Crum, Ben
Ben Crum is Professor of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also the director of the VU School of Governance and a work package leader in the Horizon2020 RECONNECT project (‘Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law’). Crum studied political science at the University of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics, and holds a PhD from the European University Institute Florence. Before joining the Vrije Universiteit in 2004, he worked at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, the University of Twente, and policy consultancy firm Research voor Beleid in Leiden. He also has held a secondment at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague and visiting positions at the University of Victoria (Canada) and Harvard University.
Research Interests: Political theory of the European Union; National parliaments in the EU; European Parliament; Democratic deficit; Inter-institutional relations
Listing Details
| Institution: | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Fields of Expertise: | Democracy and Political Participation Ethics and Political Philosophy EU Institutions Political Parties and Elections |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism,RG ECSA-C Democracy,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | ben.crum@vu.nl |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | Dutch, English |
| Publications: | With Lucy Kinski ‘Transnational Representation in EU National Parliaments’, Political Studies (2019) ‘Saving the Euro at the Cost of Democracy’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 51, No. 4 (July, 2013): 614-30. With John Erik Fossum, ‘The Multilevel Parliamentary Field: a framework for theorizing representative democracy in the EU’, European Political Science Review, Vol.1, No.2 (July 2009): 249-271. Learning from the EU Constitutional Treaty (Routledge, 2012) Practices of Inter-Parliamentary Coordination in International Politics. The European Union and Beyond (ECPR Press, 2013) |
