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Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesCETEUS

Claudia Hefftler, Dipl. RWL

Claudia Hefftler is PhD student at the Jean Monnet Chair/ Centre for Turkey and EU Studies. At the chair, she has been working for the international research project Observatory of Parliaments after the Lisbon Treaty (OPAL) from 2011 to 2015. In the context of this project she has co-edited the Palgrave Handbook of National Parliaments and the EU (2015). Her main research interest is in national parliaments and their contribution to democratic legitimacy of the EU. In her PhD she investigates the role of opposition parties in the scrutiny of EU affairs and communication to the citizens.

Office Hours

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Publications

Claudia Hefftler, Christine Neuhold, Olivier Rozenberg und Julie Smith (eds) (2015): The Palgrave Handbook of National Parliaments and the European Union, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, see here. Therein:

  • Introduction (with Olivier Rozenberg), pp. 43-59,
  • Interparliamentary Cooperation in the European Union: Patterns, Problems and Potential (with Katjana Gattermann), pp. 94-115.

Katjana Gattermann, Claudia Hefftler (2015): Beyond Institutional Capacity: The Effects of Political Motivation on Parliamentary Behaviour in the Early Warning System, in West European Politics, 38 (2), pp. 305-334. 

Claudia Hefftler, Wolfgang Wessels (2013): The Democratic Legitimation of the EU´s Economic Governance and National Parliaments, IAI Working Paper, No. 1313, 8 April 2013, see here.

Claudia Hefftler, Valentin Kreilinger, Olivier Rozenberg, Wolfgang Wessels (2013): National Parliaments: Their Emerging Control over the Eurpean Council, Notre Europe Policy Brief, No. 89, 29 March 2013, see here.

Full list of publications, see here.

Conference presentations

An ever closer inter-parliamentary network? National parliaments’ priorities in inter-parliamentary cooperation in the EU, vorgestellt auf der EUSA Conference, 5-7 March 2015, Boston.

Inter-parliamentary relations in the EU: What drives national parliaments' participation in cooperation beyond the domestic arena?, paper presented at the UACES 44th  Annual Conference, 1-3 September, Cork.

Presentation of the research findings of the Colgone OPAL team, PADEMIA Annual Conference, 12-13 June 2014, Brussels.

Democratic Legitimacy and Problems of Identity: A Union of Shared Fate or Shared Interests? presented at the international Conference of the Hungarian Europe Society, 15 March 2014, Budapest. 

Presentation of the research findings of the Colgone OPAL team, OPAL final conference, 31 March 2014, London.

Political Motivation and institutional capacity: National parliaments`incentives to participate in the Early Warning Mechanism, presented at the ECPR general conference, 4-7 September 2013, Bordeaux.

National parliaments’ direct influence on EU decision-making: Bringing politics back in? presented at the OPAL conference, 7-8 March 2013, Berlin.

Teaching

Winter term 2016/17 Forschungsprojekt: Researching Parliaments in the European Union (course no. 14335.0066)

Winter term 2016/17 Kolloquium Sozialwissenschaften (course no. 14335.0068)

Summer term 2015 Seminar Europäische Politik - "Demokratie jenseits des Nationalstaates? Die Rolle von Parlamenten im EU-Mehrebenensystem" (zusammen mit Johannes Müller Gomez), see here.

Winter term 2014/15 Advanced Seminar the Political System of the EU: Strategic and Conceptual Approaches - "Parliamentary representation in the multi-level system of the EU" (with Prof. Wolfgang Wessels), see here.  

Summer term 2014 Governance and Institutions - "The democratic deficit of the EU: What role for national parliaments?" (with Oliver Höing)

Winter term 2013/14 Seminar Europäische Politik - Nationale Parlament in der EU: Retter der Demokratie in Europa?