Publications

A comprehensive list of publications organized by type, in reverse chronological order. For an overview of how these publications connect to my research agenda, see the Research page.

Forthcoming

• Germann, M., Cioroianu, I., Mendez, F., & Tziouvas, C.(Forthcoming). Advice Taken? Revisiting the Effects of Voting Advice Applications European Journal of Political Research.

Journal Articles

• Germann, M., Godefroidt, A., & Mendez, F. (2026). Does Islamist terrorism still affect political attitudes?. European Journal of Political Research.

• Germann, M., Mendez, F., Wheatley, J., Djouvas, C., Nezi, R., & Wall, M. (2025). Improving issue representation with candidate-level voting advice applications. European Journal of Political Research.

• Moeckli, D., Mendez, F., Labud, M., & Reimann, N. (2025). Mapping the European landscape of citizens’ initiatives. Political Studies.

• Germann, M., Mendez, F., & Gemenis, K. (2023). Do voting advice applications affect party preferences? Evidence from field experiments in five European countries. Political Communication, 40(5), 596–614.

• Wheatley, J., & Mendez, F. (2021). Reconceptualizing dimensions of political competition in Europe: A demand-side approach. British Journal of Political Science, 51(1), 40–59.

• Mendez, C., Mendez, F., Triga, V., & Carrascosa, J. (2020). EU cohesion policy under the media spotlight: Exploring territorial and temporal patterns in news coverage and tone. Journal of Common Market Studies.

• Mendez, F., & Germann, M. (2018). Contested sovereignty: Mapping referendums on sovereignty over time and space. British Journal of Political Science.

• Garry, J., Tilly, J., Matthews, N., Wheatley, J., & Mendez, F. (2018). Does receiving advice from voter advice applications affect public opinion in deeply divided societies? Party Politics.

• Gemenis, K., Mendez, F., & Wheatley, J. (2018). Helping citizens to locate political parties in the policy space. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

• Triga, V., Mendez, F., & Djouvas, C. (2018). Post-crisis political normalisation? The Cyprus 2018 presidential elections in context. South European Society and Politics.

• Mendez, F. (2017). Modeling proximity and directional decisional logic. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2017). The promise and perils of direct democracy for the European Union. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies.

• Mendez, F., & Serdült, U. (2017). What drives fidelity to internet voting? Government and Information Quarterly.

• Mendez, F., & Germann, M. (2016). Dynamic scale validation reloaded. Quality & Quantity.

• Djouvas, C., Mendez, F., & Tsapatsoulis, N. (2016). Mining online political opinion surveys for suspect entries. Journal of Innovation in Digital Ecosystems.

• Tsapatsoulis, N., Agathokleous, M., Djouvas, C., & Mendez, F. (2015). On the design of social voting recommendation applications. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 24(03), 1550009.

• Germann, M., Mendez, F., Wheatley, J., & Serdült, U. (2015). Spatial maps in voting advice applications: The case for dynamic scale validation. Acta Politica, 50(2), 214–238.

• Katakis, I., Tsapatsoulis, N., Triga, V., Mendez, F., & Djouvas, K. (2014). Social voting advice applications — definitions, challenges, datasets and evaluations. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.

• Wheatley, J., Carman, C., Mendez, F., & Mitchell, J. (2014). The dimensionality of the Scottish political space: Results from an experiment on the 2011 Holyrood elections. Party Politics, 20(6), 864–878.

• Mendez, F. (2012). Matching voters with political parties and candidates: An empirical test of four algorithms. International Journal of Electronic Governance, 5(3/4), 264–278.

• Mendez, F. (2011). On the linkages between new technologies and democratic transformations: A critical appraisal. Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society, 2, 116–134.

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2011). Referendums and European integration: Beyond the Lisbon vote. Public Law, 2, 223–229.

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2010). Comparing privacy regimes: Federal theory and the politics of privacy regulation in the European Union and the United States. Publius: Journal of Federalism.

• Mendez, F. (2010). Elections and the internet: On the difficulties of ‘upgrading’ elections in the digital era. Representation, 46(4), 459–469.

• Mendez, F., & Triga, V. (2009). Constitution-making, constitutional convention and conflict resolution: Lesson drawing for Cyprus. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 11(4), 363–380.

