Background and Facts
Dr. Pollak is a Senior Research Professor at Webster University in Vienna. He also teaches at several other universities, amongst them the universities of Vienna and Salzburg. He is a regular reviewer for Oxford University Press, West European Politics, Government and Opposition, EUROGOV, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Political Research, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaften, Journal of European Integration, European Political Science Review, European Integration Online Papers, ConWEB. Furthermore, he is a member of the European Consortium for Political Research and the Austrian Society for Political Science. He also acts as expert evaluator for the European Commission since 2000, is European Research Council evaluator 2009-2013 and EUCYS jury member 2007-2009.

Dr. Pollak has vast experience conducting and coordinating European research projects. He is editor of the series "‘Europa kompakt" of UTB/WUV and has published more than 50 articles in scientific journals. The latest articles deal with the problem of democratic representation in supranational entities (Journal of European Public Policy) and the relation between political representation and accountability (West European Politics). His latest monograph covers normative political questions of European unification (Repräsentation ohne Demokratie, 2007); the last edited volume deals with politics and personality (Politik und Persönlichkeit, 2009). Dr. Pollak is currently working on several books dealing with European Energy Issues, a book on ‘Representation in the European Union and he also leads a project (part of an FP-6 research consortium: RECON) on questions of representative democracy.

Before joining Webster, Dr. Pollak was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute Florence, 2003-2004; Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading, June 2007 – March 2008 and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Monographs and edited volumes

• J. Pollak, Repräsentation ohne Demokratie. Kollidierende Modi der Repräsentation in der Europäischen Union, Wien/New York: Springer 2007.

• Editor of the series „Europa Kompakt“ Vienna: WUV/UTB

1. J. Pollak/P. Slominski, Einführung in die EU, Wien 2006
2. I. Michalowitz, Lobbying in der EU, Wien 2007
3. U. Puetter, Das Wirtschafts- und Sozialmodell Europas, 2009
4. F. Algieri, Die Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, summer 2009
5. M. Jopp, Die Europäische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik, planned fall 2010
6. J. Mittag/J. Steuwer, Die europäischen Parteien, planned November 2009
7. A. Maurer, Parlamentarismus in der EU, planned beginning 2010
8. J. Pollak/P.Slominski/S. Schubert, Die Energiepolitik der EU, beginning 2010

• Politik und Persönlichkeit, ed. together with F. Sager, U. Sarcinelli, A. Zimmer, Wien: Facultas 2008.
  
  
• Ratspräsidentschaften zwischen Management und Vision, hrsg. v. J. Pollak, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 2007.
  
  
• Repräsentation und Verfassung. Zur Legitimität des europäischen Verfassungskonvents, hrsg. v. J. Pollak, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 34(3), 2005.
  
  
• Europäische Leitbilder. Festschrift für Heinrich Schneider, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2001 (hrsg. gem. mit R. Hierzinger).
  
  
• Zur politischen Identität der Europäischen Staatengemeinschaft, Frankfurt aM: Lang 1996.

Selected articles and book contributions

• W. Kaiser/J. Pollak, Wessen Europa? Legitimationsprobleme der Europäischen Union, in: BEIGEWUM (Hg.), Wege zu einem anderen Europa, Köln 1997.
  
  
• J. Pollak/C. Wachter, Europäische Identität - ein Vorwort, , in: BEIGEWUM (Hg.), Wege zu einem anderen Europa, Köln 1997.
  
  
• J. Pollak/S. Puntscher Riekmann, Austria and the European Union: From Nation State to Member State, in: Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol.2, No.2, 1999, 136-153.
  
  
• J. Pollak/M. Mokre, Europäische Kulturpolitik als Identitätspolitk. Formen, Prozesse, Resultate, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Vol. 28, No.3, 1999, 317-332.
  
  
• J. Pollak/T. Winderl, I movimenti per l´Unità europea in Austria, in: A: Landuyt/D. Preda (eds.), I movimenti per l´unità europea 1970-1986, Bologna: Mulino 2000, 387-399.
  
