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I am an Assistant Professor in Public Policy at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. My main fields of research are public policy and comparative political economy with a focus on welfare state and labour market reforms, the political economy of labour migration, and the role of parties and organised interests in policy reforms. My work has been published in the. Journal of European Public Policy. Governance, Comparative European Politics.