Publications
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Books
*A responsive technocracy? EU politicisation and the consumer policies of the European Commission. 2016. ECPR Press.
*Which policy for Europe? Power and conflict inside the European Commission. 2014. Oxford University Press. [With Miriam Hartlapp and Julia Metz]
Journal articles
*Converging on Europe? The European Union in mediatised debates during the COVID-19 and Ukraine shocks. Journal of European Public Policy: Online First. [With Michal Parizek]
*Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article. International Political Science Review: Online first. [with Miklós Sebők, Sven-Oliver Proksch, Péter Visnovitz, Gergő Balázs, and Jan Schwalbach]
*Clear messages to the European Public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985–2020. Journal of European Integration 45(4): 683-701.
*A bird’s eye view: Supranational EU actors on Twitter. Politics and Governance 10(1): 133-45. [With Sina F. Özdemir]
*Supranational emergency politics? What executives’ public crisis communication may tell us. Journal of European Public Policy 29(6): 966-978.
*One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016. European Union Politics 22(1): 3-24.
*Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness. Journal of European Public Policy 26(11): 1737-1748. [With Pieter De Wilde]
*Authority, Politicization, and Alternative Justifications: Endogenous Legitimation Dynamics in Global Economic Governance. Review of International Political Economy 27(3): 583-611. [With Michael Zürn]
*Undermining, defusing, or defending European integration? Assessing public communication of European executives in times of EU politicization. European Journal of Political Research 59(2): 397-423. [With Bart Joachim Bes and Martijn Schoonvelde]
*Validating a sentiment dictionary for German political language - a workbench note. Journal of Information Technology & Politics 15(4): 319-343 .
*EU politicization and policy initiatives of the European Commission: the case of consumer policy. Journal of European Public Policy 26(3): 344-365 .
*The Opposition deficit in EU accountability: Evidence from over 20 years of plenary debate in four member states.European Journal of Political Research 57(1): 194-216. [With Pieter De Wilde]
*Has Eurosceptic Mobilization Become More Contagious? Comparing the 2009 and 2014 EP election campaigns in The Netherlands and France. Politics and Governance 4(1): 83-103. [With Maurits Meijers]
*Wer mäßigt den Agenda-Setter im EU-System und wie? Drei Modi der Positionsbildung in der EU-Kommission. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 26(S1): 85-98. [With Miriam Hartlapp and Julia Metz]
*Communicating supranational governance? The salience of EU affairs in the German Bundestag, 1991-2013. European Union Politics 16(1): 116-138.
*There is no such thing as a free open sky: Financial markets and the struggle over European competences in international air transport. Journal of Common Market Studies 51(6): 1124–1140. [With Gerald Schneider]
*The Commission’s internal conditions for social re-regulation: Market efficiency and wider social goals in setting the rules for financial services in Europe. European Journal of Government and Economics 2(1): 25-40. [With Miriam Hartlapp].
*Linking Agenda Setting to Coordination Structures: Bureaucratic Politics inside the European Commission. Journal of European Integration 35(4): 425-441. [With Miriam Hartlapp and Julia Metz]
*Political Parties and Higher Education Spending: Who Favours Redistribution? West European Politics 34 (6): 1185-1206 [With Antje Kirchner and Roland Kappe]
Chapters
Collecting large-scale comparative text data on legislative debates. In H. Bäck, M. Debus, and J.M. Fernandes (eds.) The Politics of Legislative Debate. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Between neo-functionalist optimism and post-functionalist pessimism: Integrating politicisation into integration theory. In Nathalie Brack and Seda Gürkan (eds.) Theorizing the Crises of the European Union. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge
The Commission services: a powerful permanent bureaucracy. In: Dermot Hodson and John Peterson (eds.) The institutions of the European Union, 4th ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [With Liesbet Hooghe]
*Internationale Organisationen in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit - ein Text Mining Ansatz. In: M. Lemke and G. Wiedemann (eds.) Text-Mining in den Sozialwissenschaften. Grundlagen und Anwendungen zwischen qualitativer und quantitativer Diskursanalyse: 289-314. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [With Sebastian Bödeker]
Die Politisierung der Europäischen Union als Chance nutzen. In: Claudio Franzius, Franz C. Mayer, Jürgen Neyer (eds.) Modelle des Parlamentarismus im 21. Jahrhundert: 469-486. Baden-Baden: Nomos. [With Michael Zürn]. Reprinted in integration 39(1): 3-12.
Zur Politisierung der EU in der Krise. In: M. Heidenreich (ed.) Krise der europäischen Vergesellschaftung? Soziologische Perspektiven: 121-145. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [With Michael Zürn]
Other publications
Widersprüchliche Signale; Wie EU-Staaten vor dem Ukrainekrieg über Russland sprachen. WZB Mitteilungen 176: 45-8. [With Johannes Scherzinger]
The ParlSpeech V2 data set: Full-text corpora of 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of nine representative democracies. V1, Harvard Dataverse. [With Jan Schwalbach]
Autorität ohne Rückhalt: Das Legitimatätsdefizit internationaler Organisationen. WZB Mitteilungen 167. [With Michael Zürn]
Untergraben, verschleiern, verteidigen: Politische Kommunikation zur Europäischen Union. WZB Mitteilungen 165: 34-5.
Christina J. Schneider: The Responsive Union. National Elections and European Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018 [Book review]. Review of International Organizations: Online First.
The ParlSpeech data set: Annotated full-text vectors of 3.9 million plenary speeches in the key legislative chambers of seven European states. V1, Harvard Dataverse. [With Pieter De Wilde and Jan Schwalbach]
Die schiere Menge sagt noch nichts: Big Data in den Sozialwissenschaften. WZB Mitteilungen 150: 6-9. [With Alexandros Tokhi]
Brüssel im Bundestag: Wann spricht wer über die Europäische Union? WZB-Mitteilungen 148: 20-22.
*Legitimität und Politisierung globaler Steuerung. Informationen zur Politischen Bildung 2015/1 (325): 25-28.
Legitimationsprobleme im Früheuropäismus. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (18.05.2014): 6. [With Michael Zürn]
Über den Tellerrand: Zunehmend werden auch die Entscheidungen internationaler Institutionen öffentlich politisiert. WZB-Mitteilungen 141: 21-23. [With Pieter de Wilde]
Und sie hört doch hin – manchmal. Öffentliche Debatten können die Politik der EU-Kommission beeinflussen. WZB-Mitteilungen 139: 29-31
Politisieren lassen oder politisieren? Die europäische Öffentlichkeit fordert ihr Recht. Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte 60 (1/2): 53-6
How External Interests Enter the European Commission. Mechanisms at Play in Legislative Position Formation. WZB Discussion Paper SP IV 2010-501 [With Miriam Hartlapp and Julia Metz]
Made in Brussels. Wie externe Interessen ihren Weg in die Politikformulierung der EU Kommission finden. WZB-Mitteilungen 130: 7-10 [With Miriam Hartlapp and Julia Metz]
*The Agenda Set by the EU Commission. The Result of Balanced or Biased Aggregation of Positions? LSE 'Europe in Question' Discussion Paper Series 21/2010 [With Miriam Hartlapp and Julia Metz]
The Repeatedly Low Turnout in EP Elections. Political Elites Fail in Politicising Citizens. A Different View - IAPSS Monthly News Magazine 31: 3-5
