Publications

Books

• The EU under Strain? Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics (co-edited with Daniel Schade). De Gruyter (2023).

• The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy: Turning Talk into Power. Palgrave Macmillan (2021).

• The Informal Construction of Europe (co-edited with Lennaert van Heumen). Routledge (2019); therein:
  • Introduction (with Lennaert van Heumen), pp. 3-19.
  • Studying the Informal in European Integration: A Research Guide (with Christine Neuhold), pp. 20-39.

Journal articles

• Inequality by design: The politics behind forced migrants’ access to healthcare. Medical Law Review, 30:4 (2022), pp. 658-679.

• The European Parliament’s youth policy, 1952-1979. An attempt to create a collective memory of an integrated Europe.Politique européenne, 71:1 (2021), pp. 28-52.

• A Parliament for the People? – The European Parliament’s Activism in the Area of Social Policy from the early 1970s to the Single European Act. Journal of European Integration History, 27:1 (2021), pp. 37-56.

• The impact of national values on health-care provisions for asylum seekers and refugees in Germany and Sweden. DPCE Online, 45:4 (2021), pp. 5208-5225.

• Becoming Europe’s Parliament: Europeanization through MEPs’ Supranational Activism, 1952-79. Journal of Common Market Studies, 58:6 (2020), pp. 1413-1432.

• Zwischen Vertragsauslegung und Streben nach Macht: Informalität in der EU-Politik. Politikum, 5:3 (2019), pp. 30-36.

• Intra-party group unity in the European Parliament prior to its first direct elections in 1979. Parliamentary Affairs, 72:2 (2019), pp. 464-479.

• Pushing the Boundaries. New research on the Activism of EU Supranational Institutions (Introduction to the special issue, co-authored with David Howarth). Journal of Contemporary European Research, 3:2 (2017), pp. 1007-1024.

• Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliament’s Gain in Power, 1952-1979. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 3:2 (2017), pp. 1055-1075.

Guest-edited special issue

• Pushing the Boundaries. New research on the Activism of EU Supranational Institutions. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 3:2 (2017), guest-edited with David Howarth.

Contributions to edited volumes

• Different Systems, Similar Responses: Policy Reforms on Asylum-Seekers’ and Refugees’ Access to Healthcare in Germany and Sweden in the Wake of the 2015-17 ‘Migration Crisis’. In Mari-Liis Jakobson et al. (eds.), Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times, Springer (2023), pp. 129-146.

• The Strategic Involvement of the European Parliament in Establishing the European Social Fund. In Paul Stephenson et al. (eds.): Financial Accountability in the European Union: Institutions, Policy and Practice, London/New York: Routledge (2021), pp. 41-56.

• Die informelle Entwicklung einer supranationalen Co-Legislative: Das Europäische Parlament, 1952-1979. In Christian Henrich-Franke et al. (eds.): Grenzüberschreitende institutionalisierte Zusammenarbeit von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Baden-Baden: Nomos (2019), pp. 417-446.

• La politique du Parlement européen sur l’égalité des sexes avant 1979: une réussite inattendue. In Anne-Laure Briatte et al. (eds.): L’Europe, une chance pour les femmes? Le genre de la construction européenne, Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne (2019), pp. 105-114.

Publications on academic blogs

• Uncovering the parliamentary roots of European social policy. EUROPP, 28 March 2022.

• The informal construction of Europe. Robert Schuman Initiative (Blog of the Robert Schuman Institute of European Affairs, University of Luxembourg), 20 March 2019.

• Times of Crisis, Times of Prospects: Can the EU Learn from the 1970s? UCL Brexit Blog, 1 March 2017.

• Let’s Talk Business: The Economic Impact of Brexit. European Futures, 30 November 2015.

• How a Brexit Would Influence the British Economy. A Four-Part Brexit Blog. Canterbury Politics and International Relations Blog, July to November 2015.

• Triple-A rating? Juncker’s vision for the EU’s social policy scorecard. Canterbury Politics and International Relations Blog, 20 May 2015.

• A Snap-Shot of WWI in 140 Signs – One Year On. World War I Centenary Blog: Continuations and Beginnings, Oxford University, 10 March 2015.