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Christoffer Green-Pedersen

Christoffer Green-Pedersen

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Political Science
Denmark
2026
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Law and Political Science
Denmark
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
43
Citations
10398
World Ranking
404
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Christoffer Green-Pedersen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, focusing on social sciences with a strong specialization in political science and related subfields. Their research spans various areas, including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, strategy and management, communication, and economics and econometrics.

Their work prominently addresses topics such as social policy and reform studies, electoral systems and political participation, policy transfer and learning, populism and right-wing movements, political influence and corporate strategies, Irish and British studies, as well as social media and politics.

Christoffer Green-Pedersen has contributed research articles to multiple scholarly venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Politica
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Acta Politica
  • European Journal of Political Research

Some of the recent papers authored by or involving Christoffer Green-Pedersen are:

  • Without enemies, without friends. Morality policies, the Roman Catholic Church, and Ireland's 'secular' party system, 2020, Journal of European Public Policy
  • The issue content of party politics in Ireland: a new perspective on the Irish party system and its development, 2022, Irish Political Studies

Among frequent collaborators, Christoffer Green-Pedersen has worked closely with:

  • Peter Bjerre Mortensen
  • Henrik Bech Seeberg
  • Conor Little
  • Thomas Artmann Kristensen
  • Rebecca Eissler

Their research includes investigations into issue ownership, party competition, morality policies, parliamentary behavior, and policy agenda effects, reflecting a focus on political dynamics and policy-making processes across different democratic contexts.

Best Publications

  • Punctuated Equilibrium in Comparative Perspective

    Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Bryan D. Jones

  • If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them? Explaining Social Democratic Responses to the Challenge from the Populist Radical Right in Western Europe

    Tim Bale;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;AndréA Krouwel;Kurt Richard Luther

  • The Growing Importance of Issue Competition: The Changing Nature of Party Competition in Western Europe:

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen

  • Who sets the agenda and who responds to it in the Danish parliament? A new model of issue competition and agenda-setting

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Peter B. Mortensen

  • A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis

    Bryan Davidson Jones;Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Christopher Wlezien

  • The Dependent Variable Problem within the Study of Welfare State Retrenchment: Defining the Problem and Looking for Solutions

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen

  • Immigration as a political issue in Denmark and Sweden

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Jesper Krogstrup

  • Comparative studies of policy agendas

    Frank R. Baumgartner;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Bryan D. Jones

  • New Public Management Reforms of the Danish and Swedish Welfare States: The Role of Different Social Democratic Responses

    Christoffer Green-pedersen

  • A Giant Fast Asleep? Party Incentives and the Politicisation of European Integration

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen

  • The Political Conditionality of Mass Media Influence: When Do Parties Follow Mass Media Attention?

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Rune Stubager

  • Morality Politics in Western Europe: Parties, Agendas and Policy Choices

    Isabelle Engeli;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Lars Thorup Larsen

  • The politics of justification

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen

  • Welfare-state Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1982-1998: The Role of Party Competition and Party Consensus

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen

  • Review Essay: The new politics and scholarship of the welfare state:

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Markus Haverland

  • Neo-liberalism, the 'third way' or what? Recent social democratic welfare policies in Denmark and the Netherlands

    C.J. van Kersbergen;C. Green-Pedersen;A. Hemerijck

  • Agenda setting, policies, and political systems : a comparative approach

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Stefaan Walgrave

  • Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas

    Will Jennings;Shaun Bevan;Arco Timmermans;Gerard Breeman

  • Going different ways? Right-wing parties and the immigrant issue in Denmark and Sweden

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Pontus Odmalm

  • Comparing Government Agendas: Executive Speeches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Denmark

    Peter Bjerre Mortensen;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Gerard Breeman;Laura Chaqués-Bonafont

  • How agenda-setting attributes shape politics: Basic dilemmas, problem attention and health politics developments in Denmark and the US

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen;John Wilkerson

  • The Politics of Justification : Party Competition and Welfare-State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998

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Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvain Brouard
Sylvain Brouard Sciences Po
Bryan D. Jones
Bryan D. Jones The University of Texas at Austin
Stefaan Walgrave
Stefaan Walgrave University of Antwerp
Will Jennings
Will Jennings University of Southampton
Frank R. Baumgartner
Frank R. Baumgartner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter John
Peter John King's College London
Adrienne Héritier
Adrienne Héritier European University Institute
Michael W. Bauer
Michael W. Bauer European University Institute
Jørgen Goul Andersen
Jørgen Goul Andersen Aalborg University
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia

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