Olivier COSTA

- Director of Studies, European Political and Governance Studies Department
- Director of Studies, European Public Policy Analysis
Pr. Olivier Costa is Director of the Department of European Political and Governance Studies since 2013 and Professor at the College of Europe since 2000.
Courses offered:
- Compulsory course: Politics and Policy-making of the European Union
- Research seminar: Le policy-making de l’Union européenne : politiques publiques, Parlement européen, européanisation, partis, représentation d’intérêts (30h)
Other professional affiliation:
- Research Professor, CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), CEVIPOF, Sciences Po, Paris (France)
- Collaborateur Scientifique, CEVIPOL, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium)
Previous professional affiliations:
- Sciences Po Bordeaux, Sciences Po Strasbourg, Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Geneva, University LUISS-Guido Carli (Rome)
- Invited Professor at: Washington State University (Pullman), Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), University of Colorado (Boulder), University of Cologne.
Education:
- “Habilitation à diriger les recherches”, Sciences Po Bordeaux (2013)
- Ph.D., University of Paris 8 (1998)
- MA, Sciences Po Strasbourg (1991)
Other professional activities:
- Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration
- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Legislative Studies (Taylor&Francis), French Politics (Palgrave), the European Law Journal (Wiley) and the International Journal of Parliamentary Studies (Brill).
Research interests:
EU institutions; EU policy-making; European Parliament; Europeanization; representation.
Publications (selection):
- Olivier Costa and Nathalie Brack, How the European Union really works, London, Routledge, 450 p., 2° ed., 2018
- Nathalie Brack and Olivier Costa (ed.), Journal of Legislative Studies, numéro spécial “The EP through the lens of legislative studies: recent debates and new perspectives”, vol. 24 n° 1, 2018, p. 1-178.
- Olivier Costa (ed.), Revue du droit de l’Union européenne, special issue: « Le Parlement européen après les élections de mai 2019 : ruptures et continuités », n° 637, 2020, p. 206-255.
- Karine Caunes, Olivier Costa, Sacha Garben and Inge Govaere (ed.), double special issue of the European Law Journal, « Shaping European Democratic Integration of the 21st Century: an Interdisciplinary Contribution to the Conference on the Future of Europe », vol. 26, n° 5-6, 11/2020 (pub. 02/2022), p. 287-508
- Olivier Costa and Frédéric Mérand (ed.), Traité d’études européennes, series: « Traités de science politique », Larcier-Bruylant, 2017, 655 p.
- Olivier Costa (ed.), The European Parliament in Times of Crisis: Dynamics and Transformations, London, Palgrave, series. ‘European Administrative Governance’, 2019, 460 p.
- Olivier Costa, « Simone Veil. Itinéraire d’une Européenne », Revue de l’Union européenne, n°624, 2019, p. 4-10.
- Olivier Costa, op ed : « Le Collège d’Europe : soixante-dix ans au service de la formation des jeunes européens », Revue de l’Union européenne, n° 4, 2019
- Olivier Costa, « In Memoriam Jean-Louis Quermonne », Revue trimestrielle de droit européen, January-March 2021, p. 7-11
- Isabelle Guinaudeau and Olivier Costa, « Issue Politicization in the European Parliament. An Analysis of Parliamentary Questions for Oral Answer (2004–19) », Journal of Common Market Studies, Sept. 2021
- Oliver Costa and Ariadna Ripoll, « The European Parliament: Powerful but Fragmented », in Dermot Hodson, Uwe Puetter, Sabine Saurugger, and John Peterson (ed.), The Institutions of the European Union, Oxford University Press, 5° ed., 2021 ; p. 128-148.
- Olivier Costa, « Dix réformes pour plus de transparence au Parlement européen », Observatoire de l'éthique publique, 2019
- Olivier Costa and Pauline Thinus, « Faut-il institutionnaliser la procédure des Spitzenkandidaten ? Les enjeux de la légitimation démocratique de l’Union », in « Spitzenkandidaten : oui ou non ? », Paris : Institut Jacques Delors, p. 2-15, 2022
- Olivier Costa, “Perspectives for EU governance: between Community method, new-intergovernmentalism and parliamentarisation”, Study of the AFCO Committee, European Parliament, PE 733.512 - June 2022, 52 p.
- Carlos Buhigas Schubert, Olivier Costa « Global Gateway: Strategic Implementation and Governance », Study of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament (doc. PE 702.585), May 2023, 55 p.
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