ABSTRACT
Since late 2000s, the already vast range of Peter Mair's scholarship extended to topics related to party politics and political representation at European Union (EU) level. He was one of co-directors of CONNEX research projects on political representation and political accountability and co-led another project on the development of transnational party system commissioned by the European Parliament, which resulted in the publication entitled How to create a transnational party system. It was written by a group of researchers from the observatory on political parties and representation (OPPR), based at the European university institute in florence, which Peter Mair and Luciano Bardi jointly established in 2006. In the commission of Juncker, there are thirteen commissioners nominated by governments belonging to the European people's party (EPP) political family, eight from party of European socialists (PES), five from the alliance of European liberals and democrats for Europe party (ALDE) and one UK conservative.
