Current Position and Address
Assistant Professor
Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University
Wassenaarseweg 52 .O. Box 9555
2300 RB Leiden he Netherlands
Tel.: +31 71 527 6771 Fax: +31 71 527 3979
E-mail: dtoshkov@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Education
March 25, 2009
Ph.D. in Public Administration, Leiden University

September 2006
Summer School ‘Analytical Politics in Europe’. ECPR Standing Group on Analytical Politics and Public Choice, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

June 2006
NEWGOV-CONNEX Training Course ‘New Modes of Governance: Theoretical Approaches and Research Methods’. European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

June 2004 – February 2006
Netherlands Institute of Government Training Programme for PhD students.

July – August 2005
ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methodology. Courses in Game Theory, Maximum likelihood estimation, and Multivariate Statistics. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

September 2002 - August 2003
Master of Arts in European Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

November 1997 - July 2001
Bachelor in Public Administration, Sofia University, Bulgaria.

Publications
see the Publications section

Teaching Experience
Autumn 2010
Lecturer, “Formal Modeling”, Research Master in Political Science and Public Administration programme, Leiden University.

Autumn 2010, Autumn 2006
Lecturer, “Europeanization and Public Policy Change in Europe”, Master in Public Administration programme, Leiden University.

Autumn 2010, Autumn 2009
Lecturer, “State of the Art: Public Institutions”, Master in Public Administration programme, Leiden University.

Spring 2010
Convener, Honors Class on Federalism and Decentralization, Leiden University (with Jan Erk)

Autumn 2010, Spring 2010, Autumn 2009, Spring 2008
Lecturer, “Research Design”, Master in Public Administration programme, Leiden University.

Spring 2010
Lecturer, “Decision making”, BA in Public Administration programme, Leiden University.

Autumn 2008
Lecturer, “Europeanization of Public Policy”, Master in Public Policy programme, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Spring 2007, 2008
Lecturer and Thesis Supervisor, “Bachelor Thesis Preparation Seminar”, BA in Public Administration programme, Leiden University.

Winter 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Lecturer, “Institutions of the European Union” (with Frank Häge and Bernard Steunenberg), Master in European Union Studies, Interdisciplinary Master Programme, Leiden University.

Spring 2006, 2007
Lecturer, “Introduction to the European Union: Politics and Policy” (with Antoaneta Dimitrova, Bernard Steunenberg and Frank Häge), BA in Public Administration programme, Leiden University.

Spring 2005 and 2006
Teaching Assistant, “Public Administration II: Theories of Decision-Making”, BA in Public Administration programme, Leiden University.

Master thesis supervision for the Public Administration and European Union Studies Master programmes.

Evaluations are available upon request.

Previous Employment
September 2008 - March 2009
Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands

April 2004 - August 2008
PhD student, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands

January 2003 - September 2003
Research assistant, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands

July 2002 – August 2002
Junior expert, Public Relations Directorate, Council of Minsters, Bulgaria

May 2001 – June 2002
Junior expert, Institute of Public Administration and European Integration, Bulgaria

February – April 2001, February – May 2000
Stagiaire, Public Relations Directorate, Council of Minsters, Bulgaria

Languages
English
French (intermediate)
Russian (intermediate)
Dutch (intermediate)
Bulgarian (native)

Scholarships and Grants
Grants for the development of a web-based survey of EU Implementation literature (2009, 2010)
Europe Award for Junior Academics, 2nd place, Montesquieu Instituut (2008)
LUF conference participation grant (2008)
NIG training and conference participation grants (2005, 2007)
NEWGOV-CONNEX Training Course Grant (2006)
‘Europeanisation in Central and Eastern Europe’ ECPR Study Group Grant (2005)
LUF scholarship for the Master program in Public Administration at Leiden University (2002-2003)
Award for high academic achievements of the Philosophy Faculty at Sofia University (2001, 2000)

Invited talks
November 2010
"Did Game Theory Save Us from the Bomb? Review of Game-theoretical Applications in Political Science", Department of General Studies, Leiden University, Leiden

April 2010
Parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe", Montesquieu Institute Master Class "Brick by Brick. Building European Parliamentary Systems before and after 1989", The Hague

January 2010
‘Taking Stock: An Overview of the Quantitative Literature on EU Implementation and Compliance’, Institute for European Integration Studies, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna

November 2009
‘Public Opinion and Policy Output in the European Union’, University of Vienna, Vienna

December 2007
‘Making and Breaking Public Organizations in Central and Eastern Europe’, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna.

November 2007
‘The EU 50 Years From Now: A Market or a Superstate’, Haagse Hogeschool, The Hague.

June 2007
‘The Europeanisation of Social Policy: A Research Field In Search of a Method.’, Law Faculty, Leiden University.

Conference participation
ECPR EU Conference, Porto (June 2010)
NIG Annual Work Conference, Leiden (November 2009)
ECPR General Conference, Potsdam (September 2009)
EUSA Bi-annual Conference, Los Angeles (April 2009)
NIG Annual Work Conference, Twente (November 2008)
ECPR Joint Sessions, Rennes (April 2008)
66th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (6-9 April 2008)
NIG Annual Work Conference, Tilburg (8 November 2007)
‘EUI – Leiden Seminar on Institutional Change’, Florence (27 – 30 September 2007)
ECPR General Conference, Pisa (6-8 September 2007)
‘Transformation of Social Policy in Europe’, Ankara (13-15 April 2006)
‘The Europeanization of public policies in Eastern European Countries’, Paris (23 November 2005)
Politicologenetmaal, Antwerp (19-20 May 2005)
‘Europeanisation in Central and Eastern Europe’, London (25-26 February 2005)
4th YEN ECPR Research Meeting, Brussels (5 February 2005)
NIG Annual Work Conference, Rotterdam (29 October 2004)
‘Transposition and Compliance in the European Union’, Leiden (11-12 June 2004)
NISPAcee Annual Conference, Krakow (April 2002)

Service to the academic community
Reviewer for European Union Politics, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Journal of European Integration, Public Administration, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Public Administration Review