RESEARCH AGENDA

Habilitation project at the University of Fribourg: ‘Customised Social Europe: Explaining Contestation Against European Social Policies” (June 2023–present).

 

Abstract: This project analyses the causes of domestic resistance to the adoption of European social policies, examining domestic preferences and coalitions in the process. It also analyses European policymaking processes to understand which EU social policies are supported more or less than others, and how these policies are finally adopted at EU level.

 

Published article: The domestic politics of the Swiss-EU negotiations on the Institutional Framework Agreement (and beyond). Swiss Political Science Review.

 

Accepted by the Swiss Political Science Review (10/06/2025): Welfare Chauvinism among Voters and Political Parties: Exploring Preferences for Restricting EU Migrants' Access to Social Assistance in Switzerland (with Chueri, J. and Gandenberger, M.)

 

Accepted to be included in the Special Issue “Social Policies and Regulation of Work in the Platform Economy” in Zeitschrift für Sozialreform/Journal of Social Policy Research. Paper: Institutions, ideas, or 'just' domestic politics? Explaining Member States' support for, or opposition to, the EU directive on platform work (Final publication depends on peer-review process).

 

Working paper 1: Goodness of fit or domestic veto players? The relationship between the EU Posting of Workers directive(s) and the Swiss flanking measures.

 

Working paper 2: Why not a directive this time? The EU Recommendation on an Adequate Minimum Income (with Ronchi. S.)