Roula Nezi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roula Nezi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roula |
| FAMILY NAME | Nezi |
| SIGNATURE | NEZI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0096-0653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Multidimensional Representation in the EU Multilevel Polity
Though many Europeans change party choice between national and European Parliament elections, the representational logic underlying this behaviour remains poorly understood. While second-order election theory attributes cross-arena volatility to institutional asymmetries, it cannot explain why switching follows systematic ideological and EU issue-based patterns, or why it increasingly favours Eurosceptic parties. We argue that cross-arena vote sw…
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications
Voting advice applications (VAAs) have proliferated in recent years. However, most VAAs only match their users with parties, at least in part because creating a VAA matching voters to individual candidates tends to be more labour‐intensive. This could be an important missed opportunity. Candidates may deviate from the party line, but voters are often unaware of the policy platforms of individual candidates and therefore rarely hold them accountab…
Still Second-Order in 2024
Toujours de second ordre en 2024
A tale of two crises
Affective polarization, the strong feeling of animosity toward the supporters of the opposite party is rising in Europe. Several studies have examined the impact of ideological extremity and partisanship as a social identity on the rise of affective polarization. However, the impact of policy preferences on affective polarization remains relatively unexplored. I am at filling this gap by examining how preferences towards measures taken at address…
Back to the future
Despite adopting a significantly less proportional electoral system in June 2023, more parties entered the Greek parliament compared to May 2023, which constituted a ‘first round’ of the 2023 Greek national elections. From a comparative politics perspective, this seems counterintuitive. Moreover, the centre-right New Democracy consolidated executive and electoral power vis-à-vis left SYRIZA, which is in steady decline. To provide a systematic ana…
Beyond Positive and Negative
The study of policy feedback on public attitudes and policy preferences has become a growing area of research in recent years. Scholars in the tradition of Pierson usually argue that positive, self-reinforcing feedback effects dominate (that is, attitudes are commensurate with existing institutions), whereas the public thermostat model developed by Wlezien and Soroka expects negative, self-undermining feedback. Moving beyond the blunt distinction…
Beyond Positive and Negative
Responsibility versus responsiveness…to whom? A theory of party behavior
Late Peter Mair argued that, in the contemporary multilevel institutional setting of global governance, parties are faced with a dilemma between Responsiveness and Responsibility (RR dilemma). However, Mair did not theorize variation in how different parties experience the RR dilemma (degrees of tension) and how they manage it (strategies). We develop his work in three ways: first, we advance variants of the RR dilemma, where the tension party le…
Investing in education in Europe
Public opinion research has found that increasing the investment in education is generally very popular among citizens in Western Europe. However, this evidence from publicly available opinion surveys may be misleading, because these surveys do not force respondents to prioritize between different parts of the education system or between education and other social policies, nor do they provide information about citizens’ willingness to pay for ad…
Plebiscitarian Spirit in the Square. Key Characteristics of the Greek Indignants
Government–Opposition Dynamics during the Economic Crisis in Greece
This contribution examines the turbulent period of 2010–12 when Greece became the first European Union member state to accept the International Monetary Fund/European Union bailout package, which had significant electoral consequences. The May 2012 election was characterised by unprecedented electoral volatility and a reshuffling of the party system. An understanding of this development is sought by focusing on the relationship between government…
From valence to position
Economic voting under the economic crisis
Attitudes of Greek Parliamentarians Towards European and National Identity, Representation, and Scope of Governance
This article analyses the attitudes of Greek political elites towards the European Union (EU) and compares them with the views of public opinion. Data were collected in 2007 through personal interviews with 90 MPs and a public opinion survey (IntUne project). The attitudes of MPs are discussed with regard to three dimensions of European citizenship: identity, representation, and scope of governance. There are traditionalists, formalists, and libe…
Explaining the Attitudes of Parliamentarians towards European Integration in Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia
Beyond Positive and Negative
The study of policy feedback on public attitudes and policy preferences has become a growing area of research in recent years. Scholars in the tradition of Pierson usually argue that positive, self-reinforcing feedback effects dominate (that is, attitudes are commensurate with existing institutions), whereas the public thermostat model developed by Wlezien and Soroka expects negative, self-undermining feedback. Moving beyond the blunt distinction…
Investing in education in Europe
Public opinion research has found that increasing the investment in education is generally very popular among citizens in Western Europe. However, this evidence from publicly available opinion surveys may be misleading, because these surveys do not force respondents to prioritize between different parts of the education system or between education and other social policies, nor do they provide information about citizens’ willingness to pay for ad…
Economic voting under the economic crisis
Government–Opposition Dynamics during the Economic Crisis in Greece
This contribution examines the turbulent period of 2010–12 when Greece became the first European Union member state to accept the International Monetary Fund/European Union bailout package, which had significant electoral consequences. The May 2012 election was characterised by unprecedented electoral volatility and a reshuffling of the party system. An understanding of this development is sought by focusing on the relationship between government…
