Christian Freudlsperger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1617066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Freudlsperger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Freudlsperger |
| SIGNATURE | FREUDLSPERGER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6672-929X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
When Compromise Becomes Standoff
This article explores endogenous problems of joint implementation in multi‐level systems. Focusing on the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), we theorize a causal mechanism of conflict deferral, whereby contentious negotiations are resolved through deliberately ambiguous legislation that postpones conflict to the implementation stage. Under conditions of joint implementation, where multiple authorities exercise interdependent enforcement …
Measuring European integration as boundary formation—The Eurobord dataset
This article introduces the EUROBORD dataset. Starting from a Rokkanian conceptualization of polity formation as boundary formation, we propose a novel measurement of European integration as a combination of boundary closure and boundary control. We measure integration annually across 48 functional boundaries based on a coding of European Union (EU) law. By comparing our measure with existing measures of European integration, we provide support f…
External Actors, Pressures and Influences
The European Union (EU) increasingly faces external pressures, ranging from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to an economically and politically assertive China to deep changes in the transatlantic relationship with the United States. Whilst external actors and influences always mattered for European integration and EU studies, this article holds that they are more consequential today than in the past. This is because the EU has turned i…
Assessing external pressures
The relations and interactions of the European Union (EU) with its outside world have been a recurring feature of scholarly and public debate. This is even more pertinent in today's geopolitical age which is marked by multiple economic, political, social and cultural fissures. Adopting an 'inside-out' lens, most studies look at how the EU projects its power abroad. By contrast, this special issue takes an explicit 'outside-in' perspective, assess…
Regional Community Building in Hard Times
Pandemics are times of closure. States typically restrict the entry of persons to protect their national communities from external health hazards. In this regard, the COVID‐19 pandemic presented the European Union (EU) with a severe challenge. We ask to what extent the border policies of EU member states during the pandemic supported regional community building. Our analysis of a comprehensive dataset of entry restrictions imposed by major EU mem…
Europe Re
Which kind of European Union is emerging from the polycrisis? This paper argues that the EU is gradually becoming a 'reinsurance polity'. In this system of transnational public reinsurance, European states remain their citizens' primary insurers against individual and societal risks. As their insurance capacity is repeatedly overstretched by transboundary crises, the EU creates standing resources to provide back-up support. In contrast to federal…
Geopolitical rebordering? External boundary formation in the European Union
Legitimizing climate action
Representative democracies, with their tendency toward skewed representation and the discounting of future costs, struggle to adopt ambitious climate policies. This opens space for additional legitimation channels, such as expert commissions and citizens’ assemblies. Through conjoint survey experiments in Germany and the US, we show that citizens support ambitious climate policies more when proposed by these institutions rather than the governmen…
Pandemic bordering
When the member states imposed unilateral restrictions on the cross-border movement of persons and goods in their initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU appeared to relapse into the 'politics trap' of earlier integration crises. However, our analysis of entry restrictions for persons in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland from the end of 2019 to the summer of 2022 shows no systematic relationship between domestic politi…
Solidarity or self-reliance? German mainstream party ideology and the European integration of core state powers
The crises of core state power integration have produced two ideal-typical ideas of the EU polity. The regulatory polity encourages national self-reliance and regards EU institutions as rule enforcers. The redistributive polity builds on transnational solidarity and the creation of EU-level capacities used for burden-sharing. We study the politics of this development on mainstream parties in Germany, a least-likely case for EU polarization and su…
Differentiated participation, uniform procedures
European Union (EU) institutions have become increasingly involved in direct policy implementation in the member states, creating a new domain of differentiation in EU governance. What brings about such differentiation, and how does it vary across policy fields? Drawing on theories of differentiated integration, this article argues that differentiated implementation occurs at the intersection of postfunctional obstacles (politicisation) and funct…
