Michael Blauberger

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 901 citations indexed

About

Michael Blauberger is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Law and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Blauberger has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 901 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 20 papers in Law and 8 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Michael Blauberger's work include European Union Policy and Governance (35 papers), European and International Law Studies (19 papers) and EU Law and Policy Analysis (11 papers). Michael Blauberger is often cited by papers focused on European Union Policy and Governance (35 papers), European and International Law Studies (19 papers) and EU Law and Policy Analysis (11 papers). Michael Blauberger collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Belgium. Michael Blauberger's co-authors include Susanne K. Schmidt, R. Daniel Kelemen, Berthold Rittberger, Moritz Weiß, Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen, Vera van Hüllen, Ulrich Sedelmeier, Benjamin Werner, Dion Kramer and Ariadna Ripoll Servent and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of European Public Policy and Public Administration.

In The Last Decade

Michael Blauberger

46 papers receiving 839 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Sanctioning democratic backsliding in the European Union: transnational salience, negative intergovernmental spillover, and policy change

2024 28 citations Michael Blauberger, Ulrich Sedelmeier Journal of European Public Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Blauberger Austria	18	733	207	195	147	96	52	901
Susanne K. Schmidt Germany	16	782 1.1×	230 1.1×	250 1.3×	145 1.0×	81 0.8×	59	970
Simone Leiber Germany	10	576 0.8×	109 0.5×	182 0.9×	136 0.9×	62 0.6×	37	738
Catherine Moury Portugal	19	764 1.0×	65 0.3×	249 1.3×	99 0.7×	114 1.2×	50	915
Wolfgang Wessels Germany	17	951 1.3×	163 0.8×	215 1.1×	130 0.9×	67 0.7×	81	1.1k
Louise G. Trubek United States	11	283 0.4×	85 0.4×	114 0.6×	80 0.5×	64 0.7×	34	470
Steffen Ganghof Germany	14	491 0.7×	106 0.5×	81 0.4×	85 0.6×	164 1.7×	53	608
Uwe Puetter United Kingdom	14	1.1k 1.6×	156 0.8×	269 1.4×	107 0.7×	102 1.1×	41	1.2k
Arndt Wonka Germany	15	615 0.8×	78 0.4×	508 2.6×	118 0.8×	41 0.4×	31	775
Carol Harlow United Kingdom	13	323 0.4×	207 1.0×	148 0.8×	163 1.1×	45 0.5×	50	560
Amie Kreppel United States	15	916 1.2×	151 0.7×	440 2.3×	81 0.6×	76 0.8×	36	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Blauberger

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All Works

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Blauberger, Michael & Arndt Wonka. (2025). Debating EU Actions Against Democratic Backsliding in Hungary: Shifting Government and Opposition Frames. JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies. 64(2). 641–668. 2 indexed citations

Blauberger, Michael & Ulrich Sedelmeier. (2024). Sanctioning democratic backsliding in the European Union: transnational salience, negative intergovernmental spillover, and policy change. Journal of European Public Policy. 32(2). 365–391. 28 indexed citations breakdown →

Wonka, Arndt, et al.. (2023). The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding: public debates in Hungarian and Polish newspapers. Journal of European Public Policy. 32(2). 498–521. 10 indexed citations

Fromage, Diane, et al.. (2023). Responsible judges or judging responsibilities? EU Court of Justice, Bundesverfassungsgericht and EU economic governance. Journal of European Public Policy. 31(4). 1051–1074.

Blauberger, Michael & Susanne K. Schmidt. (2022). Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector. JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies. 61(4). 917–934. 3 indexed citations

Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg & Michael Blauberger. (2022). The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Mega-Politics of Posted Workers. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 6 indexed citations

Blauberger, Michael, et al.. (2021). The differentiated politicization of free movement of people in the EU. A topic model analysis of press coverage in Austria, Germany, Poland and the UK. Journal of European Public Policy. 30(2). 291–314. 8 indexed citations

Blauberger, Michael & Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen. (2020). The Court of Justice in times of politicisation: ‘law as a mask and shield’ revisited. Journal of European Public Policy. 27(3). 382–399. 20 indexed citations

Blauberger, Michael & Vera van Hüllen. (2020). Conditionality of EU funds: an instrument to enforce EU fundamental values?. Journal of European Integration. 43(1). 1–16. 42 indexed citations

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Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, et al.. (2019). Implementing European case law at the bureaucratic frontline: How domestic signalling influences the outcomes of EU law. Public Administration. 97(4). 814–828. 10 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Susanne K., Michael Blauberger, & Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen. (2018). Free movement and equal treatment in an unequal union. Journal of European Public Policy. 25(10). 1391–1402. 24 indexed citations

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Blauberger, Michael, et al.. (2018). ECJ Judges read the morning papers. Explaining the turnaround of European citizenship jurisprudence. Journal of European Public Policy. 25(10). 1422–1441. 59 indexed citations

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Blauberger, Michael & Susanne K. Schmidt. (2017). Free movement, the welfare state, and the European Union's over‐constitutionalization: Administrating contradictions. Public Administration. 95(2). 437–449. 23 indexed citations

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Blauberger, Michael & Susanne K. Schmidt. (2017). The European Court of Justice and its Political Impact. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Kelemen, R. Daniel & Michael Blauberger. (2016). Introducing the debate: European Union safeguards against member states’ democratic backsliding. Journal of European Public Policy. 24(3). 317–320. 29 indexed citations

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Blauberger, Michael & Susanne K. Schmidt. (2014). Welfare Migration? Free Movement of EU Citizens and Access to Social Benefits. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Blauberger, Michael. (2009). Compliance with Rules of Negative Integration: European State Aid Control in the New Member States. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Blauberger, Michael. (2009). Of 'Good' and 'Bad' Subsidies: European State Aid Control Through Soft and Hard Law. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Blauberger, Michael. (2009). Compliance with rules of negative integration: European state aid control in the new member states. Journal of European Public Policy. 16(7). 1030–1046. 22 indexed citations

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Blauberger, Michael. (2005). Zivilmacht Europa? Leitlinien europäischer Außenpolitik in der Analyse. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 1 indexed citations

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