Prof. Dr. Berthold Rittberger

Former project director
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Projects

RP8 B3 Democratic Multi-level Governance

RP8
INCOOP - Dynamics of Institutional Cooperation in the European Union

RP8 BI Associated Projects

RP8
The Politics of Territorial Reform: Redrawing the Boundaries of Administrative Districts

RP7 B3 Democratic Multi-level Governance

The Politics of Mobilization: National Parties and EU Decision-making
Agency Governance and its Challenges to the EU System of Representation
The Making of Latin America Policy in Europe

RP6 B3 Democracy and Multi-Level Governance

Network of Excellence on "Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-level Europe" (CONNEX)
Constitutional Politics in the European Union: Parliamentarization and the Institutionalization of Human Rights

RP6 BI Associated Projects

Cooperation with the Institute for European Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Monographs

Rittberger, Berthold (2005): Building Europe's Parliament: Democratic Representation Beyond the Nation-State. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more

Editions

Kohler-Koch, Beate, and Berthold Rittberger (Eds.) (2007): Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig (Eds.) (2006): Die Europäische Union auf dem Weg in den Verfassungsstaat. Frankfurt/New York: Campus. [Mannheimer Jahrbuch für Europäische Sozialforschung; 10] more
Holzinger, Katharina, Christoph Knill, Dirk Peters, Berthold Rittberger, Frank Schimmelfennig and Wolfgang Wagner (Eds.) (2005): Die Europäische Union. Theorien und Analysekonzepte. Paderborn: Schöningh (UTB). more

Journal Articles

Schneider, Ellen, Berthold Rittberger and Arndt Wonka (2014): Adapting to Europe? Regional MPs' Involvement in EU Affairs in Germany. Regional & Federal Studies, 24, issue 4, pp. 407 - 427. more
Wonka, Arndt, and Berthold Rittberger (2011): Agency Governance in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy. Special Issue, 18, issue 6, pp. 780-789. more
Wonka, Arndt, and Berthold Rittberger (2011): Perspectives on EU governance: an empirical assessment of the political attitudes of EU agency professionals. Journal of European Public Policy. Special Issue, 18, issue 6, pp. 888-908. more
Goetze, Stefan, and Berthold Rittberger (2010): A matter of habit? The sociological foundations of empowering the European Parliament. Comparative European Politics, 8, issue 1, pp. 37-54. more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Arndt Wonka (2010): Credibility, Complexity and Uncertainty: Explaining the Institutional Independence of 29 EUAgencies. West European Politics, 33, issue 4, pp. 730-752. more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): The historical origins of the EU's system of representation. Journal of European Public Policy, 16, issue 1, pp. 43-61. more
Maier, Jürgen, and Berthold Rittberger (2008): Shifting Europe's Boundaries: Mass Media, Public Opinion and the Enlargement of the EU. European Union Politics, 9, issue 2, pp. 243-267. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate, and Berthold Rittberger (2007): The 'Governance Turn' in EU Studies (in chinesischer Sprache). Chinese Journal of European Studies, 25, issue 5, pp. 19-40. more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Simon Meier-Beck (2007): The EU's External Governance: Democracy promotion in Europe and beyond (in chinesicher Sprache). Chinese Journal of European Studies, 25, issue 5, pp. 86-100. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate, and Berthold Rittberger (2006): Review Article: The "Governance Turn" in EU Studies. Journal of Common Market Studies, 44, issue 1, pp. 27-49. more

