Min Reuchamps (PhD) is professor of political science at the Université catholique de Louvain. He graduated from the Université de Liège and from Boston University. His teaching and research interests are federalism and multi-level governance, democracy and its different dimensions, relations between language(s) and politics and in particular the role of metaphors, as well as participatory and deliberative methods.
He has published a dozen books on these topics and his works have appeared in several international journals such as Acta Politica, Courrier hebdomadaire du CRISP, Electoral Studies, European Political Science, European Political Science Review, Ethnopolitics, Government and Opposition, Mediterranean Politics, metaphorik.de, Metaphor and the social world, Mots. Les langages du politique, Participations, Party Politics, Politics, Regional and Federal Studies, Representation, Res Publica, Revue canadienne de science politique, Revue interdisciplinaire d'études juridiques, Revue internationale des technologies en pédagogie universitaire, Samenleving en politiek, Territory, Politics, Governance, West European Politics. He has recently published the edited volume Minority Nations in Multinational Federations: A Comparative Study of Quebec and Wallonia (Routledge, 2015 - paperback, 2016) and, with Jane Suiter, Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe (ECPR Press, 2016). His forthcoming book, with Didier Caluwaerts, discusses deliberative democracy and the G1000 (Routledge, 2018). With Frédéric Bouhon, he prepares a second edition of the volume Les systèmes électoraux de la Belgique (Bruylant, 2012; Larcier, 2018) that brings together over 45 contributors.
With the professors Nathalie Schiffino-Leclercq, Pierre Baudewyns, Vincent Legrand as well as Ella Hamonic and Jehan Bottin, he has brought into life the MOOC "Découvrir la science politique" in French and "Discover political science in English (Louv3x), an on-line course, freely available around the world via edx.org. This course is one of the finalists of the first-ever edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning. With Pierre Baudewyns, Fabrizio Tinti and a diverse team, he works on a MOOC teaching methodology (Louv23x) for a large public.
He was administrator (2009-2018), secretary (2012-2015) and pesident (2015-2018) of the French-speaking Belgian association for political science (ABSP) and the coordinator of the methodology & research cel of the G1000, a citizens initiative promoting deliberative democracy. He is regularly invited to observe and assess democratic processes as well as to appear in the media and in the public debate.