Regional involvement in EU trade policy
Wallonia demonstrated the importance of regional actors for EU trade policy. What remains, however, of regional involvement when politicization subsides, as after CETA and TTIP? Our paper provides a framework that allows a prediction of involvement after politicization. It posits that the interaction of three factors is decisive: politicization (short-term), preferences (medium-term), institutions (long-term). The more regional actors dispose of …
When Foreign Policy Becomes Trade Policy
The European Union (EU) has taken a geoeconomic turn since 2017 by creating a series of new unilateral instruments designed to preserve European autonomy and adjust to the progressive unravelling of the liberal international economic order. The most controversial of these instruments is the 2023 Anti‐Coercion Instrument (ACI), designed to deter third countries from targeting the EU and its member states with economic coercion through measures aff…
Performing Crisis Management
The role of the symbolic is often overlooked in the public policy literature. Yet, it is a key component of public action, particularly in crisis management. During the Covid-19 pandemic, all democratic states needed to carry out cognitive and emotional work to persuade their citizens to show solidarity and comply with heavy restrictions. The near-simultaneous occurrence of the pandemic’s first wave (March–May 2020) allows us to compare the patte…
Rebordering Europe in the Ukraine War
How has the European Union (EU) developed in reaction to the Russo-Ukrainian war, its most severe military threat since the end of the Cold War? In a 'bordering' analysis of political development, this article studies changes in the closure and control of the EU's boundaries with Russia and Ukraine as well as its internal boundaries between 2013 and August 2022. It finds that the EU's response has hitherto consisted in a regulatory process of com…
Transboundary crises and political development
Kelemen and McNamara (2022) have reinvigorated the debate on European state-building. Adopting a ‘bellicist’ perspective, they argue that the European Union is ‘incomplete, uneven, and dysfunctional’ due to the historical lack of an existential military threat. We take issue with this claim. War, in our view, is not a necessary condition for European political development, and ‘transboundary crisis’ acts as its modern-day functional equivalent. W…
Decentralized EU Policy Coordination in Crisis? The Case of Germany
Europeanization research found no general convergence towards centralized EU policy coordination, despite decentralized systems' comparatively slow and ineffective position‐taking. Does this finding hold against the threat, urgency, and uncertainty exerted by recent years' polycrisis? We posit that decentralized systems indeed persist, albeit in a three‐step reactive sequence in which situational centralization during crises dialectically reinfor…
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks
This article problematises the proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies with operational tasks as a new phenomenon capturing the exercise of joint sovereignty in European integration. While joint decision-making has been a feature of EU politics for decades, joint sovereignty is a broader category that additionally involves the creation of EU bodies able to intervene ‘on the ground’ alongside national public actors. We argue that the choice …
Influence of Preventive Tooth Extractions on Quality of Life in Patients with Antiresorptive Intake—A Prospective Longitudinal Study
Background: To find out whether preventive tooth extractions in patients on antiresorptive therapy have a direct impact on the patients’ overall quality of life (QoL); Methods: QoL using the five-level version of the EuroQol Group’s EQ-5D instrument (EQ-5D-5L) was longitudinally assessed in N = 114 prospectively enrolled patients with indication of preventive tooth extraction over a period of 12 months. Patients were stratified as high-risk (mali…
The conditions and potentials of federalizing trade policy
Whereas some federations reacted to the expanding international trade agenda by ‘federalizing’ trade policy-making and allowing sub-federal governments a substantial involvement, others did not. Comparing Canada and the United States, this paper investigates the conditions and potentials of federalization on the case of public procurement liberalization. The first section argues that the institutionalization of intergovernmental relations depends…
Promoting the regulatory or the redistributive state? The politicisation of core state power integration in the German Bundestag, 1978-2019
We analyse the party politics of core state power integration in all German Bundestag debates on EU government declarations since 1978. Our analysis shows an increasing politicisation of the costs of integration. In general, all mainstream parties have expressed a continuous preference for regulation over capacity-building. Over time, however, cross-party differences increased. Parties developed distinct, ideologically grounded profiles on core s…
A member state like any other? Germany and the European integration of core state powers
