Publications

✓ indicates peer reviewed work

Publication and citation data last updated: 2025-09-17

                 



Books

  • Christian Rauh (2016) “A Responsive Technocracy? EU Politicisation and the Consumer Policies of the European Commission” Colchester: ECPR Press, ✓

  • Miriam Hartlapp, Julia Metz, Christian Rauh (2014) “Which policy for Europe?: Power and Conflict inside the European Commission” Oxford: Oxford University Press, ✓

Journal Articles

  • Christian Rauh (2025) “International recognition of European Union “actorness”: Language-based evidence from United Nations general debate speeches 1970–2020” International Interactions, Online First. ✓

  • Miklos Sebők, Sven Oliver Proksch, Christian Rauh, P Visnovitz, G Balázs, Jan Schwalbach (2025) “Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article” International Political Science Review, 46(1): 18-39. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Michal Parizek (2024) “Converging on Europe? The European Union in mediatised debates during the COVID-19 and Ukraine shocks” Journal of European Public Policy, 31(10): 3036-3065. ✓

  • Christian Rauh (2023) “Clear messages to the European public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985–2020” Journal of European Integration, 45(4): 683-701. ✓

  • Christian Rauh (2022) “Supranational emergency politics? What executives’ public crisis communication may tell us” Journal of European Public Policy, 29(6): 966-978. ✓

  • Sina Özdemir, Christian Rauh (2022) “A Bird’s Eye View: Supranational EU Actors on Twitter” Politics and Governance, 10(1): 133-145. ✓

  • Christian Rauh (2021) “One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016” European Union Politics, 22(1): 3-24. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Bart J. Bes, Martijn Schoonvelde (2020) “Undermining, defusing or defending European integration? Assessing public communication of European executives in times of EU politicisation” European Journal of Political Research, 59(2): 397-423. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Michael Zürn (2020) “Authority, politicization, and alternative justifications: endogenous legitimation dynamics in global economic governance” Review of International Political Economy, 27(3): 583-611. ✓

  • Christian Rauh (2020) “Christina J. Schneider. 2018. The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance.(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)” The Review of International Organizations, 15(1): 307-310.

  • Christian Rauh (2019) “EU politicization and policy initiatives of the European Commission: the case of consumer policy” Journal of European Public Policy, 26(3): 344-365. ✓

  • Pieter De Wilde, Christian Rauh (2019) “Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness” Journal of European Public Policy, 26(11): 1737-1748. ✓

  • Christian Rauh (2018) “Validating a sentiment dictionary for German political language—a workbench note” Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 15(4): 319-343. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Pieter De Wilde (2018) “The opposition deficit in EU accountability: Evidence from over 20 years of plenary debate in four member states” European Journal of Political Research, 57(1): 194-216. ✓

  • Maurits J. Meijers, Christian Rauh (2016) “Has Eurosceptic mobilization become more contagious? Comparing the 2009 and 2014 EP Election campaigns in The Netherlands and France” Politics and Governance, 4(1): 83-103. ✓

  • Miriam Hartlapp, Julia Metz, Christian Rauh (2016) “Wer mäßigt den Agenda-Setter im EU-System und wie? Drei Modi der Positionsbildung in der EU-Kommission” Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 26(1): 85-98. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Michael Zürn (2016) “Die Politisierung der Europäischen Union als Chance nutzen” integration, 39(1): 3-14. ✓

  • Christian Rauh (2015) “Communicating supranational governance? The salience of EU affairs in the German Bundestag, 1991–2013” European Union Politics, 16(1): 116-138. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, G Schneider (2013) “There is No such Thing as a Free Open Sky: Financial Markets and the Struggle over European Competences in International Air Transport” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 51(6): 1124-1140. ✓

  • Miriam Hartlapp, Christian Rauh (2013) “The Commission’s internal conditions for social re-regulation: Market efficiency and wider social goals in setting the rules for financial services in Europe” European Journal of Government and Economics, 2(1): 25-40. ✓

