Publications

[BOOK CHAPTER] Calligaro, O., (2021). European Identity between Culture and Values. From European Heritage to “our European Way of Life”. In Foret, F. & Vargovčíková, J. (Eds.), Value Politics in the European Union – From Market to Culture and Back (1st Ed., pp. 133-150), Routledge.

BOOK ABSTRACT This book explores what drives value politics and the way in which it redraws political conflict at EU level. Based on case studies...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Neihouser, M., (2021) Representation style and digital communication: the case of the online presence of French MPs elected in 2017, The Journal of Legislative Studies

ABSTRACT The two chambers of the French parliament are known to be among the weakest in Europe since the Constitution of the Fifth Republic restricts...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Haute, T., Kelbel, C., Briatte, F., & Sandri, G., (2021) Down with Covid: patterns of electoral turnout in the 2020 French local elections, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 31:sup1, 69-81

ABSTRACT This article contributes to the ongoing research effort assessing the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on turnout in the municipal elections held in France...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Neihouser., M. (2021) Convertir du capital numérique en capital politique et médiatique ?. Dans Desrumaux, C., Nollet, J. (2021). Un capital médiatique ? Usages et légitimation de la médiatisation en politique (pp 121-136). Rennes, PUR.

Résumé de l’ouvrage Peut-on réussir en politique grâce aux « médias » ? C’est souvent de cette manière que les professionnels de la politique, les...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Grzybowski, J. (2021). Re-enacting the international order, or: Why the Syrian state did not disappear. Review of International Studies, 1-20.

Abstract At the height of the Syrian civil war, many observers argued that the Syrian state was collapsing, fragmenting, or dissolving. Yet, it never actually...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Dos Reis, F., & Grzybowski, J. (2021). The matrix reloaded: Reconstructing the boundaries between (international) law and politics. Leiden Journal of International Law, 1-24

Abstract Interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of international law (IL) and International Relations (IR) has illuminated the roles of politics in law, of law in...

[REPORT] Kelbel, C., Navarro, J. & Neihouser, M. (2021) Report on alternative institutional options to democratise and re-legitimate the EU polity in the eyes of its citizens – An analysis of the congruence between MEPs and their voters on the EU political system, RECONNECT EU-Project, April 2021

Abstract […] In its simplest form, this report asks how congruent the preferences of elected representatives and voters are as regards democracy at the supranational...

[RAPPORT] Cautrès B., Chopin T., Nguyen P.-V., Pellerin-Carlin T. (2021). Les Français et l’environnement. ÉVOLUTION D’UNE PRÉOCCUPATION POLITIQUE CROISSANTE. Policy paper 265, Institut Jacques Delors

1 Pour l’opinion publique française les enjeux environnementaux demeurent prioritaires malgré la crise sanitaire Une très large majorité de Français estime que le changement climatique...

[BOOK] Sandri G. & Seddone A. (Eds) (2021), New Paths for Selecting Political Elites: Investigating the Impact of Inclusive Candidate and Party Leader Selection Methods (1st ed.). Routledge.

This book provides a cross-country study of the consequences of the expansion of intra-party democracy, the trend towards more inclusive methods of selection for party...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Chopin T. and Faure S. B. (2021), “Presidential Election 2022: A Euroclash Between a “Liberal” and a “Neo-Nationalist” France Is Coming” in “European Integration and National Elections After COVID-19”, Intereconomics Review of European Economic Policy, vol. 56, num 2

How could the 2022 French presidential election impact the dynamics of European integration? Generally speak-ing, there is an increasingly strong link between national elections and...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Kelbel C., Marx A. & Navarro J. (2021). Editorial: Access or Excess? Redefining the Boundaries of Transparency in the EU’s Decision-Making. Politics and Governance, 9(1), 221-225

Abstract: Over the last decades, transparency has featured prominently among the European Union’s (EU) efforts to democratize and legitimize its governance. This shift toward transparency...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] von Nostitz FC (2021), “Party expats? Mapping transnational party branches of French, German and UK parties”, Comparative Migration Studies, 9(11)

Abstract Today many parties interact with members and supporters outside their national borders. One way parties do so is by establishing transnational party branches. However...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bornemann, B., & Weiland, S. (2021). The UN 2030 Agenda and the Quest for Policy Integration: A Literature Review. Politics and Governance, 9(1), 96-107

