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Frank Schimmelfennig

Frank Schimmelfennig

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Political Science
Switzerland
2026
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Law and Political Science
Switzerland
2022

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Political Science

D-Index
64
Citations
26898
World Ranking
88
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Frank Schimmelfennig is a researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their academic work primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant concentration in political science and international relations.

The research topics covered by Schimmelfennig include:

  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • European and International Law Studies
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements

Frequent publication venues for Schimmelfennig's work include:

  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Union Politics
  • West European Politics

Notable recent papers authored by Schimmelfennig are:

  • "Rebordering Europe: external boundaries and integration in the European Union" (2021), Journal of European Public Policy
  • "Politicisation management in the European Union" (2020), Journal of European Public Policy
  • "Differentiated integration in the European Union: Institutional effects, public opinion, and alternative flexibility arrangements" (2022), European Union Politics

Schimmelfennig collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Thomas Winzen
  • Florian Foos
  • Lyubomir Kostadinov
  • Nikolay Marinov
  • Christian Freudlsperger

In addition to articles, Schimmelfennig has contributed to academic books, including a publication with Oxford University Press titled Ever Looser Union? released in 2020.

Schimmelfennig's scholarly activity is also present in studies that intersect strategy and management, sociology and political science, communication, and law as subfields.

Best Publications

  • The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Ulrich Sedelmeier

  • The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  • Governance by conditionality: EU rule transfer to the candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Ulrich Sedelmeier

  • Introduction: Conceptualising the Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Ulrich Sedelmeier

  • The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe: Rules and Rhetoric

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  • EU rules beyond EU borders: theorizing external governance in European politics

    Sandra Lavenex;Frank Schimmelfennig

  • Costs, Commitment and Compliance: The Impact of EU Democratic Conditionality on Latvia, Slovakia and Turkey

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Stefan Engert;Heiko Knobel

  • International Socialization in the New Europe: Rational Action in an Institutional Environment

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  • Europeanization beyond Europe

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  • Strategic Calculation and International Socialization: Membership Incentives, Party Constellations, and Sustained Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  • Theorizing EU Enlargement : Research Focus, Hypotheses and the State of Research

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Ulrich Sedelmeier

  • Differentiated Integration: Explaining Variation in the European Union

    Dirk Leuffen;Berthold Rittberger;Frank Schimmelfennig

  • EU Democracy Promotion in the European Neighbourhood Political Conditionality, Economic Development and Transnational Exchange

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Hanno Scholtz

  • International Socialization in Europe: European Organizations, Political Conditionality and Democratic Change

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Stefan Engert;Heiko Knobel

  • Liberal intergovernmentalism and the euro area crisis

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  • European Integration in the Euro Crisis: The Limits of Postfunctionalism

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  • EU political accession conditionality after the 2004 enlargement: consistency and effectiveness

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  • DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: MANY CONCEPTS, SPARSE THEORY, FEW DATA

    Katharina Holzinger;Frank Schimmelfennig

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

    Frank Schimmelfennig;Dirk Leuffen;Berthold Rittberger

  • The case for demoicracy in the European Union

    Francis Cheneval;Frank Schimmelfennig

  • European Regional Organizations, Political Conditionality, and Democratic Transformation in Eastern Europe

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  • EU democracy promotion in the neighbourhood: from leverage to governance?

    Sandra Lavenex;Frank Schimmelfennig

  • The EU, Nato and the Integration of Europe: List of figures

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Frequent Co-Authors

Berthold Rittberger
Berthold Rittberger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Sandra Lavenex
Sandra Lavenex University of Geneva
Ulrich Sedelmeier
Ulrich Sedelmeier London School of Economics and Political Science
Thomas Gschwend
Thomas Gschwend University of Mannheim
Thomas Plümper
Thomas Plümper Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tanja A. Börzel
Tanja A. Börzel Freie Universität Berlin
Christoph Knill
Christoph Knill Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jeremy Richardson
Jeremy Richardson University of Oxford
Christian Welzel
Christian Welzel Leuphana University of Lüneburg

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