Michal Ovádek

@movadek.bsky.social

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Lecturer in European Institutions, Politics and Policy at University College London https://michalovadek.github.io/

programme leaflet showing panel venues and date/times
excerpt from a book on EP litigation standing
photo of Fiesole, Italy
ben affleck on a cigarette break meme
image of a salami being sliced
sign saying caution, bear in the area
Figure showing differences between white/BAME male and female immigration judges
Figure of densities of different types of estimates
figure showing the distribution of judge propensities to rule in favour of the government in UTIAC (immigration appeal court in the UK)
former nazis were leading the University of Vienna for years after the end of WWII
torch.cuda.is_available() returns True
long book excerpt
Brasenose college, Oxford
Call for applications for an early career workshop on social science approaches to law and courts with a deadline 31 March 2025
journal article title and abstract. The title reads: Informal procedures, institutional change, and EU decision-making: evaluating the effects of the 1974 Paris summit. The abstract reads: The Paris summit of 1974 produced an informal agreement to renounce a previous informal agreement, the famous Luxembourg Compromise of 1966 about qualified majority voting (QMV). The dominant view within existing scholarship is that the Paris summit had no effect because the Luxembourg Compromise and its consensus norm persisted at least into the 1980s: QMV was inoperative before and remained inoperative after. Using quantitative analysis and extensive process tracing, we provide the first systematic empirical test of this conventional view and of the summit’s effects. Although superficially our null finding (no effect) appears to confirm previous accounts, it constitutes further evidence against prevailing ‘veto culture’ narratives and challenges existing theories about informal institutions and institutional change.