Rens Vliegenthart and I have published a new article on “The writing is on the wall: the limited professionalization of European parliament election campaign posters” in the Journal of European Integration (online first). Our article examines the overtime variation in content and style of European Parliament election campaign posters in the Netherlands and Italy. We put forward…

Claes de Vreese and I have published a new article on “The role of candidate evaluations in the 2014 European Parliament elections: Towards the personalization of voting behaviour?” in European Union Politics (online first). In this article, we study the personalization of voting behaviour in European Parliament elections. We argue that information from the media is…

My co-authors, Anna-Lena Högenauer and Ariella Huff, and I are very honoured that our article “Research note: Studying a new phase of Europeanisation of national parliaments” has been awarded the EPS Best Article Prize 2016. The article can be found on the website of European Political Science (here). The announcement and the jury’s verdict can…

Wouter van der Brug, Claes de Vreese and I publish a special issue in Politics and Governance on the question: “How different were the European Elections of 2014?”. This issue brings together 11 papers that focus on the question of whether and in which ways the 2014 European Parliament elections were different from previous ones. This…

My co-authors Anna-Lena Högenauer, Ariella Huff and I publish a new article, in which we propose studying a new trend of Europeanisation in national parliaments within the European Union (EU). We argue that further integration, combined with the opportunities and challenges presented by the Lisbon Treaty and the financial crisis, created pressure on national parliaments to…