The EU has integrated core state powers in a largely unsustainable manner. Why is this? In this introduction to a special issue on Germany, we take an in-depth look at national preference-formation. We trace the impact of state elites, as emphasised by functionalist theories, and mass publics and political parties, as stressed by postfunctionalism. We find that across policy fields and with striking continuity over time, Germany acts as a normal …
Failing forward in the Common Commercial Policy? Deep trade and the perennial question of EU competence
Christian Freudlsperger* Hertie School gGmbH, Jacques Delors Centre, Berlin, GermanyChristian Freudlsperger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Jacques Delors Centre of the Hertie School in Berlin
More voice, less exit
Comparative federalism contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between ‘Brussels’ and member states in international trade policy. Analysing the understudied field of international procurement liberalization and comparing the European Union (EU), the United States (US) and Canada, the article observes that sub-federal resistance has differed across federations. It finds that the more ‘voice’ sub-federal executives enjoy, the les…
When Foreign Policy Becomes Trade Policy
The European Union (EU) has taken a geoeconomic turn since 2017 by creating a series of new unilateral instruments designed to preserve European autonomy and adjust to the progressive unravelling of the liberal international economic order. The most controversial of these instruments is the 2023 Anti‐Coercion Instrument (ACI), designed to deter third countries from targeting the EU and its member states with economic coercion through measures aff…
Rebordering Europe in the Ukraine War
How has the European Union (EU) developed in reaction to the Russo-Ukrainian war, its most severe military threat since the end of the Cold War? In a 'bordering' analysis of political development, this article studies changes in the closure and control of the EU's boundaries with Russia and Ukraine as well as its internal boundaries between 2013 and August 2022. It finds that the EU's response has hitherto consisted in a regulatory process of com…
A member state like any other? Germany and the European integration of core state powers
The EU has integrated core state powers in a largely unsustainable manner. Why is this? In this introduction to a special issue on Germany, we take an in-depth look at national preference-formation. We trace the impact of state elites, as emphasised by functionalist theories, and mass publics and political parties, as stressed by postfunctionalism. We find that across policy fields and with striking continuity over time, Germany acts as a normal …
Transboundary crises and political development
Kelemen and McNamara (2022) have reinvigorated the debate on European state-building. Adopting a ‘bellicist’ perspective, they argue that the European Union is ‘incomplete, uneven, and dysfunctional’ due to the historical lack of an existential military threat. We take issue with this claim. War, in our view, is not a necessary condition for European political development, and ‘transboundary crisis’ acts as its modern-day functional equivalent. W…
More voice, less exit
Comparative federalism contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between ‘Brussels’ and member states in international trade policy. Analysing the understudied field of international procurement liberalization and comparing the European Union (EU), the United States (US) and Canada, the article observes that sub-federal resistance has differed across federations. It finds that the more ‘voice’ sub-federal executives enjoy, the les…
Failing forward in the Common Commercial Policy? Deep trade and the perennial question of EU competence
Christian Freudlsperger* Hertie School gGmbH, Jacques Delors Centre, Berlin, GermanyChristian Freudlsperger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Jacques Delors Centre of the Hertie School in Berlin
Geopolitical rebordering? External boundary formation in the European Union
Promoting the regulatory or the redistributive state? The politicisation of core state power integration in the German Bundestag, 1978-2019
We analyse the party politics of core state power integration in all German Bundestag debates on EU government declarations since 1978. Our analysis shows an increasing politicisation of the costs of integration. In general, all mainstream parties have expressed a continuous preference for regulation over capacity-building. Over time, however, cross-party differences increased. Parties developed distinct, ideologically grounded profiles on core s…
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks
This article problematises the proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies with operational tasks as a new phenomenon capturing the exercise of joint sovereignty in European integration. While joint decision-making has been a feature of EU politics for decades, joint sovereignty is a broader category that additionally involves the creation of EU bodies able to intervene ‘on the ground’ alongside national public actors. We argue that the choice …
Regional involvement in EU trade policy