Abstract The adoption of the UN 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represents a milestone in international sustainability politics. The broad and ambitious...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Weiland, S., Hickmann, T., Lederer, M., Marquardt, J., & Schwindenhammer, S. (2021). The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Transformative Change through the Sustainable Development Goals?. Politics and Governance, 9(1), 90-95

Abstract The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 sub-targets which serve as a global reference point for...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Sandri, G., & von Nostitz, F.-C. (2021). Party guests or party crashers? Non-members’ political engagement across party organizations. Quaderni dell’Osservatorio Elettorale QOE – IJES, 83(2), 27-44

Abstract Over the past decade, many parties have created new possibilities for affiliating and involving citizens, often rivalling the classic conception of party membership. So...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bourcier, B. (2021). Bentham’s International Political Theory: Taking States’ Responsibilities Seriously. Utilitas, 1-17.

Abstract In this article, I defend the idea that Bentham’s international political theory entails a cosmopolitan dimension. First, I explain that Bentham rejects two pillars...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Sandri G. & Venturino F. (2020) Party organization and intra-party democracy in Italy, Contemporary Italian Politics

ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss the features and consequences of intra-party democracy (IPD) in Italian parties in the last two decades. We start by...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Sandri G. and Seddone A. (2021), “Understanding How Political Parties In Europe Select Their Leaders: The Italian Case”, In: Aylott N., Bolin N. (eds) Managing Leader Selection in European Political Parties. Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

The Italian second republic—inaugurated with the 1994 parliamentary election—has been characterised by an alternation of two separate and mixed electoral systems, personalised parties united in...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Martin A., Armijos M. T., Coolsaet B., Dawson N., Edwards G. A. S., Few R., Gross-Camp N., Rodriguez I., Schroeder H., Tebboth M. G. L. & White C. S. (2020) Environmental Justice and Transformations to Sustainability, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 62:6

Global carbon emissions continue to rise, 1 rates of global biodiversity loss continue to increase, 2 and social and economic inequalities continue to widen. 3...

[WORKING PAPER] Kelbel, C. & Navarro, J. (2021), Working Paper on Interinstitutional Relations in the EU, RECONNECT EU-Project, October 2020

Abstract WOP6.2 aims at considering and reforming practices of democracyin the EU. It looks empirically at three different (but complementary) types of interinstitutional relations involving...

[REPORT] Kelbel, C. and Navarro, J. (eds) (2020). Interinstitutional Relations in the EU. RECONNECT Working paper series.

The working paper looks at the organisation of the interconnection between institutions and its evolution overtime, trying to unveil the complex network of relationships that...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Hichmann, T./Partzsch, L./Pattberg, P./Weiland, S. 2020. Mehr Engagement der Politikwissenschaft in der Anthropozän-Debatte. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (2020), open access (in German).

The current debate on the Anthropocene is thus far dominated by the natural sciences. This leads to a simplistic analysis of environmental devastation and the...

[RAPPORT] Chopin, T., avec la collaboration de Divet, G., “Enseigner l’Europe en France. Ancrer la dimension européenne dans l’enseignement secondaire français”, Rapport n°120, Institut Jacques Delors, octobre 2020

Alors que le manque de connaissances sur le fonctionnement de l’UE constitue un élément majeur du rapport de défiance des Français à l’Europe, la question...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Russel D., Castellari S., Capriolo A., Dessai S., Hildén M., Jensen A., Karali E., Mäkinen K., Ørsted Nielsen H., Weiland S., den Uyl R., Tröltzsch, J. (2020). Policy Coordination for National Climate Change Adaptation in Europe: All Process, but Little Power. Sustainability 12(13).

Climate change adaptation (CCA) is argued to require coordinated policy responses because it is a complex, long-term, knowledge intensive, cross-sectoral, and multi-level governance challenge that...

[TEXTBOOK] Coolsaet B. (Ed.), Environmental Justice: Key Issues (1st edition), Routledge, July 2020

Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in...

[SPECIAL ISSUE] Hickmann T., Lederer M., Marquardt J., Schwindenhammer S., Weiland S. 2020. “Nachhaltig bis 2030? Die Agenda der Vereinten Nationen” (Sustainable until 2030? The United Nations’ Agenda). Special issue of WeltTrends, 165, Juli 2020 (in German).

