Chair
Simona Piattoni
simona.piattoni@unitn.it
Universita degli studi di Trento
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Portfolio Responsibilities
International Events, Prizes and Awards
Simona Piattoni (BA, MA in Economics at Bocconi University 1986; PhD in Political Science MIT 1996) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Trento (Italy, 2001-09, 2012-) where she teaches Comparative Politics, European Politics and Local Government. She has previously taught at the Universities of Tromsø (Norway, 1994-99) and Innsbruck (Austria, 2010-11). She has been visiting scholar at the European University Institute, Florence (1999-2001) and the University of California, Berkeley (2005, 2008).
Her main research interests are clientelism in a comparative perspective and informal and multi-level governance. Her publications include authored and edited books such as Clientelism, Interests and Democratic Representation. The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Informal Governance in the European Union with Thomas Christiansen (Edward Elgar 2003), Between Europeanization and Local Societies. The Space for Territorial Governance, with J. Bukowski and M. Smyrl (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Italy in the EU. Redefining National Interests in a Compound Polity with S. Fabbrini (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) and The Theory of Multi-Level Governance (Oxford University Press, 2010) and articles in journals such as Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Perspective on European Politics and Society, Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. She has taken part in numerous national international research projects centred on the study of European governance such as IGEU – Informal Governance in the European Union (2001-03), CIVGOV – Civil Society and European Governance (2003-06) and EU-CONSENT – Wider Europe, Deeper Integration (2005-09). She is currently President of CONGRIPS-Conference Group of Italian Politics and Society, a related group of the American Political Science Association (2010-12).
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Vice-Chair
Niilo Kauppi
nkauppi@yahoo.com
Institut d’etudes politiques, Strasbourg
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Portfolio Responsibilities
Publications
Niilo Kauppi is Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Associate Director of the Centre for European Political Sociology at the University of Strasbourg. He also teaches at Sciences Po Strasbourg.
A Finnish national, he grew up in Finland, Belgium and the UK, and studied law, political science, philosophy, and sociology at the University of Paris-II, the University of Helsinki and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Having served for 13 years as a Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland affiliated with the Department of Political Science at the University of Helsinki, he has also been a Fulbright Research Scholar at Indiana University (Bloomington), and held visiting teaching and research appointments at the University of Helsinki, the Maison des sciences de l’homme and the EHESS in Paris, Harvard University, the University of Strasbourg, Tallinn University of Technology, the University of Luxembourg and the University of Lausanne.
Currently working on European integration, Niilo Kauppi is the author or co-editor of seven books and of over sixty articles on European politics (e.g. Europeanization of national politics, European parliament elections, constitutional politics), political and intellectual extremism, and social and political theories. A former President of the Finnish Political Science Association, he is also a former board member of Epsnet (European Political Science Network).
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Executive Committee Member
Rudy Andeweg
andeweg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Universiteit Leiden
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Portfolio Responsibilities
Standing Groups
Rudy B. Andeweg is currently Professor of Empirical Political Science at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He studied Law and Government at Leiden, and Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He has worked as Assistant to the Dutch Government Commissioner on Administrative Reform, and he has been a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford (twice) and of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He served as Chair of the Leiden Department of Political Science, and as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
His research interests have gradually evolved from electoral behaviour to political representation and legislative behaviour, and coalition government, and he has a special interest in political psychology. He has published in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Party Politics, Electoral Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Legislative Studies, Acta Politica, the Annual Review of Political Science and Political Psychology. He recently co-authored The Governance and Politics of the Netherlands (4th edition forthcoming 2013, Palgrave) and co-edited Puzzles of Government Formation; Coalition Theory and Deviant Cases (2011, Routledge). He currently serves as the President of the Dutch Political Science Association. He has been elected to both the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
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Executive Committee Member
Klaus Goetz
goetz.lmu@gmail.com
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Portfolio Responsibilities
General Conference
Klaus H. Goetz has held the Chair in German and European Politics at the University of Potsdam since 2006. From 1992 to 2006, he worked in the Department of Government at LSE. He has held Visiting Professorships at Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Tokyo, the Institute of Advanced Studies Vienna, Hebrew University Jerusalem, and Sciences Po Bordeaux. He was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the EUI Florence. In Potsdam, he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences from 2009 to 2011 and is currently Spokesperson of the DFG PhD Training Group on “Wicked Problems, Contested Administrations: Knowledge, Coordination and Strategy”.
