Dr Radoslaw Zubek

Post: University Lecturer in European Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Hertford College

Research Areas and Interests

• Agenda control in European parliaments
• National compliance with EU law
• Europeanization
• Comparative executives

Previous Posts Held

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (2007-2009)

Teaching and Research Fellow, University of Potsdam, Germany (2005-2006)

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate:

• Introduction to Politics (Prelims)
• Comparative Government
• Politics in Europe

Graduate:

• European Governance
• Comparative European Parliaments 

Publications

Books

• Radoslaw Zubek (2008) Core Executive and Europeanization in Central Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited Volumes

• Radoslaw Zubek and Klaus H. Goetz (2010) Performing to Type? Institutional Performance in New EU Member States, special issue of Journal of Public Policy, 30(1).

Journal Articles

• Radoslaw Zubek (2011 forthcoming) ‘Executive-Legislative Relations and Negative Agenda Control in East Central Europe’ Journal of Legislative Studies.

• Radoslaw Zubek (2011 forthcoming) ‘Core Executives and the Co-ordination of EU Law Transposition: Evidence from New Member States’ Public Administration.

• Radoslaw Zubek and Christian Stecker (2010) ‘Legislatures and Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from East Central Europe’, Journal of Public Policy, 30 (1): 63-80.

• Radoslaw Zubek and Klaus Goetz (2010) ‘Performing To Type? How State Institutions Matter in East Central Europe’, Journal of Public Policy, 30 (1): 1-22.

• Radoslaw Zubek (2008) ‘Parties, Rules and Government Legislative Control in Central Europe: the Case of Poland’. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 41(2): 147-61.

• Klaus H. Goetz and Radoslaw Zubek (2007) ‘Government, Parliament and Lawmaking in Poland’, Journal of Legislative Studies, 13(4): 517-538.

• Radoslaw Zubek (2005) ‘Complying with Transposition Commitments in Poland: Collective Dilemmas, Core Executive and Legislative Outcomes’, West European Politics 28 (3): 592-619. 

• Radoslaw Zubek (2001) ‘A Core in Check: The Transformation of the Core Executive in Poland’, Journal of European Public Policy, 8 (6): 911-932.

Book chapters

• Radoslaw Zubek (2009) ‘Breaking with post-communism in Poland’. In Johannsen, L. and Pedersen, K. H. (eds.) Pathways: A Study of Six Post-Communist Countries, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. 

• Radoslaw Zubek (2008) ‘Poland: From Pacesetter to Semi-Permanent Outsider?’ in Dyson, K. (ed.) The Euro at Ten: Europeanization, Power and Convergence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Radoslaw Zubek (2006) ‘Poland: Unbalanced Domestic Leadership in Negotiating Fit’. In Dyson, K. (ed.) Enlarging the Euro-Zone: The Euro and the Transformation of East Central Europe. Oxford University Press. 

• Vesselin Dimitrov and Radoslaw Zubek (2006) ‘Czech Republic: A Core Neglected’, in Dimitrov, V. Goetz, K. H. and Wollmann, H., Governing after Communism: Institutions and Policy-making, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

• Radoslaw Zubek (2006) ‘Poland: A Core Ascendant?’, in Dimitrov, V. Goetz, K. H. and Wollmann, H., Governing after Communism: Institutions and Policy-making, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.