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D-Index
65
Citations
20093
World Ranking
82
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Christoph Knill is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their academic work primarily focuses on social sciences, with a specific emphasis on political science and related interdisciplinary fields.

The research spans several subfields, including:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Strategy and Management
  • Public Administration

Knill's studies cover numerous topics related to governance and policy, such as:

  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • International Development and Aid
  • Public Policy and Administration Research

Frequent co-authors in Knill's publications include Yves Steinebach, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Louisa Bayerlein, Markus Hinterleitner, and Christina Steinbacher.

Christoph Knill has contributed to various esteemed publication venues, with repeated appearances in the following:

  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Regulation & Governance
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Governance
  • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Knill include:

  • Balancing Trade-Offs between Policy Responsiveness and Effectiveness: The Impact of Vertical Policy-Process Integration on Policy Accumulation (2020, Public Administration Review)
  • Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective (2021, American Political Science Review)
  • The more the better? Rule growth and policy impact from a macro perspective (2020, European Journal of Political Research)
  • Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance (2023, Governance)
  • The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda (2023, Regulation & Governance)

In addition to journal articles, Knill has participated in book publication, including the title A Matter of Style, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The Europeanisation of National Administrations: Patterns of Institutional Change and Persistence

    Christoph Knill

  • How Europe Matters: Different Mechanisms of Europeanization

    Christoph Knill;Dirk Lehmkuhl

  • Causes and conditions of cross-national policy convergence

    Katharina Holzinger;Christoph Knill

  • Introduction: Cross-national policy convergence: concepts, approaches and explanatory factors

    Christoph Knill

  • Differential Europe: The European Union Impact on National Policymaking

    Christoph Knill;Adrienne Héritier;Anne-Cécile Douillet;Dieter Kerwer

  • The national impact of European Union regulatory policy: Three Europeanization mechanisms

    Christoph Knill;Dirk Lehmkuhl

  • Public Policy: A New Introduction

    Christoph Knill;Jale Tosun

  • Ringing the Changes in Europe: Regulatory Competition and the Transformation of the State. Britain, France, Germany

    Adrienne Héritier;Christoph Knill;Susanne Mingers

  • Private Actors and the State: Internationalization and Changing Patterns of Governance

    Christoph Knill;Dirk Lehmkuhl

  • Coping with Europe : the impact of British and German administrations on the implementation of EU environmental policy

    Christoph Knill;Andrea Lenschow

  • European Policies: The Impact of National Administrative Traditions

    Christoph Knill

  • An analytical framework for the cross-country comparison of higher education governance

    Michael Dobbins;Christoph Knill;Eva Maria Vögtle

  • Die Veränderung von Staatlichkeit in Europa : ein regulativer Wettbewerb: Deutschland, Großbritannien und Frankreich in der Europäischen Union

    Adrienne Héritier;Susanne Mingers;Christoph Knill;Martina Becka

  • Environmental Policy Convergence: The Impact of International Harmonization, Transnational Communication, and Regulatory Competition

    Katharina Holzinger;Christoph Knill;Thomas Sommerer

  • Implementing EU Environmental Policy : New Directions and Old Problems

    Christoph Knill;Andrea Lenschow

  • Higher Education Policies in Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence toward a Common Model?

    Michael Dobbins;Christoph Knill

  • Explaining Cross-National Variance in Administrative Reform: Autonomous versus Instrumental Bureaucracies

    Christoph Knill

  • The Europeanisation of National Administrations

    Christoph Knill

  • Environmental politics in the European Union: Policy-making, implementation and patterns of multi-level governance

    Christoph Knill;Duncan Liefferink

  • Ringing the Changes in Europe

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  • Do parties matter in internationalised policy areas? The impact of political parties on environmental policy outputs in 18 OECD countries, 1970-2000

    Christoph Knill;Marc Debus;Stephan Heichel

  • Regulatory policy outputs and impacts: Exploring a complex relationship

    Christoph Knill;Kai Schulze;Jale Tosun

  • Differential Europeanization in Eastern Europe: The Impact of Diverse EU Regulatory Governance Patterns

    Michael W. Bauer;Christoph Knill;Diana Pitschel

  • ‘It’s the Bureaucracy, Stupid’ The Implementation of the Acquis Communautaire in EU Candidate Countries, 1999-2003

    Peter Hille;Christoph Knill

  • Differential Europe : The European Union Impact on National Policymaking: New Oppurtunites and Restrictions for Policymaking in the Member States

    Adrienne Héritier;Dirk Lehmkuhl;Dieter Kerwer;Christoph Knill

Frequent Co-Authors

Jale Tosun
Jale Tosun Heidelberg University
Michael W. Bauer
Michael W. Bauer European University Institute
Andrea Lenschow
Andrea Lenschow Osnabrück University
Adrienne Héritier
Adrienne Héritier European University Institute
Bas Arts
Bas Arts Wageningen University & Research
Marc Debus
Marc Debus University of Mannheim
Helge Jörgens
Helge Jörgens ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon
Berthold Rittberger
Berthold Rittberger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
B. Guy Peters
B. Guy Peters University of Pittsburgh

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