  • Miriam Hartlapp, Julia Metz, Christian Rauh (2012) “Linking Agenda Setting to Coordination Structures: Bureaucratic Politics inside the European Commission” Journal of European Integration, 35(4): 425-441. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Antje Kirchner, Roland Kappe (2011) “Political Parties and Higher Education Spending: Who Favours Redistribution?” West European Politics, 34(6): 1185-1206. ✓

Book chapters

  • Christian Rauh, Reinout van der Veer (2024) “Responsiveness” In: Gijs J. Brandsma (ed.) Handbook on European Union Public Administration, 362-376. ✓

  • Christian Rauh (2021) “Between neo-functionalist optimism and post-functionalist pessimism: Integrating politicisation into integration theory” In: Nathalie Brack and Seda Gürkan (eds.) Theorising the crises of the European Union, 119-137. ✓

  • Jan Schwalbach, Christian Rauh (2021) “Collecting large-scale comparative text data on legislative debates” In: Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus, and Jorge M. Fernandes (eds.) The Politics of Legislative Debates, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 91-109.

  • Liesbet Hooghe, Christian Rauh (2017) “The Commission’s services: A powerful permanent bureaucracy” In: Dermot Hodson and John Peterson (eds.) The Institutions of the European Union, 4187-212. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Sebastian Bödeker (2015) “Internationale Organisationen in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit: Ein Text Mining-Ansatz” In: M. Lemke and G. Wiedemann (eds.) Text-Mining in den Sozialwissenschaften. Grundlagen und Anwendungen zwischen qualitativer und quantitativer Diskursanalyse, 289-314. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Michael Zürn (2015) “Die Politisierung der Europäischen Union als Chance nutzen” In: Claudio Franzius, Franz C. Mayer, and Jürgen Neyer (eds.) Modelle des Parlamentarismus im 21. Jahrhundert, 469-486. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Michael Zürn (2014) “Zur Politisierung der EU in der Krise” In: M. Heidenreich (ed.) Krise der europäischen Vergesellschaftung? Soziologische Perspektiven, 121-145. ✓

Other publications

  • Jan Schwalbach, Lukas Hetzer, Sven Oliver Proksch, Christian Rauh, Miklos Sebők (2025) “ParlLawSpeech” Cologne: GESIS, doi:10.7802/2824.

  • Christian Rauh, Heiko Giebler, Jan Paul Heisig (2024) “System unter Druck: Zur Krisenfestigkeit demokratischer Ideale” WZB Mitteilungen, 183: 6-9.

  • Christian Rauh (2023) “Klarer über Europa reden. warum europäische Entscheidungsträger ihre Kommunikation verbessern müssen” WZB Mitteilungen, 179: Online Supplement.

  • Jan Paul Heisig, Heiko Giebler, Christian Rauh (2022) “Eine Frage des Vertrauens: Warum Menschen die Corona-Impfung ablehnen” WZB Mitteilungen, 175: 36-39.

  • Aishwarya Anegundi, Konstantin Schulz, Christian Rauh, Georg Rehm (2022) “Modelling Cultural and Socio-Economic Dimensions of Political Bias in German Tweets” Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2022), 29-40.

  • Christian Rauh, Johannes Scherzinger (2022) “Widersprüchliche Signale. Wie EU-Staaten vor dem Ukrainekrieg über Russland sprachen.” WZB Mitteilungen, 176(2): 45-8. ✓

  • Christian Rauh, Michael Zürn (2020) “Autorität ohne Rückhalt: Das Legitimationsdefizit internationaler Organisationen” WZB Mitteilungen, 167: 10-12.

  • Christian Rauh, Jan Schwalbach (2020) “The ParlSpeech V2 data set: Full-text corpora of 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of nine representative democracies” Harvard Dataverse, doi:10.7910/DVN/L4OAKN.

  • Christian Rauh (2019) “Untergraben, verschleiern, verteidigen: Politische Kommunikation zur Europäischen Union” WZB Mitteilungen, 165: 34-35.

