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Brenda Van Coppenolle
Elie Halevy Fellow
Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF)
Research Interest(s): Political economy, comparative politics, political inequality, dynasties, elections, lotteries, political careers
Discipline(s): Political Science
Biography
Brenda Van Coppenolle is a Senior Research Fellow affiliated with the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF). She was previously affiliated with Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) at Sciences Po.
From May 2023, she is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant POLLOT. Previously, she worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Essex and at Leiden University. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Methodology, LSE in 2014, and was a visiting scholar at NYU.
Her research interests lie in the areas of comparative politics and political economy, and include elections, lotteries, political careers, political dynasties, and political inequality. Her work has been published in World Politics, the Journal of Politics, Political Studies, Electoral Studies, French Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, as well as by Oxford University Press.
She has studied political dynasties in parliaments, and the development of democratic institutions and political careers, in European countries such as France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the UK.
Project
POLLOT - Political Lotteries in European Democratisation (ERC Project)
publications
- Brenda Van Coppenolle, Jessica de Rongé, Sofija Riegger. Political lotteries and roll-call voting in the Belgian parliament during democratization. Political Science Research and Methods, 2026, 17 p. ⟨10.1017/psrm.2026.10105⟩. ⟨hal-05628231⟩
- Brenda Van Coppenolle, Oliver Vanden Eynde. Random Connections and Violence in the French Revolution. 2026. ⟨halshs-05514885⟩
- Brenda Van Coppenolle. Unbreakable Legacies? Redistricting, Political Capital and Political Dynasties. The Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2024, 4 (3), pp.333-359. ⟨10.1561/115.00000077⟩. ⟨hal-04731816⟩
- Brenda Van Coppenolle. Replication Data for: Unbreakable Legacies? Redistricting, Political Capital and Political Dynasties. The Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2024, ⟨10.7910/DVN/DD9IVT⟩. ⟨hal-04712467⟩
- Brenda Van Coppenolle, Daniel Smith. Dynasties in Historical Political Economy. The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, Forthcoming, 1, Oxford University Press; Jeffery Jenkins and Jared Rubin, pp.185-208, 2022, 9780197618615. ⟨10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197618608.013.10⟩. ⟨hal-04712476⟩