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Mihail Chiru

Departmental Lecturer in Politics, DPIR
Tutor, Christ Church College
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Mihail Chiru is a Departmental Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations and a Tutor at Christ Church College. He received a PhD (awarded Summa Cum Laude) in Comparative Politics from the Central European University.

Before joining DPIR, Mihail was a Departmental Lecturer in East European Politics at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). He previously taught at the University of Southampton and at the Central European University and conducted postdoctoral work at UCLouvain (Belgium) and Median Research Centre (Romania).

His current research focuses on two agendas. The first assesses the responses of the European Parliament to the democratic backsliding crises in several EU Member States and whether backsliding has contributed to the consolidation of an East-West cleavage in the EU. The second agenda revolves around the legislative politics and governance of climate-related hazards. It explores the extent to which massive flooding and heat episodes have raised legislators’ issue attention to climate change and analyses the framing competition between actors that are seeking to reform policy regimes or contain such reforms by engaging in climate change attribution scepticism or response scepticism. His work has been published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Party Politics or European Union Politics.

Publications

Journal Articles

2024

Wunsch, N. and Chiru, M. (2024) “Supranational responses to democratic backsliding: norm contestation and discursive polarisation in the European Parliament”, Journal of European Public Policy [Preprint].

2023

Chiru, M. (2023) “The resilience of parliamentary oversight during the COVID-19 pandemic”, West European Politics, 47(2), pp. 408–425.
Chiru, M. (2023) “Legislative performance and the electoral connection in European Parliament elections”, European Journal of Political Research, 63(2), pp. 664–681.
Chiru, M. (2023) “Seniority and ideological proximity? A longitudinal analysis of the appointment of party group coordinators in the European Parliament”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 62(1), pp. 127–141.

2022

Gross, M. and Chiru, M. (2022) “Time is on my side? The temporal proximity between elections and parties’ salience strategies”, European Political Science Review, 14(4), pp. 482–497.
CHIRU, M. (2022) “Book review of Fernando CASAL BÉRTOA & Zsolt ENYEDI. 2021. Party system closure: Party alliances, government alternatives, and democracy in Europe”., Analele Universitatii din Bucuresti - Stiinte Politice, 24(1), pp. 101–107.

2021

Däubler, T., Chiru, M. and Hermansen, S. (2021) “Introducing COMEPELDA: comprehensive European Parliament electoral data covering rules, parties and candidates”, European Union Politics, 23(2), pp. 351–371.
Chiru, M. and Wunsch, N. (2021) “Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament”, Journal of European Public Policy, pp. 1–20.
Poyet, C. and Chiru, M. (2021) “The Electoral Connection Revisited: Introduction to the Special Issue”, POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW [Preprint].
Chiru, M. (2021) “Does Electoral Reform Change MPs’ Behavior? Evidence from Romania”, POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW [Preprint].
Chiru, M. and De Winter, L. (2021) “The Allocation of Committee Chairs and the Oversight of Coalition Cabinets in Belgium”, Government and Opposition [Preprint].
Chiru, M. and Enyedi, Z. (2021) “Who wants technocrats? A comparative study of citizen attitudes in nine young and consolidated democracies”, BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS [Preprint].
Chiru, M. (2021) “Electoral incentives for territorial representation in the European Parliament”, Journal of European Integration, pp. 1–22.

2020

Chiru, M., Popescu, M. and Szekely, I. (2020) “Political opportunity structures and the parliamentary entry of splinter, merger, and genuinely new parties”, POLITICS [Preprint].
Popescu, M. and Chiru, M. (2020) “Electoral system incentives for a party-serving personal vote: How can high personalization occur under PR?”, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 53(2), pp. 3–24.
Popescu, M. and Chiru, M. (2020) “Electoral system incentives for a party-serving personal vote: How can high personalization occur under PR?”, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 53(2), pp. 3–24.

2019

Chiru, M. and Stoian, V. (2019) “Liberty: Security dilemmas and party cohesion in the European Parliament”, JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, 57(5), pp. 921–938.
Chiru, M. (2019) “National political elites, European integration and the eurozone crisis”, Journal of Contemporary European Research, 15(3), pp. 319–322.
Chiru, M. (2019) “Low-cost policy specialisation, district characteristics and gender. Patterns of committee assignment in Romania”, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 25(3), pp. 375–393.
Chiru, M. (2019) “Loyal soldiers or seasoned leaders? The selection of committee chairs in the European Parliament”, JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY [Preprint].

2018

Chiru, M. and Gherghina, S. (2018) “National games for local gains: legislative activity, party organization and candidate selection”, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties [Preprint].
Chiru, M. (2018) “The Electoral Value of Constituency-Oriented Parliamentary Questions in Hungary and Romania”, PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS, 71(4), pp. 950–969.
Chiru, M. (2018) “Cheap Talk or Proper Signaling? Styles of Campaigning and Engagement in Constituency Service”, SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, 99(1), pp. 283–295.

