Eva Thomann

Biographic Data

ID4270608
NAMEEva Thomann
GIVEN NAMESEva
FAMILY NAMEThomann
SIGNATURETHOMANN E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Konstanz
ORCID0000-0001-6837-4787
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS818
WORKS AS AUTHOR42
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX17

  • Identity- versus effort-based bureaucratic discrimination among mobile European Union citizens

    Open AccessJana Gómez Díaz, Eva Thomann et al.ARTICLEEuropean Union Politics2026References: 39

    Discrimination by welfare bureaucrats in host countries poses significant administrative burdens for mobile European Union citizens’ social rights in practice. However, the relative importance of applicants’ identity and perceived effort therein is understudied. Combining discrimination and behavioral theory, we investigate how nationality and perceived effort affect bureaucratic discrimination. A choice-based conjoint survey experiment presents …

  • Interventions to reduce bureaucratic discrimination

    Open AccessEva Thomann, Oliver James et al.ARTICLEPublic Management Review2025

  • Equity and equality in street-level public service delivery

    Open AccessNadine Raaphorst, Gabriela Lotta et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Public Management…2025

    Street-level workers are crucial to promoting equity and equality in public service delivery. Their discretionary decisions can either perpetuate biases and stereotypes or enhance equity by acknowledging citizen-clients’ diverse social backgrounds. While current research often focuses on the micro-level behaviors of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs), there is limited exploration of how societal structures, historical patterns, and cultural beliefs …

  • Explaining regulatory intermediaries’ compliance through the accountability regimes framework

    Open AccessEva ThomannARTICLEPolicy and Society2025Cited by: 1References: 21

    This article assesses how accountability relations between intermediaries, regulators, and regulatory targets affect intermediary non-compliance. Regulatory intermediary theory (RIT) maps how intermediaries, who are given responsibility but often lack hierarchical accountability to regulators, have multiple roles in the process of regulatory compliance. Intermediaries need to comply with the tasks that they have been delegated to perform. However…

  • Explaining Public Sector Corruption

    Open AccessEva Thomann, Giuliana Ioannidis et al.ARTICLEGovernance2025References: 30

    Different disciplines ask why public sector corruption occurs, addressing diverse phenomena. However, how different approaches and factors at micro, meso, or macro levels relate to each other in causally complex, context‐dependent ways is seldom theorized. This article develops an integrated “Corruption Hexagon” model with six dimensions. The analytically relevant context provides a not directly causal background that influences the interplay of …

  • Differentiated policy implementation in the European Union

    Open AccessAsya Zhelyazkova, Eva Thomann et al.ARTICLEWest European Politics2024Cited by: 9References: 71

    This special issue analyses the patterns, causes and consequences of Differentiated Policy Implementation (DPI) in the European Union (EU). DPI is an umbrella term for the diversity in the presence and use of discretion during legal and practical policy implementation processes and outcomes in the EU. The emergent DPI research agenda emphasises differentiation in EU policy implementation beyond mere legal compliance, which is more widespread, and…

  • Does institutional misfit trigger customisation instead of non-compliance

    Viktoria Brendler, Eva ThomannARTICLEWest European Politics2024Cited by: 10References: 47

    This article analyses the role of institutional misfit in why member states customise European Union (EU) renewable energy (RE) policies when implementing them. Institutional misfit theory posits that member states only adjust to EU policies when the adaptation pressure remains moderate and national actors’ policy preferences align. Conversely, this article tests the argument that member states manage institutional misfit by adjusting – customisi…

  • European Union versus core state powers

    Tiziano Zgaga, Eva Thomann et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Public Policy2024Cited by: 7References: 39

    Member states use implementation to preserve core state powers, such as fiscal policy, vis-à-vis the European Union (EU), by choosing whether to adopt stricter or looser rules than the EU requires. However, these choices and their reasons when the EU extends its fiscal competences are understudied. We theorise how the interplay of uploading and downloading factors might lead member states to customise EU fiscal policy according to their preferenc…

  • Populist government support and frontline workers' self‐efficacy during crisis

    Open AccessGabriela Lotta, Eva Thomann et al.ARTICLEGovernance2024Cited by: 9References: 94

    Frontline workers who are confronted with crises need enormous resilience and the ability to deal with stress from crisis‐related increases in demands and risks. Simultaneously, populist governments with an illiberal agenda may undermine the work of street‐level bureaucracies for political reasons. Little is known about how deconstruction of the administrative state by populist government—through lacking government support when it is needed the m…

  • Did pandemic responses trigger corruption in public procurement? Comparing Italy and Germany

    Eva Thomann, Federica Marconi et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Public Policy2023Cited by: 4References: 38

    Public procurement is crucial for effective crisis responses, but is also prone to corruption. To ensure a swift provision of medical supplies in the COVID-19 pandemic, the public procurement regulations were dramatically relaxed. However, the implications for corruption require attention. This paper analyses how the regulatory responses to the crisis affected the risks and perceptions of corruption, by changing public-private interactions and th…

  • How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence

    Open AccessEva Thomann, James Maxia et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal2023Cited by: 15References: 51

    Hierarchical accountability often proves insufficient to control street‐level implementation, where complex, informal accountability relations prevail and tasks must be prioritized. However, scholars lack a theoretical model of how accountability relations affect implementation behaviors that are inconsistent with policy. By extending the Accountability Regimes Framework (ARF), this paper explains how multiple competing subjective street‐level ac…

  • Under what conditions does bureaucracy matter in the making of global public policies

    Open AccessJörn Ege, Michael W Bauer et al.ARTICLEGovernance2023Cited by: 4References: 50

