Amie Kreppel
University of Florida

"The Environmental Determinants of Legislative Structure:
A Comparison of the U.S. House of Representatives
and the European Parliament"

Monday, 20 October 2003
3:30 p.m.
206 Ingraham

Sponsored by The European Union Center Link to EUC website

Dr. Kreppel is Director of the Center for European Studies (CES) and the European Union Studies Program (EUSP) at the University of Florida, where she teaches in the Department of Political Science. She has written extensively on the political institutions of Europe in general and the European Union more specifically. Her most recent focus is on the European Parliament, in The European Parliament and the Supranational Party System: A Study of Institutional Development (Cambridge). She has also published extensively in Comparative Political Studies, The British Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, The European Journal of Political Research, Political Research Quarterly and The Journal of Common Market Studies. Current research includes the development and policy role of the Polish Sejm and continuing research on the changing role of the European Parliament.