2017

Chiru, M. and Gherghina, S. (2017) “Committee chair selection under high informational and organizational constraints”, Party Politics, 25(4), pp. 547–558.
Giugal, A. et al. (2017) “Gerrymandering and Malapportionment, Romanian Style: The 2008 Electoral System”, EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES, 31(4), pp. 683–703.

2016

Chiru, M. and Popescu, M. (2016) “The value of legislative versus electoral experience and gender in explaining candidate list placement in closed-list PR”, Problems of Post-Communism, 64(2), pp. 65–78.

2015

Chiru, M. (2015) “Parliamentary Elites in Central and Eastern Europe: Recruitment and Representation”, West European Politics, 38(6), pp. 1357–1358.
Chiru, M. (2015) “Multiple Candidacies and the Role of the Lowest Electoral Tier for Individualized Campaigning”, East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 29(4), pp. 892–914.
Chiru, M. and Enyedi, Z. (2015) “Choosing your own Boss: Variations of representation foci in mixed electoral systems”, Journal of Legislative Studies, 21(4), pp. 495–514.
Chiru, M. (2015) “Early marriages last longer: Pre-electoral coalitions and government survival in Europe”, Government and Opposition, 50(2), pp. 165–188.

2014

Gherghina, S. and Chiru, M. (2014) “Determinants of legislative voting loyalty under different electoral systems: Evidence from Romania”, International Political Science Review, 35(5), pp. 523–541.
Chiru, M. and Gherghina, S. (2014) “Parliamentary sovereignty and international intervention: elite attitudes in the first Central European legislatures”, East European Politics, 30(1), pp. 21–33.

2013

Chiru, M., Gherghina, S. and Stefan, L. (2013) “Standing for Reelection Under Different Rules”, Problems of Post-Communism, 60(5), pp. 34–44.
Gherghina, S., Stefan, L. and Chiru, M. (2013) “Electoral Reform – Cui Bono? Attitudes of Romanian MPs to the Electoral System Change”, Journal of Legislative Studies, 19(3), pp. 351–369.
Chiru, M. (2013) “Christopher J. Kam, Party discipline and parliamentary politics, reviewed by Mihail Chiru”, Party Politics, 19(2), pp. 371–374.
Schneider, C., Bochsler, D. and Chiru, M. (2013) “Comparative Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Mapping Publications over the Past 20 Years”, European Political Science, 12(1), pp. 127–145.
Gherghina, S. and Chiru, M. (2013) “Taking the Short Route”, East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 27(1), pp. 108–128.

2012

Stefan, L., Gherghina, S. and Chiru, M. (2012) “We all agree that we disagree too much: Attitudes of Romanian MPs towards party discipline”, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 28(2), pp. 180–192.
Chiru, M. and Gherghina, S. (2012) “Keeping the Doors Closed”, East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 26(3), pp. 510–537.
Gherghina, S. and Chiru, M. (2012) “The first casting happens at home: role formation in the European parliamentary elections”, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 12(2), pp. 299–314.
Chiru, M. and Gherghina, S. (2012) “Does the Confidence in the EU Spill Over to the National Level? A Longitudinal Analysis of Political Trust in Central Europe”, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 13(2), pp. 226–245.
Stefan, L., Gherghina, S. and Chiru, M. (2012) “We all agree that we disagree too much: attitudes of Romanian MPs towards party discipline”, East European Politics, 28(2), pp. 180–192.
Gherghina, S. and Chiru, M. (2012) “Voting after Watching: The Strategic Role of Election Polls”, European Review, 20(2), pp. 210–221.
Chiru, M. and Gherghina, S. (2012) “When voter loyalty fails: party performance and corruption in Bulgaria and Romania”, European Political Science Review, 4(1), pp. 29–49.

2010

Gherghina, S. and Chiru, M. (2010) “Practice and payment: Determinants of candidate list position in European Parliament elections”, European Union Politics, 11(4), pp. 533–552.

Chapters

2020

Chiru, M., De Winter, L. and Vandeleene, A. (2020) “Candidate selection Still a secret garden?”, in Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties: A Comparative Perspective, pp. 54–77.

2019

Janssen, C., Chiru, M. and De Winter, L. (2019) “Between Parties and Voters: Candidates’ Role Conception in the Belgian Partitocracy”, in Candidates, Parties and Voters in the Belgian Partitocracy. Springer Nature, pp. 313–339.

2018

Gherghina, S. and Chiru, M. (2018) “Romania: An ambivalent parliamentary opposition”, in Opposition Parties in European Legislatures: Conflict or Consensus?, pp. 191–209.

2014

Chiru, M. and Pilet, J. (2014) “Let’s not risk too much: The selection of party leaders in Romania”, in The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies: A Comparative Study, pp. 141–155.