Nikoleta Yordanova
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. N. Yordanova
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 3843
- n.yordanova@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9207-4597
Nikoleta Yordanova is Associate Professor in European Politics.
Dr. Nikoleta Yordanova is Associate Professor in European Politics. Currently, she leads an international research consortium funded by the European NORFACE Network Governance Programme to complete the multi-disciplinary project Willingness and Capacity for EU Policy Action in Turbulent Times: Conflicts, Positions and Outcomes (EUINACTION). Previously, she served as Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Institute of Political Science.
Dr. Nikoleta Yordanova specialises in the study of European Union and comparative legislative politics. Her research focuses on political institutions, legislative behaviour, policy-making, delegation and compliance as well as policy reforms under coalition governments in European parliamentary democracies.
She studied political science at Jacobs University and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and received her PhD from the European University Institute (EUI) in 2010. Her doctoral thesis was recognised with the ECPR Duncan Black Award, the EUSA Best Dissertation Prize and the EUI’s François Mény PhD Prize. Before joining Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, Nikoleta was Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) in European Politics at the University of Mannheim (2013-2019), where she was the Coordinator of the BA programme in Political Science and Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded project Legislative Reforms and Party Competition (2014-2022) at the Collaborative Research Center “Political Economy of Reforms” (SFB884). She conducted part of her research at the European Parliament.
Her work has been published in American Political Science Review, European Union Politics, European Political Science Review, German Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Party Politics, Public Policy and Administration, West European Politics and she is the author of Organizing the European Parliament: The Role of Committees.
For her curriculum vitae and further information, please refer to her personal website:
You can also follow Nikoleta Yordanova on Twitter: @NYYordanova.
Teaching
She teaches courses on the politics of policy-making, EU institutions and policies, challenges to European integration and Euroscepticism, and supervises research students in these and related fields.
PhD supervision
Dr. Nikoleta Yordanova is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- European Integration
- EU institutions and policy-making processes
- Political institutions, parliaments and legislative behaviour
See more information on PhD positions:
Associate professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Yordanova N., Khokhlova A., Ershova A., Schmidt F. D. & Glavaš G. (2024), Curb EU enthusiasm: how politicisation shapes bureaucratic responsiveness, West European Politics : 1-26.
- Sylvester C., Khokhlova A., Yordanova N. & Greene Z. (2024), ParlEE plenary speeches V4 data set: Annotated full-text of 18 million sentence-level plenary speeches of eight European legislative chambers. Harvard Dataverse. [dataset].
- Toshkov D.D., Mazepus H., Yordanova N. & Piqani D. (2024), Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions, Journal of European Public Policy : 1-28.
- Sylvester C., Ershova A., Khokhlova A., Yordanova N. & Greene Z. (2023), ParlEE plenary speeches V2 data set: annotated full-text of 15.1 million sentence-level plenary speeches of six EU legislative chambers. Harvard Dataverse. [dataset].
- Sylvester C., Ershova A., Khokhlova A., Yordanova N. & Greene Z. (2023), ParlEE plenary speeches V2 data set: Annotated full-text of 15.1 million sentence-level plenary speeches of six EU legislative chambers. Harvard Dataverse. [dataset].
- Ershova A., Yordanova N. & Khokhlova A. (2023), Constraining the European Commission to please the public: responsiveness through delegation choices, Journal of European Public Policy : 1 (25).
- Lin N. & Yordanova N. (2022), Circumventing Coalition Oversight in Multiparty Governments: Bill Referral to Parliamentary Committees in the Finnish Eduskunta, Party Politics 28(6): 1109-1122.
- König T., Lin N., Lu X., Silva T. N., Yordanova N. & Zudenkova G. (2022), Agenda control and timing of bill initiation: A temporal perspective on coalition governance in parliamentary democracies, American Political Science Review : 1-18.
- Toshkov D.D., Mazepus H., Yordanova N. & Piqani D. (26 September 2022), When the rule of law is at stake, many people support sanctions even against their own state. Leiden Security and Global Affairs Blog. The Hague: Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. [blog entry].
- Coen D., Guidi M., Yordanova N. & Héritier A. (2021), The Logic of Regulatory Venue Shopping: A Firm’s Perspective, Public Policy and Administration 36(3): 323-342.
