Alexia Katsanidou is a senior researcher at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the social sciences. Her recent publications include 'From valence to position: Economic voting in extraordinary conditions' (with R. Nezi, 2014) in Acta Politica and 'Multilevel Representation in the European Parliament '(with Z. Lefkofridi, 2014) in European Union Politics. Her research focuses on individual political behaviour and party politics in European and EU politics. She is currently working on changing societies in crisis.