Professor Christel Koop
Professor of Political Economy
Research interests
- Politics
- Policy
Biography
Christel Koop is a Professor of Political Economy. Her research focuses on regulation, central banking, and other areas of economic policy-making, both at the national and EU-level. She is particularly interested in the independence, accountability and legitimacy of technocratic decision-making.
Christel holds a BA and MPhil degree in political science from Leiden University, in the Netherlands, and obtained her PhD degree in political and social sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Before joining the department, she was Fellow in Public Policy and Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Click here to see her Google Scholar page and here for her personal webpage.
Christel is currently one of the principal investigators on the international research project "Reconnecting citizens to the administrative state?" (Reconnect), which runs from 2020 to 2023.
Teaching
- Key Issues in Policy Making (Undergraduate module, year 3)
- The Law and Politics of Economic Regulation (Postgraduate module)
Office hours
Christel’s office hours in semester one are Wednesdays, 10.00 - 11.00, and Thursdays, 16.00 - 17.00. Please send a message to christel.koop@kcl.ac.uk to arrange a meeting, including your preference for an online or in-person meeting.
PhD Supervision
Current PhD researchers
- Talya Oztop – “E-participatory budgeting as a democratic and digital innovation in public financial management” (first supervisor)
- Mayang Rizky – “Understanding citizens’ attitudes towards digital markets” (first supervisor)
- Matteo Nebbiai - “Building digital markets: The impact of voluntary regulation on the personal data economy” (first supervisor)
- Santiago Quintero - 'The politics of impatient bureaucracies' (second supervisor)
Recently completed PhD projects
- Michele Scotto di Vettimo (now University of Exeter) – “Responsive against all the odds? Exploring the link between public opinion and policies in the European Union” (first supervisor)
- Aslı Unan (now Humboldt University) – “Essays on the dynamics of policymaking and policy preference reversal” (second supervisor)
- Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte (now University of Southampton) – “Politics constrained: The political consequences of the financial crisis and EU economic intervention in Western Europe” (first supervisor)
- José Bolaños (now London School of Economics and Political Science) – "Competitiveness in mixed governance frameworks: On the success of private certification schemes" (first supervisor)
- Philip Kessler (now European Commission) – "Reinventing the economic constitution: How and why competition authorities in Western Europe have turned to cooperative enforcement styles" (first supervisor)
- Philipp Broniecki – (now University of Oslo) "Informal bargaining in bicameral systems: Explaining delegation by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament" (external supervisor)
- Slobodan Tomic (now University of York) - "Explaining enforcement patterns of anti-corruption agencies: Comparative analysis of five Serbian, Croatian, and Macedonian anti-corruption agencies" (external supervisor)
Recent peer-reviewed publications
- Christel Koop, Christine Reh and Edoardo Bressanelli (2022). Agenda‐setting under pressure: Does domestic politics influence the European Commission? European Journal of Political Research 61 (1): 46-66.
- Good news reduces trust in government and its efficacy: The case of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine announcement" (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Kostas Matakos, Aslı Unan and Nina Weber). PLOS ONE 16 (12): e0260216 (2021).
- Christel Koop and Martin Lodge (2020). British economic regulators in an age of politicisation: From the responsible to the responsive regulatory state? Journal of European Public Policy 27(11): 1612-1635.
- Christel Koop and Philip Kessler (2021). Keeping control of regulation? Domestic constraints on the creation of independent authorities in emerging and developing economies. Early view in Governance 34(2): 545-564.
- Edoardo Bressanelli, Christel Koop and Christine Reh (2020). EU Actors under pressure: Politicisation and depoliticisation as strategic responses. Journal of European Public Policy 27 (3): 329-341. (click here for a blog post on the special issue and here for the King's news story)
- Christine Reh, Edoardo Bressanelli and Christel Koop (2020). Responsive withdrawal? The politics of EU agenda-setting. Journal of European Public Policy 27 (3): 419-438.
- Maja Kluger Dionigi and Christel Koop (2019). Losing out on substance but winning procedurally? The European Parliament and accountability in crisis legislation. West European Politics 42 (4): 776–802. (click here for blog post on this article)
- Christel Koop and Christine Reh (2019). Europe’s bank and Europe’s citizens: Accountability, transparency – legitimacy? Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 26 (1): 63–80.
- Christel Koop, Christine Reh and Edoardo Bressanelli (2018). When politics prevails: Parties, elections and loyalty in the European Parliament. European Journal of Political Research 57 (3): 563–586.
- Christel Koop and Chris Hanretty (2018). Political independence, accountability, and the quality of regulatory decision-making. Comparative Political Studies 51 (1): 38–75.
- Christel Koop and Martin Lodge (2017). What is regulation? An interdisciplinary concept analysis. Regulation & Governance 11 (1): 95–108.
