chamber Relations in a Bicameral Elected and Sortition Legislature

Vandamme, P-E., Jacquet, V., Niessen, C., Pitseys, J. & Reuchamps, M., 2019, Legislature by Lot. Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance. Gastil, J. & Wright, E. O. (eds.). London & New York: Verso, p. 123-144 (The Real Utopias Project).

Research output: Contribution in Book/Catalog/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)