Title: The Struggle for the driver s seat. Strategic Behaviour of Parties and Voters in Proportional Electoral Systems: The Case of Belgium

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1 Tom Verthé Drie-Gezustersstraat 24, 3800 Sint-Truiden Tel.: 0498/ Tom.Verthe@gmail.com Education Ph.D. Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 27th June 2017 Title: The Struggle for the driver s seat. Strategic Behaviour of Parties and Voters in Proportional Electoral Systems: The Case of Belgium M.A. B.A. Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, , Summa Cum Laude Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, , Magna Cum Laude Employment Ph.D Fellow Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, VUB Researcher & Research Manager PartiRep (IAP) (50%) & Edge (SRP), VUB (50%) Researcher & Research Manager PartiRep (IAP) (50%) & Teaching Assistant Department of Political Science, VUB (50%) Post-doctoral Assistant, Centre for Local Politics, Ghent University (100%) Publications Author: Articles (peer-reviewed) - Verthé, Tom & Deschouwer, Kris (2011). Samen naar de kiezer. De vorming van pre-electorale allianties tussen CD&V en N-VA en tussen SP.a en Groen! bij de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2006, Res Publica, 53, 4, p Beyens, Stefanie, Deschouwer, Kris, Van Haute, Emilie & Verthé, Tom (2015). Born again, or born anew: Assessing the newness of the Belgian political party New-Flemish Alliance (N-VA), Party Politics, DOI: / Russo, Luana, Riera, Pedro & Verthé, Tom (2016). Tracing the M5S electorate. An ecological inference analysis of the vote swing at the 2013 Italian Parliamentary elections. Italian Political Science Review DOI: /ipo

2 Page 2 - Verthé, Tom, Bol, Damien, Beyens, Stefanie & Blais, André (2017). Making votes count in parliament or government? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. DOI: / Verthé, Tom (in progress). Strategic Voting in Multi-party PR Systems: An Experiment on the Impact of Coalition Signals on Vote Intentions for the 2014 Flemish Regional Elections, Belgium Book chapters - Verthé, Tom (2013). Samen sterk? Kartelvorming bij de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2012, in Deschouwer, Kris, Verthé, Tom & Rihoux, Benoît (eds.) Op zoek naar de kiezers. Lokale Partijafdelingen en de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van oktober 2012, Brussel: ASP, p Deschouwer, Kris, Rihoux, Benoît & Verthé, Tom (2013). Op zoek naar de lokale partijvoorzitter, in Deschouwer, Kris, Verthé, Tom & Rihoux, Benoît (eds.) Op zoek naar de kiezers. Lokale Partijafdelingen en de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van oktober 2012, Brussel: ASP, p Beyens, Stefanie & Verthé, Tom (2013). De strategische kiezer. Partijvoorkeuren en complexe stemmotieven bij de Belgische gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2012, in Dassonneville, Ruth, Hooghe, Marc, Marien, Sofie & Pilet, Jean-Benoit (eds.) De lokale kiezer. Het kiesgedrag bij de Belgische gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2012, Brussel: ASP, p Beyens, Stefanie & Verthé, Tom (2014). L'électeur stratège. Préférences partisanes et motivations électorales complexes lors des élections communales belges de 2012, in Pilet, Jean-Benoit, Dassonneville, Ruth, Hooghe, Marc & Marien, Sofie (eds.), L'électeur local. Le comportement électoral au scrutin communal de 2012, Bruxelles: Editions de L'Université Libre de Bruxelles, p Verthé, Tom (2014). Belgio: elezioni di terz ordine, in De Sio, Lorenzo; Emanuele, Vincenzo & Maggini, Nicola (eds.), Le Elezioni Europee 2014, Roma: CISE - Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali, p Verthé, Tom (2014). Belgium: Far beyond second order, in De Sio, Lorenzo; Emanuele, Vincenzo & Maggini, Nicola (eds.), The European Parliament Elections of 2014, Rome: CISE - Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali, p