Research
Comparative Politics Research Group
The Comparative Politics research group hosts a research agenda based on political institutions, representation and regimes.
Public Policy and Regulation Research Group
Public Policy and Regulation (PPR) is the home for theoretically and empirically grounded research which analyses policy and regulatory responses to important political, social and economic issues, and (individual-level) responses to these policies.
Quantitative Political Economy Research Group
The Quantitative Political Economy research group gathers economists and political scientists that are committed to bridging the two disciplines. The common ground is the study politics and policies with advanced quantitative methods and formal modeling.
News
Experts cast eye over budget and examine what comes next
The new government’s first budget was in focus at an event hosted at King’s College London this week.
International School for Government hosts European Capitals programme
Participants had the opportunity to witness the inner workings of government
Media scrutiny 'instrumental' in holding Bank of England to account
A new study has found that media scrutiny has been “instrumental” in holding the Bank of England to account, particularly in times of economic turmoil.
IWD 2022: Women leading the way within SSPP
The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy has its research endeavour entirely led by women and four women academics from the faculty have just been...
Special edition of journal now available as book
A special edition of a journal guest-edited by academics from King’s College London is now available as a book.
Vaccine is good news for science but bad news for governments
Trust in governments and elected politicians actually fell following the announcement of positive vaccine results from pharmaceutical giants Pfizer/BioNTech.
COVID-19: Americans overwhelmingly support economic policy reset based on wealth taxes
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s political preferences could pave the way for Joe Biden to introduce lasting changes in US economy policy.
Praise for academic team as promotions are confirmed
The head of the School of Politics and Economics has paid tribute to the hard work of academic staff after news of several successful promotions was confirmed.
Go carefully on relaxing lockdown as majority put health before wealth, new research finds
Policy makers must tread carefully when relaxing lockdown measures as three quarters of Britons put health before wealth, a paper has found.
Projects focused on Covid-19 pandemic receive funding
Academics from the School of Politics and Economics (SPE) feature among several project teams to have been backed with funding to investigate different...
Events
Citizen input in regulation: The potential and limits of using digital tools
Citizen input in regulation: The potential and limits of using digital tools
Please note: this event has passed.
Politics in Times of COVID-19 – Responding to Radical Uncertainty
The first installment in the 2020/21 EIS seminar series puts the global pandemic in the spotlight
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Informing the public debate on COVID-19
Academics from across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy are helping us all better understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19...
Research
Comparative Politics Research Group
The Comparative Politics research group hosts a research agenda based on political institutions, representation and regimes.
Public Policy and Regulation Research Group
Public Policy and Regulation (PPR) is the home for theoretically and empirically grounded research which analyses policy and regulatory responses to important political, social and economic issues, and (individual-level) responses to these policies.
Quantitative Political Economy Research Group
The Quantitative Political Economy research group gathers economists and political scientists that are committed to bridging the two disciplines. The common ground is the study politics and policies with advanced quantitative methods and formal modeling.
News
Experts cast eye over budget and examine what comes next
The new government’s first budget was in focus at an event hosted at King’s College London this week.
International School for Government hosts European Capitals programme
Participants had the opportunity to witness the inner workings of government
Media scrutiny 'instrumental' in holding Bank of England to account
A new study has found that media scrutiny has been “instrumental” in holding the Bank of England to account, particularly in times of economic turmoil.
IWD 2022: Women leading the way within SSPP
The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy has its research endeavour entirely led by women and four women academics from the faculty have just been...
Special edition of journal now available as book
A special edition of a journal guest-edited by academics from King’s College London is now available as a book.
Vaccine is good news for science but bad news for governments
Trust in governments and elected politicians actually fell following the announcement of positive vaccine results from pharmaceutical giants Pfizer/BioNTech.
COVID-19: Americans overwhelmingly support economic policy reset based on wealth taxes
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s political preferences could pave the way for Joe Biden to introduce lasting changes in US economy policy.
Praise for academic team as promotions are confirmed
The head of the School of Politics and Economics has paid tribute to the hard work of academic staff after news of several successful promotions was confirmed.
Go carefully on relaxing lockdown as majority put health before wealth, new research finds
Policy makers must tread carefully when relaxing lockdown measures as three quarters of Britons put health before wealth, a paper has found.
Projects focused on Covid-19 pandemic receive funding
Academics from the School of Politics and Economics (SPE) feature among several project teams to have been backed with funding to investigate different...
Events
Citizen input in regulation: The potential and limits of using digital tools
Citizen input in regulation: The potential and limits of using digital tools
Please note: this event has passed.
Politics in Times of COVID-19 – Responding to Radical Uncertainty
The first installment in the 2020/21 EIS seminar series puts the global pandemic in the spotlight
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Informing the public debate on COVID-19
Academics from across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy are helping us all better understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19...