Honourable mention for the 2022 Prize to the Stein Rokkan Prize awarded by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) for "Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives and Democracy in Europe" (Oxford University Press, 2021). View LINK 1 View LINK 2

OSCE/ODIHR representative in the Venice Commission delegation to examine Azerbaijan's new Party Law.

Presentation at the Andorran National Library of "Party Politics in European Microstates" with the participation of Prof. Patrick Dumont (ANU, Canberra) and Dr Juli Minoves-Triquell (University of La Verne, USA). View LINK View NEWSPAPER

Part of the OSCE/ODIHR group of international experts meeting an Ukrainian parliamentary delegation to discuss political ethics and party regulation

2022 Routledge Impact Area Studies Award for my project on "Public funding of political parties: what is it good for?". View LINK 1 View LINK 2

Keynote speech on "Crisis of Representative Democracy: Political Parties, Villains or Heroes?" at the 10th International Conference of the Mexican Political Science Association (AMECIP) in Merida (Mexico). View LINK

Seminar lecture at the University of Guadalajara on "Populism, Party Crisis and Representative Democracy".

Co-director at the 1ST ALACIP Summer School on “Political Parties and Democracy”. View LINK View PROGRAM

Discussant at the POMEPS (Project on Middle East Political Science) Junior Scholar Book Development Workshop (Washington). Book manuscript: Varieties of Power: Female Political Representation and Authoritarianism Author: Dr Marwa Shalaby (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Chair: Prof. Marc Lynch (George Washington University) Discussants: Prof. Melody Valdini (Portland State University) and Dr Fernando Casal Bértoa (University of Nottingham)