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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" (www.euplex.org), 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.
Most recently, the European Research Council (ERC) awarded me a Consolidator Grant for my project "DEMOLAW - The Design, Creation and Survival of Democratic Laws". This new project has officially started on 1 October 2024. |
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Recent publications
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Daniel, William T., and Hurka, Steffen (2024). Unpacking the European Commission: Cabinet Composition and EU Policymaking. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies (online first, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13678).
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Haag, Maximilian, Hurka, Steffen and Kaplaner, Constantin (2024). Policy complexity and implementation performance in the European Union. Regulation & Governance (online first, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12580).
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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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Hurka, Steffen (2023). The institutional and political roots of complex policies - Evidence from the European Union. European Journal of Political Research 62 (4): 1168-1190.
Link to the publication (OPEN ACCESS) Blog post for ECPR The Loop |
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Hurka, Steffen, Haag, Maximilian and Kaplaner, Constantin (2023). Proposal complexity and report allocation in the European Parliament. European Union Politics 24 (2): 307-326.
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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 |
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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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