NIEVES PEREZ-SOLORZANO - SENIOR LECTURER Nieves Pérez-Solórzano is a Senior Lecturer in European Politics in the Politics Department at the University of Bristol, Secretary of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and member of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia. She has previously worked at the University of East Anglia (2000-2006) and the University of Exeter (1998-2000). Her research focuses on civil society participation and interest representation in the European Union, and the impact of EU accession on interest politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Her future research agenda includes work on the ethical implications of stakeholder consultation as part of the European Commission's Transparency Initiative. She has received research funding from the British Academy, the Autonomous Community of Castilla and Leon and the ESRC. She has previously undertaken consultancy work for the King Baudouin Foundation, the College of Europe and the Electoral Commission. Contact Details Department of Politics University of Bristol 10 Priory Road Bristol BS8 1TU UK Tel (0117) 331 0862 n.perez-solorzano@bristol.ac.uk www.bristol.ac.uk/politics Publications Books (with Castiglione, Aziz, Schönlau, Longman & Lombardo). Constitutional Politics in the European Union. The Convention Moment and its Aftermath: Palgrave, London, 2007 ISBN 9781403945235. Assessment of Central and Eastern Europeam Interests' Representation at the EU Level: European Interunivesity Press, Brussels, 1998. ISBN 90-5201-834-0 Edited journal issues With Jean-Michel de Waele, special issue of Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 7, No. 2 on 'Interest Politics in Central and Eastern Europe', June 2006 Academic Journal Papers (refereed) "The Convention Experience: Between Rhetoric and Participation" in Journal of Civil Society, Vol. 3 No.3, (pp. 271-288), December 2007, ISSN 1744-8689 "Postcommunist Interest Politics: A Research Agenda" (pp. 134-144) Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 7, No. 2, 134 - 154, June 2006, ISSN 1570-5854. "EU Accession and Interest Politics in Central and Eastern Europe" (pp. 243-272) in Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Autumn 2004 ISSN 1570-5854. "Organised Business Interests: Lessons from the EU Constitutional Process" (pp. 119-124) in Transnational Associations, Issue 2/2004, ISSN 0020-6059. "Organised Interests in Central and Eastern Europe. Towards Gradual Europeanisation?" (pp 61-85) in Politique Européenne, No. 3, January 2001, L'Harmattan, ISBN 2 7475 0111 6. Selected chapters in books "Lesson Learning and the 'Civil Society of Interests'" (pp. 157-166) in Richard Bellamy, Dario Castiglione and Jo Shaw (eds.), Making European Citizens Civic Inclusion in a Transnational Context: Palgrave, London, 2006, ISBN 9780333973776. "The Organisation of Business Interests in Central and Eastern European Countries for EU Representation" (pp. 213-228) in Greenwood, J. (ed.) The Challenge of Change in EU Business Associations, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003 ISBN 1 4039 0653 X. "Coming to Terms with EU Lobbying: The Central and Eastern European Experience" (pp. 160-183) in Warleigh, A. and Fairbrass, J. (eds.) Influence and Interests in the European Union: the New Politics of Persuasion and Advocacy, Europa Press-Taylor and Francis, 2002 ISBN 185743 163 4. "Are Decisions Taken at the Closest Level to the Citizens?" (pp. 457-468) in: The Subsidiarity Principle: University of Navarra Press, Pamplona, 2001 (in Spanish). "Central and Eastern Europe and the Wider Europe", in Handbook on Central and Eastern Europe: Series of Regional Handbooks of Economic Development: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago and London, 1999, pp. 209-217 (with B. Szajkowski)