Hello! I am a Professor in Political Science at the European School of Political and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Lille.

I hold a PhD from the European University Institute and a habilitation from the University of Salzburg. My main research interest is about how governments combine their representative and governmental duties, something I refer to as responsive-responsible dilemma. I mostly engage with this question through various comparative content analyses of how governments justify their annual budgets, and link this with data about supranational constraints and electoral commitments. In February 2024,my monograph featuring this research will be released with Oxford University Press: link

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Below you can find links to some of my recent publications:

Recent Publications

Between Voters and Eurocrats: How Do Governments Justify their Budgets, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

Crisis and paradigm change in the European semester: from austerity to investment-oriented policy ideas Journal of European Integration (with Alice Cavalieri)

This Time Wasn’t Different: Responsiveness and Responsibility in the Eurozone between 2007 and 2019, Journal of Common Market Studies

Super Mario 2: comparing the technocrat-led Monti and Draghi governments in Italy, Contemporary Italian Politics [with Diego Garzia]

Is Austrian budgetary policy still “political”? A cross-time comparison of budget speeches , Austrian Journal of Political Science, 50(1): 1-14.

Political alternatives under European economic governance: evidence from German budget speeches (2009–2019), Journal of European Public Policy, 28(4): 510-531.