His work focuses on the comparative analysis of European politics and public policy – including both Western and Central and Eastern Europe as well as the EU – with a particular interest in state institutions, including executives, public bureaucracies and legislatures. Over the last decade, he has researched and written extensively on the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe and the Europeanisation of national polities and public policy. Most recently, he has worked on the role of time in politics and public policy and has directed a project on the EU timescape that was funded by the German Research Foundation.
He has been co-editor of the journal West European Politics since 2000.
Prior to his election to the ECPR Executive Committee his chief involvement with ECPR was in his capacity as Local Organiser of the 2009 General Conference.
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Executive Committee Member
Olafur Th. Hardarson
othh@hi.is
University of Iceland
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Portfolio Responsibilities
Membership
Ólafur Th. Hardarson (b. 1951) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland, and has been Dean of the School of Social Sciences since 2008. Ólafur has been with the University of Iceland since 1980. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences 2001-8, Deputy Chair of the University of Iceland Council 2006-8, Chair of a University Committe appointed by Rector on the restructuring of the University of Iceland 2007-8, Member of the Board of the Nordic Election and Democracy Research Consortium (NED) since 2006, Member of the University of Iceland General Forum since 2001, Member of the Board of Nordicom (Nordic Information Centre for Media- and Communication Research at Gothenberg University, Sweden) 1997-2000, Member of the University of Iceland Council 1994-96, Chair of the University of Iceland Teachers’ Association 1991-2, Member of the Board of the Social Science Research Institute, University of Iceland 1985-91, and Member of the Board of the Nordic Political Science Association 1981-89, and since 1999. Ólafur chaired the local organizing committe for the ECPR General Conference in Reykjavík 2011. Ólafur‘s research has mainly been on Icelandic and comparative politics. He started the Icelandic national election surveys in 1983: now the ICENES project covers eight parliamentary elections 1983-2009, the data is publicly available here. The Icelandic election studies have been part of the CSES international program from the beginning, and contribute to the True European Voter project. Ólafur has written books, book chapters and articles in Icelandic and international books and journals, especially Electoral Studies, and European Journal of Political Research. Ólafur obtained his BA from the University of Iceland (1977), and his M.Sc. (1979) and Ph.D. (1994) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been a visiting scholar at University of Essex (1984), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1989-91), London School of Economics and Political Science (1993), University of Gothenburg (1997), and Boston University (2001). He has been a frequent commentator on television, radio, and in newspapers on current affairs, politics, and political science for the last 30 years.
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Executive Committee Member
Knud Erik Jørgensen
kej@ps.au.dk
Aarhus Universitet
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Portfolio Responsibilities
Graduate Matters (Graduate Student Network)
Knud Erik Jørgensen (PhD) is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. He teaches International Relations theory, European foreign policy and European Studies. He has been visiting professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Research, European University Institute, Florence. He was programme chair of the World International Studies Committee's conference in Ljubljana 2008. He is a member of the advisory boards of IBEI, Barcelona and the European Programme at Bilgi University, Istanbul. Moreover, he chairs the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and is former editor of Cooperation and Conflict, co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in International Relations and associate editor of Journal of European Integration. He has been a member of numerous PhD committees throughout Europe. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, Chatham House in London and the Free University of Brussels (VUB).
Publications include authored and edited books, including ed. The European Union and International Organizations (Routledge, 2009); (co-edited with Mark Pollack and Ben Rosamond) Handbook of European Union Politics (Sage 2007); International Relations Theory: A New Introduction (Palgrave 2010); co-edited with Oriol Costa, The Influence of International Institutions on the European Union: When Multilateralism hits Brussels (Palgrave 2012); co-edited with Katie Laatikainen, Handbook on the European Union and international Institutions: Performance, Policy, Power (Routledge forthcoming 2013). Articles have been published in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Cooperation and Conflict. He has taken part in numerous national and international research projects, including projects under the EU’s 6th Framework Programme, the European Science Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation.
