Liesbet Hooghe is a political scientist, the W. R. Kenan Junior. Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Education
She graduated summa cum laude from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with a Licentiate in Political Sciences in 1984, and received her Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from KU Leuven in 1989. She was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University in 1989-1990, and a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1991-1994).
Career
She also holds a research professorship in multilevel governance at the VU University Amsterdam. Liesbet Hooghe is the spouse of Gary Marks. Her academic reputation rests primarily on her conception of “multilevel governance”—how government is organized from the local to the global level
She has written extensively on the European Union and on sub-national government and her publications have been translated in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, and Chinese.
Over the past fifteen years, Liesbet Hooghe, with her spouse Gary Marks, has sought to theorize the conditions of multilevel governance while striving to gain better information. Much of her research and publications can be categorized under five broad topics: regional authority and multilevel governance.
International authority and multilevel governance. Party politics and public opinion on European integration.
Political elites and the European Commission.
Measurement and data collection. In May 2010, Professors Hooghe and Marks received a five-year European Research Grant to conduct research on the causes and consequences of multilevel governance.