Dr. Yvette Peters is a researcher at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway. She is a Trond Mohn Foundation fellow and is currently leading the project ‘The Politics of Inequality. How Representative Democracy (Mal-)Functions in Europe’. The project deals with some of the most pressing issues facing democracies today: political inequality and the lack of representation. Yvette has arranged several events in connotation with the project, including workshops at Harvard University and UiB. She is an initiator of the Panel of Elected Representatives (PER), a yearly survey of elected representatives in Norway.
Yvette finished her Bachelor’s degree in 2005 and a Master of Philosophy degree in 2007 at the University of Leiden. She completed her Master of Research degree (2008) and PhD (2011) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Her PhD received the François Mény Prize for the Best Comparative Study of Political Institutions. In the same period, she was also working as a full-time researcher at the Department of Social and Political Science at EUI.
In 2010, Yvette became an Assistant Professor at the Universität Humboldt in Berlin. While working there, she taught several courses and contributed on multiple workshops and panels. After a while, she got a position as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Bergen (UiB). She resides at UiB to present day.
Yvette’s first edited book, The Contemporary State of Democracy in a Transformed Europe, was released with Michaël Tatham in 2016. It has been praised as an outstanding contribution to the description and analysis of European democracy (Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern), and for being crucial for understanding current challenges facing Europe (Lawrence Ezrow, University of Essex). Her single-authored book Political Participation, Diffused Governance, and the Transformation of Democracy: Patterns of Change was released in 2018. The book examines different forms of political participation in democracies, and in which ways the diffusion of politics has affected patterns of participation since the 1980s.
Yvette received The Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize in 2015 and was the following year a member of the prize’s committee for one of two best articles in West European Politics. She is a reviewer for multiple journals in the field of political science.
Photo: Eivind Senneset, UiB
Yvette Peters 