Book Chapters

Rittberger, Berthold (2010): Democracy and European Union Governance. Pp. 134-167 in: Michelle Egan, Neill Nugent, William E. Paterson (Eds.) Research Agendas in EU Studies. Stalking the Elephant. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate, and Berthold Rittberger (2009): A Futile Quest for Coherence: The Many Frames of EU Governance. Pp. 3-18 in: Beate Kohler-Koch, Fabrice Larat (Eds.) European Multi-Level Governance. Contrasting Images in National Research. Cheltenham, UK Nortampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): "Copy and Paste": Parlamentarisierung jenseits des Nationalstaates. Pp. 137-159 in: Nicole Deitelhoff, Jens Steffek (Eds.) Was bleibt vom Staat? Demokratie, Recht und Verfassung im globalen Zeitalter. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus. more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Simon Meier-Beck (2008): The EU's External Governance: Democracy Promotion in Europe and Beyond (in chinesischer Übersetzung). Pp. 145-161 in: Hong Zhou, Beate Kohler-Koch (Eds.) Ouzhou mmoshi yanjiu congshu = EU Governance Model. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press (China). more
Kohler-Koch, Beate, and Berthold Rittberger (2007): Charting Crowded Territory: Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union. Pp. 1-29 in: Beate Kohler-Koch, Berthold Rittberger (Eds.) Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. more
Rittberger, Berthold (2007): Constructing Parliamentary Democracy in the European Union: How Did It Happen?. Pp. 111-137 in: Beate Kohler-Koch, Berthold Rittberger (Eds.) Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union. Lanham: Rowman&Littlefield. more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig (2007): The Constitutionalization of the European Union: Explaining the Parliamentarization and the Institutionalization of the Human Rights. Pp. 213-229 in: Sophie Meunier, Kathleen McNamara (Eds.) Making history: European integration and institutional change at fifty. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Auel, Katrin, and Berthold Rittberger (2006): Fluctuant nec merguntur. The European Parliament, national parliaments, and European integration. Pp. 121-145 in: Jeremy Richardson (Ed.) European Union. Power and policy-making. 3rd ed., London: Routledge. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Berthold Rittberger (2006): Theories of European integration. Assumptions and hypotheses. Pp. 73-95 in: Jeremy Richardson (Ed.) European Union. Power and policy-Making. 3rd ed., London: Routledge. more

Papers / Reports

Wonka, Arndt, and Berthold Rittberger (2009): How independent are EU Agencies?. Oslo [RECON Online Working Paper 2009/12] more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig (2005): The Constitutionalization of the EU. [The State of the European Union (Oxford University Press)] more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig (2005): The Constitutionalization of the European Union: Explaining the Parliamentarization and Institutionalization of Human Rights. Wien [IHS Working Papers] more

