[5] He is also associate editor of the international peer-reviewed European Union Politics,[6] and founder and chairman of VoteWatch Europe, an influential online EU affairs think-tank founded in London in 2009 that combines big data with political insight.

[3] In this university he was promoted to professor in 2004, and served also as head of its department of government (2012–2015), academic director of its school of public policy (2017–2019), and pro-director for research from 2019.

[9] He finally was appointed Stein Rokkan chair of comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence in 2021.

[12] In 2015 he was named the inaugural Harold Laski Chair at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

[13] Later that year he was awarded a degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest.