Short Biography: Marinus P C M van Schendelen

   

   Rinus van Schendelen (1944), graduated at University of Amsterdam, is full professor in
   political science at Erasmus University Rotterdam NL since 1980 and honorary professor since
   2005. Visiting professor in North America, China, Middle East and all over Europe.

   

   Research activities are mainly in the fields of the European Union, politics-business
   relationships, business lobbying, public affairs management, parliamentology, Dutch politics,
   and mass-elite relationship.

   

   Academic activities.  Editorial board member of German Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen,
   International Review on Comparative Public Policy, Journal of Legislative Studies and Journal
   of Public Affairs. Founding chairman of the Research Committee of the European Center for
   Public Affairs, Oxford. Member of various research networks (IPSA, ECPR, ECPA and others).

   

   Professional activities are mainly in the field of training, consultancy, mediation and
   research in the field of Public Affairs Management and Lobbying at the European Union (EU)
   level, at the request of companies (SMEs and MNCs), trade associations, NGOs, political
   parties, parliaments, decentralised governments and national ministries, most being based in
   EU countries and the others in N-America, Asia and Africa.

   

   Articles (more than 200) published in many books and journals as Zeitschrift für
   Parlamentsfragen, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Acta Politica, International Journal of
   Political Eduction, Contemporary Crises, Political Behavior, European Journal of Political
   Research, Canadian Journal of European Integration, Politikon, Political Science Reviewer,
   Political Methodology, Namens, Chinese 'Political Science Abroad', PS, European Affairs,
   Europaforum, European Law Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Legislative
   Studies.

   

   Books (more than 30), including (with R.J. Jackson) The Politicization of Business in  Western
   Europe, Croom Helm/Routledge, London, 1987, reprint 1990; National Public  and Private EC
   Lobbying, Dartmouth, Aldershot, 1993, reprint 1994; (with R. Pedler) Lobbying the European
   Union, Dartmouth, Aldershot, 1994, reprints 1995, 1997; EU  Committees as Influential
   Policymakers, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998; Machiavelli in  Brussels: the Art of Lobbying the EU,
   Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2002, reprints 2002, 2003, 2004, 2^nd edition 2005,
   translation into Czech 2004, into Polish 2006, into Italian and Hungarian forthcoming; (with
   R. Scully), The Unseen Hand: Unelected EU Legislators, Frank Cass, London, 2003. Other books
   are in Dutch language.

   

   Address:        Political Science Department, Erasmus University, Room M 8-44, P.O. Box 1738,
   3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands.

                           Office phone +31-10-4082051/ 4082133. Fax: 31-10-4089106. Email:
   vanschendelen@fsw.eur.nl.