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Executive Committee Member
André Kaiser
andre.kaiser@uni-koeln.de
Department of Political Science, University of Cologne
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Portfolio Responsibilities
Methods and Techniques Summer and Winter Schools
ACADEMIC POSITIONS: Professor of Political Science, University of Cologne (since 2002); job offers declined: University of Bamberg, University of Freiburg; Faculty, German Research Foundation Research Training Group "Social Order and Life Chances in Cross-National Comparison" SOCLIFE) (since 2008); Principal Investigator, Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (since 2008); Faculty, International Max Planck Research School “The Social and Political Constitution of the Economy”, Cologne (since 2007); Professor (pro tempore) in Regional Politics and Economics, University of Konstanz (2000 – 2001); Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Mannheim (1996-2000); Lecturer in Political Science, University of Mannheim (1991 – 1996); Lecturer in Political Science, University of Freiburg (1989 – 1991).
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS AND RESEARCH GRANTS: Comparative Political Institutions, empirical democratic theory. The Dynamics of Interparty Competition (German Research Foundation, 2008-2010); Federalism and Decentralisation as Dimensions of State Activity (German Research Foundation, 2005-2008); Electoral Systems and Female Representation (Fritz Thyssen Foundation, 2005-2006).
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Executive Committee Member
Richard Katz
rkatz1@jhu.edu
Johns Hopkins University
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Portfolio Responsibilities
Treasurer
Richard S. Katz (BA Michigan; MPhil, PhD Yale) is Professor of Political Science and chair of the department at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. His primary research interests are political parties and electoral systems. His publications include A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems (Johns Hopkins University Press 1980, 2007) and Democracy and Elections (Oxford University Press 1997), plus numerous edited and co-edited books, book chapters, and articles in major journals. He was editor or co-editor of the EJPR Political Data Yearbook from 1996 to 2007, and co-editor of the EJPR from 2007 through 2012. He has also served as chairman of the Representation and Electoral Systems Organized Section of the APSA, president of the Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society, as convener of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Parties, and as chairman of the OSCE/ODIRH Core Group of Experts on Political Parties.
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Executive Committee Member
Manuel Sánchez de Dios
msanchez@cps.ucm.es
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
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Portfolio Responsibilities
Joint Sessions
Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He is Academic Secretary of the Department of Political Science and Administration II, Member of the Council of the Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia and director of the Masters program in Political Science. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen, UC-Santa Barbara and SUNY- Buffalo.
He attended the 21st Essex Summer School in Data Analysis and Collection of the ECPR and the Joint Sessions of Workshops in Böchum, Leiden, Burdeaux, Warwick, Copenhague, Turin, Granada and Rennes. He also attended the conferences of the Standing Group on Parliaments in Turku, Madrid and Paris.
His research interest is in comparative politics in the fields of political process and institutions in Europe, parliamentary accountability, patterns of Welfare State and social democracy. He is at present a member of the Research Group on Political Accountability in UK, France Spain, Hungary, Argentina and Chile funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.
Selected publications: "El trade off eficiencia-equidad y la cohesión social en Alemania, Suecia y el Reino Unido con los gobiernos socialdemócratas" Sistema (2009),¿ Es necesario el Senado en los sistemas federales? in RCG (2006), "Output of the Spanish Cortes (1979-2000) A case of adaptation to party government" EJPR (2006), "Estudio comparado de path dependence del Estado de bienestar en los casos de USA, Suecia y España" REP (2004), "Parliamentary Party Discipline in Spain" in Bowler, Farrel and Katz (eds.): Party Cohesion, Party Discipline and the Organization of Parliaments, (1999).
