Course offered: La société civile et le futur de l'Europe
Luis Bouza García is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He was the Academic Coordinator of European General Studies courses of the College of Europe in Bruges between 2012 and 2018 and has also held research and teaching positions at the University of East Anglia and Universidad de Salamanca.
Education: He is a graduate of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, did his MA at the College of Europe in Natolin and has a PhD from the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen.
Professional activities: He is a member of the Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Post-Truth Era Horizon Europe Project and has been involved in different Jean Monnet activities, such as the OpenEUdebate network
Interests : His main field of interest is the emergence of European debates in the public sphere. He is currently working on the EU's regulatory response to the rise of disinformation. He is the author of Participatory Democracy Civil Society in the EU: Agenda-Setting and Institutionalisation (Palgrave Macmillan).
Other recent publications include:
Bouza García, L., & Oleart, A. (2024). Regulating disinformation and Big Tech in the EU: A research agenda on the institutional strategies, public spheres and analytical challenges. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 62(5), 1395-1407.
García-Guitián, E., & Bouza Garcia, L. (2024). Discursive strategies for citizen participation in the EU: a normative assessment of the Conference on the Future of Europe. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 1-15.
Casero-Ripollés, A., Tuñón, J., & Bouza-García, L. (2023). The European approach to online disinformation: Geopolitical and regulatory dissonance. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), 1-10.