Publications

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Democracy between the Lines? EU Promotion of Democratic Governance via Sector-specific Co-operation.

2007. NCCR Democracy Working Paper No. 5, Zurich (with T. Skripka, A. Wetzel) [»].

Democracy Promotion By Functional Cooperation.

in press. T. Schumacher, T. Demmelhuber, and A. Marchetti (eds.) Routledge Handbook of the European Neighbourhood Policy, Routledge (with S. Lavenex).

Democracy Promotion through Functional Cooperation? The Case of the European Neighbourhood Policy

2011, Democratization 18(4): 1026-54 (with S. Lavenex, F. Schimmelfennig, T. Skripka, A. Wetzel) [»].
-> reprinted in: S. Lavenex and F. Schimmelfennig (eds) Democracy Promotion in the EU’s Neighbourhood: From Leverage to Governance? Routledge.

Democratic Diffusion under the Magnifying Glass: A Micro-perspective on the Change of Attitudes toward Democratic Governance through Transnational Linkages in Authoritarian Context.

2012. Max Weber Programme Working Paper No. 30, Florence [»].

Democrats without Democracy? Linkage and Socialization into Democratic Governance in Authoritarian Regimes.

2009. NCCR Democracy Working Paper No. 37, Zurich [»].

Demokratisierung durch Zusammenarbeit? Funktionale Kooperation mit autoritären Regimen und Sozialisation in demokratischem Regieren..

2011, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen/ German Journal of International Relations 18(1): 5-46 [»].
-> reprinted in World Political Science Review 8(1). 2012. (“Planting the Seeds of Change Inside? Functional Cooperation with Authoritarian Regimes and Socialization into Democratic Governance”) [»].
-> T. Bräuninger (2012) Fruchtbarer Boden oder doch nur Wüste? Eine Replik auf Tina Freyburg [Fertile soil or just a desert? A Reply ], ZIB 19(1): 85-101 [»]
-> T. Freyburg (2012) Wenn die Wüste blüht. Eine Replik auf Thomas Bräuninger [When the desert blooms], ZIB 19(1): 103-120 [»].

Diffusion of Compliance in the ‘Race towards Brussels?’ A Spatial Approach to EU Accession Conditionality.

2015, West European Politics 38(3): 601-626 (with T. Böhmelt) [»].

Do All Good Things Go Together? Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion.

2013, edited with J. Leininger, S. Grimm. Routledge [»]. 

EU Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation: The European Union and Its Neighbourhood.

2015, co-authored with S. Lavenex, F. Schimmelfennig, T. Skripka, A. Wetzel. Palgrave [»].
-> reviewed by J. Völkel (2015) in Democratization [»].

EU Promotion of Democratic Governance in the Neighbourhood.

2009, Journal of European Public Policy 16(6): 916-34 (with S. Lavenex, F. Schimmelfennig, T. Skripka, A. Wetzel) [»].
-> reprinted in: S. Lavenex and F. Schimmelfennig (eds) EU External Governance: Projecting EU Rules beyond Membership. Routledge.

EU-Förderung von demokratischem Regieren: Das Demokratisierungspotential funktionaler Kooperation mit autoritären Regimen. [EU Promotion of Democratic Governance: The Democratizing Potential of Functional Cooperation with Authoritarian Regimes].

2013. A. Auer (ed.) Demokratisierung im arabischen Raum. Schulthess: 67-93.

Forecasting Candidate States' Compliance with EU Accession Rules, 2017-2050.

2017, Journal of European Public Policy (with T. Böhmelt), online first [»].

Just an Illusion? Democratization in the International Realm.

2017, Swiss Political Science Review (with S. Lavenex, F. Schimmelfennig), online first [»].

Local Actors in the Driver's Seat: Transatlantic Democracy Promotion under Regime Competition in the Arab World.

2015, Democratization 22(3): 496-518 (with S. Richter) [»].

National Identity Matters: The Limited Impact of EU Political Conditionality in the Western Balkans.

2010, Journal of European Public Policy 17(2): 262-80 (with S. Richter) [»].

Neue Wege der externen Demokratieförderung: Demokratisches Regieren in der Europäischen Nachbarschaftspolitik. [Promoting Democratic Governance in the European Neighbourhood: An Innovative Model].

2008.  G. Erdmann and M. Kneuer (eds) Externe Faktoren der Demokratisierung, Nomos: 169-93 (with S. Lavenex, F. Schimmelfennig, T. Skripka, A. Wetzel).


The Janus Face of EU Migration Governance: Impairing Democratic Governance at Home – Improving it Abroad?.

2012, European Foreign Affairs Review 17(2): 289-30 [»].

The Temporal Dimension of the Credibility of EU Conditionality and Candidate States’ Compliance with the Acquis Communautaire, 1998-2009.

2013, European Union Politics 14(2): 250–272 (with T. Böhmelt) [»].

The Two Sides of Functional Cooperation with Authoritarian Regimes: A Multi-level Perspective on the Conflict of Objectives between Political Stability and Democratic Change.

2012, Democratization 19(3): 575-601 [»].
-> reprinted in: J. Leininger, S. Grimm and T. Freyburg (eds) Do All Good Things Go Together? Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion. Routledge.

Transgovernmental Networks as an Apprenticeship in Democracy? Socialization into Democratic Governance through Cross-national Activities.

2015, International Studies Quarterly 59(1): 59-72 [»].

Transgovernmental Networks as Catalysts for Democratic Change? EU Functional Cooperation with Arab Authoritarian Regimes and Socialization of Involved State Officials into Democratic Governance.

2011, Democratization 18(4): 1001-25 [»].
-> reprinted in: S. Lavenex and F. Schimmelfennig (eds) Democracy Promotion in the EU’s Neighbourhood: From Leverage to Governance? Routledge.
-> reviewed by D. Panchuk and F. Bossuyt (2014) in Democratization [»].

Transnational Influences and Socialization into Democratic Administrative Governance in Authoritarian Contexts.

2012. Centre for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) Working Paper No. 77, Zurich [»].