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Overview

Berthold Rittberger is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly output focuses extensively on political science and international relations, with a substantial body of work exploring various aspects of European Union policy and governance.

Their main fields of study include social sciences with a specialization in political science and international relations, as well as related areas such as strategy and management, development, sociology and political science, and history. The breadth of their expertise covers multiple subfields, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to political and social phenomena.

Rittberger's main research topics are diverse, encompassing European Union policy and governance, political influence and corporate strategies, social policy and reform studies, electoral systems and political participation, international development and aid, international relations and foreign policy, and historical and contemporary political dynamics.

The scientist has contributed articles to several academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • European Journal of Political Research
  • Politics and Governance
  • Global Studies Quarterly
  • Journal of International Relations and Development

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Rittberger are:

  • Blame shifting and blame obfuscation: The blame avoidance effects of delegation in the European Union, 2021, European Journal of Political Research
  • Contestation in a World of Liberal Orders, 2024, Global Studies Quarterly
  • The LIO's growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation, 2022, Journal of International Relations and Development
  • The EU Multi-Level System and the Europeanization of Domestic Blame Games, 2020, Politics and Governance
  • Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU, 2021, West European Politics

Frequent collaborators include Jeremy Richardson, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Bernhard Zangl, and Lisa Kriegmair, with collaborations on multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Differentiated integration : explaining variation in the European Union

    Dirk Leuffen;Berthold Rittberger;Frank Schimmelfennig

  • Building Europe's Parliament: Democratic Representation beyond the Nation State

    Berthold Rittberger

  • The 'Governance' Turn in EU Studies

    Berthold Rittberger

  • Review Article: The ‘Governance Turn’ in EU Studies*

    Beate Kohler-Koch;Berthold Rittberger

  • The European Union as a system of differentiated integration: interdependence, politicization and differentiation

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Dirk Leuffen;Berthold Rittberger

  • Debating the democratic legitimacy of the European Union

    Beate Kohler-Koch;Berthold Rittberger

  • Building Europe's Parliament

    Berthold Rittberger

  • Dynamics of formal and informal institutional change in the EU

    Jeffrey Stacey;Berthold Rittberger

  • Credibility, Complexity and Uncertainty: Explaining the Institutional Independence of 29 EU Agencies

    Arndt Wonka;Berthold Rittberger

  • Explaining the constitutionalization of the European Union

    Berthold Rittberger;Frank Schimmelfennig

  • Shifting Europe's Boundaries: mass media, public opinion and the enlargement of the EU

    Jürgen Maier;Berthold Rittberger

  • The Creation, Interpretation and Contestation of Institutions - Revisiting Historical Institutionalism*

    Johannes Lindner;Berthold Rittberger

  • Institutionalizing Representative Democracy in the European Union: The Case of the European Parliament

    Berthold Rittberger

  • The Creation and Empowerment of the European Parliament

    Berthold Rittberger

  • Political (non-)reform in the euro crisis and the refugee crisis: a liberal intergovernmentalist explanation

    Felix Biermann;Nina Guérin;Stefan Jagdhuber;Berthold Rittberger

  • Impatient legislators and new issue-dimensions: a critique of the Garrett-Tsebelis standard version' of legislative politics

    Berthold Rittberger

  • Introduction: agency governance in the European Union

    Berthold Rittberger;Arndt Wonka

  • Charting Crowded Territory : Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union

    Beate Kohler-Koch;Berthold Rittberger

  • Integration without Representation? The European Parliament and the Reform of Economic Governance in the EU

    Berthold Rittberger

  • Conceptualizing and theorizing EU regulatory networks

    Michael Blauberger;Berthold Rittberger

  • Which institutions for post-war Europe? Explaining the institutional design of Europe's first community

    Berthold Rittberger

  • Do electoral rules matter? Explaining national differences in women's representation in the European Parliament

    Jessica Fortin-Rittberger;Berthold Rittberger

  • The European Union as a System of Differentiated Integration: Interdependence, Politicization and Differentiation. IHS Political Science Series No. 137, 10 July 2014

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Dirk Leuffen;Berthold Rittberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy Richardson
Jeremy Richardson University of Oxford
Bernhard Zangl
Bernhard Zangl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Beate Kohler-Koch
Beate Kohler-Koch University of Mannheim
Christoph Knill
Christoph Knill Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Susan Banducci
Susan Banducci University of Exeter
Klaus H. Goetz
Klaus H. Goetz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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