Rudolf Bastiaan "Rudy" Andeweg (born 28 February 1952) is a former Professor of Empirical Political Science at

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. He has written on political psychology, voting behavior, political elites, political leadership, comparative politics and political institutions. Andeweg was born in

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, he studied law at Leiden University and graduated in 1975, and he obtained an MA in political science at the

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the next year. In 1982 he earned his PhD from Leiden University, he became professor of political science six years later. Andeweg was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) between 2002 and 2003. Andeweg became member of the

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in 2006.

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1952 births Living people Dutch political scientists Leiden University alumni Leiden University faculty Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau People from Leiden University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni {{Netherlands-scientist-stub