Welcoming new editors to three of our publications

We are very excited to announce new additions to our editorial teams for our book series Comparative Politics, our journal European Political Science Review (EPSR), and our professional journal European Political Science (EPS).

Nicole Bolleyer, Comparative Politics Series

Nicole Bolleyer
LMU Munich
Comparative Politics Series

Marina Costa Lobo
University of Lisbon
EPSR

Linda Basile
University of Siena
EPS

Nicole Bolleyer

Comparative Politics Series

Incumbent editor Jonathan Slapin has been joined by Nicole Bolleyer, replacing outgoing editor Susan Scarrow.

Nicole is Professor of Comparative Political Science at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, LMU Munich, is the author of The State and Civil Society: Regulating Interest Groups, Parties and Public Benefit Organizations in Contemporary Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2018) and New Parties in Old Party Systems: Patterns of Persistence and Decline in Seventeen Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Her research has appeared in leading journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Governance and European Political Science Review. From spring 2022 she will direct the ERC-funded Project ‘The Shrinking Space of Civil Society in Europe’ (CIVILSPACE).

Marina Costa Lobo

European Political Science Review

The incumbent members of editorial team, Matt Qvortrup and Catherine Moury, have been joined by Marina Costa Lobo, replacing the outgoing editor Carlos Closa.

Marina (D.Phil, Oxford, 2001; Habilitation, Lisbon 2011) is Principal Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. In 2016, she won funding of an ERC Consolidator Project 'MAPLE', which researches the politicisation of Europe before and after the Eurozone crisis. She is the Director of the Portuguese Election Study and a member of the Comparative Study of Election Systems (CSES) Planning Committee.

Her research interests include the role of leaders in electoral behaviour, economic voting, and the consequences of EU politicisation. She has published on these topics in several international journals. In 2021, she guest co-edited (with Michael Lewis-Beck) a Special Issue in Electoral Studies on the topic of 'EU contestation its effects on political behaviour'. Her most recent book on electoral behaviour is entitled Personality Politics? The Role of Leader Evaluations in Democratic Elections (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-edited with John Curtice. In 2018, she won the Political Science Prize for publications of the University of Lisbon.

Linda Basile

European Political Science

The incumbent members of the editorial team, Ekaterina Rashkova-Gerbrands, Alasdair Blair, and Fiona Buckley, have been joined by Linda Basile, replacing outgoing editor Daniel Stockemer.

Linda is Research Fellow in Political Science at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, where she received her doctorate in Comparative and European Politics at the University of Siena.

Her main research interests are territorial politics, territorial inequalities and justice, solidarity, sovereignism, and public opinion. Her work has been published in leading journals, including Party Politics and European Journal of Political Research. With Palgrave, she published The Party Politics of Decentralization: The Territorial Dimension in Italian Party Agendas, a monograph on party positioning on the issue of decentralisation in Italy.

A heartfelt thank you to our outgoing editors

Our editors play a key role not only in the success of their respective publications, but in shaping the direction of the discipline through the research they help publish and wider organisational initiatives and activities they lend their time and expertise to.

ECPR would therefore like to take the opportunity to extend a formal thank you to our outgoing editors, Susan Scarrow, Carlos Closa, Daniel Stockemer, Laura Sudulich, and Ian O'Flynn whose work has contributed tremendously to the quality, reputation, and advancement of each publication. We are very grateful for all their work and wish them the very best in their future endeavours.