Nikoleta Yordanova is Associate Professor in European Politics.

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Dr. Nikoleta Yordanova is Associate Professor in European Politics. Currently, she leads an international research consortium funded by the European NORFACE Network Governance Programme to complete the multi-disciplinary project Willingness and Capacity for EU Policy Action in Turbulent Times: Conflicts, Positions and Outcomes (EUINACTION). Previously, she served as Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Institute of Political Science.

Dr. Nikoleta Yordanova specialises in the study of European Union and comparative legislative politics. Her research focuses on political institutions, legislative behaviour, policy-making, delegation and compliance as well as policy reforms under coalition governments in European parliamentary democracies.

She studied political science at Jacobs University and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and received her PhD from the European University Institute (EUI) in 2010. Her doctoral thesis was recognised with the ECPR Duncan Black Award, the EUSA Best Dissertation Prize and the EUI’s François Mény PhD Prize. Before joining Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, Nikoleta was Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) in European Politics at the University of Mannheim (2013-2019), where she was the Coordinator of the BA programme in Political Science and Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded project Legislative Reforms and Party Competition (2014-2022) at the Collaborative Research Center “Political Economy of Reforms” (SFB884). She conducted part of her research at the European Parliament.

Her work has been published in American Political Science Review, European Union Politics, European Political Science Review, German Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Party Politics, Public Policy and Administration, West European Politics and she is the author of Organizing the European Parliament: The Role of Committees.

For her curriculum vitae and further information, please refer to her personal website:

› nikoletayordanova.net

You can also follow Nikoleta Yordanova on Twitter: @NYYordanova.

Teaching

She teaches courses on the politics of policy-making, EU institutions and policies, challenges to European integration and Euroscepticism, and supervises research students in these and related fields.

PhD supervision

Dr. Nikoleta Yordanova is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:

• European Integration
• EU institutions and policy-making processes
• Political institutions, parliaments and legislative behaviour

See more information on PhD positions:

› Institute of Political Science: PhD

Publications