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Patrick Bernhagen

Patrick Bernhagen

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Political Science

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22
Citations
2223
World Ranking
1845
National Ranking
96

Overview

Patrick Bernhagen is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany and conducts research primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting. Their work focuses on several subfields, notably Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, and Gender Studies.

Their research topics encompass a range of subjects including Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, European Union Policy and Governance, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism, Social Policy and Reform Studies, and Gender Politics and Representation.

Bernhagen has published several papers in prominent academic venues. Noteworthy recent publications include:

  • Beyond lobbying: the political determinants of adopting corporate social responsibility frameworks in the European Union and the USA (2022) in Interest Groups & Advocacy
  • Shop till you drop? Venue choices of business and non-business interests in the European Union (2020) in Interest Groups & Advocacy
  • Die Repräsentation der Bürgerinnen und Bürger durch organisierte Interessen in Deutschland (2020) in Politische Vierteljahresschrift
  • Lokale Hauptwahl oder nationale Nebenwahl? (2023) in Politische Vierteljahresschrift
  • Subnational Lobbying on National Policymaking: Evidence From Germany (2025) in Governance

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • Felix Goldberg
  • Dominic Pakull
  • Angelika Vetter
  • Florian Spohr
  • Krispin Krüger

Bernhagen's work has appeared mostly in the following publication venues:

  • Politische Vierteljahresschrift
  • Interest Groups & Advocacy
  • Local Government Studies
  • Governance
  • Regional & Federal Studies

The scholar's research addresses complex interactions between political structures and corporate strategies, emphasizing how social responsibility frameworks are adopted within the European Union and the USA. Their studies also investigate the dynamics of political representation and lobbying in both national and subnational contexts.

Best Publications

  • Interest Group Success in the European Union: When (and Why) Does Business Lose?

    Andreas Dür;Patrick Bernhagen;David Marshall

  • Voting and Protesting: Explaining Citizen Participation in Old and New European Democracies

    Patrick Bernhagen;Michael Marsh

  • Structural Power and Public Policy: A Signaling Model of Business Lobbying in Democratic Capitalism

    Patrick Bernhagen;Thomas Bräuninger

  • The Determinants of Direct Corporate Lobbying in the European Union

    Patrick Bernhagen;Neil J. Mitchell

  • The partisan effects of low turnout: Analyzing vote abstention as a missing data problem

    Patrick Bernhagen;Michael Marsh

  • Business and International Environmental Agreements: Domestic Sources of Participation and Compliance by Advanced Industrialized Democracies

    Patrick Bernhagen

  • Information or context: what accounts for positional proximity between the European Commission and lobbyists?

    Patrick Bernhagen;Andreas Dür;David Marshall

  • The Political Power of Business: Structure and Information in Public Policy-Making

    Patrick Bernhagen

  • The Logic of Transnational Action: The Good Corporation and the Global Compact

    Lynn Gray Bennie;Patrick Bernhagen;Neil James Mitchell

  • Measuring Democracy and Democratization

    Patrick Bernhagen

  • The Political Influence of Business in the European Union

    Andreas Dür;David Marshall;Patrick Bernhagen

  • The Private Provision of Public Goods: Corporate Commitments and the United Nations Global Compact

    Patrick Bernhagen;Neil James Mitchell

  • The Political Power of Business

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  • Measuring lobbying success spatially

    Patrick Bernhagen;Andreas Dür;David Marshall

  • When do politicians listen to lobbyists (and who benefits when they do)

    Patrick Bernhagen

  • Engaging firms: The global organisational field for corporate social responsibility and national varieties of capitalism

    Alvise Favotto;Kelly Kollman;Patrick Bernhagen

  • Financial and Economic Crisis: Explaining the Sunset over the Celtic Tiger

    Raj Chari;Patrick Bernhagen

  • Who Gets What in British Politics – and How? An Analysis of Media Reports on Lobbying around Government Policies, 2001–7

    Patrick Bernhagen

  • Interest group mobilization and lobbying patterns in Britain: A newspaper analysis

    Patrick Bernhagen;Brett Trani

  • Government‒business relations in multilevel systems: the effect of conflict perception on venue choice

    David Marshall;Patrick Bernhagen

  • Corporate citizens and the un Global Compact: Explaining cross-national variations in turnout

    Patrick Bernhagen;Neil J. Mitchell;Marianne Thissen-Smits

  • Lobbying in the European Union: Interest Groups, Lobbying Coalitions, and Policy Change

    Patrick Bernhagen

  • Interest Group Success in the European Union: When (and Why) Does Business Lose?

    Andreas Dür;Patrick Bernhagen;David J. Marshall

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Rose
Richard Rose University of Strathclyde
Andreas Dür
Andreas Dür University of Salzburg
Neil J. Mitchell
Neil J. Mitchell University College London
Michael Marsh
Michael Marsh Trinity College Dublin
Ronald Inglehart
Ronald Inglehart University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christian Welzel
Christian Welzel Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Hermann Schmitt
Hermann Schmitt University of Mannheim
William A. Maloney
William A. Maloney Newcastle University
Thomas Bräuninger
Thomas Bräuninger University of Mannheim

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