Contributors
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Peter Mair
European University Institute
Peter Mair joined the EUI in 2005, and is Professor of Comparative Politics and current Head of Department. He was previously attached to Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he held the Chair of Comparative Politics and where he is now Honourary Professor in Comparative European Politics.Since 2001, he has been co-editor of the journal West European Politics. Born in Ireland in 1951, he is a graduate of University College Dublin, and was awarded a Ph.D. by Leiden University. He has previously worked in the Universities of Limerick, Strathclyde and Manchester, and was Assistant Professor of Political Science in the EUI in the early 1980s.
He has published extensively on comparative European politics, and has co-authored Representative Government in Modern Europe (4th edn. 2005). He is co-editor of The Enlarged European Union (2002), Political Parties and Electoral Change (2004), and European Politics: Pasts, Presents, Futures (2008).
His earlier book with Stefano Bartolini, Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability (1990) was awarded the ISSC/Unesco Stein Rokkan Prize and has just being reissued in the ECPR Classics series.
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Josep M. Colomer
Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Barcelona
Josep Colomer is an eminent Catalan-Spanish professor and the author of a celebrated political science blog . He has published theoretical and comparative studies of voting and elections, political institutions and
institutional change, in which he has used game theory and social choice theory for applied analyses.
Colomer’s areas of expertise include democratization, forms of government, the Spanish transition to democracy, and Duverger’s law. He is currently a Research Professor at the Higher Council of Scientific Research CSIC, affiliated with the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and Pompeu Fabra University. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Chicago and has been a full-time visiting professor in New York, Washington and Mexico.
Colomer is author or editor of 33 books and nearly 200 academic articles and book chapters.
Josep Colomer’s faculty web page
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Dorothee Bohle
Central European University, Budapest
Dorothee Bohle is Associate Professor of Political Science at Central European University, Budapest, and currently a visiting fellow at EUI. Her research focuses on comparative political economy with a special interest in East Central Europe. She is the author of Europas Neue Peripherie: Polens Transformation and transnationale Integration (Münster, Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2002), and her work has appeared in Studies in Comparative International Development, West European Politics, Competition and Change, Journal of Democracy and European Journal of Sociology. Together with Bela Greskovits, she is currently working on a book on capitalist diversity in East Central Europe. She was awarded a PhD by Free University of Berlin, and has previously worked at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin.
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Richard Rose
University of Aberdeen
Richard Rose started studying Europe when the churches and the concert halls lacked roofs and there were more fears of the past than hopes for the future. His research has expanded geographically from politics in England to the comparative study of the United Kingdom, of older and newer European democracies, the Anglo-American and the OECD worlds. In 1976 he founded the Centre for the Study of Public Policy to relate social science ideas to the world of political practice, which he now directs as a professor at the University of Aberdeen.
This EUDO blog is drawn from a new project on REPRESENTING EUROPEANS, which looks at the diverse ways in which EU institutions represent people, parties, corporate interests and principles as well as states (see www.abdn.ac.uk/cspp/epsummary.shtml). It has already produced a series of papers and a book will be started at the Schuman Centre this autumn.
Rose taught himself to type at the age of eight and 19 years later published his first two books. Since then he has written more than 40 books, hundreds of journal articles and thousands of pieces of journalism. He has presented seminars and policy briefings in 40 plus countries and writings have been translated into 18 different languages and samizdat. Among his honours are the Isaiah Berlin Prize, the Mattei Dogan Prize for European Political Sociology, and an honorary doctorate from the European University Institute, to be presented this October.
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Daniel John Hannan
Member of European Parliament for South East England
Daniel John Hannan is a British politician and Member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party, and in Europe, the European Conservatives and Reformists grouping. He is the Secretary-General of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists.
In the Parliament, he previously sat with the Non-Inscrits, having been expelled from the European People’s Party–European Democrats group in 2008. Recently the Conservatives and other anti-federalist parties formed a new eurosceptic group, with which he now sits. Hannan is a Eurosceptic and a Unionist, and he is strongly critical of European integration. He currently serves on the Committee on Legal Affairs and the delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Hannan is also a journalist, having written leaders and currently authoring a blog for The Daily Telegraph. He has also published several books arguing for radical democratic reform.
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Wojciech Gagatek
Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw
Wojciech Gagatek is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and is a close collaborator of the European Union Democracy Observatory. His recent publications include the edited volume The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament (European University Press, Florence 2010) and European Political Parties as Campaign Organizations. Toward a greater politicisation of the European Parliament elections. Most recently, he co-authored an OPPR report commissioned by the Constiutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on “How to create a transnational European party system.
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Graham Watson
European Parliament
Graham Watson was the first British Liberal Democrat ever to be declared elected to the European Parliament, winning the Somerset & North Devon constituency with a majority of over 22,500. In June 1999 Graham was elected to represent the new enlarged South West of England constituency, which covers Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall and which he has held since then.
From 1994 to 1999, Graham was a member of the Committee for Economic & Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy and the Budgets Committee. From July 1999 to 2002 he served as Chairman of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs. In January 2002 Graham Watson was elected as Leader of the European Parliament’s Liberal Democrat group, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. During his tenure, the Liberal group grew to become the largest ever 3rd force in the European Parliament. Graham stood down from this role after the European Election in June 2009 to return to the back benches. He sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is a member of the European Parliament’s delegations to China and India, the latter of which he chairs.
