Gert-Jan Put December 2014 Personal information First name Surname Address Tel Fax E-mail Web Date of birth Place of birth Nationality Gert-Jan Put KU Leuven Public Governance Institute Parkstraat 45 bus 3609 3000 Leuven Belgium 0032 16 323246 (office) 0032 16 323088 Gertjan.Put@soc.kuleuven.be http://soc.kuleuven.be/io/ned/staf/biografie/putgertjan.html August 5, 1986. Genk, Belgium Belgian Education 2010 - present Supervisor Title PhD in Social Sciences (expected December 2015) Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven Prof. Dr. Bart Maddens All Politics is Local: The Geographical Dimension of Candidate Selection in Belgian Political Parties 2008-2009 2007-2008 2004-2007 Master in Management, Cum Laude Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven Master in Comparative and International Politics, Magna Cum Laude Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven Bachelor in Political Sciences, Magna Cum Laude Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven Teaching and Research interests Comparative Politics, Candidate Selection, Campaign Spending Effects, Legislative Turnover, Political Career Patterns
Work Experience Oct. 2012 present Oct. 2013 - April 2014 Mar. 2010 - Sept. 2012 Oct. 2008 - Feb. 2010 PhD Fellowship of the Research Foundation Flanders FWO Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Tel-Aviv University, Israel PhD Research and Teaching Assistant, Centre for Political Research, KU Leuven Part-time Teaching Assistant, Centre for Political Research, KU Leuven Teaching Experience Student s Assessor in writing Master s Dissertations in Comparative Politics, 2009-present Teaching Assistant for Political Parties and Social Movements, 2010-2012 Teaching Assistant for Research Seminar on Political Party Organizations, 2009-2013 Teaching Assistant for Practicum in Political Science, 2009-2012 Articles in international peer-reviewed journals Put, G. (2014). Determinants of Geographical Representation on Candidate Lists in Flexible-List Systems: Lessons from the Belgian Case. Politics, accepted for publication. Put, G. & Maddens, B. (2014). The effect of municipality size and local office on the electoral success of Belgian/Flemish election candidates: a multilevel analysis. Government and Opposition, published online. Put, G., Maddens, B. & Smulders, J. (2014). The effect of individual campaign spending under a semi-open PR system in local elections. The case of 2012 local elections in Belgium. Local Government Studies, published online. Vanlangenakker, I., Maddens, B. & Put, G. (2014). Het carrièrepatroon van federale politici in Vlaanderen. Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, accepted for publication. Wauters, B., Maddens, B. & Put, G. (2013). It takes time. The long term effects of gender quota. Representation, 50 (2), pp.143-159. Maddens, B. & Put, G. (2013). Office effects and campaign spending in a semi-open list PR system: the Belgian/Flemish federal and regional elections 1999-2010. Electoral Studies, 32 (4), pp. 852-863. Vanlangenakker, I., Maddens, B. & Put, G. (2013). Career patterns in multi-level states: an analysis of the Belgian regions. Regional Studies, 47 (3), pp. 356-367.
Put, G. & Maddens, B. (2013). The selection of candidates for eligible positions on PR lists: the Belgian/ Flemish federal elections 1999 2010. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 23 (1), pp. 49-65. Put, G. & Maddens, B. (2012). De selectie van verkiesbare kandidaten. Een analyse van de Belgische Kamerverkiezingen 1999-2010. Res Publica: Tijdschrift voor Politologie 54 (3), 289-308. (in Dutch) Vanlangenakker, I., Maddens, B. & Put, G. (2011). Political careers in Belgium: an example of the integrated career model. Fédéralisme-Régionalisme, 10, epub. 10p. Maddens, B. & Put, G. (2011). Maken sterke lijsten een verschil? Een analyse van de lijsten bij de federale en regionale verkiezingen in het Vlaams Gewest (2003-2010). Res Publica: Tijdschrift voor Politologie 53 (2), 165-188. (in Dutch) Co-authored books Maddens, B., Put, G. J. & Smulders, J. (2014). Het DNA van de kandidaten. Leuven: Acco. Articles in other academic journals (in Dutch) Smulders, J. & Put, G. J. (2014). Het thuisvoordeel bij verkiezingen. Samenleving en Politiek, 21(8), 75-82. Put, G. J. (2012). Van doorbraak tot consolidatie. Een analyse van de partijorganisatie van LDD na de federale verkiezingen van 2007. Burger, Bestuur & Beleid, 8(1), 14-29. Put, G. J., Verleden, F., Maddens, B., & Vanlangenakker, I. (2011). De