  
• J. Pollak/S. Puntscher Riekmann, Small States - Big States: Who has the Political Clout in the European Union?, in G.Bischof, A.Pelinka and M. Gehler (eds.), Austria in the EU, (Contemporary Austrian Studies Vol. X), New Brunswick/London: Transaction Pub. 2002.
  
  
• J. Pollak/S. Puntscher Riekmann, Europäische Demokratie ein gemeinschaftliches Projekt, in: Forum Parlament, 0/2002, S. 6-1.
  
  
• J. Pollak/P. Slominski, Die österreichischen politischen Parteien und die europäische Integration: Stillstand oder Aufbruch?, in: H. Neisser/S. Puntscher Riekmann (eds.), Europäisierung der österreichischen Politik. Konsequenzen der EU-Mitgliedschaft, Wien: WUV 2002, 177-200.
  
  
• J. Pollak/S. Puntscher Riekmann, Europäische Demokratie – ein gemeinschaftliches Projekt, in: Parlamentszeitschrift Nr. 1, 2002.
  
  
• J. Pollak/P. Slominski, Die Reform der Europäischen Union, in: Forum Politische Bildung (Hg.), EU 25 - Die Erweiterung der Europäischen Union (= Informationen zur Politischen Bildung, Band 19), Studien Verlag, Innsbruck/Wien/München/Bozen 2003, 58-70.
  
  
• J. Pollak, Wahlen auf europäischer Ebene, in: Forum Politische Bildung (Hg.), Von Wahl zu Wahl (= Informationen zur Politischen Bildung, Band 21), Studien Verlag, Innsbruck/Wien/München/Bozen 2003, 28-36.
  
  
• O. Höll/J. Pollak/S. Puntscher Riekmann, Austria: Structural Domestic Change Through European Integration, in: W. Wessels, A. Maurer, J. Mittag (eds.), Fifteen into one? The European Union and its member states, Manchester University Press 2003, 337-354.
  
  
• Johannes Pollak/Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Von Haien und Heringen oder Über die Macht von großen und kleinen Staaten in Europa, in: G. Bischof/M. Gehler/A. Pelinka (Hrsg.), Österreich in der EU - Bilanz der fünfjährigen Mitgliedschaft, Wien: Böhlau, 2003.
  
  
• J. Pollak/P. Slominski, ‘Influencing EU-politics? The Case of the Austrian Parliament’, Journal of Common Market Studies vol. 41, no 3, September 2003, 707-29.
  
  
• J. Pollak/C. Stockhammer, Continuity and the Challenge of Change: The European Project towards A European Federal State?’, in: E. Busek (Hg.), Kontinuitäten und Brüche. Europäisches Forum Alpbach, Wien: Verlag Österreich, S. 351-354, 2004.
  
  
• J. Pollak, Democracy and the European Constitution, CONWEB Papers 4, 2004, http://www.qub.ac.uk/pais/Research/PaperSeries/ConWEBPapers/
  
  
• J. Pollak/P. Slominski, Verfassungsverfahren und Repräsentation: Der Konvent als Vorbild demokratischer europäischer Konstitutionalisierung?, in: W. Mantl/S. Puntscher Riekmann/M. Schweitzer (Hrsg.), Der Konvent zur Zukunft der Europäischen Union, Wien: Böhlau 2005, 37-56.
  
  
• J. Pollak/P. Slominski, The Representative Quality of EU Treaty Reform. A Comparison between the IGC and the Convention, Journal of European Integration, 26(3), Sept. 2004, 201-226.
  
  
• J. Pollak/P. Slominski, Europäische Demokratie im Schnittpunkt von parlamentarischem und regulativem Modell, in: Rainer Bauböck, Monika Mokre, Gilbert Weiss (Hg.), Europas Identitäten. Mythen, Konstrukte, Konflikte, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 2004.
  
  
• J. Pollak/P. Slominski, Compounded, Contested, Complex: Representation in Multi-Level Systems, in: S. Puntscher Riekmann/M. Latzer/M. Mokre (eds.), The State of Europe. Transformations of Statehood from a European Perspective, Campus 2004.
  
