His current work includes a case-study analysis into the policy design of the Dutch system of allowances; a big comparative study on convergence around the European welfare state model and a study on welfare state reforms and governance of the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility.
David obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on the governance of macroeconomic imbalances in the euro area. In the dissertation he analyses the influence and political contentions around implementation of country-specific recommendations of the European Semester and its Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP). The dissertation contains five case studies of reform trajectories in Member States. It was awarded with the Els Witte prize for best political science dissertation of the Netherlands and Flanders in 2020 and was discussed by the European Commission in their official review of EU economic governance.
Before joining the WellSIRe team at EUI David worked as advisor for the finance committee of the national parliament of the Netherlands, where he advised on European issues such as the EU Recovery Fund, European Semester, EU budget, European Stability Mechanism, Banking Union, capital markets regulation, green finance, taxation policies and more. Previously he worked as a research fellow at the Clingendael Institute for International Relations and as lecturer at Tilburg University.
Twitter: @DavidBokhorst PhD dissertation: Governing Imbalances in the Economic and Monetary Union
Latest publication: Bokhorst, D. (2022) ‘The Influence of the European Semester: case study analysis and lessons for its post-pandemic transformation’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 60:1.