
‘De- and Re-coupling of Policy Ideas and Policy Instruments: Dynamics of Fruitful Tensions and Mutual Reinforcements’, in: European Political Science Review.
‘Why Money can’t Buy Democracy: On the Detachment of the Euro from EU Citizenship’, in: Giovanni Moro, The other Side of the Coin: The Single Currency and European Citizenship (FONDACA)
The Impact of Expansion on EU Institutions: The Eastern Touch on Brussels. Palgrave/Macmillan, New York. (Monograph)
'Conditionality', co-authored with Tanja Börzel, in: International Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by Badie, B., Berg-Schlosser, D. and Morlino, L., Sage: London.
June 2011: ‘Structuring the European Administrative Space: Policy Instruments of Multi-level Administration‘. Journal of European Public Policy.
2010: witht Howlett, M., Rayner, J., et. al: 'Overcoming the Challenges of to Integration: Embracing Complexity in Forest Policy Design Through Multi-level Governance', in: RAYNER, J., BUCK, A. & KATILA, P. (eds.) Embracing Complexity: Meeting the Challenges of International Forest Governance. International Union of Forest Research Organizations: World Series Vol. 28.
2009: ‘Structuring the European Administrative Space: Channels of EU Penetration and Mechanisms of National Change’ KFG Working Paper Series, DFG Kollegforschergruppe (Berlin: Freie Universität).
2007: ‘Book Review – G. Amato/J. Ziller: The European Constitution: Cases and Materials in EU and Member States’, EUIreview, Summer, p. 48.
2004: ’Die Kommission und die Kopenhagener Kriterien: Erweiterte Handlungskapazität jenseits des Beitritts’. In: Bauer, P. and Voelzkow, H. (eds.) Die Europäische Union – Marionette oder Regisseur? (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften), pp. 237-56.
2004: ‘Minderheitenschutz in der neuen EU: Beitrittskriterien nach dem Beitritt'. Osteuropa. Vol. 54: Mai/Juni Die Einigung Europas: Zugkraft und Kraftakt, pp. 473-83.
2004: ‘Rezension – A. Duschanek/S. Griller (eds.): Grundrechte für Europa. Die Europäische Union Nach Nizza’ ÖZP 2004: 3, p. 361.
with Hofer, Stephan David 2004: ‚Neue Impulse für die Politikwissenschaft in Österreich’: Erfolgreiche Graduiertenkonferenz bietet Anstoß für weitere Initiativen (Konferenzbericht). Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft ÖZP 2004: 2, p. 227-232.
with Carrasco, Laura 2003: ‘Assessing the Assessment: A Review on the Application Criterion Minority Protection by the European Commission’. EIPA Working Paper: 03/W/04, www.eipa.nl.
2010: 'Deutsche EU-Kritik im Lissabon-Zeitalter', EUobserver.de, at:
www.euractiv.de/zukunft-und-reformen/artikel/eu-kritik-im-lissabon-zeitalter-003492.
2011: ‘Bureaucrats in Multilevel Governance How to Evaluate the Effect of “Governance Beyond” on “Administration Within” the State?’ EGPA Conference (Bucharest: 7-9 September).
‘National Executives in De-Nationalized Policy-making: Sovereign Bureaucracies or Europeanized Civil Services?’ ECPR General Conference (Reykjavik: 25-27 August).
‘Pattern and Extent of EU Involvement in Public Administrations: How to Describe and Explain the European Administrative Space’ EUSA: Biannual Conference (Boston: 3-5 March).
2010: ‘The Absence of Euro from the Current Debate on EU Democracy’, Workshop by FONDACA (Rome) & KFG (Berlin) The other Side of the Coin - The Single Currency and European Citizenship (Berlin 12 October).
2010: ‘Structuring the European Administrative Space: Policy Instruments of Multi-level Administration’, EGPA (Toulouse 8-20 September).
2010: ‘De- and Re-coupling of Policy Ideas and Policy Instruments: Dynamics of Fruitful Tensions and Mutual Reinforcements in the Process of an Emerging European Administrative Space‘, ECPR Joint Session of Workshops (Münster 22-28 March).
2009: ‘When “Form Follows Function”: A Theoretical Model of Policy-making as Polity-Shaping’. Paper presented at the 21st World Congress International Political Science Association (Santiago, Chile, 12-16 July).
2009: ‘The Heart of Political Steering: The EU's Arenas of Power as Template for a Governance Typology’. Paper presented at the Eleventh Biennial International Conference European Union Studies Association (Los Angeles, California, 23-25 April).
2009: ‚Die Fortführung der ‚Creeping Competences’: Politikumsetzung als Generator supranationaler Institutionalisierung’. Tagung: DVPW-Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (Darmstadt 22-24 January).
2007: ‘The Impact of Implementing Eastern Enlargement: Execution of Policies as Source for new Policy-Making in the Commission’ Conference Paper: Società Italiana di Scienza Politica: XXI Congresso (Catania 20-22 September).
2006: ‘The Union’s Decision to Enlarge Eastward: Who or What Entrapped Whom?’ Workshop Paper: Die Konsequenzen der Osterweiterung für die Europaforschung (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 31 March - 1 April).
2005: ‘Compliance First! The Logic of Pre-Accession Conditionality, a New Mode of Compliance?’ ECPR Joint Session of Workshops (Granada, 14-19 April).
2004: ‘Repercussions of Implementing Enlargement: Extending the European Commission’s Action Capacity in Minority Protection’, Second Pan-European Conference Standing Group on EU Politics, (Bologna, 24-26 June).
2003: ‘Policy-making as Institution-shaping: Informal Institutional Change in the Process of Enlargement’. ECPR Joint Session of Workshops (Edinburgh, 28 March - 2 April).
2003: ‚Die Kommission und die Anwendung der Kopenhagener Kriterien’, Die Europäische Union – eine Marionette oder der Regisseur? Tagung (Osnabrück, 12-13 December).