Conference Presentations

Rittberger, Berthold (2010): The Implementation of the Lisbon Treaty: Institutional and Policy Implications. [EUSA/ECPR Conference, Florenz, April 27th to April 28th, 2010] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): Cure or Placebo? The Lisbon Treaty and the EU’s Democratic Deficit. [Vortragsreihe in Neuseeland, University of Christchurch, NCRE, August 12th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): Der Lissaboner Vertrag und das demokratische Defizit der EU. [Fachtagung “Europa in guter Verfassung? Aktuelle Herausforderungen der EU vor und nach den Wahlen zum Europaparlament", Universität der Bundeswehr München, May 08th to May 10th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): Der Vertrag von Lissabon und das Demokratiedefizit Europas: demokratietheoretische Interpretationshilfen. [Seminar für amerikanische und deutsche Studenten, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, Ludwigshafen, March 07th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Franziska Brantner (2009): Europa – Brauchen wir eigentlich noch einen Nationalstaat?. [Kamingespräch der sdw Regionalgruppe MA-HD, Universität Mannheim, September 22nd, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): Heilmittel oder Plazebo? Der Vertrag von Lissabon und das Demokratiedefizit der EU. [Lecture, Institut français, Mainz, November 30th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Arndt Wonka (2009): How Independent? Exploring the Implications of Agency Independence for Democratically Legitimate Governance in the EU. [EUSA 11th Biennial International Conference, Marina Del Rey, California, April 23rd to April 25th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): Paliamentary Democracy and the EU's Democratic Deficit. Lessons from Democratic Theory. [Conference on "The EP in an ever changing Union: where to go from here?", Montesquieu Institute, Maastricht University, March 05th to March 06th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): Paths to Independence: Explaining the Institutional Design of EU Agencies. [Vortragsreihe in Neuseeland, University of Christchurch, NCRE, August 14th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): Presentation to Constitutional Law Class: “Legal Integration in the European Union” and seminar on: “Cure or Placebo? The Lisbon Treaty and the EU’s Democratic Deficit. [Vortragsreihe in Neuseeland,, University of Hamilton, August 18th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): Representation in international organisations: Why the EU is a special case. [Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Lecture Series, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, January 28th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): The Continuous Expansion of EP powers. [RECON Workshop: With or Without Lisbon: Continuous Institutional Change in the EU, Amsterdam, May 15th to May 16th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): The Power of the of the European Parliament revisted. [Lecture, Bremen International School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), June 16th to June 17th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2009): The problem of delegation, democracy and accountability. [RECON Midterm Conference, Prague, October 08th to October 10th, 2009] more
Wonka, Arndt, and Berthold Rittberger (2009): Paths to independence: Determinants of institutional independence of twenty-nine EU agencies. [European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Los Angeles, April 23rd to April 25th, 2009] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2008): Explaining the Constitutionalization of the EU. [Conference on Global Constitutionalism: Process and Substance, Swiss National Center for Competence in Research (NCCR), Kandersteg, January 17th to January 19th, 2008] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2008): Path dependency in the development of the EU's representative system. [Presentation, University of Reading, February 22nd, 2008] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2008): The Constitutionalization of the European Union, 1951-2004. [Presentation, Central European University, Budapest, February 13th, 2008] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2008): The Historical Origins of the EU's System of Representation. [Presentation, ETH / University Zurich, December 11th, 2008] more
Wonka, Arndt, and Berthold Rittberger (2008): The politics of mobilisation: National parties and EU decision-making. [Political institutions in the European Union: Theoretical and empirical innovations in current research, Universität Konstanz, July 07th to July 08th, 2008] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2007): EU Governance in Relation to Global Governance. [CASS Workshop Peking, EU Governance at Work, Peking, June 14th to June 16th, 2007] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2007): Eurpean governance concept: state of the art and prospects for the future. [Summer School on European Union Studies: Methodological Opportunities and Limits, St. Petersburg, September 07th to September 11th, 2007] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2007): Risk, uncertainty and institutional design: delegation and control in the Treaty of Paris. [Institutional change and the dynamics in Europe, Seminar, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, Florenz, Villa la Fonte, September 27th to September 29th, 2007] more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Jürgen Maier (2007): Shifting European Boundaries. Mass media, public opinion, and the enlargement of the EU. ["Amours et Désamours entre Européens" Pour une sociologie politique des sentiments dans l'intégration européene, 2. Colloque international de la Section d'études européennes (See) de l' Association francaise de science politique (Afsp), Grenoble, December 06th to December 07th, 2007] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2007): The EU, still a civilian power?. [CASS Conference Beijing, EU Model under Discussion, Peking, June 12th to June 14th, 2007] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2007): The historical trajectory of representation in the European Union. [Connex Thematic Conference on Accountability, Florenz, June 29th to June 30th, 2007] more
Bürgin, Alexander, Berthold Rittberger, Frank Schimmelfennig and Guido Schwellnus (2005): The Constituionalization of the European Union: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis. [UACES Workshop on the Constitutionalization of the European Union, Oxford, Nuffield College, June 24th to June 25th, 2005] more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig (2005): Closing the Legitimacy Gap: The Parliamentarization and Institutionalization of Human Rights in the EU. [Ninth Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association, Austin, Texas, March 31st to April 02nd, 2005] more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig (2005): Parlamentarisierung und Institutionalisierung der Menschenrechte in der EU: eine qualitativ-vergleichende Analyse. [IB-Sektionstagung der DVPW, Mannheim, October 06th to October 07th, 2005] more
Rittberger, Berthold (2005): Parliamentary Democracy beyond the nation state: how do states respond the EU's democratic deficit?. [Annual conference of the International Studies Association, Honululu, Hawaii, March 02nd to March 05th, 2005] more
Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig (2005): The Constitutionalization of the European Union: Explaining the Parliamentarization and Institutionalization of Human Rights. [Annual conference of the International Studies Association, Honululu, Hawaii, March 02nd to March 05th, 2005] more