European Politics Online Workshop (EPOW) is a public workshop series on European politics meeting via Zoom ⇗. A space for junior and senior scholars from the US and Europe to discuss current events and present work in progress. Everyone is welcome!
Our one hour seminars are held Tuesdays at
8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET / 5 p.m. CET.
- Roundtables are thematic with short opening statements followed by discussion among panelists and Q&A with audience.
- Paper presentations are 30 minutes followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.
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Workshop coordinated by Catherine de Vries and Seth Jolly.
Spring 2021 Seminar Series schedule Zoom ⇗
2 March 2021: “Who is deserving of protection? The EU’s normative reshaping of refugee resettlement”
- Natalie Welfens (University of Amsterdam)
9 March 2021: “Environmental Chauvinism? Explaining Issue Expansion among Non-Mainstream Parties”
- Jae-Jae Spoon (University of Pittsburgh)
16 March 2021: Roundtable on Dutch elections
- Pepijn Bergsen (Chatham House)
- Sarah de Lange (University of Amsterdam)
- Cas Mudde (University of Georgia)
Past Workshops
23 February 2021: “Powering the Extremes – How European Integration Feeds Euroscepticism”
- Yoav Raskin (Tel Aviv University)
- Tal Sadeh (Tel Aviv University)
📄 working paper (pdf)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
16 February 2021: “`Vox Populi, Vox Dei’: Are Process Preferences Thermostatic?”
- Diane Bolet (King’s College London)
- Miriam Sorace (University of Kent)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
9 February 2021: “Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany”
- Daniel Bischof (University of Zurich)
- Co-authored with Hanno Hilbig (Harvard University) and Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University)
📄 working paper (pdf)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
2 February 2021: “Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Heterogeneity and Democratic Resilience”
- Jan Rovny (Sciences Po)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
26 January 2021: Roundtable on Brexit: Where are we heading?
- Mark Blyth (Brown University)
- Simon Hix (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Kathleen McNamara (Georgetown University)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
28 October 2020: Roundtable on US-EU relations
- Mark Copelovitch (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
📄 Related articles at Journal of European Public Policy and the Monkey Cage - Abe Newman (Georgetown University)
📄 Related articles at Foreign Policy and lawfareblog - Sibel Oktay (University of Illinois-Springfield)
- Kalypso Nicolaidis (University of Oxford)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
21 October 2020: “Do gender quotas improve party delegations? Evidence from the European Parliament”
- Andrea Aldrich (Yale University)
- William Daniel (University of Nottingham)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
14 October 2020: “Does Party Polarization Mobilize or De-Mobilize Voters? The Answer Depends on Where Voters Stand”
- Bonnie Meguid (University of Rochester)
- Co-authored with Maria Murias Muñoz (ETH Zurich Foundation)
📄 working paper (pdf)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
7 October 2020: “Shaping the Nation through Civic Integration: A Postcolonial Perspective on Paradoxical Policies.”
- Saskia Bonjour (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
📄 working paper (pdf)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
30 September 2020: “The Politics of Bad Options: Why the Eurozone Crisis has been so hard to resolve”
- Stefanie Walter (University of Zurich)
- Co-authored with Ari Ray and Nils Redeker
📄 working paper (pdf)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
23 September 2020: “Reassessing the Democratic Constraint: Strategic Interdependence and Public Opinion towards the Euro”
- Björn Bremer (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne)
- Co-authored with Lucio Baccaro and Erik Neimanns
📄 working paper (pdf)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
16 September 2020: Roundtable on the Future of European Integration
- Tanja Börzel (Freie Universität Berlin) 📄 working paper (pdf)
- Liesbet Hooghe (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Christina Schneider (University of California, San Diego)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
4 August 2020: Roundtable on Democratic Backsliding
- Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford University)
- R. Daniel Kelemen (Rutgers University)
- Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
28 July 2020:”Message Distortion as a Campaign Strategy: Does Rival Party Distortion of Focal Party Position Affect Voters?”
- Zeynep Somer-Topcu (University of Texas at Austin)
- Co-authored with Margit Tavits (University of Washington at St. Louis)
📄 working paper (pdf)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
21 July 2020: “Identity-based opposition to the EU and support for the radical right”
- Julia Schulte-Cloos (LMU Munich)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
14 July 2020: “External Threats and Group Identity – The Effect of the Russian Invasion in Ukraine on European Union Identity”
- Kai Gehring (University of Zurich)
📄 working paper (pdf)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
7 July 2020: “The Brexit Deterrent? How Member State Exit Shapes Public Support for International Organizations”
- Sara Hobolt (London School of Economics)
- Co-authored with Sebastian Popa, Wouter van der Burg, and Hermann Schmitt.
📺 Archived Zoom Recording
30 June 2020: Roundtable on EU Recovery Fund
- Catherine de Vries (Bocconi University)
- Erik Jones (Johns Hopkins University, Bologna)
- Matthias Matthijs (Johns Hopkins, DC)
📺 Archived Zoom Recording