European Political Sociology

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The board of the political sociology network was elected at the general conference of the European Sociological Association in September 2009. In August 2011 the board was renewed. Carlo Ruzza stepped down and  Virginie Guraudon was elected as the new board convenor. The board was expanded to include Maarten Vink.
 
Virginie Guiraudon (Convenor) University of Lille
Interests: European integration, immigration and multicultural politics, transnational collective action, citizenship, comparative approaches
 
 
 
Carlo Ruzza  University of Leicester UK
Interests: Public Interest Associations at EU level; Populism and the Right; Social movements and political representation; Active citizenship; Political ideologies.
 
 
 
(Social and Political Studies Department, University of Milan )
 Interests: Elections and Voting, Political Participation, Public Opinion, Media and Democracy, Research Methods, Comparative Politics 


 
 
Dietmar Loch (Sociology Dept, University of Grenoble)
Interests: populism and radical right-wing parties, immigration and ethnic relations, urban segregation and integration, sociological theory, comparative approaches
 
Hans-Jörg Trenz (University of Copenhagen, Centre for Modern European Studies)
Interests: political communication, media, public sphere, civil society, collective identity, political theory, democracy
Collaborative Research Projects: Reconstituting Democracy in Europe
 

 
 
Maarten Peter Vink
Department of Political Science
Maastricht University
The Netherlands
Interests: European integration, immigration, citizenship and comparative methodology.
 
(Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki)
(Student representative)
Interests: radical right populist parties and leadership; immigration and ethnic relations; political communication; discourse and conceptual metaphors; identity and gender issues; critical studies on men and masculinities; citizenship and queer issues; comparative approaches.
 
 
Monika Kwiecinska-(Institute of Sociology , Torun University)