EUDEMOS

Constrained Democracy: Citizens' Responses to Limited Political Choice in the European Union

Constrained Democracy: Citizens’ Responses to Limited Political Choice in the European Union (EUDEMOS) is a five-year project led by Professor Sara Hobolt and funded by the European Research Council.

The EUDEMOS project studies how the political choices offered to citizens shape democratic perceptions and electoral behaviour in Europe. Political choice is central to the functioning of electoral democracy. The competition between political parties serves to reveal and aggregate voters’ preferences such that governments are responsive to citizens. Equally, a party system that restricts the choices offered by parties risks suppressing the preferences and interests of the people. To examine the effect of political choice on citizens’ attitudes and behaviour, the project uses a combination of large-N cross-national and time-series analysis, case studies and experimental methods.

Principal Investigator

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  Professor Sara Hobolt is the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions at the European Institute and the Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Associate Member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and Chair of the European Election Studies.

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Postdoctoral Researchers

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  Dr Julian Hoerner is a LSE Fellow in EU Politics at the European Institute, London School of Economics. He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics.

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  Dr Toni Rodonis a postdoctoral research officer at the European Institute. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. He completed his PhD in Political Science in the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

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Other Collaborators

Dr Sebastian Barfort, economist and data scientist (previously EUDEMOS postdoctoral fellow).

Professor Catherine E. De Vries, Professor of Politics at the University of Essex.

Dr Hector Solaz, Senior Research Officer at ESSEXLab at the University of Essex.

Professor James Tilley, Professor of Politics & Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford

Professor Sara Hobolt
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
UK

Email: s.b.hobolt@lse.ac.uk