Jouke de Vries

Prof. Dr. Jouke de Vries (Balk, Fryslan 1960) is a professor at the Leiden University in Leiden.

Jouke de Vries has studied political science at the University of Amsterdam [http://www.campusdenhaag.nl/onderzoek/wetenschappelijk-directeur.jsp] and has been working at the group Leaderships Art [http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2000/03/0306E032.htm] at the University of Leiden since 1984. De Vries got promoted and reached his degree in 1989 from Dr. H. Daudt and Dr. H. Daalder on the article he wrote on "Ground Politics" (later made into a novel by the same name) and the educational essay "Cabinet Crisis in the Netherlands".

In 2002 he was a candidate for the leadership of the Partij van de Arbeid, but got only two percent of the votes of the party members against sixty percent for the chosen leader Wouter Bos. He teaches students at Leiden University. His profession is to be a professor of political science (Dutch:Hoogleraar) at the Leiden University. He regularly speaks to international groups of students, especially exchange students. He is currently a columnist for a Dutch language website. He writes an article for it on a blog of him each week. Here he writes on recent actualities from politics and economics. [http://leidsewetenschappers.leidenuniv.nl/show.php3?medewerker_id=233]

Jouke de Vries currently resides in Leiden near the University at which he teaches. He was married in 1986 and has two sons and a daughter. Dr. De Vries speaks the Dutch language, Frisian language, German language, French language, English language and Parsi language fluently.

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