Dave Sinardet (

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

, 6 October 1975) is a

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and

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Biography

Since 2007, Dave Sinardet is a professor at

Saint-Louis University, Brussels Saint-Louis University, Brussels or UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels (officially, in French Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) is a public university in Brussels, belonging to the French Community of Belgium and specialized in social and h ...

. In 2009, he also started giving lectures at the

Vrije Universiteit Brussel The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) () is a Dutch and English-speaking research university located in Brussels, Belgium.The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is one of the five universities officially recognised by the Flemish government. listof all ...

. At the

University of Antwerp The University of Antwerp ( nl, Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is ''UA'', but ''UAntwerpen'' is more recently used. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 stud ...

he is a post-doctoral research fellow of the FWO (

National Fund for Scientific Research The National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR) (Dutch: ''Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek'' (NFWO), French: ''Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique'' (FNRS)) was once a government institution in Belgium for supporting scien ...

). He is also an

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for several Belgian papers, amongst them the Dutch-speaking newspapers ''

De Standaard ''De Standaard'' (meaning ''The Standard'' in English) is a Flemish daily newspaper published in Belgium by Mediahuis (formerly Corelio and VUM). It was traditionally a Christian-Democratic paper, associated with the Christian-Democratic and F ...

'', '' De Tijd'', and the French-speaking newspaper ''

Le Soir ''Le Soir'' (, "The Evening") is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper. Founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel, it was intended as a politically independent source of news. It is one of the most popular Francophone newspapers in Belgium, competing ...

''.

Research themes

Dave Sinardet's research concentrates on comparative federalism,

nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

, language politics, consociational democracy, multi-level politics,

public sphere The public sphere (german: Öffentlichkeit) is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action. A "Public" is "of or concerning the ...

and

political communication Political communication is a subfield of communication and political science that is concerned with how information spreads and influences politics, policy makers, the news media, and citizens. Since the advent of the World Wide Web, the amoun ...

. His PhD thesis dealt with the role of media in the representation of Belgium's political language conflict and more generally with the question of how a public sphere functions in a federal multilingual country such as Belgium. He has published in political science journals such as

West European Politics ''West European Politics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of comparative politics focusing on Western Europe. It was established in 1978 and serves as one of the main publication venues in that field. Its founding editors-in-chief were Vinc ...

Acta Politica ''Acta Politica'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science published by Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the Dutch Political Science Association. The editors-in-chief are Benjamin Leruth (University of Groningen) an ...

or "International Journal of Political Science", Regional and Federal Studies and

Governance Governance is the process of interactions through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society over a social system ( family, tribe, formal or informal organization, a territory or across territories). It is done by the g ...

. He is also an active participant in the Belgian public debate on federalism and nationalism in both French and Dutch languages. He is also regularly interviewed by international media on Belgian politics. He is a member of the Pavia group, a Belgian academic think thank which promotes a federal electoral district for Belgium, so that inhabitants could vote for the same parties, Flemish and French. Sinardet is also in favour of an EU-wide electoral district for the election of part of the members of the European Parliament, as a way to reduce the EU’s democratic deficit’.

Publications

* ''A touch of crisis. The long and winding road to the sixth Belgian state reform'', in: Belgian Society and Politics, Annual Review 2008-2009. * ''Belgian Federalism Put to the Test: The 2007 Belgian Federal Elections and their Aftermath'', in: West-European Politics, 2008. * (with Marc Hooghe) ''Is there a Belgian public opinion? Introduction'', in: Dave Sinardet & Marc Hooghe (red.), Public opinion in a multilingual society: institutional design and federal loyalty, Brussels, 2009. * ''Flemish parties in a consociational federal context: falling for the temptation of majoritarianism? The case of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde'', in: Carl Devos & David Hanley (red.), Flemish parties between region, federation and Europe, Brussels, 2009. * ''Direct democracy as a tool to shape a united public opinion in a multilingual society? Some reflections based on the Belgian case'', in: Dave Sinardet & Marc Hooghe (red.), Public opinion in a multilingual society: institutional design and federal loyalty, Brussels, 2009. * (with Caroline Van Wynsberghe, Johanne Poirier & François Tulkens) ''The political and institutional development of the Brussels Metropolitan Zone: observations and prospects'', in: Brussels studies, 2009. *
From consociational consciousness to majoritarian myth. Consociationalism, multi-level politics and the Belgian case of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde
', in:

, v. 45, no. 3, pp. 346–369 September 2010. * ''Institutional reform in Belgium: an analysis of the political dynamics behind the Lambermont state reform of 2001'', Hagen, Fern Universität, 2010 * ''Multilingual democracy and public sphere. What Belgium and the EU can learn from each other'', in: Axel Gosseries & Yannick Vanderborght (ed.), Arguing about justice. Essays for Philippe Van Parijs, Louvain-La-Neuve, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2011. * ''Federal Reform and Party Politics. The case of the Fifth Belgian State Reform'', in: Arthur Benz & Felix Knuepling, Changing Federal Constitutions: Lessons from International Comparison, Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2012. * ''Is there a Belgian public sphere? What the case of a federal multilingual country can contribute to the debate on transnational public spheres. And vice versa'', in: Michel Seymour & Alain-G. Gagnon (ed.), Multinational Federalism: Problems and Prospects, New-York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. * (with Carl Devos) ''Governing without a Government: The Belgian experiment'', in: Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administrations and Institutions, 2012. * ''How Linguistically Divided Media Represent Linguistically Divisive Issues. Belgian Political TV-Debates on Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde'', in: Regional and Federal Studies (Special issue on ‘The Future of Belgian Federalism’), 2013. * (with Peter Bursens)
Democratic legitimacy in multilevel political systems. The role of politicization at the polity-wide level in the EU and Belgium
', in:

, v. 49, no. 3, pp. 246–265 July 2014. * (with Jeremy Dodeigne & Min Reuchamps) ''Beyond the Myth of Unanimity. Opinions of Belgian MPs on Federalism and the Sixth Reform of the Belgian State'', in: Belgian Society and Politics. As Ever, in Between Elections, 2014.

References

External links

Personal file at Antwerp UniversityWebsite of Pavia Group
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sinardet, Dave Living people 1975 births Academic staff of the University of Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel