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nathalie.brack@ulb.be
+32 (0)2 650 36 77
Adresse courrier :
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124
1050 Bruxelles
Adresse visiteur :
Bâtiment S, 11è étage - Bureau : S11.115
Avenue Jeanne, 44
1050 Bruxelles
Bio
I am currently Associate Professor in Political science and visiting Professor at the College of Europe.
I completed my doctoral thesis at ULB. It focused on the strategies of Eurosceptic MEPs in the European Parliament and won the 2015 Xavier Mabille Prize for the best thesis in political science from the ABSP. I then became a postdoctoral fellow at St Antony's College at the University of Oxford and after that, an FNRS postdoctoral fellow at ULB. My postdoctoral research focused on the links between politicians and citizens in Europe. Over the last 10 years, I was a visiting professor at the University of Lausanne, UCL and Panthéon-Assas University.
I was appointed Assistant Professor in 2017 and Associate Professor in 2021. I teach European studies and comparative politics. I am currently carrying out a research project on the conspiratorial discourses of politicians in Europe (Post-truth politics and political parties project, funded by the FNRS). I am also involved in a research project on the perception of public opinion by politicians (Polevpop) and a project on the contestation of liberal democracy (Red-Spinel).
My research focuses on:
- Euroscepticism and populism
- Radical right parties
- Conspiracy theories
- European institutions (in particular the European Parliament)
- Political representation in Europe
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Areas of research
• Euroscepticisme
• Institutions européennes
• Droite radicale
• Parlements (en particulier Parlement européen)
• Légitimité de l’UE
• Élections européennes
• Théories du complot et partis politiques
- Présentation des enseignements
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Je suis titulaire de 4 cours:
1) Introduction to EU politics
2) Elections et représentation dans l'Union européenne
3) Interest representation in the EU
4) Political representation and institutions - Présentation des recherches
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Mes recherches portent principalement sur trois thèmes.
Premièrement, je m’intéresse à l'euroscepticisme et aux partis eurosceptiques en Europe. Mes recherches se concentrent sur les députés eurosceptiques au Parlement européen et leur opposition à l’UE mais également sur la formation de groupes, réseaux et partis eurosceptiques et extrémistes au niveau supranational.
Deuxièmement, j'ai décroché un projet de recherche en 2023 avec un financement MIS du FNRS portant sur le rôle des partis politiques et "post-truth". Dans ce cadre, je m'intéresse à la désinformation, aux théories du complot et au rôle des partis politiques en analysant en particulier leurs activités sur Twitter.
Enfin, je suis actuellement impliquée dans le projet RED-Spinel coordonné par l'IEE sur la contestation de l'Etat de droit et la démocratie libérale en Europe. - Travaux sélectionnés
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Ouvrages
• Brack, N., Gurkan, S., European Integration Theories and the EU's Crises, London, Routledge, 2021
• Brack, N., Opposing Europe in the European Parliament. Rebels and Radicals in the Chamber. Palgrave, 2018
• Costa, O., Brack, N., Le fonctionnement de l'Union européenne, 3è édition revue et augmentée, Bruxelles, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2017 (1ère édition : 2011, 2è édition : 2014)
• Brack, N., De Waele, J-M., Pilet, J-B. (dir.), Les démocraties européennes, Paris, Armand Colin, 2015
• Brack, N., L'euroscepticisme au sein du Parlement européen. Stratégies d'une opposition anti-système au coeur des institutions, Luxembourg, Larcier, 2014
• Brack, N., Costa, O. (eds.), Euroscepticism within EU institutions: Diverging views of Europe, Londres, Routledge, 2012Articles
• Walgrave, S., Jansen, A., Sevenans, J., Soontjes, K., Pilet, J-B., Brack, N., Varone, F., Helfer, L., Vliegenthart, R., van der Meer, T., Breunig, C., Bailer, S., Sheffler, L., Loewen, P. (2022), “Inaccurate Politicians. Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries”, The Journal of Politics, https://doi.org/10.1086/722042
• Bickerton, C., Brack, N. (2022), Implementing the will of the people: sovereignty and policy conflicts in the aftermath of the UK’s referendum on EU membership, Comparative European Politics, 20(3): 295-313
• Brack, N. (2020), “Towards a unified anti-Europe narrative on the right and left? The challenge of Euroscepticism in the 2019 European elections”, Research and Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168020952236
• Brack, N., Coman, R., Crespy, A. (2019), “Unpacking old and new conflicts of sovereignty in the European polity”, Journal of European Integration, 41(7): 817-832
• Behm, A-S., Brack, N. (2019), “Sheep in Wolf’s clothing? Comparing Eurosceptic and Non-Eurosceptic MEPs’ Parliamentary Behaviour”, Journal of European Integration, 41(8): 1069-1088
• Brack, N., Costa, O. (2018), « Democracy in parliament vs. democracy through parliament? Defining the rules of the game in the European Parliament », Journal of Legislative Studies, 24(1): 51-71
• Brack, N., Pilet, J-B. (2016), “Explaining MPs’ constituency service in multilevel systems: the case of Belgium”, French Politics, 14(4), pp. 439-468
• Brack, N. (2015), "The roles of Eurosceptic Members of the European parliament and their implications for the EU ", International Political Science Review, vol. 36, n°3: 337-350
• Brack, N., Startin, N., “Euroscepticism : from the Margins to the Mainstream », International Political Science Review, 36(3), 2015, pp. 239-249
• Brack, N., « Euroscepticism at the supranational level: the case of the untidy right », Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 51, n°1, 2013, pp.85-104Parties d’ouvrages collectifs
• Brack, N., Gürkan, S. (2021), “Introduction: European integration (theories) in crisis?”, in Brack, N., Gürkan, S., Theorising the Crises of the European Union, London, Routledge
• Sierens, V., Brack, N. (2019), “National and Regional Parliaments in the Context of Brexit: The Case of Belgium » in Fromage, D., Christiansen, T., Brexit and Democracy. The Role of Parliaments in the UK and the European Union. Palgrave: 133-153
• Brack, N., Crespy, A. (2019), “Belgium in Search of a Stance on Today’s EU Integration Dilemmas”, in Kaeding M., Pollak J., Schmidt P. (eds), The Future of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 5-8
• Brack, N. (2018), “Euroscepticisme” in Costa, O., Mérand, F. (eds), Etudes européennes, Bruylant
• Brack, N. (2017), “Eurosceptic Members of the European Parliament: Foxes in the Henhouse?”, in Leruth, B., Startin, N., Usherwood, S. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Euroscepticism, Routledge, London
• Brack, N., Hoon, L. (2017), “Euroscepticism in Belgium: Issue-Voting Against the Odds”, in J. Hassing Nielsen and M. Franklin, The Eurosceptic 2014 European Parliament Elections. Second Order or Second Rate?, Palgrave, pp. 171-195