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Amie Kreppel

Professor

Director, UF Jean Monnet Center of Excellence

Current Courses

  • The European Union in Comparative Context

Spring 2024 Office Hours

Tuesdays | 2:30 - 4:30 pm And by appointment

Contact Information

Email: kreppel
Office: 211 Anderson Hall

Amie Kreppel is a Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and was the founding Director of the University of Florida’s Title VI funded Center for European Studies (CES) and the European Union funded Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. She is a Professor in the Department of Political Science. She also served as Chair of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) from 2011-2013, and was the Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the College of Europe in 2016.

Dr. Kreppel has written extensively on the political institutions of Europe in general and the European Union more specifically. Her publications include a book on the Development of the European Parliament and Supranational Party System, published by Cambridge University Press (2002) as well as articles in a wide variety of journals including Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Dr. Kreppel is a founding member of the transatlantic European Parliament Research Group (EPRG) and was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. In addition, she has served as international visiting faculty at the Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), Strasbourg, France, Institut für Höhere Studien (Institute for Advanced Studies) Vienna, Austria, and the l’Institut d’Etudes Européennes, Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels Belgium. She has received numerous grants to pursue research and program development related to Europe and the European Union including a MacArthur Fellowship, a grant from the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, three internal research grants from the University of Florida and Title VIa (UISFLP) and Title VI (NRC) grants from the United States Department of Education, as well as several grants from the European Union.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications

Oztas, B. and A. Kreppel (2021) “Power or Luck? The Limitations of the European Commission’s Agenda Setting Power and Autonomous Policy Influence,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 59, No. 4, preprint http://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13242

Webb, M. and A. Kreppel (2020) “The European Parliament's role as an informal EU agenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports.” Public Admin. (pre-print) 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12692.

Kreppel, Amie & Michael Webb (2019) “European Parliament Resolutions – Effective Agenda Setting or Whistling into the Wind” Journal of European Integration, Vol. 41 No. 3: 383-404.

Kreppel, Amie (2018), “Bicameralism and the balance of power in EU legislative politics” Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1: 11-33.

Kreppel, Amie and Buket Oztas (2016), “Leading the Band or Just Playing the Tune? Reassessing the Agenda-Setting Powers of the European Commission” Comparative Political Studies, 50 (8) 1118-1150.