Nastase, A (Andreea)

Expertise

Dr. Andreea Nastase is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University (CEU), in Budapest, and an MA degree in Public Policy from the same university. Before coming to Maastricht, she served as an adjunct faculty member at CEU's Department of Public Policy and a visiting fellow at the Leuven Institute for Criminology (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); she also worked for the Romanian chapter of Transparency International. In her research, Andreea explores issues of public ethics and integrity in the context of EU governance.

Research Profile

Andreea's research interests are in the areas of EU public affairs, European public administration, ethics and integrity of governance, and public policy analysis. Her research to date has focused on ethics reforms at the European Commission, and anti-corruption policies implemented in Romania (she has published internationally on both subjects). Andreea is currently working on a project that investigates how public and private actors active in the EU sphere understand the legitimacy of lobbying and interest representation practices. 

Publications

  • "Romania: Survey of the Audit Function in Local Government", in K. Davey (ed.) Making Government Accountable: Local Government Audit in Post-Communist Europe. 2009. Budapest: OSI/ LGI, pages 209-242.
  • "The Protection of Whistleblowers in Romania" (with Victor Alistar), in K. Stanorova and E. Sicakova-Beblava (eds.). Corruption and Anti-Corruption Measures in Central and Eastern Europe. 2009. Bratislava: NISPAcee Press, pages 225-246.
  • "Romania" (with Iulia Cospanaru and Matthew Loftis), in The Global Corruption Report 2008, issued by Transparency International, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 261-266.

Teaching

Andreea contributes to three of the largest educational programs of FASoS (the BA European Studies, the MA European Studies and the MA European Public Affairs). At the graduate level she specializes in the area of European public policy and administration. She coordinates two modules (“Europeanization and Domestic Change” in the MA ES and “Lobbying in the EU” in the MA EPA), co-teaches in several others, and supervises MA theses and internships. At the under-graduate level her teaching covers various subjects in EU politics and governance, qualitative research methods and generic research design. Starting with the 2016/17 academic year, Andreea is the coordinator of the "EU Politics" module in the BA ES.

Additional roles & tasks

Assistant Professor in European Public Policy