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Sutherland Chair in European Institutions
Email: s.b.hobolt@lse.ac.uk
Office: CON 6.11, Connaught House
Office Hours: Wednesday 14:30-16:00 (by appointment via LSE for You)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6153
Website: www.hobolt.com
Twitter: @sarahobolt
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Biography
Sara Hobolt is the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and professor in the Government Department and the European Institute. Previously, she has held posts at the University of Oxford and the University of Michigan. Sara Hobolt is Vice Chair of the European Election Studies (EES), an EU-wide project studying voters, parties, candidates and the media in European Parliamentary elections, and the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project EUDEMOS: Constrained Democracy: Citizens’ Responses to Limited Political Choice in the European Union.
Research Interests
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Elections and voting behaviour
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Referendums
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European Union politics
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Public opinion
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Political parties
Teaching Responsibilities
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GV4J4: Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union
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EU421: Policy-Making in the European Union
Featured Book
Blaming Europe? Responsibility without Accountability in the EU
(Oxford University Press, 2014, with James Tilley)
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Comprehensive study of the attribution of responsibility in the EU
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Explains why voters attribute credit and blame for policy outcomes to different levels of governance
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Presents findings based on a unique set of data that gathers together both individual opinions from surveys in all 27 member states and experiments and political context
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Important implications for debates on the quality of democratic accountability in the EU and the legitimacy of EU institutions
Publications
Sara Hobolt has published extensively on elections, referendums, public opinion and European Union politics. Her most recent books are Blaming Europe? Responsibility without Accountability in the EU (Oxford University Press, 2014, with James Tilley) and Democratic Politics in a European Union Under Stress (Oxford University Press, 2014, co-edited with Olaf Cramme).
She was awarded the Best Book prize by the European Union Studies Association in 2010 for her previous book Europe in Question: Referendums on European Integration (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Recent publications:
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