  
• J. Pollak/M. Jenny/P. Slominski, Political Elites and the Future of Europe: The Views of MPs and MEPs’, in: S. Puntscher Riekmann/W. Wessels (eds.), The Constitutionalisation of the EU – From Nice to Rome. The European Convention and Discourses in the Member States, Leske & Budrich, 2004.
  
  
• B. Blümel/C. Neuhold/J. Pollak, Austria: A Large Potential with (as of yet) Little Implications. In: Andreas Maurer/Wolfgang Wessels (Hg.): National Parliaments on their ways to Europe: Losers or Latecomers?.- Baden-Baden: Nomos 2004.
  
  
• J. Pollak, Repräsentation und Herrschaftsorganisation: Ideengeschichtliche Anmerkungen, in: Austrian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34(3), 217-232, 2005.
  
  
• J. Pollak, Wie repräsentativ war der Konvent zur Zukunft Europas?, in: Forum Parlament. Beilage zum Journal für Rechtspolitik No. 1/2005, 6-10 (gem. m. P. Slominski)
  
  
• J. Pollak, „Konstitutioneller Moment“ und Verfassungsreform: Eine Einschätzung des Österreich-Konvents, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Vol 34(4) 2005 (gem. m. P. Slominski).
  
  
• J. Pollak, Democracy and the European Constitution: Why size does not matter, in: U. Liebert/J. Falke/A. Maurer (eds.), Postnational Constitutionalisation in the New Europe, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 231-248, 2006.
  
  
• J. Pollak, ‘Codifying Temporary Stability? The Role of Interinstitutional Agreements in Budgetary Politics`, European Law Journal 13(1), 75-91 (jointly with I. Eiselt/P. Slominski).
  
  
• J. Pollak, ‘Political Science in Austria’, in: H. Klingemann (ed.), The State of Political Science in Western Europe, Opladen: Budrich 2007, 43-56 (together with E. Appelt).
  
  
• J. Pollak, ‘Contested meanings of representation’, in: Journal for Comparative Politics, Special issue ‘Contested Meanings of Norms — The Challenge of Democratic Governance Beyond the Stateed’ by Antje Wiener, 2007, 5(1), 87-103.
  
  
• J. Pollak, ‘The Austrian EU Presidency: Pragmatic management’, in: Jounral of Common Market Studies, Annual Review 2006, 2007 (jointly with S. Puntscher Riekmann).
  
  
• J. Pollak, Ist eine europäische Identität möglich? Oder: Warum wir lernen sollten, Zwiebeln zu lieben’, in: C. Joerges/M. Mahlmann/U.K. Preuß (eds), „Schmerzliche Erfahrungen“ der Vergangenheit und der Prozess der Konstitutionalisierung Europas, Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007.
  
  
• J. Pollak, Zum Demokratiedefizit in der Europäischen Union. Über Anspruch und Wirklichkeit, in: V. Wedl/A. Wagner (Hg.), Bilanz und Perspektiven zum europäischen Recht. Eine juristische Nachdenkschrift anlässlich 50 Jahre Römische Verträge, 2007.
  
  
• J. Pollak, EUropäische Werte?, in: M. Csáky/J. Feichtinger (Hg.), Europa – geeint durch Werte? Die europäische Wertedebatte auf dem Prüfstand der Geschichte, Bielefeld: Transcript 2007, 89-102.
  
  
• J. Pollak, ‘European administration: Centralisation and fragmentation as means of polity-building?’, in: Special volume of West European Politics “Towards a European Administrative Space?”, ed. by D. Curtin/M. Egeberg 31(4) 2008, 771- 788 (jointly with S. Puntscher Riekmann). Also published inD. Curtin/M. Egeberg (ed.), Towards a New Executive Order in Europe?, London: Routledge, 133-150.
  
  
• J. Pollak, ‘Zwischen Konflikt und Kooperation: Zur Interinstitutionellen Interaktion im EU-Haushaltsverfahren‘, in: Kietz, D./Slominski, P./Maurer, A. (Hrsg) (2008): Zur Rolle interinstitutioneller Vereinbarungen und des Geschäftsordnungsrechts in der Verfassungentwicklung der Union. Baden-Baden: Nomos (jointly with P. Slominski/I. Eiselt).
  
