Research and projects
My research interests encompass questions at the juncture between electoral studies, party politics, public policy, European studies, economy and history. Besides my doctoral research on Europeanization of party competition, I am involved in several collaborative projects, all of them with a strong focus on international comparison and mixed-methods.
Current research
My post-doctoral research explores a central aspect of democracy, the connection between policies offered by parties ahead of elections and their policy activities once in office. In doing so, I am seeking to measure party responsiveness to voters as well as the degree of political commitments and how they are translated into real policy preferences.
The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) is a collaborative effort to measure and explain policy change in a truly comparative and dynamic perspective.
Since the mid 1980s, European integration has entered a phase of acceleration which leads the EU to establish itself as a full-fledged political space whose prerogatives and interventions become more and more palpable at the domestic level. What are the consequences of this process for political parties? In my thesis, I explore forms of EU-related ideological change and of electoral usages of the EU in France, Germany and the UK.
The Fukushima accident in March 2011 and the subsequent decision of several countries to phase-out nuclear energy is only the last misadventure of a series of reversals occured in many countries. This project, directed by Wolfgang C. Müller and Paul C. Thurner, explores the specificities of several West-European countries' nuclear energy policy and analyses the determinants of policy reversals in this area.