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Bernard Steunenberg

Bernard Steunenberg

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Political Science

D-Index
27
Citations
3338
World Ranking
1459
National Ranking
45

Overview

Bernard Steunenberg is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and has contributed substantially to the field of social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, alongside work in general health professions, economics and econometrics, law, and family practice.

Steunenberg's research covers a variety of topics including European Union policy and governance, EU law and policy analysis, health literacy and information accessibility, medication adherence and compliance, patient-provider communication in healthcare, political systems and governance, and social policy and reform studies.

The scientist has published multiple papers in various respected academic venues. Some recent works include:

  • "The impact of health literacy on beliefs about medication in a Dutch medication-using population" (2021, European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology)
  • "The politics within institutions for regulating public spending: conditional compliance within multi-year budgets" (2020, Constitutional Political Economy)
  • "How Implementation Affects Revision: EU Decision-Making on Changing the Posting of Workers Directive" (2021, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies)
  • "A mix-method approach to involve people with dementia in the development of a platform for medication adherence" (2020, Gerontechnology)
  • "Issue Information" (2020, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Steunenberg include Toni Ha, A Nd, Richa Rd, G Whit M A N, and Heather Macr. These collaborations typically result in multiple publications within shared areas of research.

Key journals and publication venues where Steunenberg's work frequently appears include:

  • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
  • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
  • Constitutional Political Economy
  • Gerontechnology
  • Harvard Dataverse

Steunenberg's primary engagement in social sciences is reflected in a range of subfields such as political science and international relations, law, and health-related professions. The blend of political science with health literacy topics illustrates an interdisciplinary research approach.

Best Publications

  • Decision Making Under Different Institutional Arrangements: Legislation by the European Community

    Bernard Steunenberg

  • Compliance in the EU enlargement process: The limits of conditionality

    Bernard Steunenberg;Antoaneta Dimitrova

  • The Search for Convergence of National Policies in the European Union: An Impossible Quest?

    Antoaneta Dimitrova;Bernard Steunenberg

  • Strategic power in the European Union: Evaluating the distribution of power in policy games *

    Bernard Steunenberg;Dieter Schmidtchen;Christian Koboldt

  • Turning Swift Policy-making into Deadlock and Delay National Policy Coordination and the Transposition of EU Directives

    Bernard Steunenberg

  • Comparing transposition in the 27 member states of the EU: the impact of discretion and legal fit

    Bernard Steunenberg;Dimiter Toshkov

  • Between Power and Luck: The European Parliament in the EU Legislative Process

    Torsten J. Selck;Bernard Steunenberg

  • A policy solution to the European Union's transposition puzzle: Interaction of interests in different domestic arenas

    Bernard Steunenberg

  • Policymaking, comitology, and the balance of power in the European Union

    Bernard Steunenberg;Christian Koboldt;Dieter Schmidtchen

  • The transposition of European law in EU member states: between process and politics

    Bernard Steunenberg;Mark Rhinard

  • How time affects EU decision making

    Jonathan Golub;Bernard Steunenberg

  • Understanding the EU Legislative Process: Political Scientists' and Practitioners' Perspectives

    Christophe Crombez;Bernard Steunenberg;Richard Corbett

  • Sectors at Different Speeds: Analysing Transposition Deficits in the European Union*

    Markus Haverland;Bernard Steunenberg;Frans Van Waarden

  • Testing procedural models of EU legislative decision-making

    Bernard Steunenberg;Torsten J. Selck;Robert Thomson;Frans N. Stokman

  • ‘As time goes by’: Explaining the transposition of maritime directives1

    Bernard Steunenberg;Michael Kaeding

  • Codecision and its Reform

    Bernard Steunenberg

  • Referendum, Initiative, and Veto Power : Budgetary Decision Making in Local Government

    Bernard Steunenberg

  • Political Institutions and Public Policy

    Bernard Steunenberg;Frans van Vught

  • Evidence with insight: what models contribute to EU research

    Gerald Schneider;Bernard Steunenberg;Mika Widgrén

  • Agent Discretion, regulatory Policymaking, and different institutional Arrangements

    Bernard Steunenberg

  • Is big brother watching? Commission oversight of the national implementation of EU directives

    Bernard Steunenberg

  • Widening the European Union : the politics of institutional change and reform

    Bernard Steunenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Rhinard
Mark Rhinard Stockholm University
Roger D. Congleton
Roger D. Congleton West Virginia University
Gerald Schneider
Gerald Schneider University of Konstanz
Jacques J.A. Thomassen
Jacques J.A. Thomassen University of Twente
Patrick Dunleavy
Patrick Dunleavy London School of Economics and Political Science
Thomas König
Thomas König University of Mannheim
Robert Thomson
Robert Thomson University of Hong Kong

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