  
• J. Pollak, Zwischen De- und Reparlamentarisierung: Der österreichische Nationalrat und seine Mitwirkungsrechte in EU-Angelegenheiten, forthcoming in Österreichische Zeitung für Politikwissenschaft 2009 (jointly with P. Slominski).
  
  
• J. Pollak, The EU’s Many Representative Modes: Colluding? Cohering?, Special Issue of the Journal of European Public Policy ed. by P. Mair and J. Thomassen, forthcoming 2009 (jointly with C. Lord).
  
  
• J. Pollak, Experimentalist but not Accountable Governance? The Role of Frontex in Managing the EU’s External Borders, forthcoming in West European Politics, 2009 (jointly wit P. Slominski).
  
  
• J. Pollak, Representation and Accountability: Communicating tubes?, Special Issue of West European Politics ed. by Ioannis Papadopoulos, forthcoming 2009 (jointly with C. Lord).
  
  
• J. Pollak, Anmerkungen zu Demokratie und politischer Repräsentation in der Europäischen Union, in: R. Pfefferle/G. Valchars, Festschrift für Peter Gerlich, i.E. 2009.

Project reports

• Die Debatte zur Zukunft Europas: Die Rolle der nationalen Parlamente in der europäischen Architektur. Konzepte und Akteure einer Debatte. Final Report for the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Vienna 2001 (jointly with S. Puntscher Riekmann, P. Slominski, M. Mokre).
  
  
• Institutional Change and Problems of Democracy. Final Report for the Austrian Ministry of Science, Vienna 2001 (jointly with S. Puntscher Riekmann, R. Hierzinger, M. Mokre).
  
  
• Constitutionalism and Democratic Representation in the European Union, Final Report, April 2003.

Working Papers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

• J. Pollak/S. Puntscher Riekmann/O. Höll, Austria: Structural Domestic Change Through European Integration, IWE Working Paper No. 6, 1999.
  
  
• J. Pollak/P. Slominski, Between Kant and Mega Constitutional Politics, IWE Working Paper No. 20, Sept. 2001.
  
  
• J. Pollak/ P. Slominski, Democratizing the European Union: Representation is nothing; Responsiveness is everything, IWE Working Paper No. 27, July 2002.
  
  
• J. Pollak/ P. Slominski, Stillstand zwischen Aufbruch und Beharrung. Die österreichischen politischen Parteien und die europäische Integration, IWE Working Paper No.28, August 2002.
  
  
• J. Pollak/M. Mokre, Political Parties as Agents of European Democracy?, IWE Working Paper No. 30, Sept. 2002.
  
  
• J. Pollak/M. Mokre, The Transformation of Austrian Political Parties through European Integration or How to Avoid Reality, IWE Working Paper No. 31, Sept. 2002.
  
  
• J. Pollak, The Convention on the Future of Europe: New and Shining?, EIF Working Paper No. 7, December 2004.
  
  
• Interinstitutionelle Vereinbarungen im Bereich des EU-Budgets. EIF Working Paper No 13, 2005 (gem. m. I. Eiselt, P. Slominski)

Several book reviews in the Austrian Journal for Political Science, West European Politics.

Frequent reviewer for: Oxford University Press, West European Politics, Government and Opposition, EUROGOV, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Political Research, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaften, Journal of European Integration, European Political Science Review, European Integration Online Papers, ConWEB.

Edited publications/Book contributions:

• Shaping Representative Claims (ARENA).
  
  
• Constellations, Special Issue on Representation (incl. N.Urbinati, J. Bohman, J. Fossum, C. Lord, D. Castiglione).
  
  
• Exiting the Joint Decision Trap? The case of EU energy policy, in: Falkner/Scharpf, OUP.

Selected Conferences and Lectures

• Geschichtskonzeptionen und Ideengeschichte. Faculty lecture at the Institute for Political Science, University of Salzburg, 17 March 1998.
  
