Dr. Maxime VandenbergheMaxime Vandenberghe is an FWO postdoc at the Department of Political Science at Ghent University.
Dr. Maxime Vandenberghe
Biography
Maxime is a postdoc (FWO) at the Department of Political Science at Ghent University. His main research interests are federalism, consociationalism, cabinet conflicts, and party politics, with a particular focus on Belgium. In his PhD thesis (FWO, 2023), he used quantitative methods to study the impact of decentralization on ethno-territorial conflicts in Belgian cabinets (1979-2018). He is a lecturer in the master’s course Belgian Federalism and published in high-ranked journals such as Ethnopolitics, Swiss Political Science Review, Regional and Federal Studies, and Acta Politica. In the past, Maxime was active as a research assistant at the University of Bath (UK) and as a visiting professor teaching Belgian politics at the VUB. In his postdoc project, he currently studies cabinet conflicts across Western democracies (1990-2020) to assess whether some systems of government (federal/unitary) are more prone to conflict and to check whether the electoral consequences of conflicts differ depending on state structures.
