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Overview

Nicole Bolleyer is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily within social sciences and business, management, and accounting, with a strong focus on political science and related disciplines.

The main areas of research interest include:

  • Political influence and corporate strategies
  • Electoral systems and political participation
  • Nonprofit sector and volunteering
  • Social capital and networks
  • Populism, right-wing movements
  • Social policy and reform studies
  • Indonesian election politics and participation

Bolleyer's scholarly contributions encompass publication in specialized fields such as:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Strategy and Management
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Law

Frequent outlets for Bolleyer's work include:

  • West European Politics
  • European Political Science Review
  • Irish Political Studies
  • Political Studies
  • Comparative Politics

Several recent publications highlight Bolleyer's research scope and thematic concerns:

  • "Parliaments in times of crisis: COVID-19, populism and executive dominance" (2021, West European Politics)
  • "Member Influence and Involvement in Civil Society Organizations: A Resource Dependency Perspective on Groups and Parties" (2020, Political Studies)
  • "Legal Regulation and the Juridification of Party Governance" (2020, Comparative Politics)
  • "Civil society - Politically engaged or member-serving? A governance perspective" (2021, European Union Politics)
  • "Self-maintenance vs. goal attainment: drivers of mortality anxiety in organized civil society" (2020, European Political Science Review)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Bolleyer's academic activity, with frequent co-authorship involving:

  • Patrícia Correa
  • Gabriel Katz
  • Orsolya Salát
  • Anika Gauja
  • Ann-Kristin Kölln

Best Publications

  • New Parties in Old Party Systems

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  • New Parties in Old Party Systems: Persistence and Decline in Seventeen Democracies

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  • Origins of party formation and new party success in advanced democracies

    Nicole Bolleyer;Evelyn Bytzek

  • Intergovernmental Cooperation

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  • New party organization in Western Europe: Of party hierarchies, stratarchies and federations:

    Nicole Bolleyer

  • Intergovernmental Cooperation: Rational Choices in Federal Systems and Beyond

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  • Parliaments in times of crisis: COVID-19, populism and executive dominance

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  • Non-hierarchical policy coordination in multilevel systems

    Nicole Bolleyer;Tanja A. Börzel

  • Inside the Cartel Party: Party Organisation in Government and Opposition:

    Nicole Bolleyer

  • Federal Dynamics in Canada, the United States, and Switzerland: How Substates' Internal Organization Affects Intergovernmental Relations

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  • Beyond Decentralization—The Comparative Study of Interdependence in Federal Systems

    Nicole Bolleyer;Lori Thorlakson

  • The puzzle of non-party actors in party democracy: Independents in Ireland

    Nicole Bolleyer;Liam Weeks

  • New party performance after breakthrough: Party origin, building and leadership

    Nicole Bolleyer;Evelyn Bytzek

  • The State and Civil Society

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  • The Influence of Political Parties on Policy Coordination

    Nicole Bolleyer

  • Intergovernmental Arrangements in Spanish and Swiss Federalism: the Impact of Power-Concentrating and Power-Sharing Executives on Intergovernmental Institutionalization

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  • Elite Investments in Party Institutionalization in New Democracies: A Two-Dimensional Approach

    Nicole Bolleyer;Saskia P. Ruth

  • Small Parties: From Party Pledges to Government Policy

    Nicole Bolleyer

  • Political Party Mortality in Established Party Systems: A Hierarchical Competing Risks Approach:

    Nicole Bolleyer;Patricia Correa;Gabriel Katz

  • EU legitimacy revisited: the normative foundations of a multilevel polity

    Nicole Bolleyer;Christine Reh

  • New Parties in Government: Party Organization and the Costs of Public Office.

    Nicole Bolleyer;Joost van Spanje;Alex Wilson

  • Why Groups Are Politically Active: An Incentive-Theoretical Approach:

    Nicole Bolleyer;Florian Weiler

  • Perspectives on political party death: theorizing and testing Downsian and sociological rationales

    Nicole Bolleyer;Raimondas Ibenskas;Carina Saxlund Bischoff

  • Intergovernmental Relations in the UK: Continuity in a Time of Change?

    Nicola McEwen;Wilfried Swenden;Nicole Bolleyer

  • Government Congruence and Intergovernmental Relations in Federal Systems

    Nicole Bolleyer;Evelyn Bytzek

  • Introduction: Political Opposition in a Multi-level Context

    Nicola McEwen;Wilfried Swenden;Nicole Bolleyer

  • Implementing Democratic Equality in Political Parties: Organisational Consequences in the Swedish and the German Pirate Parties

    Nicole Bolleyer;Conor Little;Felix‐Christopher von Nostitz

  • The Irish Green Party: From Protest to Mainstream Party?

    Nicole Bolleyer

  • The State and Civil Society: Regulating Interest Groups, Parties, and Public Benefit Organizations in Contemporary Democracies

    Nicole Bolleyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanja A. Börzel
Tanja A. Börzel Freie Universität Berlin
Claudio M. Radaelli
Claudio M. Radaelli European University Institute
Susan Banducci
Susan Banducci University of Exeter
Joost van Spanje
Joost van Spanje Royal Holloway University of London
Diana Panke
Diana Panke Freie Universität Berlin

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