WORK IN PROGRESS

Strategies of Compliance: The Commission, the ECJ and Enforcement of EC Law.

Timing is Everything? Organized Interests and the Timing of Legislative Activity. (with Joost Berkhout, Brendan Carroll and Dave Lowery)

Consultation with Interest Groups and Legislative Decision Making in the European Union. (with Anne Rasmussen) full text pdf

UNDER REVIEW

Policy Making Beyond Political Ideology: The Adoption of Smoking Bans in Europe. full text pdf

A Formal Model of Policy Implementation in Multi-level Systems of Governance. full text pdf

The Europeanization of Asylum Policy: An assessment of the EU impact on asylum applications and recognitions rates. (with Laura de Haan) full text pdf

Time to Decide: The Effect of Early Agreements on Legislative Duration in the EU. (with Anne Rasmussen) full text pdf

PUBLISHED

2011

Anticipating Resistance: The Effect of Member State Preferences on the European Commission’s Agenda-Setting Activity. (with Frank Hage) University of Limerick PPA Working Papers full text pdf

Public Opinion and Policy Output in the European Union: A Lost Relationship. European Union Politics, Vol 12 (2), pp.169-91 abstract

The Interinstitutional Division of Power and Time Allocation in the European Parliament. West European Politics.West European Politics, Vol 34 (1), pp. 71-96. (with Anne Rasmussen) abstract

2010

Connecting the Dots: Case Studies and EU Implementation Research. (with Moritz Knoll and Lisa Wewerka) Institute for European Integration Research, Vienna: Working Paper 10/2010.full text pdf

Taking Stock: A Review of Quantitative Studies of Transposition and Implementation of EU Law. Institute for European Integration Research, Vienna: Working Paper 1/2010. full text pdf

2009

Comparing Transposition in the 27 Member States of the EU: The Impact of Discretion and Legal Fit. (with Bernard Steunenberg) Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 16 (7), pp. 951-70. abstract

Post-accession Compliance between Administrative Co-ordination and Political Bargaining. (with Antoaneta Dimitrova) European Integration Online Papers, Special Issue 2, Vol. 13, Art. 19. full text pdf

2008

Embracing European Law: Compliance with EU Directives in Central and Eastern Europe. European Union Politics, vol. 9 (3), pp.: 379-42. full text pdf

2007

In Search of the Worlds of Compliance: Culture and Transposition Performance in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 14 (6), pp. 933-54. full text pdf

In Search of the Worlds of Compliance? A Response. Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 14 (6), pp. 958-59. full text pdf

Transposition of EU Social Policy in the New Member States. Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 17 (4), pp.335-48. pdf data script

The dynamics of domestic coordination of EU policy in the new member states: impossible to lock in? (with Antoaneta Dimitrova) West European Politics, vol. 30 (5), pp.961-986. full text pdf 

PH.D. THESIS

Between Politics and Administration. Compliance with EU law in Central and Eastern Europe. PhD Thesis, Leiden University. free access

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review of D. Riley and B. Brophy-Baermann: Bureaucracy and the Policy Process: Keeping the Promises. Political Studies Review, vol. 5 (1), pp.119-20. full text pdf

Book review of M.-A. Vachudova: Europe Undivided. Democracy, Leverage, and Integration After Communism. full text pdf

Book review of L. Andonova: Transnational politics of the environment: the European Union and the environmental policy in Central and Eastern Europe, Political Studies Review, vol. 3 (2), p.262. full text pdf

MASTER THESIS

There and Back Again: Organizational Changes in the Bulgarian Core Executive (1990-2003). Master thesis: Leiden University. full text pdf