Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen

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Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen is professor at Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. She holds a higher doctorate from University of Copenhagen (2015) and a Ph.D. (2004) from the European University Institute in Florence.

Martinsen is co-editor of West European Politics and sits as expert in the Implementation Council (Implementeringsrådet) of the Danish government among other external tasks. 

Martinsen's research focuses in particular on EU integration of welfare policies, including healthcare, the dynamics between law and politics in the EU, implementation, enforcement and compliance with EU policies. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Public Administration, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics and European Union Politics among othe journals. In 2015, Martinsen published her book with Oxford University Press An Ever More Powerful Court? The Political Constraints of Legal Integration in the European Union, which compares political responses to the legal integration of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) within the social policy area - theoretically and empirically.The book was awarded the EUSA best book prize 2015/2016, May 2017, in Miami. For reviews of the book, see European Journal of International Law, West European Politics, Journal of European Social Policy, EUSA review of books, Journal of Common Market Studies, Political Studies Review and Politique Européenne.

At Department of Political Science Martinsen is part of the Centre for European Politics and the research group Comparative Politics. Together with Ellen Mastenbroek (Radboud University, Nijmegen) and Reini Schrama (University of Copenhagen) Martinsen is engaged in a research project, investigating the role of European Administrative Networks (EANs) in the implementation and enforcement of EU legislation. The research project is financed by the Danish Research Council for Independent Research. The research project runs from autumn 2017 and 2021. For the project's webpage, click here.

Primary research areas:

• Social Europe
• EU; free movement and welfare
• Europeanisation
• European Administrative Networks
• Implementation and enforcement of EU's policies
• The European Court of Justice's impact on integration and Europeanization
• Integration between law and politics
• EU's influence on national policies
• EU's political system 

Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen currently supervises the following PhD projects:

• Ma Yi  'Social Policy Enforcement in China and Europe: what matters?'
• Jessica Sampson Thierry ‘The Transnationalisation and Judicialisation of European Welfare’

Martinsen is master of political science (cand.scient.pol) from University of Copenhagen (1999) and MSc in European politics and policy from London School of Economics and Political Science, Government Department (1997).

Publications can be downloaded below, through Social Science Research Network (SSRN) or through ResearchGate. Twitter: @dm_martinsen

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OFFICE ADDRESS

Department of Political Science

University of Copenhagen 

Phone (dir):+45 3532 3426

Mobile: +45 5090 7216

Twitter: dm_martinsen

BACKGROUND

Dr.scient.pol., University of Copenhagen, November 2015

Ph.D., Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 2004

Master of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, September 1999

MSc European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, October 1997

EMPLOYMENT

Professor (MSO), University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, February 2013-Present

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, September 2007-February 2013

Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, February 2006-September 2007

Research Assistant Professor/post doc, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Political Science, August 2004-February 2006

Ph.d. Candidate, European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences Firenze, Italia, September 1999-June 2004

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Education: 

Dr.scient.pol., November 2015, University of Copenhagen. Higher doctorate: "An Ever More Powerful Court. The Political Constraints of Legal Integration in the European Union" (2015). Oxford University Press

Ph.D., Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 2004. Supervisors Professor Martin Rhodes, Department of Political Science og Professor Gráinne de Búrca, Department of Law

Master of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, September 1999

MSc European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, October 1997

Current position:

Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science

Previous position:

Professor (MSO), University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, February 2013-March 2016

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, September 2007-February 2013

Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, February 2006-September 2007

Post doc, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, August 2004-February 2006