This special issue of WeltTrends, guest edited by the chairs of the Working Group on Environmental Policy / Global Change (AK Umwelt) of the German...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Seddone A. & Sandri G., “Primary elections and party grassroots: participation, innovation and resistance”, European Political Science, 2020

Abstract Drawing upon both the “party democratization” and “decline in party member- ship” literature, this paper explores how party members perceive the introduction of primary...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bush R. & Greco E., “Egypt under military rule”, Review of African Political Economy, 46:162, 2020

Thousands of mainly young Egyptians took to the streets of Cairo and Egypt’s provincial centres on 20 September 2019. They protested against the repressive regime...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Bourcier B., “Jeremy Bentham’s principle of utility and taste: An alternative approach to aesthetics in two stages” in Julius A., Quinn M. and Schofield P. (eds), Bentham and the Arts, London, UCLPress, 2020

Jeremy Bentham’s principle of utility and taste: An alternative approach to aesthetics in two stages In the first part of this chapter, I explain how...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bertoncini Y. et Chopin T., “La « FrancEurope » 70 ans après la déclaration Schuman : projet commun ou projection nationale ? (II)”, Le Grand Continent, 2020

2ème partie : La construction européenne, miroir déformant pour la France : le malaise culturel hexagonal vis-à-vis de « l’Europe » Si la construction européenne n’est pas toujours un outil...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bertoncini Y. et Chopin T., “La « FrancEurope » 70 ans après la déclaration Schuman : projet commun ou projection nationale ? (I)”, Le Grand Continent, 2020

Le coronavirus confronte les Français et les Européens aux impératifs d’une délicate gestion de crise parfois conduite au jour le jour, et qui ne permettra...

[RAPPORT] Cautrès B., Chopin T. & Rivière E., Les Français et l’Europe : entre défiance et ambivalence – l’indispensable “retour de l’Europe en France”, Institut Jacques Delors – CEVIPOF – KANTAR, Rapport n°119, Mai 2020

RÉSUMÉ ▪1 ▪ Le rapport des Français à l’UE : des relations ambivalentes et un euroscepticisme très fort La France fait partie du groupe des...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bourcier B. dans Delpla I. (dir.), Mythes de l’intériorité, du métaphysique au politique?, Ethique, Politique, Religions, 1/2020, n°16, Paris, Classiques Garnier.

Benjamin Bourcier, « L’international comme système de coopération minimale ? De la démystification du langage à la critique du “mythe de l’intériorité politique” chez Jeremy...

[CO-DIRECTION] Turmel P. et Néron P.-Y., “Les instruments de la justice fiscale”, numéro spéciale de Ethique Publique, vol. 21, n° 2, 2019

Plusieurs travaux de recherche importants récemment publiés présentent un tableau inquiétant de l’ampleur et de la croissance des inégalités sociales et économiques. Des organisations comme...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Coolsaet, B., Dawson, N., Rabitz, F. et al. Access and allocation in global biodiversity governance: a review. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (2020)

Access and allocation is one of the five analytical themes of the science plan of the Earth System Governance (ESG) project. Concerns over access and...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bertoncini, Y. et Chopin, T. (2020), « Macron l’Européen : de l’Hymne à la joie à l’embarras des choix », Le Débat n°208, Gallimard, janvier-février 2020, p. 114-129.

Nul n’a pu mieux symboliser l’engagement européen d’Emmanuel Macron que les échos de l’Hymne à la joie diffusé le 7 mai 2017 pour célébrer son...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Close, C., et Kelbel C., “Whose primaries? Grassroots’ views on candidate selection procedures”, Acta Politica, 2019

Opening-up processes of candidate selection is often viewed as a means for political parties to regain legitimacy, and perhaps more crucially, members and voters. Despite...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Chopin T. & Lequesne C., “Disintegration reversed: Brexit and the cohesiveness of the EU27”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2020

This contribution analyses the political impact of Brexit on the EU27. The main argument is that Brexit is not just about disintegration. The UK policy...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Kelbel, C. (2019). Waiting for the green light: tracing candidate selection by the French Green party in the 2014 European elections. French Politics (online first).

A widespread assumption is that national political parties use candidate selection for European elections to promote unexperienced politicians or to offer a luxury retirement home...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Greco, E., “Global value relations and local labour regimes in rice farming in Uganda and Tanzania”. Organization (IF 2.7), 2019

This study presents evidence on the organisation of farm work in rice farming areas in Uganda and Tanzania, where farms of different scale co-exist, drawing...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bornemann, Basil / Weiland, Sabine, “Empowering people—Democratising the food system? Exploring the democratic potential of food-related empowerment forms”, Politics and Governance, 2019.

