Dr Sandra Kröger
Marie Curie Fellow
My research focuses on EU politics. My current project looks at the (re)configuration of political representation in the EU and its potential contribution to the democratisation of the EU. I am interested in the concrete forms of non-electoral forms of political representation, on the one hand, and the core norms that can – or should – be underlying the institutional design of representative institutions in the EU, on the other. My research explores the way civil society organizations in the fields of social, agricultural and environmental policy construct and organize political representation across the different levels of governance.
My previous research focused on one of the “new modes of governance”, the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), in which I investigated the governance architecture of the OMC inclusion and its application in France, Germany and at the EU-level. I continue to be interested both in how instruments can and do shape policies and politics, and in questions of European social policy governance.
