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Olivier COSTA

Director of Studies, European Political and Governance Studies Department (Bruges campus)
Director of Studies, European Public Policy Analysis (Bruges campus)
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
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, Sciences Po Paris, 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:
- Co-director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Aquitaine (Bordeaux/Bayonne, France)
- Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration
- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Legislative Studies and the RISP: Italian Political Science Review.
Research interests:
EU institutions; EU policy-making; European Parliament; Europeanization; representation.
Publications (selection):
- Olivier Costa and Nathalie Brack, How the European Union really works, Routledge, 2018, 450 p.
- Olivier Costa, « 60 ans de Parlement européen », Revue du Droit de l’Union européenne, 1/2018, p. 35-54.
- Nathalie Brack, Olivier Costa and Amandine Crespy, “The “T-Dem” for democratizing the Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union – a critical appraisal”, European Papers, vol. 3/1, 2018.
- Olivier Costa and Frédéric Mérand (ed.), Traité d’études européennes, coll : « Traités de science politique », Larcier-Bruylant, 2017, 655 p.
- Nathalie Brack and Olivier Costa (ed.), Journal of Legislative Studies, special issue “The EP through the lens of legislative studies: recent debates and new perspectives”, vol. 24 n° 1, 2018, 1-178.
- Olivier Costa, « Review Article, 'The coming of age of the European Parliament' », Journal of European Integration, 39.3, March 2017, 365-369.
- Nathalie Brack and Olivier Costa, « Le Parlement européen : tension entre efficacité institutionnelle et démocratie », Hérodote, n° 164, 2017, 199-212.
- Olivier Costa and Nathalie Brack, Le fonctionnement de l’Union européenne, Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 3ème ed., 2017, 464 p.
- Nathalie Brack, Olivier Costa and Eric Kerrouche (ed.), « MPs between territories, assembly and party – Investigating parliamentary behaviour at the local level in France, Belgium and Germany », special issue of French Politics, 14.4, 2016.
- Olivier Costa (ed.), Parliamentary Representation in France, London, Routledge, Library of Legislative Studies, 2014/2015, 176 p.
- Olivier Costa, "Que peut le Parlement européen", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°149, 2014, p.77-89
- Nathalie Brack and Olivier Costa (ed.), Diverging Views of Europe: Euroscepticism within the EU Institutions, London, Routledge, 2012/2014, 136 p.
- Olivier Costa, Stelios Stavridis and Clarissa Dri (ed.), Parliaments, Regional Integrations and Globalization. The role of international parliamentary institutions, Palgrave, 2013, 288 p.
- Sylvain Brouard, Olivier Costa and Thomas König (ed.), The Europeanization of domestic legislatures. The empirical implications of the Delors' Myth in nine countries, New York, Springer, 2012, 244 p.
- Olivier Costa and Florent Saint Martin, Le Parlement européen, Paris, La Documentation Française, 2nd ed., 2011, 230 p.
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+32 50 47 72 92
+32 50 47 72 83
olivier.costa [at] coleurope.eu
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