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Overview

Michael W. Bauer is affiliated with the European University Institute in Italy. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, and Communication. The central research topics they address include Public Policy and Administration Research, European Union Policy and Governance, Political Systems and Governance, Public Administration and Political Analysis, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, and Policy Transfer and Learning.

The scientist has published multiple papers in well-known venues, such as Public Administration Review, Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, International Journal of Public Administration, and International Review of Administrative Sciences. Key recent papers include:

  • Public Administration Under Populist Rule: Standing Up Against Democratic Backsliding (2023), International Journal of Public Administration
  • How do international bureaucrats affect policy outputs? Studying administrative influence strategies in international organizations (2021), International Review of Administrative Sciences
  • What Drives Successful Administrative Performance during Crises? Lessons from Refugee Migration and the Covid-19 Pandemic (2020), Public Administration Review
  • The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding (2024), Public Administration Review
  • Hungry for power? Regional elites and the architecture of government (2021), Governance

Bauer frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably Stefan Becker, Jörn Ege, B. Guy Peters, Kutsal Yesilkagit, and Jon Pierre. These collaborations contribute to their work across various publications and topics.

They have also contributed to book publications, including a recent title published by Cambridge University Press: International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance (2024).

Best Publications

  • The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century

    Hussein Kassim;John Peterson;Michael W. Bauer;Sara Connolly

  • The Unexpected Winner of the Crisis: The European Commission’s Strengthened Role in Economic Governance

    Michael W. Bauer;Stefan Becker

  • Energy Spectra of the Soft X-ray Diffuse Emission in Fourteen Fields Observed with Suzaku

    T. Yoshino;K. Mitsuda;N. Y. Yamasaki;Y. Takei

  • Evidence for Solar-Wind Charge-Exchange X-Ray Emission from the Earth's Magnetosheath

    Ryuichi Fujimoto;Kazuhisa Mitsuda;Dan McCammon;Yoh Takei

  • Energy spectra of the soft X-ray diffuse emission in fourteen fields observed with Suzaku

    Tomotaka Yoshino;Kazuhiasa Mitsuda;Noriko Y. Yamasaki;Yoh Takei

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

    Michael W. Bauer;Christoph Knill;Diana Pitschel

  • Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the use of lithium to augment antidepressant medication in continuation treatment of unipolar major depression.

    Michael Bauer;Tom Bschor;Dieter Kunz;Anne Berghöfer

  • Bureaucratic autonomy of international organizations’ secretariats

    Michael W. Bauer;Jörn Ege

  • POLICY DISMANTLING

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  • A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change: Measurement, Explanation and Strategies of Policy Dismantling

    Michael W. Bauer;Christoph Knill

  • Management Reforms in International Organizations

    Michael W. Bauer;Christoph Knill

  • Dismantling Public Policy: Preferences, Strategies, and Effects

    Michael W. Bauer;Andrew Jordan;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Adrienne Heritier

  • Diffuse anxieties, deprived entrepreneurs: Commission reform and middle management

    Michael W. Bauer

  • Bureaucratic change in the European administrative space: The case of the European commission

    Tim Balint;Michael W. Bauer;Christoph Knill

  • Understanding Policy Dismantling : An Analytical Framework

    Michael W. Bauer;Christoph Knill

  • A (Modest) Proposal for Expanding Social Citizenship in the European Union

    Philippe C. Schmitter;Michael W. Bauer

  • The EU `partnership principle¿: still a sustainable governance device across multiple administrative arenas?

    Michael W. Bauer

  • Lithium augmentation increases the ACTH and cortisol response in the combined DEX/CRH test in unipolar major depression.

    Tom Bschor;Mazda Adli;Christopher Baethge;Uta Eichmann

  • Politicization within the European Commission’s bureaucracy

    Michael W. Bauer;Jörn Ege

  • Democratic Backsliding, Populism, and Public Administration

    Michael W Bauer;Stefan Becker

  • The Commission: boxed in and constrained, but still an engine of integration

    Stefan Becker;Michael W. Bauer;Sara Connolly;Hussein Kassim

  • Policy-making by international public administrations: concepts, causes and consequences

    Christoph Knill;Michael W. Bauer

  • The Termination of Public Organizations: Theoretical Perspectives to Revitalize a Promising Research Area

    Christian Adam;Michael W. Bauer;Christoph Knill;Philipp Studinger

  • The Palgrave handbook of the European administrative system

    Michael W. Bauer;Jarle Trondal

  • Co-managing programme implementation: conceptualizing the European Commission's role in policy execution

    Michael W. Bauer

  • Limitations to agency control in European Union policy-making – The commission and the poverty programmes

    Michael W. Bauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Knill
Christoph Knill Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Philippe C. Schmitter
Philippe C. Schmitter European University Institute
Jarle Trondal
Jarle Trondal University of Agder
Jale Tosun
Jale Tosun Heidelberg University
Adrienne Héritier
Adrienne Héritier European University Institute
Andreas Ströhle
Andreas Ströhle Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Hussein Kassim
Hussein Kassim University of East Anglia
Renaud Dehousse
Renaud Dehousse Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia

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