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Bernhard Zangl publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernhard Zangl sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 132 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Bernhard Zangl D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernhard Zangl sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bernhard Zangl is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany, where they focus on research within the social sciences, particularly in political science and international relations.

Their work covers a range of subfields including political science and international relations, strategy and management, development, sociology and political science, and public administration. This reflects a diverse approach connecting governance, policy, and institutional studies.

Zangl's research topics emphasize international development and aid, global peace and security dynamics, and European Union policy and governance. Other focal areas include electoral systems and political participation, public policy and administration research, political influence and corporate strategies, as well as international relations and foreign policy.

The scientist is frequently published in several academic venues, with multiple works appearing in the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, as well as contributions to Contemporary Security Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, Universitätsbibliothek der LMU, and European Journal of Political Research.

Recent papers by Zangl include:

  • Blame shifting and blame obfuscation: The blame avoidance effects of delegation in the European Union, 2021, European Journal of Political Research
  • The Adjustment of International Institutions to Global Power Shifts: A Framework for Analysis, 2020, Global Policy
  • Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU, 2021, West European Politics
  • Beyond opportunism: Intermediary loyalty in regulation and governance, 2021, Regulation & Governance
  • Zwischen Hoffen und Bangen: Zum Verhältnis von Autorität, Politisierung und Demokratisierung in internationalen Organisationen, 2020, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

Zangl collaborates extensively with other scholars, notably Andreas Kruck, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Berthold Rittberger, Lisa Kriegmair, and Benjamin Daßler. These frequent co-authorships indicate involvement in interdisciplinary research and joint investigations on political and institutional issues.

Best Publications

  • International Organizations as Orchestrators

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • International Organization: Polity, Politics And Policies

    Bernhard Zangl;Volker Rittberger;Matthias Staisch

  • Metamorphosen des Staates - vom Herrschaftsmonopolisten zum Herrschaftsmanager

    Philipp Genschel;Bernhard Zangl

  • Two Logics of Indirect Governance: Delegation and Orchestration

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

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  • Judicialization Matters! A Comparison of Dispute Settlement Under GATT and the WTO

    Bernhard Zangl

  • Die Zerfaserung von Staatlichkeit und die Zentralität des Staates

    Philipp Genschel;Bernhard Zangl

  • Make Law, Not War: Internationale und transnationale Verrechtlichung als Baustein für Global Governance

    Bernhard Zangl;Michael Zürn

  • Die Internationalisierung der Rechtsstaatlichkeit : Streitbeilegung in GATT und WTO

    Bernhard Zangl

  • Imperfect adaptation: how the WTO and the IMF adjust to shifting power distributions among their members

    Bernhard Zangl;Frederick Heußner;Andreas Kruck;Xenia Lanzendörfer

  • Which post-Westphalia? International organizations between constitutionalism and authoritarianism

    Christian Kreuder-Sonnen;Bernhard Zangl

  • Orchestration : global governance through intermediaries

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • Frieden und Krieg : Sicherheit in der nationalen und postnationalen Konstellation

    Bernhard Zangl;Michael Zürn

  • The politicization of international economic institutions in US public debates

    Thomas Rixen;Bernhard Zangl

  • Blame Shifting and Blame Obfuscation: The Blame Avoidance Effects of Delegation in the EU

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  • Transformations of the State?: The modern territorial state: limits to internationalization of the state's resources

    Stephan Leibfried;Michael Zürn

  • Bringing courts back in: Normdurchsetzung im GATT, in der WTO und der EG

    Bernhard Zangl

  • Multilevel blame games: Blame‐shifting in the European Union

    Tim Heinkelmann‐Wild;Bernhard Zangl

  • Von „alten“ und „neuen“ Kriegen — Zum Gestaltwandel kriegerischer Gewalt

    Monika Heupel;Bernhard Zangl

  • Trading privileges for support: the strategic co-optation of emerging powers into international institutions

    Andreas Kruck;Bernhard Zangl

  • Competence versus control : The governor’s dilemma

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • The effects of denationalisation on security in the OECD world

    Bernhard Zangl;Michael Zürn

  • The Adjustment of International Institutions to Global Power Shifts: A Framework for Analysis

    Andreas Kruck;Bernhard Zangl

  • State Transformations in OECD Countries

    Philipp Genschel;Bernhard Zangl

  • Interactions between hard and soft power: The institutional adaptation of international intellectual property protection to global power shifts:

    Benjamin Daßler;Andreas Kruck;Bernhard Zangl

  • The European Economic and Monetary Union: `Two-level Games' and the Formation of International Institutions

    Dieter Wolf;Bernhard Zangl

  • Divided they fail: the politics of wedge issues and Brexit

    Tim Heinkelmann-Wild;Lisa Kriegmair;Berthold Rittberger;Bernhard Zangl

  • Beyond opportunism: Intermediary loyalty in regulation and governance

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • Competence–Control Theory: The Challenge of Governing through Intermediaries

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU

    Lisa Kriegmair;Berthold Rittberger;Bernhard Zangl;Tim Heinkelmann-Wild

  • 4 Is there an emerging international rule of law

    Bernhard Zangl

  • Where Does the Buck Stop? Explaining Public Responsibility Attributions in Complex International Institutions

    Berthold Rittberger;Helena Schwarzenbeck;Bernhard Zangl

  • Orchestrating global governance : from empirical findings to theoretical implications

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

Frequent Co-Authors

Philipp Genschel
Philipp Genschel European University Institute
Volker Rittberger
Volker Rittberger University of Tübingen
Kenneth W. Abbott
Kenneth W. Abbott Arizona State University
Duncan Snidal
Duncan Snidal University of Oxford
Berthold Rittberger
Berthold Rittberger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael Zürn
Michael Zürn Social Science Research Center Berlin
Stephan Leibfried
Stephan Leibfried University of Bremen
Lucio Baccaro
Lucio Baccaro Max Planck Society

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