Pro-EU MEPs have long pursued a logic of democratisation based on institutional mimicry. But as Jan Pieter Beetz, Gilles Pittoors and Wouter Wolfs argue, this path has become ideologically entrenched at the expense of alternative models that might better connect with European citizens
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, KU Leuven
Gilles' research addresses questions of EU democracy from a multilevel and transnational (party) political perspective, with particular attention for the Europeanisation of national democratic institutions and practices across EU Member States.
With a broad background in political science, European studies, and history, he aims to maintain an inter- and multidisciplinary perspective on the interaction between democracy and European integration.
His research has been published in top academic journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Common Market Studies, Government and Opposition, the Journal of European Integration, and Politics and Governance, as well as in several (edited) volumes published with Routledge and Acco.
Since 2025, he is also Co-Convenor of the ECPR Research Network on Democracy and Representation in a Transnational Space and Coordinator of the European Parliament History Network.
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