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.
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 news and publications
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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 (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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