The current food system, characterised by considerable concentrations of economic and political power, is widely regarded as undemocratic and in many respects unsustainable in its...

[EDITED VOLUME] Bornemann, B / Weiland, S (dir.) New Perspectives on Food Democracy. Special issue of Politics and Governance 7(4), 2019

With the overall intention of stimulating the debate on food democracy, this thematic issue aims to shed fresh light on the complex relationship between food...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Grzybowski, J. “The paradox of state identification: De facto states, recognition, and the (re-)production of the international”, International Theory, 2019

The literature on de facto states challenges the conventional identification of states by legal recognition, proposing to identify states based on their effectiveness instead. Yet,...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Greco, E., Wiegratz J. and Zeilig L., « Not quite post-political » in Review of African Political Economy, vol. 46 (160), 2019

The urgent tasks to undertake now … revolve centrally around inventing new modes and practices of collective political organisation … and the mobilisation of a wide range of new...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Greco, E., « Value, rent and nature: the centrality of class » in Review of African Political Economy, 2019

Welcoming the renewed interest in value among geographers, we engage with the arguments that Kay and Kenney-Lazar (2017) put forward in their article, ‘Value in...

[ACADEMIC REPORT] Chopin, T. and Sandri, G., “The 2019 European Parliament elections in France: Second (dis)order elections?”, Bolin, N., Falaska, K., Grusell, M., Nord, L. (eds.), EuroFlections. Leading Academics on the European Elections 2019, 2019.

The 2019 European elections were characterized by higher turnout than usual in most Member States and also in France. The participation went up for the...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Bourcier, Benjamin, « Trois enjeux de la déontologie publique chez Jeremy Bentham », dans Tusseau, G (dir.), La déontologie publique : trajectoire et présence d’une notion ambigüe, 2019

L’exigence de déontologie est présente de toutes parts. Doit-on disqualifier ce discours comme une rhétorique creuse, qui se déploie de manière erratique, notamment au gré...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Calligaro, O., « Une solidarité par la culture ou par les valeurs ? La politique culturelle de l’Union européenne, entre patrimoine culturel et dialogue interculturel » in Coman, Ramona, Fromont, Louise, Weyembergh, Anne dir.) La solidarité européenne : enjeux et perspectives, 2019

La solidarité est l’une des valeurs fondamentales sous-tendant le processus d’intégration européenne. Au centre des discours politiques depuis le début des années 1950, elle a...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Prelz Oltramonti, G., and Tanasescu, M., « The Criminalisation of Informal Practices in the Danube Delta: how and why ». In Russo, A., Polese, A. & Strazzari F. (Eds.), Governance Beyond the Law. The Illegal, the Immoral, the Criminal, 2019

In the Romanian Danube Delta, many activities involve some degree of concealment from state authorities. Residents live off strategies that are largely illegal, and authorities...

[EDITED VOLUME] Bourcier, B (dir.) Théories politiques du transhumanisme, dans Raisons Politiques, Presses de Science Po, n°74, 2019/2

Le transhumanisme a fait une entrée remarquée en philosophie et science politique lorsque, dans un bref article, Francis Fukuyama affirmait que ce nouveau mouvement social...

[EDITED VOLUME] Bonditti, P, Macleod, A (dir.) Relations internationales. Théories et concepts, 2019.

Fruit d’une collaboration franco-québécoise, cette quatrième édition revue et augmentée de Relations internationales. Théories et concepts offre près de soixante-dix nouvelles entrées qui reflètent l’évolution de...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bolleyer, N., von Nostitz, F.-C., & Bormann, N.-C, Judicial decision-making within political parties: A political approach, Party Politics, 2019

How do German intra-party tribunals manage internal conflicts? More specifically, why do they accept some cases for trial but reject others? Required by law to...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Kelbel, C., Sandri, G., and van Haute, E. 2018. Who framed the party? The perception of political organisations. in Kris Deschouwer (ed.) Mind the Gap. Political Participation and Representation in Belgium, Rowman & Littlefield International, pp. 35-50.

Belgium is characterised by profusion and centrality of parties. The Belgian party system is split in two, it is highly fragmented and the effective number...

[BOOK] Tomini, L., and Sandri, G. (eds.) 2018. Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century: Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy. London: Routledge.