3 Page 3 - Verthé, Tom, Beyens, Stefanie, Flacco, Fernanda & Nikolic, Louise (2015). Strategisch coalitiestemmen, in Deschouwer, Kris, Delwit, Pascal, Hooghe, Marc, Baudewyns, Pierre & Walgrave, Stefaan (eds.) De kiezer ontcijferd. Over stemgedrag en stemmotivaties. Tielt: Lannoo Campus, p Verthé, Tom, Beyens, Stefanie, Flacco, Fernanda & Nikolic, Louise (2015). Le vote stratégique de coalition, in Deschouwer, Kris, Delwit, Pascal, Hooghe, Marc, Baudewyns, Pierre & Walgrave, Stefaan (eds.) De kiezer ontcijferd. Over stemgedrag en stemmotivaties. Tielt: Lannoo Campus, p Buelens, Jo & Verthé, Tom (2017). De ecologische partijen, in - Buelens, Jo & Verthé, Tom (2017). Les partis écologiques, in - Delbroek, Bart & Verthé, Tom (2017). De milieubeweging, in - Delbroek, Bart & Verthé, Tom (2017). Le mouvement écologiste, in - Beyens, Stefanie, van Haute, Emilie & Verthé, Tom (2017). How liberal parties organise, in Close, Caroline & van Haute, Emilie (eds.) Liberal parties in Europe. London: Routledge [forthcoming] - Verthé, Tom & Beyens, Stefanie (2017). Strategic voting in Belgium: the 2014 federal and regional elections, in Aldrich, John H., Blais, André & Stephenson, Laura B. (eds.) The many faces of strategic voting. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press [forthcoming] Other - Verthé, Tom (2012). Politicologen blikken vooruit op 14 oktober: Lokale verkiezingen en nationale peilingen, Samenleving en Politiek, 19, 7, p Verthé, Tom (2012). Peilingen en de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen: quid N-VA?, De Wereld Morgen, 20th March (URL) - Verthé, Tom & Stouthuysen, Patrick (2014). Toekomst: De politiek in de 21e eeuw, in Stemtest: Wegwijs in de politieke partijen van België Van 1830 tot nu. Averbode: Uitgeverij Averbode, p

4 Page 4 - Verthé, Tom, Beyens, Stefanie, Flacco, Fernanda & Nikolic, Louise (2015). Voters care about government formation even when the landscape is fragmented and coalition signals are ambiguous or absent, Democratic Audit Blog (LSE), 24 th April (URL) Editor: - Deschouwer, Kris, Verthé, Tom & Rihoux, Benoît (2013). Op zoek naar de kiezers. Lokale partijafdelingen en de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van oktober 2012, Brussel: ASP (ISBN: ) Conferences and presentations Conference participations (with paper) - ECPR General Conference 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, EPOP 2014, MPSA 2015, APSA IPSA Politicologenetmaal 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, The State of the Federation 2015 Panel chair - Politicologenetmaal 2016 (co-chair Arjan Schakel, Maastricht University) Presentations for a broad audience - 15 lectures for Uitstraling Permanente Vorming on the Belgian federal, regional and European elections in 2014 and the local elections in 2012 Teaching experience - Seminar Applied Political Science [Werkcollege Toegepaste Oct. Jan. 2008

5 Page 5 Politicologie], teaching assistant (2 nd and 3 rd Bachelor) - Seminar Research Methods for Political Science [Onderzoeksmethoden voor de Politieke Wetenschappen: Werkcollege I], teaching assistant (1 st Bachelor) - Supervision Bachelor papers (on average 4/academic year) - Jury member Master theses (on average 4/academic year) Feb. Sept Present

6 Page 6 Research training - ECPR Summer School on Methods and Techniques (Research design & Case studies), Ljubljana - ECPR Summer School on Political Parties, Brussels (participant & co-organizer) Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis, KU Leuven 2012 Grants, scholarships and awards - VUB, Small Research Grant ( 5000) The effect of coalition signals on vote choice at the 2014 Flemish Regional elections - FWO, Ph.D. fellowship ( over 4 years) - VUB, Best Master thesis in the field of Political Science ( 250) Language skills - Dutch: native speaker - English: excellent (reading, writing & speaking) - French: good (reading), average (speaking & writing) - Italian: good (reading), average (speaking & writing) - German: basic (reading) Services - Webmaster Interuniversity Attraction Pole PartiRep ( - Webmaster VUB Political Science Department ( - Reviewer for European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies and Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties - Collaborator on the Political Party Database ( - Collaborator on the Members and Activists of Political Parties project (