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Gerda Falkner is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and specializes in Social Sciences, particularly within the subfields of Political Science and International Relations as well as Strategy and Management. Their body of work primarily addresses topics related to European Union Policy and Governance, Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies, German Security and Defense Policies, Political Systems and Governance, Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, Social Policy and Reform Studies, and Populism and Right-Wing Movements.

Their recent publication record includes the following papers:

  • Digital sovereignty - Rhetoric and reality, 2024, Journal of European Public Policy
  • Applying, Enforcing, and Implementing European Union Rules, 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

While not listed as a coauthor on all papers, Falkner has frequently collaborated with researchers including Sebastian Heidebrecht, Anke Sophia Obendiek, Timo Seidl, Henning Deters, and Magnus G. Schoeller.

Falkner's work is published in academic venues such as:

  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Public Administration
  • German Politics
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

The scientist's research interests are reflected in their contributions to the understanding of European Union policy frameworks, governance structures, and the political dynamics within the region. Topics such as cybersecurity and political influence converge in their analysis, as well as issues surrounding social policy reform and the impact of populism and right-wing movements.

Falkner's publication on "Digital sovereignty - Rhetoric and reality" (2024) contributes to the discourse on digital policy within the EU context, while their earlier work "Applying, Enforcing, and Implementing European Union Rules" (2020) addresses legal and administrative complexities of EU governance.

Best Publications

  • Complying with Europe : EU harmonisation and soft law in the member states

    Gerda Falkner;Oliver Treib;Miriam Hartlapp;Simone Leiber

  • Modes of governance: towards a conceptual clarification

    Oliver Treib;Holger Bähr;Gerda Falkner

  • Three Worlds of Compliance or Four? The EU-15 Compared to New Member States*

    Gerda Falkner;Oliver Treib

  • Non-Compliance with EU Directives in the Member States: Opposition through the Backdoor?

    Gerda Falkner;Miriam Hartlapp;Simone Leiber;Oliver Treib

  • Worlds of compliance: Why leading approaches to European Union implementation are only ‘sometimes-true theories’

    Gerda Falkner;Miriam Hartlapp;Oliver Treib

  • EU Social Policy in the 1990s: Towards a Corporatist Policy Community

    Gerda Falkner

  • Compliance in the enlarged European Union : living rights or dead letters?

    Gerda Falkner;Oliver Treib;Elisabeth Holzleithner;Emmanuelle Causse

  • Problems of Operationalization and Data in EU Compliance Research

    Miriam Hartlapp;Gerda Falkner

  • Theorizing EU treaty reform: beyond diplomacy and bargaining

    Gerda Falkner;Thomas Christiansen;Knud Erik Joergensen

  • The EU’s current crisis and its policy effects: research design and comparative findings

    Gerda Falkner

  • Modes of Governance : A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification

    Oliver Treib;Holger Bähr;Gerda Falkner

  • Policy Networks in a Multi-Level System: Convergence Towards Moderate Diversity?

    Gerda Falkner

  • How Pervasive are Euro-Politics? : Effects of EU Membership on a New Member State

    Gerda Falkner

  • EU Social Policy in the 1990s

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  • How intergovernmental are Intergovernmental Conferences? An example from the Maastricht Treaty reform

    Gerda Falkner

  • The EU's Decision Traps

    Gerda Falkner

  • The Maastricht Protocol On Social Policy: Theory and Practice:

    Gerda Falkner

  • Introduction: EU Treaty Reform as a Three-level Process

    Gerda Falkner

  • Europeanization of Social Partnership in Smaller European Democracies

    Gerda Falkner;Simone Leiber

  • The EU's decision traps : comparing policies

    Gerda Falkner

  • The role of the state within social policy

    Gerda Falkner;Emmerich Tálos

  • The Impact of EU Membership on Policy Networks in Austria: Creeping Chance Beneath the Surface

    Gerda Falkner;Wolfgang C. Müller;Martina Eder;Karin Hiller

  • The Treaty of Amsterdam: Facts, Analysis, Prospects

    Stefan Griller;Dimitri P. Droutsas;Gerda Falkner;Katrin Forgó

  • Complying with Europe: Conclusions: myth and reality of social Europe

    Gerda Falkner;Oliver Treib;Miriam Hartlapp;Simone Leiber

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang C. Müller
Wolfgang C. Müller University of Vienna
Thomas Christiansen
Thomas Christiansen Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen University of Copenhagen

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