The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate. Both democratic institutions and...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Sandri, G., and Seddone, A. 2018. The Democratic Party between change and settlement. Chronicle of a particular year. Contemporary Italian Politics, 10(4), pp. 315-329.

The year 2017 represents a key moment in the political life of the PD. The party celebrated 10 years of existence and did so by...

[REPORT] Chopin, T. and Foucher M. (eds) 2018, Schuman Report on Europe. The State of the Union 2018. Paris: Marie B. Editions / Lignes de repères.

This book seeks to analyse the political situation in the EU. Europeans face major challenges: between the risk of populist contagion and Brexit internally, migration...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Vang Rasmussen, L., Coolsaet, B., Martin, A., Mertz, O., Pascual, U., Corbera, E., Dawson, N. Fisher, J., Franks, P. and Ryan, C.M. 2018. Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification. Nature Sustainability 1, pp. 275-282, DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0070-8.

Land-use intensification in agrarian landscapes is seen as a key strategy to simultaneously feed humanity and use ecosystems sustainably, but the conditions that support positive...

[BOOK] Foret, F. and Calligaro, O., eds. (2018) European Values. Challenges and Opportunities for EU Governance. London; New York: Routledge.

Redefinitions of EU borders (enlargements, Brexit), geopolitical challenges (conflicts, migrations, terrorism, environmental risks) and the economic and financial crises have triggered debates on the common...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Calligaro O. (2018). Une figure paradoxale : Alan S. Milward, promoteur des études européennes et historien critique de l’intégration européenne. In: Larat F., Mangenot M., Schirmann S. (eds) (2018) Les études européennes. Genèses et institutionnalisation. Paris : L’Harmattan, pp. 89-110.

Alan S. Milward a très tôt dans sa carrière engagé une réflexion sur les méthodes et les cadres universitaires les plus adéquats pour penser, étudier...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Alvarez L and Coolsaet B. 2018. Decolonising Environmental Justice Studies: A Latin-American perspective. Capitalism Nature Socialism.

The “environment” and “justice” of environmental justice are often defined through Western ways of thinking. Empirical environmental justice research, however, increasingly takes place in the...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Zafra-Calvo N., E. Garmendia, U. Pascual, I. Palomo, N. Gross-Camp, D. Brockington, J.A. Cortes-Vazquez, B. Coolsaet, N. Burgess. (2019) Progress toward Equitably Managed Protected Areas in Aichi Target 11: A Global Survey. BioScience biy 143.

The Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Target 11 requires its 193 signatory parties to incorporate social equity into protected area (PA) management by 2020. However,...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Feindt, P.H. and Weiland, S. (2018) Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 20(6), pp. 661-674, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2018.1532562.

Elaborated in publications on transition management, sustainability governance and deliberative environmental governance, ‘reflexive governance’ addresses concerns about social-ecological vulnerabilities, flawed conceptualisations of human-nature relations fragmented...

Weapons of Mass Destruction and Global Security

Séminaire général ESPOL-LAB Paolo Foradori – Associate Professor, University of Trento

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Zafra-Calvo N., E. Garmendia, U. Pascual, I. Palomo, N. Gross-Camp, D. Brockington, J.A. Cortes-Vazquez, B. Coolsaet, N. Burgess, « Progress toward Equitably Managed Protected Areas in Aichi Target 11: A Global Survey. » BioScience 69(3). 2019

The Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Target 11 requires its 193 signatory parties to incorporate social equity into protected area (PA) management by 2020. However,...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Foret, F. and Calligaro, O. 2018. Governing by prizes: how the European Union uses symbolic distinctions in its search for legitimacy. Journal of European Public Policy. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2018.1523221

Since their creation and with an increasing intensity since the 1980s, European institutions have used prizes, labels and other distinctions as political resources to perform...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Calligaro O. (2018). Une figure paradoxale : Alan S. Milward, promoteur des études européennes et historien critique de l’intégration européenne. In: Larat F., Mangenot M., Schirmann S. (eds) (2018) Les études européennes. Genèses et institutionnalisation. Paris : L’Harmattan, pp. 89-110.

Alan S. Milward a très tôt dans sa carrière engagé une réflexion sur les méthodes et les cadres universitaires les plus adéquats pour penser, étudier...

The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science

New publication : The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science An edited volume on ‘The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science’, edited by Thomas Hickmann, Lena Partzsch, Philipp...