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Executive Committee Member
Birgit Sauer
birgit.sauer@univie.ac.at
University of Vienna
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Portfolio Responsibilities
Public Relations, Lobbying and Publicity
Birgit Sauer is professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna since 2001. She is director of the graduate school "Gender, Violence and Agency in the Era of Globalisation" (GIK). Her primary research interests include gender and governance, comparative analysis of gender equality policies, diversity and democracy, feminist state and democratic theory. She served as member of the Board of the German Political Science Association (DVPW (1996-2000) and on the association's "Ethical Board" (2000-2011), from 2002 to 2004 she was the President of the Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW). Since 2008 she is Member of the Scientific Board of the National Research Programme 60 at the National Research Fund Switzerland (NSF). She was visiting professor/scholar at CBEES at Södertörn University/Stockholm, at the Center for Political Communication, University of Washington in Seattle, at the "Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies" at Humboldt University/Berlin, at Florida Atlantic University/Boca Raton, at the University of Mainz, at the University of Klagenfurt, and at Kon-Kuk University/Seoul.
She has taken part in numerous international research projects such as "QUING. Quality in gender Equality Policies" (2006-2011), "Children's Voices: Exploring Interethnic Violence and Children's Rights in School Environment" (2011 2012), VEIL. Values Equality and Differences in Liberal Democracies. Debates about Female Muslim Headscarves in Europe, Co-director (2006-2009), MAGEEQ. Policy Frames and Implementation Problems: the Case of Gender Mainstreaming (2003-2005), Research Network on Gender, Politics, and the State (RNGS) (1996-2010).
Her recent publications include: Gendering the State in the Era of Globalisation, Rowman and Littlefield 2007 (ed. together with Melissa Haussman); Politics, Religion and Gender. Framing and regulating the veil, London/New York: Routledge 2011 (ed. together with Sieglinde Rosenberger).
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Executive Committee Member
Jonas Tallberg
jonas.tallberg@statsvet.su.se
Department of Political Science, Stockholm University
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Portfolio Responsibilities
General Conference
Jonas Tallberg is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. His primary research interests are global governance, European Union politics, and institutional theory. Tallberg is the author of Leadership and Negotiation in the European Union (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and European Governance and Supranational Institutions: Making States Comply (Routledge, 2003), co-editor of Transnational Actors in Global Governance (Palgrave, 2010), and author or editor of several additional books in Swedish. He has published articles in journals such as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Global Governance, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, and West European Politics. Tallberg has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, McGill University, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, the Norwegian Centre for Advanced Study, the European Commission, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Tallberg has been awarded grants from the European Research Council, the Fulbright Commission, the Humboldt Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, and the Nordic Research Academy. He currently serves as member of the ECPR Executive Committee and of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union.
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Executive Committee Member
Luca Verzichelli
VERZICHELLI@UNISI.IT
Università Degli Studi di Siena
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Portfolio Responsibilities
Research Sessions, Publications
Luca Verzichelli holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence (1995). He has been a visiting student at the Columbia University of New York (1992-1993), post-doctoral fellow at the University of Siena (1996-1999), assistant Professor at the University of Bologna, (1999-2001). Since 2001 he teaches at the University of Siena, as an associate professor (2001-2007) and then as full professor of political science. Secretary of the Italian Political Science Association (2001-2004), Member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (1994-2010), Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche (2001-2004), Polis (2001-2004) European Political Science (2001-2004), Journal of Legislative Studies (2012-). He is the chief editor of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (2010-2012). Visiting scholar at the European Studies Centre, St Antony's college, University of Oxford (2005-2006), visiting Professor at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschungm Cologne (spring 2007) Visiting professor at the Université de Montréal (Spring 2009), visiting scholar at the Australian National University (August 2011).
He has been the director of the Master program Politics in Europe (2005-2009) and Dean of the faculty of political sciences, University of Siena (2009-2012).
He published more than twenty articles in professional journals and about forty chapters in collective books, in Italian and in English. Among his books, Political institutions in Italy (Oxford, 2007, with Maurizio Cotta), Vivere di Politica (Il Mulino, 2010) and The Europe of the Elites (Oxford, 2012, co-edited with Heinrich Best and Gyorgy Lengyel).
His current research interests are the comparative analysis of political elites in Europe, budgetary politics in Europe, budgetary politics in European democracies, parliamentary-executive relationships.
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