Professor Cees van der Eijk defines a political concept in 60 seconds for those with a spare minute to learn something new. This videocast focuses on voting as a political concept.
Warning: video does contain bloopers and out takes.
May 2010
Suitable for Undergraduate study and Community education
Professor Cees van der Eijk, School of Politics and International Relations
Professor Cees van der Eijk is Professor of Social Science Research Methods, and Director of Social Sciences Methods and Data Institute at the University of Nottingham.
Before joining Nottingham he was Professor of Political Science the University of Amsterdam, following two Lectureships and Readership in Methodology. He has been a Research Fellow at NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and Humanities), a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is member-correspondent of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.
At Amsterdam Professor van der Eijk was Dean of Education, and remains on the Directors Boards of the Amsterdam School of Communication Research and the Dutch Foundation for Electoral Research (SKON). He also serves on the Executive Board for the Social and Behavioral Sciences of NWO (the Dutch National Science Foundation), and was between 1991 and 1996 the President of the Dutch Political Science Association.
He has taught guest lectures or short courses at other universities in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Ireland, Britain, Germany and the USA, and to government and commercial audiences.
