My final PhD thesis chapter has now been published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies! The article examines the EU's effect on how parties use kin-state appeals (focused on ethnic kin in neighbouring countries) in Ireland and Hungary.

Exciting opportunity for scholars working on judicial independence and democratic transitions. Please have a look at the call for papers (link in comments) for a conference co-organised by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies University of Oxford in Brussels at IEE-ULB (Bruxelles) in June 2025

🚩I will co-chair with Leonardo Puleo the panel Disentangling Causal Effects in the Face of Challenges to Liberal Democracy (MetRiSP) at the next Società Italiana di Scienza Politica conference in Naples!🏛️🇮🇹 📅 Deadline: 25 May 📄 + Info here: sisp.it/convegno2025/?… 📄Submission: sisp.it/en/conference-…

🚩Few days left to apply for this CfP for the panel "Disentangling Causal Effects in the face of Challenges to Liberal Democracy" Società Italiana di Scienza Politica #causalinference #democracy #experimentalpoliticalscience

📢 For those of you in Bruxelles this Thursday: 📘 Book Pre-Launch Debate "Dissensus over Liberal Democracy. Insights from European Judges" 🗓️ June 5 | 🕔 17:00–18:30 📍 IEE ULB Join us for a timely discussion on the role of judges when democracy is under strain!

🆕 Excited to share our new special issue "Dissensus over Liberal Democracy" in European Political Science coordinated with Ramona Coman , as output of RED-SPINEL Research Project SciencePo ULB 👇 palgrave.com/gp/journal/413… A 🧵