Wallonia demonstrated the importance of regional actors for EU trade policy. What remains, however, of regional involvement when politicization subsides, as after CETA and TTIP? Our paper provides a framework that allows a prediction of involvement after politicization. It posits that the interaction of three factors is decisive: politicization (short-term), preferences (medium-term), institutions (long-term). The more regional actors dispose of …
Performing Crisis Management
The role of the symbolic is often overlooked in the public policy literature. Yet, it is a key component of public action, particularly in crisis management. During the Covid-19 pandemic, all democratic states needed to carry out cognitive and emotional work to persuade their citizens to show solidarity and comply with heavy restrictions. The near-simultaneous occurrence of the pandemic’s first wave (March–May 2020) allows us to compare the patte…
The conditions and potentials of federalizing trade policy
Whereas some federations reacted to the expanding international trade agenda by ‘federalizing’ trade policy-making and allowing sub-federal governments a substantial involvement, others did not. Comparing Canada and the United States, this paper investigates the conditions and potentials of federalization on the case of public procurement liberalization. The first section argues that the institutionalization of intergovernmental relations depends…
Europe Re
Which kind of European Union is emerging from the polycrisis? This paper argues that the EU is gradually becoming a 'reinsurance polity'. In this system of transnational public reinsurance, European states remain their citizens' primary insurers against individual and societal risks. As their insurance capacity is repeatedly overstretched by transboundary crises, the EU creates standing resources to provide back-up support. In contrast to federal…
Pandemic bordering
When the member states imposed unilateral restrictions on the cross-border movement of persons and goods in their initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU appeared to relapse into the 'politics trap' of earlier integration crises. However, our analysis of entry restrictions for persons in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland from the end of 2019 to the summer of 2022 shows no systematic relationship between domestic politi…
Solidarity or self-reliance? German mainstream party ideology and the European integration of core state powers
The crises of core state power integration have produced two ideal-typical ideas of the EU polity. The regulatory polity encourages national self-reliance and regards EU institutions as rule enforcers. The redistributive polity builds on transnational solidarity and the creation of EU-level capacities used for burden-sharing. We study the politics of this development on mainstream parties in Germany, a least-likely case for EU polarization and su…
Legitimizing climate action
Representative democracies, with their tendency toward skewed representation and the discounting of future costs, struggle to adopt ambitious climate policies. This opens space for additional legitimation channels, such as expert commissions and citizens’ assemblies. Through conjoint survey experiments in Germany and the US, we show that citizens support ambitious climate policies more when proposed by these institutions rather than the governmen…
Differentiated participation, uniform procedures
European Union (EU) institutions have become increasingly involved in direct policy implementation in the member states, creating a new domain of differentiation in EU governance. What brings about such differentiation, and how does it vary across policy fields? Drawing on theories of differentiated integration, this article argues that differentiated implementation occurs at the intersection of postfunctional obstacles (politicisation) and funct…
Decentralized EU Policy Coordination in Crisis? The Case of Germany
Europeanization research found no general convergence towards centralized EU policy coordination, despite decentralized systems' comparatively slow and ineffective position‐taking. Does this finding hold against the threat, urgency, and uncertainty exerted by recent years' polycrisis? We posit that decentralized systems indeed persist, albeit in a three‐step reactive sequence in which situational centralization during crises dialectically reinfor…
More voice, less exit
Comparative federalism contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between ‘Brussels’ and member states in international trade policy. Analysing the understudied field of international procurement liberalization and comparing the European Union (EU), the United States (US) and Canada, the article observes that sub-federal resistance has differed across federations. It finds that the more ‘voice’ sub-federal executives enjoy, the les…
Influence of Preventive Tooth Extractions on Quality of Life in Patients with Antiresorptive Intake—A Prospective Longitudinal Study
Background: To find out whether preventive tooth extractions in patients on antiresorptive therapy have a direct impact on the patients’ overall quality of life (QoL); Methods: QoL using the five-level version of the EuroQol Group’s EQ-5D instrument (EQ-5D-5L) was longitudinally assessed in N = 114 prospectively enrolled patients with indication of preventive tooth extraction over a period of 12 months. Patients were stratified as high-risk (mali…
The conditions and potentials of federalizing trade policy
