(2015):
Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation: The European Union and its Neighbourhood.
Basingstoke:
Palgrave.
[Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century]
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PD Dr. Frank Schimmelfennig

former staff member
Phone:
+49-621-181-2842Research Interests
- Theory of international organizations and institutions
- Enlargement of European regional organizations
- International Socialization and Europeanization in Eastern E
- Constitutionalization of the EU
Profile/Career
Fellow since September 2002
Projects
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
Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2003):
The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe. Rules and Rhetoric.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
[Themes in European Governance]
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Editions
Gschwend, Thomas, and Frank Schimmelfennig
(Eds.)
(2007):
Forschungsdesign in der Politikwissenschaft : Probleme - Strategien - Anwendungen.
Frankfurt am Main:
Campus.
[Mannheimer Jahrbuch für Europäische Sozialforschung; 11]
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Gschwend, Thomas, and Frank Schimmelfennig
(Eds.)
(2007):
Research Design in Political Science: How to Practice What They Preach.
Houndmills:
Palgrave Macmillan.
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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]
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Holzinger, Katharina, Christoph Knill, Dirk Peters, Berthold Rittberger, Frank Schimmelfennig and Wolfgang Wagner
(Eds.)
(2005):
Die Europäische Union. Theorien und Analysekonzepte.
Paderborn:
Schöningh (UTB).
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier
(Eds.)
(2005):
The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe.
Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press.
[Cornell Studies in Political Economy]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier
(Eds.)
(2005):
The Politics of European Union Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches.
London:
Routledge.
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Journal Articles
Rocabert, Jofre, Frank Schimmelfennig, Lori Crasnic and Thomas Winzen
(2019):
The Rise of International Parliamentary Institutions: Purpose and Legitimation.
The Review of International Organizations, 14, issue 4, pp. 607–631.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Thomas Winzen
(2019):
Grand Theories, Differentiated Integration.
Journal of European Public Policy, 26, issue 8, pp. 1172-1192.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Thomas Winzen
(2017):
Eastern enlargement and differentiated integration: towards normalization.
Journal of European Public Policy, 24, issue 2, pp. 239-258.
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Freyburg, Tina, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig, Tatiana Skripka and Anne Wetzel
(2011):
Democracy Promotion through Functional Cooperation? The Case of the European Neighbourhood Policy.
Democratization, 18, issue 4, pp. 1026-1054.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2005):
Strategic Calculation and International Socialization: Membership Incentives, Party Constellations, and Sustained Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe.
International Organization, 59, issue 4, pp. 827-860.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
Die Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union: Politiken, Prozesse, Ergebnisse.
Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften, 2, issue 3, pp. 465-491.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier
(2004):
Governance by Conditionality: EU Rule Transfer to the Candidate Countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Journal of European Public Policy, 11, issue 4, pp. 661-679.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
Lost in Translation? Zehn Jahre ZIB und die Europaforschung.
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 11, issue 2, pp. 341-346.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Wolfgang Wagner
(2004):
Preface: External Governance in the European Union.
Journal of European Public Policy, 11, issue 4, pp. 657-660.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
Starke Anreize, ambivalente Wirkungen: Die Europäisierung Mittel- und Osteuropas.
Leviathan, 32, issue 2, pp. 250-268.
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Wagner, Wolfgang, Frank Schimmelfennig and Michèle Knodt
(2004):
Auswärtiges Regieren in der Europäischen Union. Ein Tagungsbericht.
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 11, issue 1, pp. 147-154.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, Stefan Engert and Heiko Knobel
(2003):
Costs, Commitment and Compliance: The Impact of EU Democratic Conditionality on Latvia, Slovakia and Turkey.
Journal of Common Market Studies, 41, issue 3, pp. 495-518.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, Stefan Engert and Heiko Knobel
(2003):
Europäisierung in Osteuropa: Reaktionen auf die demokratische Konditionalität.
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 32, issue 3, pp. 321-337.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2003):
Jenseits von Gleichgewichtspolitik und Anpassung: Chancen und Grenzen transatlantischen sozialen Einflusses.