- Yordanova N. (2021), The European Parliament , Oxford Bibliographies Online : .
- Yordanova N., Angelova M., Lehrer R., Osnabrügge M. & Renes S. (2020), Swaying citizen support for EU membership: evidence from a survey experiment of German voters, European Union Politics 21(3): 429-450.
- Yordanova N. & Zhelyazkova A. (2020), Legislative Control over Executive Law-making: Delegation of Quasi-Legislative Powers to the European Commission, Journal of Common Market Studies 58(2): 345-364.
- Yordanova N., Angelova M., Lehrer R., Osnabrügge M. & Renes S. (21 December 2020), Why EU member states should take heed of the sovereignty concerns of their citizens. EUROPP European Politics and Policy - LSE Blog. [blog entry].
- Mühlböck M. & Yordanova N. (18 April 2019), So stimmen die Abgeordnete ab. Politikwissenschaftsblog der ÖGPW - Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft auf DerStandard.at. [blog entry].
- Yordanova N. (2019), Bulgaria: Neither a Protest nor a European Vote. In: De Sio L., Franklin M. & Russo L. (Eds.), The European Parliament Elections of 2019. Rome: Luiss University Press. 97-102.
- Nanni F., Glavaš G., Ponzetto S.P., Tonelli S., Conti N., Aker A., Aprosio A.P., Bleier A., Carlotti B., Gessler T., Henrichsen T., Hovy D., Kahmann C., Karan M., Matsuo A., Menini S., Nguyen D., Niekler A., Posch L., Vegetti F., Waseem Z., Whyte T. & Yordanova N. (2018), Understanding Euroscepticism Through the Lens of Textual Data. Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, 7 May 2018 - 12 May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan.
- Yordanova N. (2018), Review of: Daniel W.T. (2015), Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels?: Oxford University Press. Perspectives on Politics 16(3): 873-875.
- Yordanova N. (2018), Review of: Öhberg Patrik (2017), Ambitious Politicians: The Implications of Career Ambition in Representative Democracy: University Press of Kansas. Perspectives on Politics 16(3): 873-875.
- Mühlböck M. & Yordanova N. (2017), When Legislators Choose not to Decide: Abstentions in the European Parliament, European Union Politics 8(2): 323-336.
- Steinert C. & Yordanova N. (2016), ”Alliance with the Enemy?” Why the CDU and the Greens Formed Their First Coalition in a Large German Federal State?, German Politics 25(1): 54-72.
- Yordanova N. (2015), Collusion in Bicameral EU Decision-making: The impact of early agreements on representation and committee influence in the European Parliament. In: Ferdinand M.-R. & Casal Bertoa F. (Eds.), Party Politics And Democracy in Europe: Essays in Honor of Peter Mair. Abingdon/New York: Routledge. 178-193.
- Zhelyazkova A. & Yordanova N. (2015), Signalling ‘compliance’: The link between notified EU directive implementation and infringement cases, European Union Politics 16(3): 408-428.
- Yordanova N. & Mühlböck M. (2015), Tracing the selection bias in roll call votes: party group cohesion in the European Parliament, European Political Science Review 7(3): 373-399.
- Yordanova N. (2013), Organising the European Parliament: The Role of Committees and Their Legislative Influence. Colchester: ECPR Press.
- Yordanova N. (2012), The Effect of Inter-institutional Rules on the Division of Power in the European Parliament. In: Naurin D. & Rasmussen A. (Eds.), Dynamics of Change in the European Union: Routledge.
- Yordanova N. (2012), Questions and Answers no. 4. London: The European Institute (UCL). [working paper].
- Yordanova N. (2011), The European Parliament: In Need of a Theory, European Union Politics 12(4): 597-617.
- Yordanova N. (2011), Inter-institutional Rules and Division of Power in the European Parliament: Allocation of Consultation and Co-decision Reports, West European Politics 34(1): 97-121.
- Yordanova N. (2009), The Rationale behind Committee Assignment in the European Parliament: Distributive, Informational and Partisan Perspectives, European Union Politics 10(2): 253-280.
- Yordanova N. (2006), Police Racial Profiling Practices in the US and the UK. In: Gounev P. (Ed.), Police Stops and Racial Profiling in Bulgaria. Sofia: Centre for the Study of Democracy. 52-80.