Stéphanie Novak is a full professor of political science and international relations at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. She holds a PhD in political science (Sciences Po Paris, 2009) and is an alumna of the École Normale Supérieure. She has been an associate professor at ESPOL, a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, a research assistant at the Collège de France, and an Arthur Sachs Fellow at Harvard University. Her research focuses on decision-making in the European Union, international negotiations, transparency, unwritten norms, and accountability in the Council of the European Union. She has worked on the theory and sociology of collective decision-making with Professor Jon Elster, with whom she co-edited the volume Majority Decisions: Principles and Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2014). She has also studied the impact of the financial and economic crisis on the EU legislative process at the Observatory of European Institutions (Sciences Po Paris and European University Institute). Her research has been published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, and the Journal of European Integration. Her thesis was awarded the Dalloz-Nouvelle bibliothèque de thèses prize and published by Dalloz (Paris) in 2011 (La prise de décision au Conseil de l’Union européenne: Pratiques du vote et du consensus). She is an associate editor of the journal Politique européenne.
Stéphanie Novak