  
• “Die neue Aussenpolitik der EG/EU“, Lecture at the Fachhochschul-Studiengang Europäische Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensführung, Vienna, 28 October 1998.
  
  
• Der europäische Bürger als Telos? Chancen und Perspektiven der Unionsbürgerschaft
  Paper presented at the Joint Conference of theGerman, Austrian and Swiss Societies for Political Science, 1-5 October 2000, Halle, Germany (jointly with S. Puntscher Riekmann).
  
  
• Political Parties as Agents of European Democracy?, Paper presented at the Euroconference “Democracy beyond the nation-state: perspectives on a post-national order”, Athens, October 5–7 October 2000. (jointly with M. Mokre).
  
  
• Anmerkungen zur europäischen Verfassungsdebatte, Lecture for the Postgraduate Course European Studies, Vienna, 10 November 2000.
  
  
• Föderalismus und Demokratie in der EU oder die Jagd nach dem Schnark, Paper presented at the Joint Conference of theGerman, Austrian and Swiss Societies for Political Science “Der Wandel föderativer Strukturen", Berlin, 8-9 June 2001 (jointly with P. Slominski).
  
  
• The Transformation of Austrian Political Parties through European Integration, or: How to Avoid Reality, Paper presented at the Conference “MultiLevel Governance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, University of Sheffield, Political Economy Research Center,Sheffield, 28-30 June 2001 (jointly with M. Mokre).
  
  
• Between Kant and Mega-Constitutional Politics. Constitutionalism and Democratic Representation in the European Union, Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research 2001. 4th Pan European International Relations Conference University of Kent, Canterbury, 6-10 September 2001 (jointly with P. Slominski).
  
  
• Verfassungsgebung und Repräsentation in der EU, Europarechtlicher Dialog, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 28 September 2001 (jointly with P. Slominski).
  
  
• Auf der Jagd nach dem Schnark. Die Europäisierung der Parteien. Lecture for the Austrian Green Party, 29 October 2001. (jointly with M. Mokre).
  
  
• Verfassung und Repräsentation in der EU, Paper presented at the Conference European Identities: Constructs and Conflicts, Diplomatic Academy Vienna, 14 December 2001, (jointly with P. Slominski).
  
  
• Die Jagd nach dem Schnark. Die Europäisierung der österreichischen Parteien, Austrian Society for Poltical Science, Section: Europe; Institute for Advanced Studies, 17 January 2002.
  
  
• Democratizing the European Union: Representation is nothing; Responsiveness is everything, Fifth Biennial Conference of the European Community Studies Association – Canada/ Association d´Etudes sur la Communauté Européenne – Canada, Toronto, Canada, May 31st - June 1st, 2002 (jointly with P. Slominski).
  
  
• Panel Discussion: One Year Later: How the World has Changed. Webster University Vienna, 11 September 2002.
  
  
• Compounded, contested, complex: Representation in Multi-level systems, Paper presented at the International Workshop “Transformations of Statehood from a European perspective”, Vienna, 23-25 January 2003 (jointly with P. Slominski).
  
  
• Democracy-Building in the EU: Preconditions, Achievements and Instruments for Reform, Lecture at the Conference Democracy and Accountability in the Enlarged European Union, 7–8 March 2003, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin.
  
  
• Reappraising Representation: The Constitutionalisation Process of Europe. 19th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Durban, South Africa, 29 June – 4 July 2003 (jointly with P. Slominski).
  
  
• The Representative Quality of EU Treaty Reform: A Comparison Between the IGC and the Convention, Constitutionalism and Democratic Representation in the European Union. Conference within the framework: "From the European Convention to Public Discourse: Debating our Common European Future" (EUCON) supported by the European Commission as part of the PRINCE programme, Vienna 22-23 Sept. 2003 (jointly with P. Slominski). Representation and Identity, International Workshop at the „The Research Center “Discourse, Politics and Identity” (DPI), University of Vienna, 25 Oct. 2003.
  