Whereas some federations reacted to the expanding international trade agenda by ‘federalizing’ trade policy-making and allowing sub-federal governments a substantial involvement, others did not. Comparing Canada and the United States, this paper investigates the conditions and potentials of federalization on the case of public procurement liberalization. The first section argues that the institutionalization of intergovernmental relations depends…
Promoting the regulatory or the redistributive state? The politicisation of core state power integration in the German Bundestag, 1978-2019
We analyse the party politics of core state power integration in all German Bundestag debates on EU government declarations since 1978. Our analysis shows an increasing politicisation of the costs of integration. In general, all mainstream parties have expressed a continuous preference for regulation over capacity-building. Over time, however, cross-party differences increased. Parties developed distinct, ideologically grounded profiles on core s…
A member state like any other? Germany and the European integration of core state powers
The EU has integrated core state powers in a largely unsustainable manner. Why is this? In this introduction to a special issue on Germany, we take an in-depth look at national preference-formation. We trace the impact of state elites, as emphasised by functionalist theories, and mass publics and political parties, as stressed by postfunctionalism. We find that across policy fields and with striking continuity over time, Germany acts as a normal …
Failing forward in the Common Commercial Policy? Deep trade and the perennial question of EU competence
Christian Freudlsperger* Hertie School gGmbH, Jacques Delors Centre, Berlin, GermanyChristian Freudlsperger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Jacques Delors Centre of the Hertie School in Berlin
Rebordering Europe in the Ukraine War
How has the European Union (EU) developed in reaction to the Russo-Ukrainian war, its most severe military threat since the end of the Cold War? In a 'bordering' analysis of political development, this article studies changes in the closure and control of the EU's boundaries with Russia and Ukraine as well as its internal boundaries between 2013 and August 2022. It finds that the EU's response has hitherto consisted in a regulatory process of com…
Transboundary crises and political development
Kelemen and McNamara (2022) have reinvigorated the debate on European state-building. Adopting a ‘bellicist’ perspective, they argue that the European Union is ‘incomplete, uneven, and dysfunctional’ due to the historical lack of an existential military threat. We take issue with this claim. War, in our view, is not a necessary condition for European political development, and ‘transboundary crisis’ acts as its modern-day functional equivalent. W…
Decentralized EU Policy Coordination in Crisis? The Case of Germany
Europeanization research found no general convergence towards centralized EU policy coordination, despite decentralized systems' comparatively slow and ineffective position‐taking. Does this finding hold against the threat, urgency, and uncertainty exerted by recent years' polycrisis? We posit that decentralized systems indeed persist, albeit in a three‐step reactive sequence in which situational centralization during crises dialectically reinfor…
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks
This article problematises the proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies with operational tasks as a new phenomenon capturing the exercise of joint sovereignty in European integration. While joint decision-making has been a feature of EU politics for decades, joint sovereignty is a broader category that additionally involves the creation of EU bodies able to intervene ‘on the ground’ alongside national public actors. We argue that the choice …
Performing Crisis Management
The role of the symbolic is often overlooked in the public policy literature. Yet, it is a key component of public action, particularly in crisis management. During the Covid-19 pandemic, all democratic states needed to carry out cognitive and emotional work to persuade their citizens to show solidarity and comply with heavy restrictions. The near-simultaneous occurrence of the pandemic’s first wave (March–May 2020) allows us to compare the patte…
Pandemic bordering
When the member states imposed unilateral restrictions on the cross-border movement of persons and goods in their initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU appeared to relapse into the 'politics trap' of earlier integration crises. However, our analysis of entry restrictions for persons in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland from the end of 2019 to the summer of 2022 shows no systematic relationship between domestic politi…
Solidarity or self-reliance? German mainstream party ideology and the European integration of core state powers
The crises of core state power integration have produced two ideal-typical ideas of the EU polity. The regulatory polity encourages national self-reliance and regards EU institutions as rule enforcers. The redistributive polity builds on transnational solidarity and the creation of EU-level capacities used for burden-sharing. We study the politics of this development on mainstream parties in Germany, a least-likely case for EU polarization and su…
