Deirdre Curtin

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Law in Italy Leader Award
• 2020 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
• 2007 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council
• 2003 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• Open government: connecting vision and voice

  Albert Meijer;Deirdre Curtin;Maarten Zbigniew Hillebrandt

  672
  Citations

• The Constitutional Structure of the Union: A Europe of Bits and Pieces

  Deirdre Curtin

  342
  Citations

• Executive Power of the European Union: Law, Practices, and the Living Constitution

  Deirdre Curtin

  303
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• Does transparency strengthen legitimacy

  Deirdre Curtin;Albert Jacob Meijer

  228
  Citations

• Holding (Quasi‐)Autonomous EU Administrative Actors to Public Account

  Deirdre Curtin

  226
  Citations

• Tradition and innovation: Europe's accumulated executive order

  Deirdre Curtin;Morten Egeberg

  209
  Citations

• Postnational Democracy, the EUropean Union in Search of A Political Philosophy

  Deirdre Curtin

  207
  Citations

• Challenging Executive Dominance in European Democracy

  Deirdre Curtin

  161
  Citations

• Executive Power of the European Union

  Deirdre Curtin

  144
  Citations

• Private Interest Representation or Civil Society Deliberation? A Contemporary Dilemma for European Union Governance

  Deidrdre Curtin

  135
  Citations

• The real world of EU accountability: what deficit?

  M. A. P. Bovens;Deirdre Curtin;Paul 't Hart

  122
  Citations

• Agency growth between autonomy and accountability: the European Police Office as a 'living institution'

  Madalina Busuioc;Deirdre Curtin;Martijn Groenleer

  120
  Citations

• Citizens' Fundamental Right of Access to EU Information: An Evolving Digital Passepartout

  Deirdre M. Curtin

  100
  Citations

• Overseeing secrets in the EU: a democratic perspective

  Deirdre Curtin

  89
  Citations

• ‘Accountable Independence’ of the European Central Bank: Seeing the Logics of Transparency

  Deirdre Curtin

  87
  Citations

• Directives: The Effectiveness of Judicial Protection of Individual Rights

  Deirdre Curtin

  83
  Citations

• The principle of open government in Schengen and the European Union: Democartic retrogression?

  Deirdre Curtin;Herman Meijers

  83
  Citations

• How Transparent are EU ‘Comitology’ Committees in Practice?

  Gijs Jan Brandsma;Deirdre Curtin;Albert Meijer

  73
  Citations

• Public Accountability of Transnational Private Regulation: Chimera or Reality?

  Deirdre Curtin;Linda Senden

  72
  Citations

• European Integration and Law

  J.A. McCahery;D. Curtin;A.H. Klip;J.M. Smits

  58
  Citations

• In search of transparency for EU law-making : trilogues on the cusp of dawn

  Deirdre Curtin;Päivi Leino

  50
  Citations

• Positioning accountability in European governance: an introduction

  Deirdre Curtin;Peter Mair;Yannis Papadopoulos

  36
  Citations

• The Political Institutions

  D.M. Curtin;P.J. Kuijper;R.H. van Ooik

  0
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