  
• Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the Europea Union, International Conference, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Mannheim, 27-29 Nov. 2003. Eine demokratische Verfassung für alle? Mehrheitsprinzip und kleine Mitgliedstaaten“, Internationale Tagung „Handlungsfähiger und demokratischer? Die Verfassung Europas nach der Regierungskonferenz“, Jean Monnet Centrum für Europastudien (CEuS) und Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik (ZERP), in Kooperation mit Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration (AEI), Arbeitskreis Integrationsforschung (AKI/DVPW), 2–3 April 2004 im Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst/Bremen.
  
  
• The Convention Hype: Visions of representation, CIDEL Workshop on Legitimacy, Governance and Constitution-Making, 12-13 Nov. 2004, Birkbeck College, University of London.
  
  
• Conference “Central Europe after Enlargement of the European Union”, Jagiellonian University Centre for European Studies, 22-23 Nov. 2004, Krakow, Poland.
  
  
• Invited discussant at the International Symposium: The Re-/Construction of Europe/EU: On Social, Political and Cultural Dimensions of Reforming and Enlarging the European Union, Lancaster University, 12–13 May 2005.
  
  
• Fabric, framework or maze? Interinstitutional agreements in the EU, CONNEX Conference, Oslo 27-28 May 2005.
  
  
• Interinstitutionelle Ankommen im Bereich des Budgetverfahrens, Tagung des Arbeitskreises Europäische Integration „Verfassungsentwicklung zwischen den Europäischen Gipfeln. Chancen und Grenzen des intra- und interinstitutionellen Soft law in der EU“, Berlin, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 3 June 2005.
  
  
• Panel Convenor and Chair „Representation, interest and the legitimacy of European Governance“, 3rd ECPR General Conference Budapest, 8-10 September 2005. Invited disussant in the Panel “Changing ideas of accountability, responsibility and representation in democratic governance.
  
  
• Invited discussant “Contested Meanings: Democratic Practice and Principles across Cultural Boundaries, 22-23 September 2005, Queens University, Belfast.
  
  
• Invited Discussant “Transforming Europe. Conflict, Inclusion, Exclusion in the enlarged Europe”, 2-3 December 2006, University of Salzburg.
  
  
• J. Pollak, A European Republic or a European Democracy?, Lecture at the Central European University Budapest, 2 February 2006.
  
  
• J.Pollak, ‘Like Castor and Polydeukes. The sacred and the Secular in Europe’, Paper presented at the Conference “Europe in Translation. The rearticulation of European civilization in a global age”, University of Iowa, 3-4 March 2006.
  
  
• Connex RG 1 Conference Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 11-13 May 2006.
  
  
• The Austrian Presidency of the European Union: Constitutional Treaty, Budget and Enlargment: Milestones or Stumbling Blocks?, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 19-20 May 2006.
  
  
• Invited Discussant, Dilemmas of Democracy, International Workshop London, University of Westminster, 2-3 June 2006.
  
  
• The Hidden Institutionalization of Europe – Role and Impact of Interinstitutional Agreements in the European Union, Paper presented at the 20th IPSA World Congress in Fukuoka, Japan, 9-13 July 2006 (jointly with P. Slominski).
  
  
• ‘Ist eine europäische Identität möglich? Oder, warum wir lernen sollten, Zwiebeln zu lieben’, Conference Bittere Erfahrungen der Vergangenheit und der Prozess der Konstitutionalisierung Europas, Berlin 20-21 Oktober 2006.
  
  
• Round Table Discussion “EUropa – eine Wertegemeinschaft?“ within the program of the international conference“Was ist europäisch? Die Vielfalt von Gedächtnissen oder die Eindeutigkeit von europäischen Werten“, Vienna 9-11 November 2006.
  
  
• About the representative quality of the EU, Lecture at Central European University Budapest, 10 November 2006.
  
  
• Towards a European Republic or back to an Executive Oligarchy? Regulatory Agencies in the EU, Conference “Towards a European Administrative Space” CONNEX Network, London, 16-18 November 2006 (together with S. Puntscher Riekmann).
  
