JEPP Journal

✨ A silver bullet for EU migration policy?

🤔 @lutzphilipp.bsky.social and Maud Bachelet test whether Europeans support EU member states choosing their contribution to a common migration policy (border protection, money, relocation, etc.).

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🤗 Keep your principals close, but your stakeholders closer:

🗨️ Rik Joosen, Koen Verhoest, @bastiaanredert.bsky.social & Peter Bursens examine effects of EU agency stakeholder involvement

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Check out our latest paper on how cueing and policy legacies interact in the EU in times of crisis now out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 📢! @alexmoise.bsky.social @ztruchlewski.bsky.social

And stay tuned for some other survey experimental studies on elite cueing in the EU we are currently brewing 🍞!

🗣️ Language-bargaining in the Council of the European Union: meaning negotiations and the concept of gender equality by Dr Monika de Silva 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

☁️ The trust deficit. EU bargaining for access and control over cloud infrastructures by Filippo Gualtiero Blancato & Madeline Carr 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

◀️▶️ The implementation of decentralisation reforms in multi-level systems by Javier Martínez-Cantó & Jorge M. Fernandes 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired by Zack Grant, Jane Green & Geoffrey Evans 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🟩 🟥 The comparative politics of just transition policies: building green-red winning coalitions in Spain and Ireland by Matteo Mandelli 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧠 Can information, compensation and party cues increase mass support for green taxes? by Reto Bürgisser, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen & Klaus Armingeon 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📊 Assessing and comparing the effects of public policies – a new approach by Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner, Christoph Knill & Yves Steinebach 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧮 Party responsiveness to public opinion in a multi-dimensional policy space by Raimondas Ibenskas & Jonathan Polk 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🦾⚖️⚔️ The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine by Patrick Müller & Peter Slominski 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏛️⚖️ Unravelling national governments’ positions on EU rule of law enforcement: structural, semi-structural and ideological factors by Carlos Closa & Gisela Hernández 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🤔 How should the EU respond to democratic backsliding? A normative assessment of expulsion and suspension of voting rights from the perspective of multilateral democracy by Antoinette Scherz 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Refresh your page numbers, issue 3 of 2026 is out 🎉

👉️ www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

🏭 JEPP Best Paper Prize 2024: Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy by Timo Seidl & Luuk Schmitz 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@ztruchlewski.bsky.social, @alexmoise.bsky.social, @nenaoana.bsky.social run a survey experiment testing whether policy legacies and elite cues influence support for EU crisis policies 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success? Under what conditions does public participation in supranational policymaking help the European Commission strengthen its legislative agenda-setting power and minimise the change of legislative pro...

Delighted to see our article out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! Right on time to make a contribution to the debate on the @ec.europa.eu's new initiative to reform its Better Regulation policy. Open access & part of @erc.europa.eu ERC project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

❓ @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social and @sergiulipcean.bsky.social ask: If the European Commission consults more stakeholders, are its proposals less likely to be changed by legislators?

✅ Bottom line: Yes, but it depends

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🥜 Their findings in a nutshell:
⬇️ Higher perceived bias and greater ideological distance → lower trust
⬆️ Greater awareness of bias → higher trust

Erika J. van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and @takesipma.bsky.social explore how citizens’ views of ideological bias (including toward scientists 😉) shape confidence in public‑service institutions

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How do workers respond to using AI technology? For @defactoexpert.bsky.social I had the opportunity to highlight the implications of our recent @jeppjournal.bsky.social article. Read more in the blog!

Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility This article examines the flexibility of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It asks under what conditions modifications to the original National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) have ...

📢 New publication

@afernandezpasarin.bsky.social and @joanmiroartigas.bsky.social have just published a great paper at @jeppjournal.bsky.social

Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Defensive integration through cooperative re-bordering? How member states use internal border controls in Schengen Following the refugee crisis in 2015 and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the use of internal border controls within the EU expanded considerably. This change seems to be at odds with the freedom ...

Is Schengen's endgame defensive integration via internal controls? This article by @ejpfurst.bsky.social examines how member states wield temporary border checks for security, reshaping the free-movement zone.

@jeppjournal.bsky.social

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🧭 How economic governance makes or breaks EU enlargement Comparing Central and Eastern Europe with the Western Balkans, Visnja Vukov argues that the EU’s governance of economic integration is a decisive lever of transformation. When the EU prioritises and c...

🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.36
🌍 Based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social, @vvukov.bsky.social compares Central + Eastern Europe with the Western Balkans to argue that the #EU’s governance of #EconomicIntegration is a decisive lever of transformation.
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🛠️🕺 How 🇪🇺 industrial policy got its groove back: Eugenia C. Heldt & Sophie Meunier show that securitisation & governance shifts let the European Commission make a strong case for more interventionism👇

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🔍 Much blamed, barely understood: @jekantol.bsky.social and Barbara Gaweda show that the Council of the EU remains reluctant toward intersectionality in gender equality law 👇

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💶👫 Taxation Thursday: What explains shifts from joint to individual tax units for couples?

👿 Teresa Fehrenbach finds that the devil lies in the calculation method. Countries using aggregation are far more likely to shift than those stuck with splitting 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🤯 Lost in the literature on European identity?

🙌 Juan J. Fernández, Olena Bedasheva & Maria Durbán offer a remedy: they conduct a meta-analysis and show that European identification has many predictors 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Anticipating nightmare issues: explaining the timing of negative agenda-setting by interest groups This paper investigates the timing of interest groups’ negative agenda-setting efforts. Some organizations lobby proactively to prevent their ‘nightmare’ issues from reaching the formal policy agen...

⏱️ @frederikstevens.bsky.social examines when interest groups mobilise to keep “nightmare” issues off the EU agenda.

⏳ Survey data on 485 EU-level groups shows negative agenda-setting is about timing, not just mobilisation 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....