Julien Navarro

Julien NAVARRO has been an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Université Catholique de Lille since 2010. His research focuses on the representative link in Europe at both the national and European Union levels, particularly examining the behaviour of MPs and the functioning of parliaments, ideological congruence between citizens and their representatives, satisfaction with democracy, and electoral participation. His most recent articles have appeared in French Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, and European Political Science. He has published three books: Les députés européens et leur rôle. Sociologie interprétative des pratiques parlementaires (Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2009), Le cumul des mandats en France: causes et conséquences (with A. François, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2013), and A Litmus Test for Democratic Politics in Europe. Parliaments, Brexit and the Future of the European Union (Routledge, 2023).

Julien Navarro holds a PhD in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Bordeaux and has taught and conducted research at numerous European universities, including Sciences Po Bordeaux, l’Université libre de Bruxelles, Sciences Po Aix, the University of Gothenburg, the University of Jena, Sciences Po Lille, the University of Siena, and LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome). From 2015 to 2022, he was a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, where he held the Francophone Chair of Political Science in European and International Studies.

A researcher at Anthropo-Lab within ETHICS EA7446, Julien Navarro is responsible for ESPOL’s European Politics bachelor’s programme, coordinator of ESSLIL's inter-university diploma (DIU) ‘Humanisme et Politique’, and an associate researcher at ESPOL-Lab. He is also associate editor of the journal Political Research Exchange (PRX).