Welttrends, 11, issue 40, pp. 76-81.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2003):
Strategic Action in a Community Environment: The Decision to Enlarge the European Union to the East.
Comparative Political Studies, 36, issue 1-2, pp. 156-183.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2002):
Goffman Meets IR: Dramaturgical Action in International Community.
International Review of Sociology - Revue Internationale de Sociologie, 12, issue 3, pp. 417-437.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2002):
Liberal Community and Enlargement: An Event History Analysis.
Journal of European Public Policy, 9, issue 4, pp. 598-626.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier
(2002):
Theorizing EU Enlargement: Research Focus, Hypotheses and the State of Research.
Journal of European Public Policy, 9, issue 4, pp. 500-528.
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Book Chapters
Gschwend, Thomas, and Frank Schimmelfennig
(2007):
Conclusion: Lessons for the Dialogue between Theory and Data.
Pp. 216-225 in:
Thomas Gschwend, Frank Schimmelfennig
(Eds.)
Research Design in Political Science. How to Practice What They Preach.
Houndmills:
Palgrave Macmillan.
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Gschwend, Thomas, and Frank Schimmelfennig
(2007):
Forschungsdesign in der Politikwissenschaft: Ein Dialog zwischen Theorie und Daten.
Pp. 13-35 in:
Thomas Gschwend, Frank Schimmelfennig
(Eds.)
Forschungsdesign in der Politikwissenschaft. Probleme - Strategien - Anwendungen.
Frankfurt/Main:
Campus Verlag.
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Gschwend, Thomas, and Frank Schimmelfennig
(2007):
Introduction: Designing Research in Political Science - A Dialogue between Theory and Data.
Pp. 1-18 in:
Thomas Gschwend, Frank Schimmelfennig
(Eds.)
Research Design in Political Science. How to Practice What They Preach..
Houndmills:
Palgrave Macmillan.
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Gschwend, Thomas, and Frank Schimmelfennig
(2007):
Lehren für den Dialog zwischen Theorie und Daten.
Pp. 323-336 in:
Thomas Gschwend, Frank Schimmelfennig
(Eds.)
Forschungsdesign in der Politikwissenschaft. Probleme - Strategien - Anwendungen.
Frankfurt/Main:
Campus Verlag.
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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.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2006):
The process of enlargement. Problems, interests, and norms.
Pp. 207 - 224 in:
Jeremy Richardson
(Ed.)
European Union. Power and policy-Making.
3rd ed.,
London:
Routledge.
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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.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier
(2005):
Conclusions: The Impact of the EU on the Accession Countries.
Pp. 210-228 in:
Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier
(Eds.)
The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe.
Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier
(2005):
Introduction: Conceptualizing the Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe.
Pp. 1-28 in:
Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier
(Eds.)
The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe.
Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2005):
The EU: Promoting Liberal Democracy through Membership Conditionality.
Pp. 106-126 in:
Trine Flockhart
(Ed.)
Socializing Democratic Norms: the Role of International Organizations for the Construction of Europe.
Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, Stefan Engert and Heiko Knobel
(2005):
The Impact of EU Political Conditionality.
Pp. 29-49 in:
Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier
(Eds.)
The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe.
Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier
(2005):
The politics of EU enlargement. Theoretical and comparative perspectives.
Pp. 3-29 in:
Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier
(Eds.)
The Politics of European Union Enlargement. Theoretical approaches.
London:
Routledge.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier
(2005):
The Study of EU Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Findings.
Pp. 96-116 in:
Angela Bourne, Michele Cini
(Eds.)
Palgrave Advances in European Union Studies.
Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
Liberal Intergovernmentalism.
Pp. 75-94 in:
Antje Wiener, Thomas Diez
(Eds.)
European Integration Theory.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2003):
Internationale Sozialisation: Von einem "erschöpften" zu einem produktiven Forschungsprogramm?.
