He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the University of Rochester. He also completed a Masters Degree in Advanced European Studies at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium. As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, he spent 1996-1998 at the University of Michigan. His research interests include the political economy of European integration, international political economy, comparative democratic processes, and health policy. In 1998, he published Interest and Integration: Market Liberalization, Public Opinion, and European Union (University of Michigan Press). His research has also appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, and Public Choice. Current research projects focus on the link between elite and mass opinion, particularly on issues of international economic policy;  the politics of supranational legal integration, with a focus on the European Court of Justice;  expert panels and health care decision-making; and legislative voting behavior, with a focus on the European Parliament. He is associate editor of the Journal European Union Politics.


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