Europe and America

“Amid the brilliance and the literary achievements of Europe, then, the conception of rights was perhaps more completely misunderstood than at any other time. . . . And just at that time these very principles, unknown to or scorned by the nations of Europe, were proclaimed in the wilderness of the New World, where they were to become the watchwords of a great people.” (Democracy in America, Vol 1, Pt 1, Ch 2).

Liesbet Hooghe (UNC Chapel Hill)

Liesbet Hooghe is the W.R Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at KU Leuven, Belgium, and taught at the University of Toronto before moving to Chapel Hill in 2000. Since joining the UNC faculty, Hooghe has been a Principal Investigator of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) on political parties. Hooghe’s many publications include The European Commission and The Integration of Europe: Images of Governance (2002); The European Commission of the 21st Century (2013), with Michael Bauer, Sara Connolly, Renaud Dehousse, Hussein Kassim, John Peterson, and Andrew Thompson; Cohesion Policy and European Integration: Building Multilevel Governance (1996); and A Leap in the Dark: Nationalist Conflict and Federal Reform in Belgium (1999).

Gary Marks (UNC Chapel Hill)

Gary Marks is Burton Craige Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. He earned a B.Soc.Sc. at Birmingham University, an MA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a PhD from Stanford University. In 2010, he was awarded a Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Prize) for his contributions to political science. Marks co-founded the UNC Center for European Studies (1994) and EU Center of Excellence (1998), and served as Director until 2006. He has published extensively in top journals, and his books include European Integration and Political Conflict: Citizens, Parties, Groups (2004), co-edited with Marco Steenbergen; It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States? (2000) with Seymour Martin Lipset; Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (1999), co-edited with Herbert Kitschelt, Peter Lange, and John Stephens; Governance in the European Union (1996), with Fritz Scharpf, Philippe Schmitter, and Wolfgang Streeck; Reexamining Democracy: Essays in Honor of Seymour Martin Lipset (1992), co-edited with Larry Diamond; The Crisis of Socialism in Europe (1992), co-edited with Christiane Lemke; and Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1989).

Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, Joint Publications and Awards

Hooghe and Marks are married and work jointly on most projects. They also win awards together. They have both received the APSA Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award (2017). They have also won the Martha Derthick Award by the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section of the APSA for their seminal book Multi-Level Governance and European Integration (2001). Moreover, they received Honorary Doctorates from Maastricht University for their work on multilevel governance. In addition to Multi-Level Governance, Hooghe and Marks have together published five books, including A Theory of International Organization (2019), with Tobias Lenz; Measuring International Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory, Vol. III, (2017), with Tobias Lenz, Jeanine Bezuijen, Besir Ceka, Svet Derderyan; Community, Scale, and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume II (2016); Measuring Regional Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance. Volume I (2016), with Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandi Chapman-Osterkatz, and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield; and The Rise of Regional Authority: A Comparative Study of 42 Democracies (1950-2006) (2010), with Arjan H. Schakel.

Matthias Matthijs (Johns Hopkins)

Matthias Matthijs is the Dean Acheson Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and served as the Chair of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) from 2019 to 2021. Matthijs earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and his MA and PhD at Johns Hopkins University, where his dissertation received the Samuel H. Beer Prize for Best Dissertation in British Politics by a North American scholar, awarded by the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association. In addition, he has twice been awarded the Max M. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Teaching at SAIS. Matthijs has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and multiple articles and essays for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Democracy, Survival, and Current History. He is the editor (with Mark Blyth) of The Future of the Euro (2015), and author of Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005) (2011).