Beyond Parliament, Graham is chairman of the Climate Parliament.
Graham’s publications include ‘The Liberals in the North-South Dialogue’ (1980), ‘To the Power of Ten: UK Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament’ (2000), ‘2020 Vision: Liberalisation and Globalisation’ (2001), ‘Liberal Language’ (2003), ‘EU’ve got mail!’ (2004), ‘Liberal Democracy & Globalisation’ (2006), ‘Liberalism – something to shout about’ (2006) and ‘The Power of Speech’ (2006).
Graham has also edited and published 4 cross-party pamphlets; ‘The Case for Global Democracy’ (2007), ‘Making Migration Work for Europe’ (April 2008), ‘The Lisbon Strategy: Mode d’Emploi’ (July 2008) and ‘Making the Green Energy Switch at a Time of Crisis’ (2009). His latest book, ‘Building a Liberal Europe: The ALDE Project’, was published by John Harper Publishing in October 2010.
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Martin Westlake
European Economic and Social Committee
Martin Westlake has spent over four decades studying Europe and working in European Union government and politics. Having completed an Honours degree in politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University in England, Martin developed an interest in the EU while undertaking post-graduate studies in Italy. There he earned a Master’s degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of International Studies in Bologna and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence.
Since beginning his professional life as a trainee at the European Commission in Brussels and a clerk to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Martin has worked in a number of EU institutions – the European Commission, European Parliament and finally at the European Economic and Social Committee, as secretary general. His work in these agencies has spanned communications, human resources, institutional relations, economics and education.
Though having spent his career working within European Union Institutions, Martin is keenly involved in academic pursuits. The Secretary-General has published tens of research papers and books on European democracy, EU and British politics, a European Constitution and German unification. He is also committed to the education of younger generations on matters relating to the EU, having taught at several British and continental universities.
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Paolo Ponzano
Paolo Ponzano is Senior Fellow of the European University Institute and Special Adviser of the Vice-President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic
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Yuksel Alper Ecevit
Yuksel Alper Ecevit is a PhD candidate at Political Science Department , Binghamton University (SUNY). He holds double master degrees from European Union Studies at Leiden University (Netherlands) and Political Science at Sabanci University (Turkey). He is currently writing his dissertation on understanding suffrage expansion and he mainly focuses on the enfranchisement processes of immigrants in Europe. Meanwhile, he organizes workshops and conferences on immigration in his host institute, Binghamton University and conducts a research on voting behavior of immigrants in European politics. Mr. Ecevit is originally from Istanbul/Turkey.
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Marie Vincent
Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation
Marie Vincent is Project Manager at the Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation, where she is notably in charge of coordinating the “Citizen’s Controversies”, a series of lunchtime debates aimed at fostering citizens’ ownership of the European political debate. Previous to that, she has been contributing to the Foundation’s conflict prevention activities, focusing more particularly on the Programme for Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. Marie holds a B.A. in History and Politics from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a M.A. in South-East European Studies from the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London.
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Elaine Fahey
Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance
Elaine Fahey is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). She is working within the framework of the project ’The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking’, which ACELG conducts, together with researchers from public international law and European private law. As part of the project her current research project is entitled ‘Re-imagining Global Governance Law – the justiciability of EU-US relations’. She has been a Lecturer in Law, Dublin Institute of Technology , Ireland since 2006 and a Visiting Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, within the Global Governance Program of the Robert Schuman Centre for AdvancedStudiesin the academic year 2010 – 2011. She was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute (2009–2010). Elaine Fahey is a winner of the Lyndon Stanford prize and Leonard Coling Scholarship at the University of Cambridge and was a Scholar of Trinity College Dublin. She is a former Judicial Research Assistant at the Judges’ Library, Four Courts, Dublin . She has practised at the Irish bar and was Chairperson of the Irish Society for European Law.
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Shirley Williams
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby PC (born 27 July 1930) is a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister, she was one of the “Gang of Four” rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981.[1] In 2001–2004, she served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, and served as Adviser on Nuclear Proliferation to Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010. Williams also serves as Professor Emerita of Electoral Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Marcus Hahn-Lorber
Landgericht Wuppertal
Marcus Hahn-Lorber is a Rechtsreferendar at the Landgericht (Court of Appeals) Wuppertal. He completed his State Exam in 2007 and a Masters Degree at the University of Edinburgh in 2008. In 2011, he completed his doctorate in law at the University of Düsseldorf with a comparative thesis on federalism and decentralisation within the European legal and theoretical context. Besides undertaking his professional education with a major in public and constitutional law, he works and teaches as research assistant at the Institute for German and International Political Party Law and Research (PRuF). His research interests relate to European, comparative constitutional and administrative law and legal theory.
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David Farrell
University College Dublin
Professor Farrell is a specialist in the study of parties, elections, electoral systems and members of parliament. He is founding co-editor of Party Politics and a co-editor of the Oxford University Press series on ‘Comparative Politics’. Prior to his move to Dublin, Professor Farrell was professor and head of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester.
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