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I am a research group leader based 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". Please find all information on this project on www.euplex.org.


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​NOW AVAILABLE: Animation for "Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap" 



Recent publications

Hurka, Steffen (2022). The institutional and political roots of complex policies - Evidence from the European Union. European Journal of Political Research (online first, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12555).

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Pre-print version
Hurka, Steffen, Haag, Maximilian and Kaplaner, Constantin (2022). Policy complexity in the European Union, 1993-today: introducing the EUPLEX dataset. Journal of European Public Policy 29 (9): 1512-1527.

Link to the publication (publisher's version)
PDF of the post-print version

Link to dataset and documentation
Adam, Christian, Hurka, Steffen, Knill, Christoph and Steinebach, Yves (2022). On Democratic Intelligence and Failure: The Vice and Virtue of Incrementalism under Political Fragmentation and Policy Accumulation. Governance 35 (2): 525-543.


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Fernández-i-Marín, Xavier, Hurka, Steffen, Knill, Christoph and Steinebach, Yves (2022). Systemic Dynamics of Policy Change: Overcoming Some Blind Spots of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory. Policy Studies Journal 50 (3): 527-552.

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Hurka, Steffen and Steinebach, Yves (2021). Legal Instrument Choice in the European Union. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 59 (2): 278-296.

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