Lukas Obholzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3485601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lukas Obholzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lukas |
| FAMILY NAME | Obholzer |
| SIGNATURE | OBHOLZER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2950-4184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Legislation Against the Odds: Overcoming Ideological Gridlock in EU Decision‐Making
Negotiations in bicameral settings face the risk of gridlock when veto players' preferences diverge on the ideological (left–right) dimension. In the European Union (EU), a high proportion of legislation appears gridlocked yet is nevertheless adopted. We argue that ideological gridlock is resolved through the supply of and trust in legislative concessions. These are made to uphold supranational cooperation, to use issue linkage, and under “permis…
Social media campaigning across multiple platforms: Evidence from the 2024 European elections
Roll call votes in the committees of the European Parliament: A new dataset
This forum article presents a new dataset on roll call votes in the committees of the European Parliament in the 2014 to 2019 legislative term. Data on roll call votes in the plenary has greatly informed research on the functioning of the European Parliament, broader legislative politics and European Union decision-making. Responding to transparency concerns about legislative decisions increasingly taken at committee level, a change of the Europe…
Contesting Europe: Eurosceptic Dissent and Integration Polarization in the European Parliament
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of Eurosceptic contestation within the legislative arena of the European Parliament (EP) from 2009 to 2019. Under what conditions do Eurosceptics vote differently from their Europhile peers? The literatures on European integration, party competition and policy types lead us to expect variation in Eurosceptic contestation across policy areas. Drawing on roll‐call votes in the EP, we introduce two new …
Reaching out to the voter? Campaigning on Twitter during the 2019 European elections
This article draws upon the literature on comparative political institutions in order to re-examine the logic of Twitter usage during campaign periods, now that social media has become a standard tool that is used across the political spectrum. We test how electoral institutions and individual characteristics shaped Twitter activity during the 2019 European elections cycle and compare the nature of this usage with the previous 2014 campaign. Our …
Party group coordinators and rapporteurs: Discretion and agency loss along the European Parliament’s chains of delegation
The European Parliament organizes its legislative activities along two chains of delegation to the rapporteurs – one institutional, one partisan. We analyze discretion and agency loss along these chains of delegation from the perspective of party group coordinators who select the rapporteur on behalf of the party group. Do coordinators minimize agency loss towards their national party, their European party group, the committee median or the plena…
Determinants of moonlighting in the European Parliament
In recent years, several national parliaments have introduced stricter rules for the disclosure of additional sources of income earned by their legislators. In this context of better data availability, the phenomenon of ‘moonlighting’ politicians (legislators who pursue paid or unpaid jobs next to their political mandate) has attracted increased public and scientific attention. Since 2011, the European Parliament (EP) has required its parliamenta…
When time is money: Sideline Jobs, Ancillary Income and Legislative Effort
Moonlighting, the pursuit of (paid or unpaid) sideline jobs by democratically elected politicians, regularly evokes public outcry. This study provides an empirical test of the claim that moonlighting goes hand-in-hand with a lower degree of parliamentary effort. The article draws upon original data on the number of outside jobs and the remuneration received by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) during the seventh legislative term (2009–201…
Static and dynamic incentives for Twitter usage in the European Parliament
In this article, we examine the static and dynamic factors that explain the use of the Twitter social media platform by all active Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) during the Fall and Winter of 2015–2016. Our analysis demonstrates that MEPs have an incentive to take to Twitter that varies across the European Parliament's (EP) highly segmented legislative calendar, but that MEPs are also affected by more constant differences in their nati…
An online electoral connection? How electoral systems condition representatives’ social media use
This article analyses the impact of electoral institutions on the re-election campaigning and outreach strategies of Members of the European Parliament on the Twitter social media platform. Social media offers politicians a means to contact voters remotely and at low cost. We test the effect of diverse national proportional representation electoral institutions in European elections on a possible online electoral connection. We draw upon an origi…
Learning on the Job? EU Enlargement and the Assignment of (Shadow) Rapporteurships in the European Parliament
This article investigates the determinants of assignments to European Parliament negotiating teams comprising both rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs. We re‐examine the argument that under‐representation of MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) from new Member States on these key posts after enlargement might have been due to a 'learning phase'. We find that MEPs from newer Member States remain considerably less likely to act as rapporteurs d…
Different Lenses, one Objective: Towards a Sharper Picture of Policy-making in the European Union
Framing Europe: the policy shaping strategies of the European Commission, Mark Rhinard, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2010 The European Parliament s committees: national party influence and legislative empowerment, Richard Whitaker, London: Routledge, 2011 Unveiling the Council of the European Union: games governments play in Brussels, Daniel Naurin and Helen Wallace (eds.), Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 How the EU institutions work and. . . h…
