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Overview

Helge Jörgens is affiliated with ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon in Portugal and conducts research primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science. Their academic work spans multiple subfields including Political Science and International Relations, Communication, Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The research topics frequently addressed by Helge Jörgens include:

  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • E-Government and Public Services
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Helge Jörgens cover a range of issues related to energy policy, climate governance, and public administration. Notable publications include:

  • "Contested energy transition? Europeanization and authority turns in EU renewable energy policy" (2020), published in Journal of European Integration
  • "Brokering Climate Action: The UNFCCC Secretariat Between Parties and Nonparty Stakeholders" (2020), published in Global Environmental Politics
  • "An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions" (2022), published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • "International Public Administrations on Twitter: A Comparison of Digital Authority in Global Climate Policy" (2020), published in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice
  • "Between Mandate and Motivation" (2020), published in Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations

Helge Jörgens has collaborated frequently with several coauthors. The most prominent among these are Nina Kolleck, Alexandra Goritz, Barbara Saerbeck, Mareike Well, and J. Mark Schuster.

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a work released by Cambridge University Press titled International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance (2024).

Key publication venues for Helge Jörgens include:

  • Journal of European Integration
  • Global Environmental Politics
  • Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice

Best Publications

  • The diffusion of new environmental policy instruments

    Kerstin Tews;Per-Olof Busch;Helge Jörgens

  • The international sources of policy convergence: explaining the spread of environmental policy innovations

    Per-Olof Busch;Helge Jorgens

  • National Environmental Policies

    Martin Jänicke;Helge Jörgens;Helmut Weidner

  • The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Instruments: The Making of a New International Environmental Regime:

    Per-Olof Busch;Helge Jörgens;Kerstin Tews

  • Transfer, Diffusion und Konvergenz: Konzepte und Kausalmechanismen

    Katharina Holzinger;Helge Jörgens;Christoph Knill

  • The diffusion of environmental policy innovations: A contribution to the globalisation of environment policy

    Kristine Kern;Helge Jörgens;Martin Jänicke

  • The diffusion of environmental policy innovations: A contribution to the globalisation of environment policy

    Kristine Kern;Helge Jörgens;Martin Jänicke

  • International patterns of environmental policy change and convergence

    Per-Olof Busch;Helge Jörgens

  • Transfer, Diffusion und Konvergenz von Politiken

    Katharina Holzinger;Helge Jörgens;Christoph Knill

  • New Approaches to Environmental Governance

    Martin Jänicke;Helge Jörgens

  • Die Diffusion umweltpolitischer Innovationen: ein Beitrag zur Globalisierung von Umweltpolitik

    Kristine Kern;Helge Jörgens;Martin Jänicke

  • National environmental policy planning in OECD countries: Preliminary lessons from cross‐national comparisons

    Martin Jänicke;Helge Jörgens

  • Governance by Diffusion: Implementing Global Norms through Cross-National Imitation and Learning

    Helge Jörgens

  • Exploring the hidden influence of international treaty secretariats: using social network analysis to analyse the Twitter debate on the ‘Lima Work Programme on Gender’

    Helge Jörgens;Nina Kolleck;Barbara Saerbeck

  • Contested energy transition? Europeanization and authority turns in EU renewable energy policy

    Israel Solorio;Helge Jörgens

  • The Power of Social Networks: How the UNFCCC Secretariat Creates Momentum for Climate Education

    Nina Kolleck;Mareike Well;Severin Sperzel;Helge Jörgens

  • Brokering Climate Action: The UNFCCC Secretariat Between Parties and Nonparty Stakeholders

    Barbara Saerbeck;Mareike Well;Helge Jörgens;Alexandra Goritz

  • Die Diffusion umweltpolitischer Innovationen

    Kristine Kern;Helge Jörgens;Martin Jänicke

  • Strategic Environmental Planning and Uncertainty: A Cross‐National Comparison of Green Plans in Industrialized Countries

    Martin Jänicke;Helge Jörgens

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  • The rise of global policy networks in education: analyzing Twitter debates on inclusive education using social network analysis

    Johannes Schuster;Helge Jörgens;Nina Kolleck

  • Levels of Governance in Policy Innovation Cycles in Community Education: The Cases of Education for Sustainable Development and Climate Change Education

    Nina Kolleck;Helge Jörgens;Mareike Well

  • International public administrations on Twitter: a comparison of digital authority in global climate policy

    Alexandra Goritz;Johannes Schuster;Helge Jörgens;Nina Kolleck

  • Between Mandate and Motivation: Bureaucratic Behavior in Global Climate Governance

    Mareike Well;Barbara Saerbeck;Helge Jörgens;Nina Kolleck

  • Orchestrating (bio-)diversity: the secretariat of the convention of biological diversity as an attention-seeking bureaucracy

    Helge Jörgens;Nina Kolleck;Barbara Saerbeck;Mareike Well

  • Education for Sustainable Development and Climate Change Education: The Potential of Social Network Analysis Based on Twitter Data

    Alexandra Goritz;Nina Kolleck;Helge Jörgens

  • GOVERNANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN GERMANY: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY MAKING

    Martin Jänicke;Helge Jörgens;Kirsten Jörgensen;Ralf Nordbeck

  • Understanding Environmental Policy Convergence. The Power of Words, Rules and Money

    Helge Jörgens;Andrea Lenschow;J. D. Liefferink

  • Active Dismantling Under High Institutional Constraints? Explaining the Bush Administration’s Attempts to Weaken US Air Pollution Control Policy

    Stefanie Korte;Helge Jörgens

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Jänicke
Martin Jänicke Freie Universität Berlin
Andrea Lenschow
Andrea Lenschow Osnabrück University
Christoph Knill
Christoph Knill Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael W. Bauer
Michael W. Bauer European University Institute
Klaus Dingwerth
Klaus Dingwerth University of St. Gallen

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