Welcome to my website!
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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. Office hours: upon request. Please contact me by email to schedule an appointment. |
NOW AVAILABLE: Animation for "Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap"
Recent publications
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Hurka, Steffen (forthcoming). The institutional and political roots of complex policies - Evidence from the European Union. European Journal of Political Research.
Paper accepted for publication. Will be available open access soon. |
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Hurka, Steffen, Haag, Maximilian and Kaplaner, Constantin (2021). Policy complexity in the European Union, 1993-today: introducing the EUPLEX dataset. Journal of European Public Policy (early view, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1938174).
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.
Link to the publication (OPEN ACCESS) |
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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.
Link to the publication (OPEN ACCESS) |
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Hurka, Steffen and Kaplaner, Constantin (2020). Are popular and powerful committees more representative? Evidence from the Ninth European Parliament. Research and Politics (early view, DOI: 10.1177/2053168020914453).
Link to the publication (OPEN ACCESS) Replication files |
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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).
Link to the publication (OPEN ACCESS) |
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Hurka, Steffen and Haag, Maximilian (2020). Policy complexity and legislative duration in the European Union. European Union Politics 21 (1): 87-108.
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 Check out our animated video summarizing the book's key messages here! |
