Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
2026
Pathways to Leadership: Women’s Careers Across the EU Institutions
Co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel, Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, 47(2), pp. 135-154.
Revisiting the Political Opposition of the European Parliament: A Rhetorical Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches
Co-authored with Pamela Pansardi, European Politics and Society, 27(3), pp. 588-605.
2024
Between Cooperation and Rivalry: The Leadership of Charles Michel as President of the European Council
Co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel, in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies,Annual Review, Vol. 62, pp. 52-63.
2023
Between Uniformity and Polarization: Women’s Empowerment in the Public Press of GCC States
Co-authored with Christin Camia, Politics & Gender, 19(1), pp. 166-194.
Women Opposition Leaders: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Agendas
Co-authored with Sarah C. Dingler and Ludger Helms, editorial of the special issue “Women Opposition Leaders: Pathways, Patterns and Performance”, in Politics & Governance, 11(1), pp. 80-84.
Women Leading the Opposition: Gender and Rhetoric in the European Parliament
Co-authored with Pamela Pansardi, part of the special issue “Women Opposition Leaders: Pathways, Patterns and Performance” in Politics & Governance, 11(1), pp. 164-176.
2020
The contested nature of political leadership in the European Union: conceptual and methodological cross-fertilisation
Co-authored with Femke van Esch, part of the special issue “The Role of Leadership in EU Politics and Policy Making”,
West European Politics, 43 (5), pp. 1051-1071.
Collaborative Leadership in EMU Governance: A Matter of Cognitive Proximity
Co-authored with Femke van Esch, part of the special issue “The Role of Leadership in EU Politics and Policy Making”, West European Politics, 43 (5), pp. 1117-1140.
The Politics of Women Empowerment: Female Leaders in the UAE
Co-authored with Rahma Abdulkadir, part of the special issue “Gender and Identity in the Gulf: Representing Women's Empowerment,” edited by Laila Prager, HAWWA: Journal of Women in the Middle East and Islamic Culture, 18 (1), pp. 8-30.
2017
Setting Europe's Agenda? The Commission Presidents and Political Leadership
Journal of European Integration, part of the special issue Political Leadership in the EU, Vol. 39 (2): 129-142.
2016
Between Potential, Performance and Prospect: Revisiting the Political Leadership of the EU Commission President
Politics and Governance, part of the special issue New Approaches to Political Leadership, Vol. 4(2), pp. 68-79.
2012