Kris DeschouwerKris Deschouwer is research professor in the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He has published on political parties, elections, representation, regionalism, federalism and consociational democracy, most often with afocus on the Belgian case. He was between 2007 and 2017 the coordinator of the interuniversity research programme PARTIREP, on political participation and representation in modern democracies. Read More Read Less