Politics

Assistant Professor at the University of Trieste. She is also a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova – Nova FCSH) and the Portuguese Institute of International Relations. Her main research interests focus on parliaments from a comparative perspective, in particular the study of parliamentary opposition and the legislative process.

Last updated: March 2023

Senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, where he coordinates the Security Research Group. He is a member of the Law & Ethics Research Group, the PRIO Middle East Centre and the PRIO Migration Centre. He was previously Assistant Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. His interests focus on the intersection between technological developments, security practices and social change.

Last updated: March 2023

Lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK. She previously taught at the University of Hull. She specialises in the study of relations between citizens and parliaments and the involvement of citizens in politics. Chair of IPEN, the International Parliament Engagement Network, a network that brings together academics and practitioners from around the world to share practices on public engagement and ways to improve it.

Last updated: March 2023

Associate Professor at the University of Bath. Previously she was a College Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where she taught and did research. She was also a researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy programme (WAPPP). She holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University, a Master’s degree in Comparative Politics (Europe) from the LSE and a BA in Government from Dartmouth College.

Last updated: March 2023

Senior lecturer in the School of Communication, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Richmond. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she worked as a researcher and university lecturer. She is a correspondent for the Portuguese press, first for the «Diário de Noticias» and, since 2001, for the weekly «Expresso» newspaper.

Last updated: March 2023

Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. Previously, he was a Nottingham Research Fellow at the same university and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leiden. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University Institute of Florence and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) and in Political Science from the University of Salamanca (Spain).
He has devoted himself to comparative politics, with a focus on party regulation, party financing, democratic constitutional design, party development, institutionalisation of the party system and the promotion of democracy.

Last updated: March 2023

PhD in Political Science from the University of Sheffield (UK). He was recently promoted to the rank of Principal Investigator at ISCTE-IUL. His research interests focus on issues of comparative politics in the European context, with a particular focus on the politics of international migration and far-right parties.

Last updated: March 2023

Postdoctoral Researcher at Yale University. He has analysed the nature, causes and consequences of political institutions. He has also studied the patterns of political representation in democracies with weak political parties.

Last updated: March 2023

She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, she is an assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL and a researcher at CIES-IUL. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences, ICS, as a Junior Visiting Researcher at the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin and as a Junior Researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. She was an Assistant Lecturer at the Birkbeck, University of London. She has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and a Master's degree in Political Science. Her main areas of research are: gender and politics, comparative politics, political representation, electoral systems, methodology and data analysis.

Last updated: March 2023

Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University and editor of the political science journal Acta Politica. Her research interests include comparative European politics, political parties and party systems in Europe, democratisation, Southern Europe and post-communist politics.

Last updated: March 2023