    This study investigates how configurations of bureaucratic autonomy, policy complexity and political contestation allow international public administrations (IPAs) to influence policymaking within international organizations. A fuzzy‐set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 17 policy decisions in four organizations (FAO, WHO, ILO, UNESCO) shows that all IPAs studied can be influential in favorable contexts. When policies are both contested and com…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessTim Haesebrouck, Eva ThomannARTICLEQuality & Quantity2022

  • Approaches to Qualitative Comparative Analysis and good practices

    Open AccessEva Thomann, Jörn Ege et al.ARTICLESwiss Political Science Review2022

    The Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) methodology has evolved remarkably in social science research. Simultaneously, the use of QCA too often lags behind methodological recommendations of good practice. Improper use is a serious obstacle for QCA to enrich the social science ‐methodology toolkit. We explore whether the coherence of analytic approaches can help us understand good practices in applied QCA by performing a systematic review of 86…

  • The fit between regulatory instruments and targets

    Open AccessMarkus Hinterleitner, Dorothy Kaufmann et al.ARTICLERegulation & Governance2022Cited by: 2References: 50

    This article adopts a novel regulatory perspective on the conditions that facilitate and obstruct economic equality between migrants and natives. Regulation scholars have long emphasized that regulatory interventions need to be geared toward the needs of regulatory targets. We contribute to this research by examining the fit between regulatory instruments and targets' human capital skills. We develop a theoretical framework that captures how econ…

  • I did it my way

    Open AccessAsya Zhelyazkova, Eva ThomannARTICLEJournal of European Public Policy2022Cited by: 30References: 41

    By tackling shared problems through concerted policies, the European Union (EU) is thought to have a superior output legitimacy. However, EU policies change as they are being ‘customised’ during the implementation process. How do such patterns of ‘differentiated implementation’ affect EU governance in practice? While some studies highlight the danger of ‘watering down’ the objectives of EU law, others emphasise the role of decentralised problem-s…

  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R

    Open AccessIoana-Elena Oana, Ioana Elena Oana et al.BOOKQualitative Comparative Analysis…2021

    A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. This guide facilitates the efficient teaching, independent learning, and use of QCA with the best available software, reducing the time and effort required when encountering not just the logic of a new method, but also new software. With its applied and practical focus, the book offers a genuinely simple and intuitive r…

  • A behavioural model of heuristics and biases in frontline policy implementation

    Alice Moseley, Eva ThomannARTICLEPolicy & Politics2021Cited by: 25References: 38

    This article theorises how behavioural public administration can help improve our understanding of frontline policy implementation. The human factors that characterise policy implementation remain undertheorised: individual variation in policy implementation is dismissed as mere “noise” that hinders predictability in policy implementation. This article aims to fill this gap. We provide a model for street level decision-making which outlines the r…

  • Beyond nudge

    Benjamin Ewert, Kathrin Loer et al.ARTICLEPolicy & Politics2021Cited by: 21References: 24

    This Special Issue features theoretical, methodological, and empirical advancements of the state-of-the-art in behavioural public policy and administration. In this introduction, we develop a behaviourally-informed, integrated conceptual model of the policy process that embeds individual attitudes and behaviour into context at the meso and macro level. We argue that behavioural approaches can be situated within a broader tradition of methodologic…

  • Behavioural governance in the policy process

    Anat Gofen, Alice Moseley et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Public Policy2021Cited by: 13References: 112

    This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record

  • Differential discrimination against mobile EU citizens

    Christian Adam, Xavier Fernández-I-Marín et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Public Policy2021Cited by: 13References: 59

    EU citizens have rights when living in a member state other than their own. Bureaucratic discrimination undermines the operation of these rights. We go beyond extant research on bureaucratic discrimination in two ways. First, we move beyond considering mobile EU citizens as homogenous immigrant minority to assess whether EU citizens from certain countries face greater discrimination than others. Second, we analyse whether discrimination patterns …

  • Linking throughput and output legitimacy in Swiss forest policy implementation

    Open AccessEva Lieberherr, Eva ThomannARTICLEPolicy Sciences2020Cited by: 5References: 19

  • Designing Research With Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

    Open AccessEva Thomann, Martino MaggettiARTICLESociological Methods & Research2020Cited by: 42References: 64

    Recent years have witnessed a host of innovations for conducting research with qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). Concurrently, important issues surrounding its uses have been highlighted. In this article, we seek to help users design QCA studies. We argue that establishing inference with QCA involves three intertwined design components: first, clarifying the question of external validity; second, ensuring internal validity; and third, expli…

  • Fixing Federal Faults. Complementary Member State Policies in Swiss Health Care Policy

    Open AccessFritz Sager, Christian Rüefli et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Public…2019Cited by: 2References: 20

    This article aims to understand what makes member states complement federal healthcare policy beyond the instruments planned by federal policy. We employ a Multiple Streams approach to study how Swiss member states use their discretion in order to complement federal healthcare regulation with the aim of decreasing outpatient healthcare expenditures at the cantonal level. Based on a written survey in the Swiss cantons, we perform a Fuzzy Set Quali…

  • What's the Problem? Multilevel Governance and Problem‐Solving

    Open AccessEva Thomann, Philipp Trein et al.ARTICLEEuropean Policy Analysis2019Cited by: 17References: 49

    The study of multilevel governance ( MLG ) is fundamentally concerned with the capacity of MLG to effectively deal with policy problems. However, the notion of problem‐solving itself remains vague. Moreover, MLG research prioritizes questions of structure and agency, while neglecting the role and nature of policy problems themselves. This symposium defines problem‐solving in both procedural and operational terms. The introduction reviews relevant…