• Mendez, F., Mendez, M., & Triga, V. (2009). Direct democracy in the European Union: How comparative federalism can help us understand the interplay of direct democracy and European integration. Revista de Ciencia Política, 29(1), 57–83.

• Mendez, F. (2005). The European Union and cybercrime: Insights from comparative federalism. Journal of European Public Policy, 12(3), 509–527.

• Giacomello, G., & Mendez, F. (2001). Cuius Regio, Eius Religio, Omnium Spatium? State Sovereignty in the Age of the Internet. Information & Security, 12–22.

Books

• Mendez, F., Mendez, M., & Triga, V. (2014). Referendums and the European Union: A comparative inquiry. Cambridge University Press.

• Wheatley, J., & Mendez, F. (eds) (2013). Patterns of constitutional design: The role of citizens and elites in constitution-making. Ashgate.

• Mendez, F. (2007). The Governance and Regulation of the Internet in the European Union, the United States and Switzerland: A comparative federalism approach. EUI PhD Theses.

• Mendez, F., & Trechsel, A. (2005). The European Union and E-Voting. Routledge.

Book Chapters

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2022). Referendums and European integration. In Garben, S. & Gormley, L. (eds), Oxford Encyclopedia of EU Law.

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2022). Agenda initiatives in comparative context. In Qvortrup, M. & Vancic, D. (eds), Complementary Democracy: The Art of Deliberative Listening. De Gruyter. [link]

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2021). EU accession referendums. In Smith, J. (ed), The Palgrave Handbook of European Referendums. Palgrave Macmillan. [link]

• Mendez, F. (2020). A paradigm shift in national referendums on Europe. In Rose, R. (ed), How Referendums Challenge European Democracy. Palgrave.

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2020). The law and politics of direct democracy in the EU. In Cardwell, P.J. & Granger, M-P. (eds), Research Handbook on the Politics of EU Law. Edward Elgar. [link]

• Mendez, F., Zwicky, R., & Kübler, D. (2018). Taking stock of the European Citizens’ Initiative: Democratic potential and possible institutional trajectories. In Levi-Faur, D. & van Waarden, F. (eds), Democratic Empowerment in the European Union. Edward Elgar.

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2018). Referendums on European integration: Crisis solving or crisis inducing? In Morel, L. & Qvortrup, M. (eds), Routledge Compendium on Direct Democracy.

• Wheatley, J., Mendez, F., & Serdült, U. (2017). Que pueden decirnos las aplicaciones de ayuda al votante sobre los votantes? Una breve mirada a los datos de Ecuador. In Teran, L. & Meier, A. (eds), eDemocracy & eGovernment: Etapas hacia la sociedad democrática del conocimiento. Editorial IAEN, pp. 254–266.

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2016). The European Union and direct democracy: An overview. In Ruth, S., Welp, Y. & Whitehead, L. (eds), Let the People Rule? Direct Democracy in the Twenty-First Century. ECPR Press.

• Serdult, U., Germann, M., Harris, M., Mendez, F., & Portenier, A. (2015). Who are the internet voters? In Tambouris, E. et al. (eds), Electronic Government and Electronic Participation. Vol. 22. IOS Press.

• Mendez, F., & Serdült, U. (2014). From initial idea to piecemeal implementation: Switzerland’s first decade of internet voting reviewed. In Zissis, D. & Lekkas, D. (eds), Design, Development, and Use of Secure Electronic Voting Systems. IGI Global.

• Mendez, F. (2014). What’s behind a matching algorithm: A critical assessment of how VAAs produce voting recommendations. In Garzia, D. & Marschall, S. (eds), Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. ECPR Press.

• Mendez, F., & Wheatley, J. (2014). Mapping political parties in the ideological space with VAA data. In Garzia, D. & Marschall, S. (eds), Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. ECPR Press.

• Mendez, F. (2014). Dilemmas of European integration: Beyond the Lisbon constitutional settlement. In Kübler, D. & Stojanović, N. (eds), Democracy in the European Union. Schulthess.

• Mendez, F. (2013). Popular input, territoriality, and the constitution making process. In Wheatley, J. & Mendez, F. (eds), Patterns of Constitutional Design. Ashgate.

• Mendez, F., & Wheatley, J. (2013). The constitution-making process: An analytical framework. In Wheatley, J. & Mendez, F. (eds), Patterns of Constitutional Design. Ashgate.

