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Environmental Politics and Climate Change


Addressing Adaptation in the EU Policy Framework (forthcoming in E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-Level Governance of Climate Change, Springer)

Climate Politics and Forestry: On the Multi-level Governance of Swedish Forests (with Carina Keskitalo)

Why No Carbon Price on Natural Gas? (with Attila Hugyecz, EU Consent Workshop on Energy, CEPS, Brussels)

An Initial Investigation of the EU's 2020 Climate Change Package and its Potential Domestic Impact (Institute for World Economics, Working Paper No. 186, with Attila Hugyecz, revised english version of MTA-VKI Report)

Hazai Hatásvizsgálati és Intézkedési Lépések az Éghajlatváltozással és a Megújuló Energiaforrásokkal Kapcsolatban az Európai Unió 2020-ra Kituzött Céljainak Végrehajtására Irányuló Intézkedési Csomag és az ezt Követo Hatásvizsgálatok Kapcsán (MTA-VKI Report with Attila Hugyecz and Tamas Fleischer)

The Politics of Climate Change: Is There an East-West Divide? (Institute for World Economics, Working Paper No. 181)

On Politics and Climate Change: Is EU 2020 Climate Change Policy Tilted Toward Western Interests? (Development and Finance – Fejlesztés és Finanszírozás, 2008)

Plant a Tree, Raise a Forest: Energy Security, Climate Change and the EU's Half-Hearted Fight Against Global Warming (coming soon)

Weighting the Politics of the Environment in the New Europe (Institute for World Economics, Working Paper No. 169)

Hungary: From ‘Policy Taker’ to Policymaker? (in Zeff, Eleanor E. and Ellen B. Pirro, eds. European Union and the Member States, Boulder: Lynne Rienner)

National and Subnational Regionalism


Market Correctives, Market Palliatives and the Politics of European Integration (EU and national-level effects)

Subnational Regionalism in a Supranational Context: the Case of Hungary (National and subnational level effects - Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2008)

Consensual vs. Majoritarian Political Systems


Electoral Responsiveness and Electoral Institutions: SMD, MMD and the Representation of Interests

Majoritarian vs. Consensual Systems: Price Advantage vs. Citizen Representation?

Book Project

The chapters of this book address the general claim that--due in particular to the problems of economic uncertainty--some states can lose from European integration both with respect to individual policies and in the aggregate. Focusing on the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union towards Central and Eastern Europe, the chapters criticize the general claim that European integration represents a win-win situation for all parties. In most cases one can effectively argue that Western Europe carefully crafted the accession process in a manner that brought substantial benefits to Western states, but shifted much of the burden of economic and social adjustment onto Central and Eastern Europe.

Divide and Conquer: The EU Enlargement's Successful Conclusion? (Updated and extended version of article published in International Studies Review, 2006)

Competitiveness Strategies, Resource Struggles and National Interest in the New Europe (Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, 2008)

Politics and the Environment in Central Europe (prepared for the 2004 MPSA)

In the Face of Uncertainty: EU Membership and the Quest for Convergence (with Mustally Hussain, prepared for the 2003 MPSA)

Voting in the New Europe: Re-thinking the Center of Gravity? (coming soon)

Previous Work on European Integration

Divide and Conquer: The EU Enlargement’s Successful Conclusion? (International Studies Review, 2006)

CEEC Prospects for Convergence: A Theoretical and Historical Overview (in Dauderstädt, Michael and Lothar Witte, eds. Cohesive Growth in the Enlarging Euroland, Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung)

The Eastern Enlargement: A ‘New’ or ‘Multi-Speed’ Europe" (in Brigitta Widmaier and Wolfgang Potratz, eds., Frameworks for Industrial Policy in Central and Eastern Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate)

Entangling Fortunes (PhD Dissertation)