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I am an assistant professor at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
My main research interests include European Union politics in general and the legislative organization of the European Parliament in particular. In addition, I work in the area of comparative public policy, most importantly on morality and gun policy. I am currently involved in a research project the effects of policy accumulation on democratic political systems and I work on the causes and consequences of policy complexity in the European Union. Since April 2019, I have been leading an Emmy Noether Research group entitled "EUPLEX - Coping with policy complexity in the European Union". The magazine "EU Research" has recently published a summary of the project's objectives here (EU Research SUM19/P68). Office hours: upon request. Please contact me by email to schedule an appointment. |
Recent publications
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Fernández-i-Marín, Xavier, Hurka, Steffen, Knill, Christoph and Steinebach, Yves (2019). Systemic Dynamics of Policy Change: Overcoming Some Blind Spots of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory. Policy Studies Journal (early view, DOI: 10.1111/psj.12379).
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Hurka, Steffen and Haag, Maximilian (2019). Policy complexity and legislative duration in the European Union. European Union Politics (early view, DOI: 10.1177/1465116519859431).
Link to the publication (publisher's version) PDF of the post-print version Here's a summary of the article published in the LSE EUROPP blog: How policy complexity affects the duration of legislative negotiations in the EU |
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Adam, Christian, Hurka, Steffen, Steinebach, Yves and Knill, Christoph (2019). Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Link to the publication Read the book's introduction here. Read a related newspaper article in the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" (2 April 2019): Die moderne Demokratie droht sich selber zu überfordern |
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Adam, Christian, Hurka, Steffen, Knill, Christoph, Peters, B. Guy and Steinebach, Yves (2019). Introducing Vertical Policy Coordination to Comparative Policy Analysis: The Missing Link Between Policy Production and Implementation. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 21 (5): 499-517.
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Obholzer, Lukas, Hurka, Steffen and Kaeding, Michael (2019). Party group coordinators and rapporteurs: Discretion and agency loss along the European Parliament's chains of delegation. European Union Politics 20 (2): 239-260.
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Hurka, Steffen and Knill, Christoph (2018). Does regulation matter? A cross-national analysis of the impact of gun policies on homicide and suicide rates. Regulation & Governance (early view, DOI: 10.1111/rego.12235).
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Daniel, William T., Obholzer, Lukas, and Hurka, Steffen (2019). Static and dynamic incentives for Twitter usage in the European Parliament. Party Politics 25 (6): 771-781.
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