  
• Organisation and conceptual responsibility for the working group “The thétron of politics” within the three country conference “Personality and Politics” of the Austrian, Swiss and German Societies for Political Science, 30 Nov. – 2 Dec. 2006.
  
  
• European regulatory Agencies, Lecture at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University - Bologna Center, 18 December 2006.
  
  
• Monnet’s Conceptions of Policymaking in a Democratic Environment. Or: What’s so special about Monnet?, Conference “Méthode Monnet” and the Future of Europe. A Stocktaking on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, ECSA Austria/Europainstitut WU, Wien, 22/23 March 2007.
  
  
• Invited Disucssant, Democracy without Politics?, Conference at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, 17-18 April 2007.
  
  
• Invited Discussant, Connex Thematic Conference on Politcal Representation, European University Institute Florence, 25-26 May 2007.
  
  
• Colliding systems of representation, Conference “Representation and Institutional Make-up”, Brussels, 15-16 June 2007.
  
  
• Lecture “Representation and Integration: Unknown Claims?”, GOLEM Series of the Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, November 13, 2007.
  
  
• Concept and organisation of the workshop “A Re-Assessment of Political Representation”, University of Reading, UK, 22 February 2008. Paper “Inclusive or Colliding? The EU’s many representative modes”, (jointly with C. Lord).
  
  
• Lecture “Democratic Representation”, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 18 January 2008.
  
  
• Political representation in the European Union: Insufficient and Whiggish?, Connex Workshop on Representation, European University Institute Florence, 23-24 April 2008.
  
  
• RECON Methodology Workshop, Arena Oslo, 25 April 2008.
  
  
• Invited Discussant, International Workshop: The OMC within the Lisbon Strategy: Empirical assessments and theoretical implications, 28-29 November 2008, Vienna.
  
  
• Die EU und der Vertrag von Lissabon: Bestandsaufnahme und zukünftige Entwicklungen, International Conference, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 4-5 December 2009.
  
  
• ‘Colliding Modes of Representation in Europe’, Jean Monnet Lectures on EU Governance, University of Exeter, Exeter UK 19 March 2009.
  
  
• ‘Representative claims-making in the 2009 European election campaign: What can they tell us about the RECON models’, International RECON Workshop on Indices and Models, Oslo 26-27 March 2009.
  
  
• ‘Modes of Representation in the EU’, EUSA 2009 Conference, Los Angeles USA, Panel 11I Normative and Analytical Views of EU Democracy, April 2009.
  
  
• ‘The rights of national parliaments in EU affairs: the (ir-)relevance of pan-EU provisions’, International RECON Workshop With or without Lisbon: continuous institutional change in the EU, Amsterdam 15-16 May 2009.
  
  
• ‘Representative Properties of Political Systems’, International RECON Workshop on Representative Theory, Vienna 22 May 2009.
  
  
• ‘Shaping Representative Claims: do transnational party federations influence national campaigns to EP elections?’, RECON Midterm Conference, Prague, 8-11 October 2009.
  
  
• ‘Negotiating the Common Good and Democratic Representation in the EU’, International Conference “Is there a common European Good”, University of Salzburg, 28-30 October 2009.

Forthcoming Conferences

• ‘On Political Representation. Myths and Challenges’, International Political Science Association, Panel 12: Democratic Representation in European Governance, Luxembourg, 18-21 March 2010.
  
  
• ‘National Parliaments in the EU: from deparliamentarisation to reparliamentarisation and back’, ECPR Muenster, 22-27 March 2010.
  
  
• ‘Savior or Achilles Heel: Turkish Membership in the Context of EU Energy Policy’, Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago 21-25 April 2010.
  
  
• ‘Directions of Change’, Host to Recon Conference Vienna, 28-30 May 2010.
  
  
• ‘The proliferation of accountability: vice or virtue?’, Recon Workshop ‘Agency Governance in the EU and its Consequences’, Mannheim, 16-18 September 2010.
  
  
• External Advisor and Guest Lecturer to the Doctoral Programme of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change:Finland, Åland Island, 21-24 September 2010.