Publications

Monographs

Adam, Christian, Hurka, Steffen, Steinebach, Yves and Knill, Christoph (2019). Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Animation on the book's key messages]

Hurka, Steffen (2017). Rampage shootings and gun control - Politicization and policy change in Western Europe. London: Routledge. (OPEN ACCESS)

Editions

Knill, Christoph, Adam, Christian and Hurka, Steffen (2015). On the Road to Permissiveness? Change and Convergence of Moral Regulation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Peer-reviewed articles

Chapters in edited volumes

Adam, Christian and Hurka, Steffen (2021). Regulatory Styles and their Implications, in Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun (eds.): Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles, London: Routledge, 355-365.

Knill, Christoph, Steinebach, Yves, Adam, Christian and Hurka, Steffen (2020). Policy Dismantling, Accumulation and Performance, in Giliberto Capano and Michael Howlett (eds.): A Modern Guide to Public Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 242-264.

Hurka, Steffen and Kaplaner, Constantin (2020). Präferenzverteilungen in den Ausschüssen des neu gewählten Europäischen Parlaments, in: Michael Kaeding, Manuel Müller and Julia Schmälter (eds.): Die Europawahl 2019: Ringen um die Zukunft Europas. Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 391-405.

Hurka, Steffen (2015). Zäsur oder ,Business-as-Usual’? Die Verteilung der Abstimmungsmacht im neu gewählten Europäischen Parlament, in: Michael Kaeding and Niko Switek (eds.): Die Europawahl 2014: Spitzenkandidaten, Protestparteien, Nichtwähler. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 323-333.

Hurka, Steffen (2015). Handguns: on target for authority?, in: Christoph Knill, Christian Adam and Steffen Hurka (eds.): On the Road to permissiveness? Change and Convergence of Moral Regulation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 183-205.

Nebel, Kerstin and Hurka, Steffen (2015). Abortion: finding the impossible compromise, in: Christoph Knill, Christian Adam and Steffen Hurka (eds.): On the Road to Permissiveness? Change and Convergence of Moral Regulation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 58-78.

Knill, Christoph, Adam, Christian and Hurka, Steffen (2015). Introduction, in: Christoph Knill, Christian Adam und Steffen Hurka (eds.): On the Road to Permissiveness? Change and Convergence of Moral Regulation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-10.

Adam, Christian, Hurka, Steffen and Knill, Christoph (2015). Conceptualizing and measuring styles of moral regulation, in: Christoph Knill, Christian Adam and Steffen Hurka (eds.): On the Road to Permissiveness? Change and Convergence of Moral Regulation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 11-31.

Hurka, Steffen, Knill, Christoph and Adam, Christian (2015). Empirical trends and conventional explanations: some puzzling misfits, in: Christoph Knill, Christian Adam and Steffen Hurka (eds.): On the Road to Permissiveness? Change and Convergence of Moral Regulation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 32-44.

Adam, Christian, Knill, Christoph and Hurka, Steffen (2015). Theoretical expectations regarding sources and directions of morality policy change, in: Christoph Knill, Christian Adam and Steffen Hurka (eds.): On the Road to Permissiveness? Change and Convergence of Moral Regulation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 45-57.

Adam, Christian, Knill, Christoph and Hurka, Steffen (2015). Conclusion, in: Christoph Knill, Christian Adam and Steffen Hurka (eds.): On the Road to Permissiveness? Change and Convergence of Moral Regulation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 265-276.

Hurka, Steffen (2015). Schnellschüsse oder Volltreffer? Die Regulierung privater Handfeuerwaffen, in: Christoph Knill, Stephan Heichel, Caroline Preidel, and Kerstin Nebel (eds.): Moralpolitik in Deutschland - Staatliche Regulierung gesellschaftlicher Wertkonflikte im historischen und internationalen Vergleich, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 225-241.

Conference papers

Hurka, Steffen: Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the complexity of EU legislation, presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Cologne, Germany, 04-07 July 2024.

Haag, Maximilian, Hurka, Steffen, & Kaplaner, Constantin: Policy complexity and implementation performance in the European Union, presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Glasgow, Scotland, 22-24 June 2023 and the 29th International Conference of Europeanists (CES), Reykjavik, Iceland, 26-29 June 2023.

Kaplaner, Constantin, Haag, Maximilian & Hurka, Steffen (2022). Complexity and lobbying success in the public consultations of the European Union, presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Prague, Czech Republic, 23-25 June 2022.

Hurka, Steffen, Haag, Maximilian & Kaplaner, Constantin (2022). Do EP rapporteurs matter? Investigating the conditional effects of rapporteur experience on legislative efficiency and effectiveness, presented at the 11th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union (SGEU), Rome, Italy, 8-10 June 2022.

Hurka, Steffen (2021). The political and institutional roots of complex policies: evidence from the European Union, presented at the 10th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union (SGEU), Virtual, 10-12 June 2021.

Hurka, Steffen, Haag, Maximilian and Kaplaner, Constantin (2021). How proposal complexity conditions report allocation in the European Parliament, presented at the 2nd Virtual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), 24-25 June 2021.