National Coordination of EU Policy: A Comparative Study of the Twelve “New” Member States
European Union policy-making requires Member States to determine national positions by means of national coordination in order to defend their preferences. This article analyses the coordination systems of the twelve "new" Member States in the middle of 2009 and compares them along the two major lines of divergence in coordination systems: their centralisation and their coordination ambition. In so doing, it ties in with a framework developed by …
An online electoral connection? How electoral systems condition representatives’ social media use
This article analyses the impact of electoral institutions on the re-election campaigning and outreach strategies of Members of the European Parliament on the Twitter social media platform. Social media offers politicians a means to contact voters remotely and at low cost. We test the effect of diverse national proportional representation electoral institutions in European elections on a possible online electoral connection. We draw upon an origi…
Learning on the Job? EU Enlargement and the Assignment of (Shadow) Rapporteurships in the European Parliament
This article investigates the determinants of assignments to European Parliament negotiating teams comprising both rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs. We re‐examine the argument that under‐representation of MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) from new Member States on these key posts after enlargement might have been due to a 'learning phase'. We find that MEPs from newer Member States remain considerably less likely to act as rapporteurs d…
Contesting Europe: Eurosceptic Dissent and Integration Polarization in the European Parliament
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of Eurosceptic contestation within the legislative arena of the European Parliament (EP) from 2009 to 2019. Under what conditions do Eurosceptics vote differently from their Europhile peers? The literatures on European integration, party competition and policy types lead us to expect variation in Eurosceptic contestation across policy areas. Drawing on roll‐call votes in the EP, we introduce two new …
Static and dynamic incentives for Twitter usage in the European Parliament
In this article, we examine the static and dynamic factors that explain the use of the Twitter social media platform by all active Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) during the Fall and Winter of 2015–2016. Our analysis demonstrates that MEPs have an incentive to take to Twitter that varies across the European Parliament's (EP) highly segmented legislative calendar, but that MEPs are also affected by more constant differences in their nati…
National Coordination of EU Policy: A Comparative Study of the Twelve “New” Member States
European Union policy-making requires Member States to determine national positions by means of national coordination in order to defend their preferences. This article analyses the coordination systems of the twelve "new" Member States in the middle of 2009 and compares them along the two major lines of divergence in coordination systems: their centralisation and their coordination ambition. In so doing, it ties in with a framework developed by …
Party group coordinators and rapporteurs: Discretion and agency loss along the European Parliament’s chains of delegation
The European Parliament organizes its legislative activities along two chains of delegation to the rapporteurs – one institutional, one partisan. We analyze discretion and agency loss along these chains of delegation from the perspective of party group coordinators who select the rapporteur on behalf of the party group. Do coordinators minimize agency loss towards their national party, their European party group, the committee median or the plena…
Reaching out to the voter? Campaigning on Twitter during the 2019 European elections
This article draws upon the literature on comparative political institutions in order to re-examine the logic of Twitter usage during campaign periods, now that social media has become a standard tool that is used across the political spectrum. We test how electoral institutions and individual characteristics shaped Twitter activity during the 2019 European elections cycle and compare the nature of this usage with the previous 2014 campaign. Our …
Determinants of moonlighting in the European Parliament
In recent years, several national parliaments have introduced stricter rules for the disclosure of additional sources of income earned by their legislators. In this context of better data availability, the phenomenon of ‘moonlighting’ politicians (legislators who pursue paid or unpaid jobs next to their political mandate) has attracted increased public and scientific attention. Since 2011, the European Parliament (EP) has required its parliamenta…
When time is money: Sideline Jobs, Ancillary Income and Legislative Effort
Moonlighting, the pursuit of (paid or unpaid) sideline jobs by democratically elected politicians, regularly evokes public outcry. This study provides an empirical test of the claim that moonlighting goes hand-in-hand with a lower degree of parliamentary effort. The article draws upon original data on the number of outside jobs and the remuneration received by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) during the seventh legislative term (2009–201…
National Coordination of EU Policy: A Comparative Study of the Twelve “New” Member States
European Union policy-making requires Member States to determine national positions by means of national coordination in order to defend their preferences. This article analyses the coordination systems of the twelve "new" Member States in the middle of 2009 and compares them along the two major lines of divergence in coordination systems: their centralisation and their coordination ambition. In so doing, it ties in with a framework developed by …
