Do Elections (Still) Matter? Mandates, Institutions, and Policies in Western Europe

Emiliano Grossman, Associate Professor of Politics, Centre d'études européennes et de politiques comparée (CEE), Sciences Po,Isabelle Guinaudeau, CNRS Researcher, Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux

Emiliano Grossman is Associate Professor of Politics at Sciences Po, working at the Centre d'études européennes et de politiques comparée (CEE). He is the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Political Research. He works on agenda-setting processes, political institutions, party competition,
and comparative public policy.


Isabelle Guinaudeau is an associate CNRS researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim ? Sciences Po Bordeaux and, thanks to the support of the Humboldt foundation, a Visiting scholar at the Institute of Social Science of the University of Stuttgart. Her research is at the juncture between comparative
politics and public policy. She works on party competition in the electoral and policymaking arenas, electoral pledges, as well as on European integration and its politicization.