My article about the EU Commission and infringements won the EUP Sage Award for 2024! @eupthejournal.bsky.social‬

Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XC7UG...

Link to the award announcement here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Headed to MPSA this week, excited to be back in one of my fav cities. If you're looking for populism talks, check out my paper with @krwaters.bsky.social on whether far right European parties are converging in position and rhetoric. (Friday am) 1/2

The 2023 @ches_data on political parties’ support for Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion is freely available for download on our website at chesdata.eu/speedches. We thank the hundreds of respondents that provided their time and expertise, making this dataset possible.

The London School of Economics published a blog on my recent research: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

How do crises affect the Commission's enforcement of EU law? My new paper published @EUP_TheJournal uses structural topic models to show that while crises make enforcement harder, other actors like the EP, can influence enforcement by changing its costs. doi.org/10.1177/1465...

Does anyone know of a thesaurus for scientific writing? Asking for…a friend.

For anyone teaching European politics or parties, check out chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/, which allows you to create quick bar graphs & scatterplots showing party positions.

I have already used it a few times to talk about Euroskepticism, social left-right & green politics.

Here's an example.