Differentiated participation, uniform procedures
European Union (EU) institutions have become increasingly involved in direct policy implementation in the member states, creating a new domain of differentiation in EU governance. What brings about such differentiation, and how does it vary across policy fields? Drawing on theories of differentiated integration, this article argues that differentiated implementation occurs at the intersection of postfunctional obstacles (politicisation) and funct…
Regional involvement in EU trade policy
Wallonia demonstrated the importance of regional actors for EU trade policy. What remains, however, of regional involvement when politicization subsides, as after CETA and TTIP? Our paper provides a framework that allows a prediction of involvement after politicization. It posits that the interaction of three factors is decisive: politicization (short-term), preferences (medium-term), institutions (long-term). The more regional actors dispose of …
When Foreign Policy Becomes Trade Policy
The European Union (EU) has taken a geoeconomic turn since 2017 by creating a series of new unilateral instruments designed to preserve European autonomy and adjust to the progressive unravelling of the liberal international economic order. The most controversial of these instruments is the 2023 Anti‐Coercion Instrument (ACI), designed to deter third countries from targeting the EU and its member states with economic coercion through measures aff…
Assessing external pressures
The relations and interactions of the European Union (EU) with its outside world have been a recurring feature of scholarly and public debate. This is even more pertinent in today's geopolitical age which is marked by multiple economic, political, social and cultural fissures. Adopting an 'inside-out' lens, most studies look at how the EU projects its power abroad. By contrast, this special issue takes an explicit 'outside-in' perspective, assess…
Regional Community Building in Hard Times
Pandemics are times of closure. States typically restrict the entry of persons to protect their national communities from external health hazards. In this regard, the COVID‐19 pandemic presented the European Union (EU) with a severe challenge. We ask to what extent the border policies of EU member states during the pandemic supported regional community building. Our analysis of a comprehensive dataset of entry restrictions imposed by major EU mem…
Europe Re
Which kind of European Union is emerging from the polycrisis? This paper argues that the EU is gradually becoming a 'reinsurance polity'. In this system of transnational public reinsurance, European states remain their citizens' primary insurers against individual and societal risks. As their insurance capacity is repeatedly overstretched by transboundary crises, the EU creates standing resources to provide back-up support. In contrast to federal…
Geopolitical rebordering? External boundary formation in the European Union
Legitimizing climate action
Representative democracies, with their tendency toward skewed representation and the discounting of future costs, struggle to adopt ambitious climate policies. This opens space for additional legitimation channels, such as expert commissions and citizens’ assemblies. Through conjoint survey experiments in Germany and the US, we show that citizens support ambitious climate policies more when proposed by these institutions rather than the governmen…
When Compromise Becomes Standoff
This article explores endogenous problems of joint implementation in multi‐level systems. Focusing on the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), we theorize a causal mechanism of conflict deferral, whereby contentious negotiations are resolved through deliberately ambiguous legislation that postpones conflict to the implementation stage. Under conditions of joint implementation, where multiple authorities exercise interdependent enforcement …
Measuring European integration as boundary formation—The Eurobord dataset
This article introduces the EUROBORD dataset. Starting from a Rokkanian conceptualization of polity formation as boundary formation, we propose a novel measurement of European integration as a combination of boundary closure and boundary control. We measure integration annually across 48 functional boundaries based on a coding of European Union (EU) law. By comparing our measure with existing measures of European integration, we provide support f…
External Actors, Pressures and Influences
The European Union (EU) increasingly faces external pressures, ranging from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to an economically and politically assertive China to deep changes in the transatlantic relationship with the United States. Whilst external actors and influences always mattered for European integration and EU studies, this article holds that they are more consequential today than in the past. This is because the EU has turned i…
European Union Policy and Governance (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Economics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · European union (14 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · International trade (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works)