  • Christian Rauh (2018) “An Agenda-Setter in Decline? Legislative Activity of the European Commission 1985–2016” Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA 2018),

  • Christian Rauh, Jan Schwalbach, Pieter De Wilde (2017) “The ParlSpeech data set: Annotated full-text vectors of 3.9 million plenary speeches in the key legislative chambers of seven European states” Harvard Dataverse,

  • Christian Rauh (2016) “No longer an ivory tower: how public debates influence European Commission policies” LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog,

  • Christian Rauh (2015) “Legitimität und Politisierung globaler Steuerung” Informationen zur politischen Bildung (izpb), 325: 25-28. ✓

  • Miriam Hartlapp, Julia Metz, Christian Rauh (2015) “Conflict inside the European Commission is a key factor in shaping EU legislation” LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog,

  • Alexandros Tokhi, Christian Rauh (2015) “Die schiere Menge sagt noch nichts Big Data in den Sozialwissenschaften” WZB-Mitteilungen, 150: 6-9.

  • Christian Rauh (2014) “The EU’s attempts to manage air transport regulation illustrate the extent to which supranational actors can send credible signals to financial markets” LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog,

  • Christian Rauh (2014) “And It Does Listen-Sometimes Public Debates Can Influence the Politics of the EU Commission” WZB Report, 2014.

  • Michael Zürn, Christian Rauh (2014) “» Legitimationsprobleme im Früheuropäismus «” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19(2014): 6-6.

  • Pieter De Wilde, Christian Rauh (2013) “Über den Tellerrand: Zunehmend werden auch die Entscheidungen internationaler Institutionen öffentlich politisiert” WZB Mitteilungen, 141: 31-23.

  • Christian Rauh (2013) “Und sie hört doch hin – manchmal: Öffentliche Debatten können die Politik der EU-Kommission beeinflussen” WZB Mitteilungen, 139: 29-31.

  • Christian Rauh (2013) “Politisieren lassen oder politisieren? Die europäische Öffentlichkeit fordert ihr Recht” Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte, 60 (1/2): 53-6.

  • Christian Rauh (2012) “Politicisation, Issue Salience, and Consumer Policies of the European Commission: Does Public Awareness and Contestation of Supranational Matters Increase the Responsiveness of Europe’s central agenda-setter?” Freie Universität Berlin,

  • Miriam Hartlapp, Julia Metz, Christian Rauh (2010) “How external interests enter the European Commission: Mechanisms at play in legislative position formation” WZB Discussion Paper, SP IV 2010-501.

  • Miriam Hartlapp, Julia Metz, Christian Rauh (2010) “The agenda set by the EU Commission: the result of balanced or biased aggregation of positions?” LEQS paper, 21.

  • Miriam Hartlapp, Julia Metz, Christian Rauh (2010) “Made in Brussels Wie externe Interessen ihren Weg in die Politikformulierung der EUKommission finden” WZB-Mitteilungen, 130.

  • Christian Rauh (2009) “The Repeatedly Low Turnout in EP Elections: Political Elites Fail in Politicising Citizens.” A Different View - IAPSS Monthly News Magazine, 31: 3-5.

  • Christian Rauh (2008) “From Chicago to Brussels: EU regulation of international air transport and the stock market performance of internationally operating airlines”

  • Christian Rauh (2007) “Heilmittel oder Freifahrtschein? Zur Anwendbarkeit der Offenen Methode der Koordinierung auf die europäische Strukturpolitik” GRIN Verlag,

  • Christian Rauh (2006) “Legal Harmonization. A case study on modelling the legislative processes of the European Union.” GRIN Verlag,

  • Christian Rauh (2006) “Entscheidungsverfahren und das Demokratiedefizit. Zum Einfluss des Europäischen Parlaments auf die Gesetzgebung der Europäischen Union” GRIN Verlag,

  • Christian Rauh, R Kappe, A Kirchner (2006) “Bowlen am Wahltag-Sozialkapital und Wahlbeteiligung in 94 europäischen Regionen” GRIN Verlag,

  • Christian Rauh (2005) “Mikropolitik–Verstehen oder Erklären? Der Erkenntnisgewinn der Strategischen Organisationsanalyse nach Crozier und Friedberg” GRIN Verlag,

  • Christian Rauh (2005) “Fitting already in? Romania and the political criterion of Copenhagen” GRIN Verlag,

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Citations: 2125   -   H-Index: 21   -   i10-Index: 30

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