Dr Nicole Bolleyer
(PhD 2007, European University Institute, Florence)
Extension: 2051
Telephone: 01392 722051
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Nicole studied political science, German literature, linguistics and public law at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA). She was a lecturer in politics in Mannheim 2002/03 and completed her PhD in political science at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) in 2007.
Her research interests include comparative federalism, institutional theory, party politics and theories of legitimacy. Her dissertation developed a framework explaining how intergovernmental relations in federal systems are organised and was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Since 2007, she has completed two British Academy projects, one on 'The Organisation of New Parties in Western Europe' and one on 'Parliamentary Salaries as Source of Party Funding' (the latter co-directed with Susan Banducci, University of Exeter). She also has been the co-organiser of the ESRC-funded seminar series 'Reforming Intergovernmental Relations in a Context of Party Political Incongruence?' together with Wilfried Swenden and Nicola McEwen (University of Edinburgh). 2009/10 she held a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) to work on indirect state funding of political parties in Europe and recently completed a project with Anika Gauja (University of Sydney) on 'Party Reform and Party-State Relations in Australia and the UK' funded by the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences.
Currently, Nicole works on her second monograph 'New Parties in Old Party Systems' forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Furthermore, she is a co-investigator in an ESRC-funded project on ‘Comparative Cross-National Electoral Research’ directed by Jeff Karp (University of Exeter) and runs - together with Kris Deschouwer (ULB) - a four-year project on 'New Parties in Western Europe' funded by the Flemish Science Foundation. July-December 2011 she spent at the University of Cologne (Germany) as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.
