Personal statement
I joined the School of Government and Public Policy as a Lecturer in September 2013. Previously I was a post-doctoral research fellow in an ESRC project analysing political representation in the European Union at University of Aberdeen. I received my MA and PhD in Political Science in 2009 from the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Before that, I was a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Bradford, and held research and visiting fellowships at the University of Birmingham and Northwestern University.
Teaching
I currently coordinate and contribute to teaching in the following courses:
Undergraduate
- L2102 - Politics: Concepts
- L2203 - Politics: Government and Governance
- L2204 - Comparative Politics
Postgraduate
- L2914 - European Governance
Research interests
My main research interests relate to:
- Comparative Government
- Parties and Party Systems
- Political Representation
- Constitutionalism
- European Union Politics
- Quantitative Methods
I am currently engaged in projects about: 1) Comparative party factionalism in Europe using expert surveys. The project enquires into types of factionalism and links them with the external institutional and internal organisational settings in which parties operate; 2) The justifications for regulating political parties in constitutions by analysing constitutional amendments and making use of the database developed by the Party Law in Modern Europe project; 3) Misrepresentation in Europe, policy responses to corruption and the efficiency of EU post conditionality.
Projects
- The Impact of Cohesion Policy on EU Identification (COHESIFY) H2020 SC6 Europe in a Changing World
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) Borz, Gabriela (Co-investigator) Brandenburg, Heinz (Co-investigator) Ferry, Martin (Co-investigator) McMaster, Irene (Co-investigator) Mendez, Carlos (Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Feb-2016 - 30-Apr-2018
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