From valence to position
Attitudes of Greek Parliamentarians Towards European and National Identity, Representation, and Scope of Governance
This article analyses the attitudes of Greek political elites towards the European Union (EU) and compares them with the views of public opinion. Data were collected in 2007 through personal interviews with 90 MPs and a public opinion survey (IntUne project). The attitudes of MPs are discussed with regard to three dimensions of European citizenship: identity, representation, and scope of governance. There are traditionalists, formalists, and libe…
A tale of two crises
Affective polarization, the strong feeling of animosity toward the supporters of the opposite party is rising in Europe. Several studies have examined the impact of ideological extremity and partisanship as a social identity on the rise of affective polarization. However, the impact of policy preferences on affective polarization remains relatively unexplored. I am at filling this gap by examining how preferences towards measures taken at address…
Beyond Positive and Negative
Plebiscitarian Spirit in the Square. Key Characteristics of the Greek Indignants
Back to the future
Despite adopting a significantly less proportional electoral system in June 2023, more parties entered the Greek parliament compared to May 2023, which constituted a ‘first round’ of the 2023 Greek national elections. From a comparative politics perspective, this seems counterintuitive. Moreover, the centre-right New Democracy consolidated executive and electoral power vis-à-vis left SYRIZA, which is in steady decline. To provide a systematic ana…
Explaining the Attitudes of Parliamentarians towards European Integration in Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia
Explaining the Attitudes of Parliamentarians towards European Integration in Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia
Attitudes of Greek Parliamentarians Towards European and National Identity, Representation, and Scope of Governance
This article analyses the attitudes of Greek political elites towards the European Union (EU) and compares them with the views of public opinion. Data were collected in 2007 through personal interviews with 90 MPs and a public opinion survey (IntUne project). The attitudes of MPs are discussed with regard to three dimensions of European citizenship: identity, representation, and scope of governance. There are traditionalists, formalists, and libe…
Economic voting under the economic crisis
From valence to position
Government–Opposition Dynamics during the Economic Crisis in Greece
This contribution examines the turbulent period of 2010–12 when Greece became the first European Union member state to accept the International Monetary Fund/European Union bailout package, which had significant electoral consequences. The May 2012 election was characterised by unprecedented electoral volatility and a reshuffling of the party system. An understanding of this development is sought by focusing on the relationship between government…
Investing in education in Europe
Public opinion research has found that increasing the investment in education is generally very popular among citizens in Western Europe. However, this evidence from publicly available opinion surveys may be misleading, because these surveys do not force respondents to prioritize between different parts of the education system or between education and other social policies, nor do they provide information about citizens’ willingness to pay for ad…
Plebiscitarian Spirit in the Square. Key Characteristics of the Greek Indignants
Responsibility versus responsiveness…to whom? A theory of party behavior
Late Peter Mair argued that, in the contemporary multilevel institutional setting of global governance, parties are faced with a dilemma between Responsiveness and Responsibility (RR dilemma). However, Mair did not theorize variation in how different parties experience the RR dilemma (degrees of tension) and how they manage it (strategies). We develop his work in three ways: first, we advance variants of the RR dilemma, where the tension party le…
Beyond Positive and Negative
Beyond Positive and Negative
The study of policy feedback on public attitudes and policy preferences has become a growing area of research in recent years. Scholars in the tradition of Pierson usually argue that positive, self-reinforcing feedback effects dominate (that is, attitudes are commensurate with existing institutions), whereas the public thermostat model developed by Wlezien and Soroka expects negative, self-undermining feedback. Moving beyond the blunt distinction…
A tale of two crises
Affective polarization, the strong feeling of animosity toward the supporters of the opposite party is rising in Europe. Several studies have examined the impact of ideological extremity and partisanship as a social identity on the rise of affective polarization. However, the impact of policy preferences on affective polarization remains relatively unexplored. I am at filling this gap by examining how preferences towards measures taken at address…
Back to the future
Despite adopting a significantly less proportional electoral system in June 2023, more parties entered the Greek parliament compared to May 2023, which constituted a ‘first round’ of the 2023 Greek national elections. From a comparative politics perspective, this seems counterintuitive. Moreover, the centre-right New Democracy consolidated executive and electoral power vis-à-vis left SYRIZA, which is in steady decline. To provide a systematic ana…
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications
Voting advice applications (VAAs) have proliferated in recent years. However, most VAAs only match their users with parties, at least in part because creating a VAA matching voters to individual candidates tends to be more labour‐intensive. This could be an important missed opportunity. Candidates may deviate from the party line, but voters are often unaware of the policy platforms of individual candidates and therefore rarely hold them accountab…
Still Second-Order in 2024
Toujours de second ordre en 2024
Multidimensional Representation in the EU Multilevel Polity
Though many Europeans change party choice between national and European Parliament elections, the representational logic underlying this behaviour remains poorly understood. While second-order election theory attributes cross-arena volatility to institutional asymmetries, it cannot explain why switching follows systematic ideological and EU issue-based patterns, or why it increasingly favours Eurosceptic parties. We argue that cross-arena vote sw…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (5 works)