Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Research Fields

immigration and integration policies
European integration
evolutionary sociology
social movements
right-wing radicalism

Contact

fon: +49 30 25491 451

fax: +49 30 25491 452
mail: koopmans [at] wzb [dot] eu

Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin

Director of the Research Unit

Migration, Integration, Transnationalization

Head of the Bridge Project

The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism

since 2010
Guest professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam

since 2007
Director of the research unit "Migration, Integration, Transnationalization" at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

2003 – 2010
Professor of Sociology, Chair in Social Conflict and Change, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

1994 – 2003
Senior researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)

1993 – 1994
Researcher at the Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (Social and Cultural Planning Office – SCP) in Rijswijk, the Netherlands

1988 – 1992
Junior researcher at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR)

1992
Ph.D. in Political and Social – Cultural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Title of Dissertation: "Democracy from Below. New Social Movements and the Political System in West Germany". Supervisor: Hanspeter Kriesi

1987
MA Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Specializations in Political Behaviour, Political Theory, and Research Methodology. Graduated cum laude

Selected Publications

Koopmans, Ruud (2012): "The Post-Nationalization of Immigrant Rights. A Theory in Search of Evidence". In: The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 63, No. 1, S. 22-30.
Koopmans, Ruud/ Michalowski, Ines/ Waibel, Stine (2012): "Citizenship Rights for Immigrants. National Political Processes and Cross-National Convergence in Western Europe, 1980–2008". In: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 117, No. 4, S. 1202-1245.
Ersanilli, Evelyn/Koopmans, Ruud (2011): "Do Immigrant Integration Policies Matter? A Three-Country Comparison among Turkish Immigrants". In: West European Politics, Vol. 34, No. 2, S. 208-234.
Koopmans, Ruud/Statham, Paul (Eds.) (2010): The Making of a European Public Sphere. Media Discourse and Political Contention. Communication, Society and Politics. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press, XVIII, 335 S.
Ersanilli, Evelyn/Koopmans, Ruud (2010): "Rewarding integration? Citizenship Regulations and the Socio-Cultural Integration of Immigrants in the Netherlands, France and Germany". In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 36, No. 5, S. 773-791.
Koopmans, Ruud (2010): "Trade-Offs between Equality and Difference. Immigrant Integration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State in Cross-National Perspective". In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 36, No. 1, S. 1-26.
Koopmans, Ruud/Rebers, Susanne (2009): "Collective Action in Culturally Similar and Dissimilar Groups. An Experiment on Parochialism, Conditional Cooperation, and Their Linkages". In: Evolution and Human Behavior - Official Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Vol. 30, No. 3, S. 201-211.