Different Lenses, one Objective: Towards a Sharper Picture of Policy-making in the European Union
Framing Europe: the policy shaping strategies of the European Commission, Mark Rhinard, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2010 The European Parliament s committees: national party influence and legislative empowerment, Richard Whitaker, London: Routledge, 2011 Unveiling the Council of the European Union: games governments play in Brussels, Daniel Naurin and Helen Wallace (eds.), Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 How the EU institutions work and. . . h…
Learning on the Job? EU Enlargement and the Assignment of (Shadow) Rapporteurships in the European Parliament
This article investigates the determinants of assignments to European Parliament negotiating teams comprising both rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs. We re‐examine the argument that under‐representation of MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) from new Member States on these key posts after enlargement might have been due to a 'learning phase'. We find that MEPs from newer Member States remain considerably less likely to act as rapporteurs d…
An online electoral connection? How electoral systems condition representatives’ social media use
This article analyses the impact of electoral institutions on the re-election campaigning and outreach strategies of Members of the European Parliament on the Twitter social media platform. Social media offers politicians a means to contact voters remotely and at low cost. We test the effect of diverse national proportional representation electoral institutions in European elections on a possible online electoral connection. We draw upon an origi…
Static and dynamic incentives for Twitter usage in the European Parliament
In this article, we examine the static and dynamic factors that explain the use of the Twitter social media platform by all active Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) during the Fall and Winter of 2015–2016. Our analysis demonstrates that MEPs have an incentive to take to Twitter that varies across the European Parliament's (EP) highly segmented legislative calendar, but that MEPs are also affected by more constant differences in their nati…
Determinants of moonlighting in the European Parliament
In recent years, several national parliaments have introduced stricter rules for the disclosure of additional sources of income earned by their legislators. In this context of better data availability, the phenomenon of ‘moonlighting’ politicians (legislators who pursue paid or unpaid jobs next to their political mandate) has attracted increased public and scientific attention. Since 2011, the European Parliament (EP) has required its parliamenta…
When time is money: Sideline Jobs, Ancillary Income and Legislative Effort
Moonlighting, the pursuit of (paid or unpaid) sideline jobs by democratically elected politicians, regularly evokes public outcry. This study provides an empirical test of the claim that moonlighting goes hand-in-hand with a lower degree of parliamentary effort. The article draws upon original data on the number of outside jobs and the remuneration received by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) during the seventh legislative term (2009–201…
Party group coordinators and rapporteurs: Discretion and agency loss along the European Parliament’s chains of delegation
The European Parliament organizes its legislative activities along two chains of delegation to the rapporteurs – one institutional, one partisan. We analyze discretion and agency loss along these chains of delegation from the perspective of party group coordinators who select the rapporteur on behalf of the party group. Do coordinators minimize agency loss towards their national party, their European party group, the committee median or the plena…
Reaching out to the voter? Campaigning on Twitter during the 2019 European elections
This article draws upon the literature on comparative political institutions in order to re-examine the logic of Twitter usage during campaign periods, now that social media has become a standard tool that is used across the political spectrum. We test how electoral institutions and individual characteristics shaped Twitter activity during the 2019 European elections cycle and compare the nature of this usage with the previous 2014 campaign. Our …
Contesting Europe: Eurosceptic Dissent and Integration Polarization in the European Parliament
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of Eurosceptic contestation within the legislative arena of the European Parliament (EP) from 2009 to 2019. Under what conditions do Eurosceptics vote differently from their Europhile peers? The literatures on European integration, party competition and policy types lead us to expect variation in Eurosceptic contestation across policy areas. Drawing on roll‐call votes in the EP, we introduce two new …
Roll call votes in the committees of the European Parliament: A new dataset
This forum article presents a new dataset on roll call votes in the committees of the European Parliament in the 2014 to 2019 legislative term. Data on roll call votes in the plenary has greatly informed research on the functioning of the European Parliament, broader legislative politics and European Union decision-making. Responding to transparency concerns about legislative decisions increasingly taken at committee level, a change of the Europe…
Legislation Against the Odds: Overcoming Ideological Gridlock in EU Decision‐Making
Negotiations in bicameral settings face the risk of gridlock when veto players' preferences diverge on the ideological (left–right) dimension. In the European Union (EU), a high proportion of legislation appears gridlocked yet is nevertheless adopted. We argue that ideological gridlock is resolved through the supply of and trust in legislative concessions. These are made to uphold supranational cooperation, to use issue linkage, and under “permis…
Social media campaigning across multiple platforms: Evidence from the 2024 European elections
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Parliament (8 works) · European union (7 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (7 works) · Public Administration (6 works)