geografische spreiding van kandidaten op de Vlaamse kieslijsten (2003-2010). Samenleving en Politiek, 18(5), 60-72. Maddens, B., Weekers, K., Put, G. J., & Vanlangenakker, I. (2010). De zeven dwergen: de evolutie van de verkiezingsuitgaven van 1991 tot 2009. Samenleving en Politiek, 17(2), 46-58. Verleden, F., Weekers, K., Maddens, B., Put, G. J., & Vanlangenakker, I. (2009). Een nieuwe legislatuur, een nieuw parlement?. Samenleving en Politiek, 16(7), 4-13. Work in Progress The selection of Spitzenkandidaten within Europarties. (with Steven Van Hecke and Corey Cunningham) Intra-party politics and public opinion. (with Yael Shomer and Einat Gedalya-Lavy) The geographical manipulation of candidate lists. (with Bart Maddens and Frederik Verleden)
Candidate selection, intraparty competition and incumbency turnover (with Athanassios Gouglas) Conference presentations and activities Intra-Party Politics and Public Opinion: How Selection Processes affect Citizens' Views on Democracy (with Yael Shomer and Einat Lavy, presented at the APSA Annual Meeting, 28-31 August 2014, Washington DC) About parties, candidates and territory: the effect of candidate selection methods on the level of territorial representation on candidate lists. (Presented at the EPSA Annual Meeting, 19-21 June 2014, Edinburgh) What determines geographical representation on party lists? Lessons from the Belgian case. (presented at the 13 th Dutch-Belgian Politicologenetmaal, 12-13 June 2014, Maastricht) Geographic ticket-balancing strategies: the impact of electoral system attributes on the geography of Belgian election candidates (presented at the 9 th International Graduate Yitzhak Rabin Conference, 11-13 December 2013, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Co-chair of the workshop Access to politics: actors in the process of political recruitment. At the 12 th Dutch-Belgian Politicologenetmaal, 30-31 May 2013, University of Ghent. The impact of personal vote-earning attributes on the electoral result of party candidates (with Bart Maddens, presented at the Dutch-Belgian Politicologenetmaal 2013 of 30-31 May in Ghent) A multilevel analysis of incumbency turnover in the regional parliaments of Flanders, Wallonia, Sachsen, Catalonia and Scotland. (with Wout Frees & Bart Maddens, presented at the Dutch-Belgian Politicologenetmaal 2013 of 30-31 May in Ghent) Wauters, B., Maddens, B. & Put, G. (2010). The effect of quota on the profile of women candidates in Belgium. Paper presented at the 9 th Dutch-Belgian Politicologenetmaal, 27-28 May 2010, University of Leuven. Put, G. & Vanlangenakker, I. (2010). The extent of multiple-office holding in Belgium (2003-2009). An exploration of the underlying reasons. Paper presented at the 9 th Dutch- Belgian Politicologenetmaal, 27-28 May 2010, University of Leuven. Paper discussant for various panels in these international conferences. Additional methodological training
Regression and analysis of variance, Applications with R, Flanders Training Network for Methodology and Statistics (FLAMES), 13 and 18 November 2014, University of Leuven. Fundamental Statistical Methods, Applications with R, Flanders Training Network for Methodology and Statistics (FLAMES), 14 October 2014, University of Leuven. Essential Tools for R Introduction to R, Flanders Training Network for Methodology and Statistics (FLAMES), 4-5 June 2014, University of Leuven. ICTS courses on Generalized Linear Modelling (GLM), University of Leuven, April 2014. Multilevel Analysis, Master of Quantitative Analysis in Social Sciences, University of Leuven, 2011-2012. Hierarchical Models, Summer School in Quantitative Analysis, University of Essex, Summer 2011. Mathematics for Social Scientists, Summer School in Quantitative Analysis, University of Essex, Summer 2011. Grants and Fellowships Junior Mobility Programme grant for junior researchers, YouReca KU Leuven 10.000 PhD Fellowship of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), 2012-2016 Departmental and Discipline service Representative of AAP-BAP graduate staff in Educational Committee Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven (2009-2011) Coordinator Academic Programme for Master in Comparative and International Politics, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven (2008-2010) Peer-Reviewer: Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties; Politics Languages and skills Dutch English French Modern Greek German Native Fluent Working Knowledge Intermediate Notions Statistical Software skills SAS, MLwiN, R