JEPP Journal

📖 Part of the Special Issue: Victims of their own success? How successful liberal orders can become self-undermining. Guest Editors: @cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Laura Seelkopf, Bernhard Zangl

🏛️ How does the European Court of Human Rights safeguard liberal democracy?

🔎 Nicole Bolleyer and Philipp Schroeder analyse the ECtHR’s strategic use of Article 17 between 1999 and 2024 👇

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📖 Part of the Special Issue: European Democracy in Action? The 2024 European Parliament Elections. Guest Editors: @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Sebastian-Adrian Popa, and Wouter van der Brug

🌍The latest cleavage: the universalist divide

@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇

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📜 Jeremy Richardson & Berthold Rittberger: JEPP Best Paper Prize 2023 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📝 Jeremy Richardson & Berthold Rittberger: JEPP Reviewer Prize 2023 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✍ Editorials:

👉 Berthold Rittberger: 2025: a transition update 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

❤️ Berthold Rittberger: Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👋 Jeremy Richardson: Farewell from Jeremy: enfin! 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗣️ Debates Section:

🗨️ @leuffen.bsky.social, @antoanetadl.bsky.social , Ulrich Sedelmeier, Sandra Lavenex, Thomas Risse & Frank Schimmelfennig: Rhetorical action in a liberal international order in crisis: theorising EU and NATO enlargements post-2022 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📊 @bjarneck.bsky.social & @eliemichel.bsky.social : Breaking the stalemate: Europeans' preferences to expand, cut, or sustain support to Ukraine 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

😈 @vvukov.bsky.social : European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🖼️ Nicole Scicluna: Framing enlargement after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: between geopolitical drivers and procedural roadblocks 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🛣️ @mariusghincea.bsky.social & @laurentiuplesca.bsky.social : From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏛️ László Bruszt & Julia Langbein: Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe: Lessons from the Big Bang enlargement for the next integration round 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏦 Matthias Thiemann, Dan Mocanu & @piroskadora.bsky.social : The rise of the European Enlargement State: blended finance, development banks and the new modalities of EU accession 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏞️ @buzogany.bsky.social & Mihai Varga: Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🪖 Maryna Rabinovych: Wartime super-spillover? The perils and limits of a neofunctionalist approach to Ukraine’s single market integration 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⚔️ Special Issue on "Wartime Europe: EU Integration, Reform and Enlargement" edited by @vanghel.bsky.social

🌍 @vanghel.bsky.social: Why the EU is a geopolitical power: wartime enlargement, integration, and reform 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New issue, including the Special Issue on "Wartime Europe: EU Integration, Reform and Enlargement" edited by @vanghel.bsky.social, a debate on EU & NATO enlargement after 2022 and JEPP news 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

📖 Part of the Special issue: State and future of European Union fiscal integration. Guest editors: @tizianozgaga.bsky.social, Tomasz P. Woźniakowski, and @evathomann.bsky.social

💶 How to finance Europe's defence?

👻 "Invisible taxes" may be the answer, argues Tomasz P. Woźniakowski, drawing lessons from the US

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🌡️ When the policymaking thermostat breaks

Marcello Carammiaa and Stefano M. Iacus show that Italy’s migration policy normally follows a thermostatic dynamic. But during the migration crisis, the system overheated, and feedback loops collapsed 👇

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🥊 Who contests the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its Deforestation Regulation? And why? 🤔

👉 @alexboegner.bsky.social shows it’s not just affectedness — allies are far more forgiving 👇

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📣 happy to see this new paper co-authored with Nadia El Ghali on the “inclusion trap” in multistakeholder institutions published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. You can read it for free below⬇️

Converging on social investment? Policy entrepreneurship, learning and the social dimension of post-pandemic EU economic governance For more than a decade, scholars have recurrently debated the social dimension of EU governance. While some have observed a ‘socialisation’ of European reform advice, others argue that social and l...

⚙️ @svenschreurs.bsky.social examines the policy entrepreneurship behind the EU's Social Convergence Framework (SCF) 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🧭 The negative consequences of rule transfer in EU enlargement László Bruszt and Julia Langbein argue that EU market rules, when applied to weaker economies, can trigger damaging side effects. Unless anticipated and managed, these risks threaten not just candidat...

🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.32
🌍 Based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social research, L Bruszt & J Langbein argue that #EU market rules, when applied to weaker economies, can trigger damaging side effects. Unless managed, these risks threaten not just candidate countries but the EU itself.
👉 bit.ly/4a3IGEV

The Worlds "Most Independent" Central Bank... or Just Pretending? How null results didn’t kill my project - they rewrote it. They revealed a new, measurable form of responsiveness inside the most secretive central bank in the world.

🚨New piece forthcoming in @jeppjournal.bsky.social .

I tried to prove the ECB is politically responsive… and failed.
But the failure turned into the discovery. Read more:

Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Preprint: osf.io/gxrtc/files/...

Part of the Special Issue: Victims of their own success? How successful liberal orders can become self-undermining.

Guest Editors: @cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf, Bernhard Zangl

⚠️Caught in the inclusion trap: multistakeholder institutions and autocratic accommodation by @bendassler.bsky.social and Nadia El Ghali

They propose a three-step model and use a mixed-methods study of ICANN as their case 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📊 𝗘𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫 dataset update!

💻 We updated complexity data to 𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, including entirely new data on 𝟴𝟭𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. The dataset now includes legislative procedures from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

📎 The data are now available for download at www.euplex.org/data

Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats

🏃🤝 In pursuit of a "better deal": how populist leaders claim success in renegotiation through smokescreen fights and by scaling back their demands.

The case of Boris Johnson, the EU–UK Withdrawal Agreement & the TCA, as analysed by Benjamin Martill 👇

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