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2023
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Switzerland
2022

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Political Science

D-Index
36
Citations
9241
World Ranking
669
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Sandra Lavenex is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant emphasis on sociology and political science as well as political science and international relations. They have also contributed to general economics, econometrics and finance, finance, and strategy and management.

Their work spans multiple interconnected topics, including:

  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Global trade and economics
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Global Financial Regulation and Crises
  • International Development and Aid
  • European Criminal Justice and Data Protection

Sandra Lavenex has published extensively, with a considerable number of papers appearing in well-regarded academic journals and venues. Key recent publications include:

  • Power transitions and the rise of the regulatory state: Global market governance in flux, 2021, Regulation & Governance
  • Regions and global migration governance: perspectives 'from above', 'from below' and 'from beyond', 2021, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy-making: Setting the Scene, 2023, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
  • The International Refugee Regime and the Liberal International Order: Dialectics of Contestation, 2024, Global Studies Quarterly
  • Governance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy in Differentiated Integration: An Analytical Framework, 2022, The International Spectator

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • The Review of International Organizations
  • The International Spectator

Collaborations have been an important part of Sandra Lavenex's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Philipp Lutz
  • Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik
  • Marie-Ève Bélanger
  • Federica Cristani
  • Elisa Fornalé

Best Publications

  • EU external governance in 'wider Europe'

    Sandra Lavenex

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

    Sandra Lavenex;Frank Schimmelfennig

  • Shifting up and out: The foreign policy of European immigration control

    Sandra Lavenex

  • A governance perspective on the European neighbourhood policy: integration beyond conditionality?

    Sandra Lavenex

  • The Europeanization of Refugee Policies: Normative Challenges and Institutional Legacies

    Sandra Lavenex

  • Safe Third Countries: Extending the Eu Asylum and Immigration Policies to Central and Eastern Europe

    Sandra Lavenex

  • The External Dimension of Europeanization The Case of Immigration Policies

    Sandra Lavenex;Emek M. UçArer

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

    Sandra Lavenex;Frank Schimmelfennig

  • EU promotion of democratic governance in the neighbourhood

    Tina Freyburg;Sandra Lavenex;Frank Schimmelfennig;Tatiana Skripka

  • The External Governance of EU Internal Security

    Sandra Lavenex;Nicole Wichmann

  • The Migration-Development Nexus in EU External Relations

    Sandra Lavenex;Rahel Kunz

  • Migration and the externalities of European integration

    Sandra Lavenex;Emek M. Uçarer

  • Concentric circles of flexible ‘EUropean’ integration: A typology of EU external governance relations

    Sandra Lavenex

  • The power of functionalist extension: how EU rules travel

    Sandra Lavenex

  • Modes of external governance: a cross-national and cross-sectoral comparison

    Sandra Lavenex;Dirk Lehmkuhl;Nicole Wichmann

  • Migration and the EU's new eastern border: between realism and liberalism

    Sandra Lavenex

  • Democracy in the age of globalization and mediatization

    Hanspeter Kriesi;Sandra Lavenex;Frank Esser;Jörg Matthes

  • ‘Failing Forward’ Towards Which Europe? Organized Hypocrisy in the Common European Asylum System

    Sandra Lavenex

  • Democracy promotion through functional cooperation? The case of the European Neighbourhood Policy

    Tina Freyburg;Sandra Lavenex;Frank Schimmelfennig;Tatiana Skripka

  • Multilayered Migration Governance: The Promise of Partnership

    Rahel Kunz;Sandra Lavenex;Marion Panizzon

  • Multilevelling EU external governance: the role of international organizations in the diffusion of EU migration policies

    Sandra Lavenex

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanspeter Kriesi
Hanspeter Kriesi European University Institute
Frank Esser
Frank Esser University of Zurich
Jörg Matthes
Jörg Matthes University of Vienna

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