• Mendez, F. (2013). Patterns of constitution-making over time and space. In Wheatley, J. & Mendez, F. (eds), Patterns of Constitutional Design. Ashgate.

• Mendez, F. (2013). To hold or not to hold a referendum? Auerian insights on popular sovereignty beyond the Helvetic model. In Good, A. & Platipodis, B. (eds), Direkte Demokratie. Stämpfli.

• Mendez, F. (2013). EU-Democracy & E-Democracy: Can the two be reconciled? In Demetriou, K. (ed), Democracy in Transition: Political Participation in the European Union. Springer.

• Mendez, F. (2011). El estado de la Unión Europea: Una valoración comparativa. In El Estado de la Unión Europea. Marcial Pons.

• Mendez, F. (2009). Democracy and new technologies: Democratic innovation or illusion? In Dilemmas in Globalization: Exploring Global Trends and Progressive Solutions. Global Progressive Forum.

• Auer, A., Mendez, F., & Triga, V. (2009). Introduction. In Auer, A. & Triga, V. (eds), A Constitutional Convention for Cyprus. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin.

• Mendez, F. (2006). The European Union and cybercrime. In Trechsel, A. (ed), Towards a Federal Europe. Routledge.

• Mendez, F., & Trechsel, A. (2005). The European Union and e-voting: Upgrading Euro-elections? In Trechsel, A. & Mendez, F. (eds), The European Union and E-Voting. Routledge.

• Trechsel, A., Mendez, F., & Kies, R. (2002). Remote voting via the Internet? The Canton of Geneva Pilot Project. In Gritzalis, D. (ed), Secure Electronic Voting. Kluwer.

Reports & Studies

• Georgieva, N., Ferry, M., Balz, V. (Ed.), & Mendez, F. (Ed.) (2024). Civic participation in just sustainability transition initiatives: Scope, depth and determining factors. DUST Horizon Europe.

• Mendez, C., Gazzola, M., et al. (2022). The European Union’s approach to multilingualism in its own communication policy. European Parliament.

• Mendez, F. (2022). Participatory budgeting: Framing analysis. DEMOTEC Horizon Europe.

• Mendez, C., Triga, V., Bachtler, J., Djouvas, C., Mendez, F., & Stier, S. (2020).The visibility and communication of cohesion policy in online media. European Parliament REGI Committee.

• Mendez, F., & Mendez, M. (2017). Referendums on EU matters. European Parliament.

• Auer, A., Mendez, F, Bisaz, C (2013) The constitutional setting of the Republic of Sudan: A critical assessment. Report commissioned by the government of the Republic of Sudan

• Auer, A., Bisaz, C., Mendez, F., & Thürer, D. (2011) The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan 2011. Report commissioned by the government of the Republic of South Sudan (with Auer, A., & C Bisaz)

• Kies, R., Mendez, F., Schmitter, P., & Trechsel, A. (2004). Evaluation of the use of new technologies in order to facilitate democracy in Europe: E-democratizing the parliaments and parties of Europe. Study for the European Parliament (STOA).

Conference Proceedings

• Serdult, U., Germann, M., Mendez, F., Portenier, A., & Wellig, C. (2015). Fifteen years of internet voting in Switzerland [history, governance and use]. In eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG). IEEE Xplore, 126–132.

• Manavopoulos, V., Mendez, F., & Serdült, U. (2015). Homophily among VAA users: The case of Ecuador. In eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG). IEEE Xplore, 61–66.

• Triga, V., Mendez, F., & Manavopoulos, V. (2014). Comparing online and offline modes of survey administration: VAA versus traditional survey administration. Proceedings of SMAP’14, Corfu.

• Mendez, F., Gemenis, K., & Djouvas, C. (2014). Methodological challenges in the analysis of voting advice application generated data. Proceedings of SMAP 2014. IEEE Xplore, 142–148.

• Tsapatsoulis, N., & Mendez, F. (2014). Social vote recommendation: Building party models using the probability to vote. Proceedings of SMAP 2014. IEEE Xplore.

• Garcia, D., Mendez, F., Serdült, U., & Schweitzer, F. (2012). Political polarization and popularity in online participatory media: An integrated approach. Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 3–10.

• Katakis, I., Tsapatsoulis, N., Triga, V., Tziouvas, C., & Mendez, F. (2012). Clustering online poll data: Towards a voting assistance system. Proceedings of SMAP’12, Luxembourg.