Pp. 401-427 in:
Gunther Hellmann, Klaus Dieter Wolf, Michael Zürn
(Eds.)
Die neuen Internationalen Beziehungen. Forschungsstand und Perspektiven in Deutschland.
Baden-Baden:
Nomos.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2003):
Klub oder Gemeinschaft? Eine Kritik der klubtheoretischen Analyse der Erweiterung europäischer Regionalorganisationen.
Pp. 171-199 in:
Thomas Plümper
(Ed.)
Politische Integration.
Wiesbaden:
Westdeutscher Verlag.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2003):
Osterweiterung: Strategisches Handeln und kollektive Ideen.
Pp. 541-568 in:
Markus Jachtenfuchs, Beate Kohler-Koch
(Eds.)
Europäische Integration.
2.th ed.,
Opladen:
Leske + Budrich.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2002):
Introduction: The Impact of International Organizations on the Central and East European States - Conceptual and Theoretical Issues.
Pp. 1-29 in:
Ronald B. Linden
(Ed.)
Norms and Nannies: The Impact of International Organizations on the Central and Eastern European States.
Lanham, Md.:
Rowman & Littlefield.
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Thesis
Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2000):
Rules and Rhetoric. The Eastern Enlargement of the EU and NATO.
Darmstadt:
TU Darmstadt.
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Papers / Reports
Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig
(2005):
The Constitutionalization of the EU.
[The State of the European Union (Oxford University Press)]
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Rittberger, Berthold, and Frank Schimmelfennig
(2005):
The Constitutionalization of the European Union: Explaining the Parliamentarization and Institutionalization of Human Rights.
Wien
[IHS Working Papers]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2005):
The International Promotion of Political Norms in Central and Eastern Europe: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis.
Cambridge, Mass.
[Central and Eastern Europe Working Papers]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, Stefan Engert and Heiko Knobel
(2002):
Costs, Commitments, and Compliance. The Impact of EU Democratic Conditionality on European Non-member States.
[EUI Working Papers]
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Conference Presentations
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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2005):
1) European Neighborhood Policy: The Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights 2) Closing the Legitimacy Gap: 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]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2005):
Democracy Promotion in ENP: Coherence and Effectiveness.
[European Neighborhood Policy, Atlanta, Georgia, April 03rd to April 04th, 2005]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2005):
European Neighborhood Policy: Democracy and Human Rights.
[Annual conference of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 02nd to March 05th, 2005]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2005):
Multilateralism in Post-Cold War NATO: Functional Form, Identity-Driven Cooperation.
[Assessing Multilateralism in the Security Domain, Delphi, June 03rd to June 05th, 2005]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2005):
The International Promotion of Political Norms by European Regional Organizations: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis.
[Conference on EU Enlargement, Miami, Florida, April 22nd, 2005]
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Leuffen, Dirk, and Frank Schimmelfennig
(2004):
Efficient and Legitimate Governance in the 'New' European Union.
[Netherland's Institute of Government Annual Work Conference 2004 / European Research Colloquium, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, October 29th to October 30th, 2004]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
Demokratie und europäische Integration. Die Wirkung demokratischer Normen auf die Erweiterung und Vertiefung der EU.
[Jean Monnet Lecture, FU Berlin, December 14th, 2004]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
Die Europäisierung Ost- und Mitteleuropas: Starke Anreize, ambivalente Wirkungen.
[DFG-Graduiertenkolleg, Osnabrück, June 30th, 2004]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
NATO after the Cold War: Enlargement and Transformation.
[Crafting Cooperation. Regional Organizations in Comparative Perspective, Singapur, May 16th to May 19th, 2004]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
Sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien und europäische Integration.
[European Integration 2004-2007, Institut für Höhere Studien Wien, November 15th to November 19th, 2004]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
Strategic Action in International Community: Constitutional Processes in the European Union.
[Vortrag, London School of Economics, May 20th, 2004]
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Schimmelfennig, Frank
(2004):
The Impact of Political Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis.
[ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, 2nd Conference, Bologna, June 24th to June 27th, 2004]
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