Netherlands Country Expert

Maarten P. Vink is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Leiden University (2003) and has been in Maastricht since 2004. Vink was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2003-2004) and FCT Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal (2007-2010). He also held Visiting Scholarships at the Center for European Studies, New York University (Fall 2004) and at the Department of Philosophy and Culture at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (Fall 2005). Vink is part of the managing consortium of the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship (EUDO CITIZENSHIP). He is also managing editor of the COMPASSS Working Paper series on systematic comparative methods.