Haag, Maximilian, Hurka, Steffen and Kaplaner, Constantin (2021). From bill to law: how the complexity of policy proposals evolves over the European Union’s legislative process, presented at the 2nd Virtual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), 24-25 June 2021 (presented by Maximilian Haag).

Kaplaner, Constantin, Hurka, Steffen, and Haag, Maximilian (2021): Proposing an index of policy complexity, presented at the 5th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP), Virtual, 5-9 July 2021 (presented by Constantin Kaplaner and Maximilian Haag).

Hurka, Steffen and Haag, Maximilian (2020). The evolution of policy complexity in the European Union, presented at the 1st Virtual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), 18-19 June 2020.

Hurka, Steffen, Haag, Maximilian, and Kaplaner, Constantin (2019). Committee types, policy complexity and legislative efficiency, presented at the 9th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Belfast, Northern Ireland, 20-22 June 2019.

Hurka, Steffen and Haag, Maximilian (2018). Policy complexity and legislative delay in the European Union, presented at the 76th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, 5-8 April 2018 and the 8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Vienna, Austria, 21-23 June 2018.

Fernández-i-Marín, Xavier, Hurka, Steffen, Knill, Christoph, and Steinebach, Yves (2017). The Hidden Faces of Crisis: displacement effects and policy punctuations during economic crises, Paper presented at the workshop "Policy-Making in hard times: deregulation, dismantling and compensation", Barcelona, Spain, 15-17 November 2017 and the 8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Vienna, Austria, 21-23 June 2018 (presented by Xavier Fernández-i-Marín).

Fernández-i-Marín, Xavier, Hurka, Steffen, Knill, Christoph, and Adam, Christian (2017). Measuring the restrictiveness of morality policies, Paper presented at the 7th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Milan, Italy, 22-24 June 2017 (presented by Xavier Fernández-i-Marín).

Daniel, William T., Obholzer, Lukas and Hurka, Steffen (2017). It’s All in the Timing: Novel Signals from within the EP Legislative Cycle, Paper presented at the Fifteenth Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association, Miami, Florida, 4-6 May 2017 (presented by William T. Daniel).

Obholzer, Lukas, Hurka, Steffen, and Kaeding, Michael (2016). Intra-Parliamentary Delegation and Accountability, Paper presented at the 3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, Munich, Germany, 30 June - 2 July 2016.

Daniel, William T., Obholzer, Lukas, and Hurka, Steffen (2016). Constructive Tweets? Novel Signals from within the EP Legislative Process, Paper presented at the 3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, Munich, Germany, 30 June - 2 July 2016 and the 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, Trento, Italy, 15-18 June 2016.

Obholzer, Lukas, Hurka, Steffen, and Kaeding, Michael (2016). Better Safe than Sorry? Strategic Delegation in the European Parliament, Paper presented at the 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, Trento, Italy, 15-18 June 2016.

Hurka, Steffen (2015). Moonlighting MEPs – The determinants and consequences of legislators´ ancillary income in the European Parliament, presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, 16-19 April 2015 and the 5th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Vienna, Austria, 25-27 June 2015.

Hurka, Steffen and Knill, Christoph (2015). Firearm regulations and homicide rates – evaluating the effectiveness of gun policies, presented at the 2nd International Conference of Public Policy (ICPP), Milan, Italy, 1-4 July 2015.

Hurka, Steffen, Adam, Christian, and Knill, Christoph (2015). Patterns of Morality Policy Change in Europe, presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, 16-19 April 2015 and the 2nd International Conference of Public Policy (ICPP), Milan, Italy, 1-4 July 2015 (presented by Christian Adam).

Hurka, Steffen and Knill, Christoph (2014). The influence of handgun regulations on suicide rates in 19 European countries (1980-2010), presented at the 5th ECPR Regulatory Governance Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 25-27 June 2014.

Hurka, Steffen, Kaeding, Michael and Obholzer, Lukas (2014). Out of the dark, into the light: (shadow) rapporteurship assignments in the European Parliament after enlargement, presented at the 7th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, The Hague, Netherlands, 5-7 June 2014 (presented by Michael Kaeding and Lukas Obholzer).

Adam, Christian, Hurka, Steffen, and Knill, Christoph (2013). How Governments Constrain and Sanction Individual Behavior - Four Styles of Regulation, presented at the Celebratory Comparative Policy Analysis Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 27-30 November 2013.

Hurka, Steffen (2013). On the path to prohibition? Convergence patterns in the regulation of civilian handgun ownership, presented at the 1st International Conference of Public Policy (ICPP), Grenoble, France, 26-28 June 2013 and at the 7th ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux, France, 4-7 September 2013.

Steffen Hurka (2012). Changing the Output - The Logic of Amendment Success in the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety (ENVI), presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Berlin, Germany, 21-23 June 2012.

Steffen Hurka and Michael Kaeding (2011). Report allocation in the European Parliament after eastern enlargement, presented at the 12th Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Boston, MA, 3-5 March 2011 (presented by Michael Kaeding).