Welcome to my website!
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I am Professor of European Politics at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. My academic work predominantly focuses on legislative processes in the European Union and matters of comparative public policy. Since April 2019, I have been leading an Emmy Noether research group entitled "EUPLEX - Coping with policy complexity in the European Union", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In this project, we investigate what policy complexity is, how it can measured, where it comes from and how it affects political processes like decision-making and implementation.
Since 1 October 2024, I have been leading the project "DEMOLAW - The Design, Creation and Survival of Democratic Laws", a Consolidator Grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC). |
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Recent news and publications
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Hurka, Steffen and Steinebach, Yves (forthcoming). Legal Complexity Undermines Effective Climate Policy Implementation. Climate Policy.
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Hurka, Steffen and Sieber, Amelie (forthcoming). Gun Regulations and Gun Violence: Challenges for Comparative Cross-National Research. Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
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Hurka, Steffen, Rueß, Stefanie, Cowburn, Mike and Kaplaner, Constantin (2025). Laws as Blades: A Conceptual Framework of Legislative Design. Policy Sciences 58 (4): 733-752.
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Hurka, Steffen (2025). Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the volume and complexity of EU legislation. Journal of European Public Policy (online first, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2519563).
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On Thursday, 30 January 2025, I was invited to present research on policy complexity in the EU and the DEMOLAW project in the webinar "Metrics of Regulation", hosted by Nir Kosti and David Levi-Faur. My talk "Policy complexity - measurement, origins and consequences" is now online at YouTube.
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Daniel, William T., and Hurka, Steffen (2025). Unpacking the European Commission: Cabinet Composition and EU Policymaking. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 63 (3): 987-1007.
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Haag, Maximilian, Hurka, Steffen and Kaplaner, Constantin (2025). Policy complexity and implementation performance in the European Union. Regulation & Governance 19 (3): 656-674.
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Hurka, Steffen, Knill, Christoph and Steinebach, Yves (2024). Rules as Policy Data? Measuring and Linking Policy Substance and Legislative Context. Regulation & Governance 18 (3): 724-739.
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