Dave Sinardet

Dave Sinardet

Dave Sinardet (Antwerp, 6 October 1975) is a Belgian political scientist, author and columnist.

Biography

Dave Sinardet is a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and part-time professor at the Université Saint-Louis in Brussels. At the University of Antwerp he is a post-doctoral research fellow of the FWO (National Fund for Scientific Research).

He is also an op-ed columnist for several Belgian papers, amongst them the Dutch-speaking newspapers De Standaard, De Tijd, and the French-speaking newspaper Le Soir.

Research themes

Dave Sinardet's research concentrates on comparative federalism, nationalism, language politics, consociational democracy, multi-level politics, public sphere and political communication. His phd 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, Acta Politica or "International Journal of Political Science", Regional and Federal Studies and Governance.

He is also an active participant in the Belgian public debate on federalism and nationalism, as one of the rare opinion makers active on both sides of the language frontier. 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’.

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