De Giorgi Elisabetta - Opposition parties in European legislatures : conflict or consensus?

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Witold Betkiewicz is an assistant professor of sociology at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His academic interest concerns local, regional elites as well as public administration institutions and their behavior. Recently he published Odmiany profesjonalizacji wielkomiejskiej elity politycznej [Variations of Professionalization of the Metropolitan Political Elite], Studia Polityczne [Political Studies] 2016/1; Polski model kariery zawodowej urzdnikw wyszego szczebla [Polish Model of Professional Careers of the Highest Civil Servants], Studia Polityczne 2014/3.

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Mihail Chiru is a postdoctoral researcher at Median Research Centre, Bucharest. He is mainly interested in legislative behaviour, candidate campaigns and party politics.

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Flemming Juul Christiansen is Assistant Professor at Roskilde University. His main interests are legislative bargaining, parliamentary governments and political parties. With co-authors or alone he has published in American Journal of Political Science , European Journal of Political Research , Party Politics , West European Politics , among others.

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Elisabetta De Giorgi is a Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI) of the NOVA University of Lisbon. Her main research interests are parliaments from a comparative perspective and political parties. She has published several articles in national and international journals in Acta Politica , Journal of Legislative Studies , Italian Political Science Review , South European Society and Politics , among others and the book Lopposizione parlamentare in Italia. Dallantiberlusconismo allantipolitica (2016).

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Agnieszka Dudziska, sociologist, works at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her research interests involve legislation, political system, public policy, political institutions and representation. Expert at several government institutions. In 2015, she published a book, System zamknity. Socjologiczna analiza procesu legislacyjnego [The Closed System. A Sociological Analysis of Legislative Process].

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Sergiu Gherghina is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow. His research interests lie in party politics, legislative and voting behaviour, democratisation and the use of direct democracy.

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Petra Guasti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt and senior associate researcher in the Department of Political Sociology, IS CAS in Prague. Her research focuses on political institution-alisation and participation in political terms (parties and parliament) and the non-political meso-structures, democratisation and democratic innovations.

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Gabriella Ilonszki , Professor of Political Science, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include parliamentary and party developments in East Central Europe, both in institutional and personnel aspects, including leaders, elites and women.

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Tom Louwerse is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on parliamentary politics, political parties and elections. He has published in leading journals, including Electoral Studies , Party Politics , Political Studies and West European Politics .

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Zdenka Mansfeldov is a senior research fellow and Head of the Department of Political Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences. She has specialised in political sociology and has concentrated on the study of the functioning of modern democracies and their institutions, quality of governance, emerging security threats, political and non-political forms of interest representation, with a long-lasting interest in social dialogue.

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Francesco Marangoni is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Siena, where he teaches public policy analysis and social policy. He has published several articles and essays in the fields of comparative political institutions and political elites. Among his recent works, Il Governo (il Mulino, 2015, with Maurizio Cotta) and The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian Case (Routledge, co-edited with Nicol Conti).

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Luz Muoz is a postdoc researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Barcelona. She has been a visiting researcher at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology of the University of Newcastle (2013), Faculty of Law at the Universidad Iberoamericana (2013) and the Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington (2009). Her research focuses on agenda setting and governmentopposition dynamics. Other topics of interest are interest groups politics, advocacy groups and legal mobilisation.

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Simon Otjes is a researcher at the Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties of Groningen University. He is specialised in party politics and legislative behaviour. He has previously published in the American Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research and Party Politics .

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Anna M. Palau is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the analysis of agenda-setting dynamics and parliamentary behaviour. She is co-author of the book Agenda Dynamics in Spain (Palgrave) and has published her research in journals like European Union Politics , Comparative Political Studies , West European Politics , Journal of Public Policy and Journal of Legislative Studies , among others.

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Yannis Papadopoulos is a Professor of Swiss politics and public policy at the Institute of Political, Historical and International Studies, University of Lausanne. He is a co-editor of the Handbuch der Schweizer Politik-Manuel de la politique Suisse (Zurich, NZZ Verlag, 5th updated ed., 2014; English translation: Handbook of Swiss Politics , NZZ Publishing, 2nd updated ed. 2007), where he was responsible for the section on policymaking processes and he co-authored the chapter on the federal government. He has recently worked on the impact of Europeanisation and of the rise of populism on the domestic power balance and decision making.