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European Socioeconomic and Political Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Salih Işık Bora
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2
Sergio Mariotti
Politecnico di Milano
3
Sanne Velthuis
Newcastle University
4
Eglantine Staunton
Australian National University
5
Helena Gräf
University of Erfurt
6
Gwénaël Doré
Département sciences pour l'action, les transitions, les territoires
7
Guðmundur Oddsson
University of Missouri
8
Ulrike Lepont
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
9
Samuel Klebaner
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10
Grzegorz Lechowski
Helmut Schmidt University

Rising Stars Papers

1
The European Investor State: Its characteristics, genesis, and effects
Competition & Change|2024
50 cit.
2
“Win-lose” globalization and the weaponization of economic policies by nation-states
Critical Perspectives on International Business|2024
43 cit.
3
“Open strategic autonomy” as an industrial policy compass for the EU competitiveness and growth: The good, the bad, or the ugly?
Journal of Industrial and Business Economics|2024
31 cit.
4
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU15
Regional Studies|2024
29 cit.
5
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS
International Affairs|2024
22 cit.
6
Intergovernmentalism in a supranational field: France, Germany, and EU competition policy reform
West European Politics|2024
22 cit.
7
Neoliberal means to dirigiste ends: explaining the French government’s use of Heroic Industrial Policy Discourse (HIPD) in EU politics
French Politics|2024
19 cit.
8
A Regulatory‐Developmental Turn Within EU Industrial Policy? The Case of the Battery IPCEIs
Politics and Governance|2024
11 cit.
9
The social construction of the French for-profit hospital market
Review of Evolutionary Political Economy|2025
5 cit.
10
Flexible education reform and Iceland’s police staffing crisis
Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Sigurbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir
University of Iceland
2
Alexandra Strebel
Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt
3
Katrín Anna Lund
University of Iceland
4
Kateryna Dashevska
University of Lausanne
5
Johannes Karremans
University of Salzburg
6
Eggert Þórarinsson
National Bureau of Economic Research
7
Matti Pesu
Finnish Institute of International Affairs
8
Eiríkur Elís Þorláksson
Reykjavík University
9
Christoph Halbmeier
German Institute for Economic Research
10
Lina Seitzl
University of St.Gallen

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics at 160
Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics|2024
184 cit.
2
Indicators for sustainable energy development: An Icelandic case study
Energy Policy|2022
44 cit.
3
Insufficiency of informal alignment: why did Finland choose formal NATO membership?
International Affairs|2024
32 cit.
4
Crisis and paradigm change in the European semester: from austerity to investment-oriented policy ideas
Journal of European Integration|2023
13 cit.
5
Trans-atlantic (mis)trust in perspective: asymmetry, abandonment and alliance cohesion
Cambridge Review of International Affairs|2023
12 cit.
6
The Continental Social Investment Turn: Sequencing Corrective and Transformative Welfare State Change in the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy
Politics & Society|2024
10 cit.
7
“Few people and the birds”. Negotiating tourism development and more-than-human hospitality on the margin
World Leisure Journal|2024
6 cit.
8
Co-Creating Nature: Tourist Photography as a Creative Performance
Humanities|2023
4 cit.
9
Capital controls as a bargaining device: The case of Iceland
Review of International Economics|2023
3 cit.
10
The Long-Term Implications of Destruction During the Second World War on Private Wealth in Germany
SSRN Electronic Journal|2023
2 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Thomas Risse
European University Institute
2
Manuel Guitián
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
3
Ian Greer
Cornell University
4
David Soskice
Duke University
5
Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson
University of Iceland
6
Reinhold Schnabel
University of Duisburg-Essen
7
Chris Rowley
Kellogg's (Canada)
8
Jürgen Schupp
German Institute for Economic Research
9
Gert G. Wagner
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
10
Μáté Wierdl
University of Memphis

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage
Academy of Management Review|2003
7.6k cit.
2
INDIVIDUAL RISK ATTITUDES: MEASUREMENT, DETERMINANTS, AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES
Journal of the European Economic Association|2011
3.9k cit.
3
“Let's Argue!”: Communicative Action in World Politics
International Organization|2000
2.5k cit.
4
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Scope, Evolution and Enhancements
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch|2007
1.3k cit.
5
Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others
American Political Science Review|2006
1.2k cit.
6
An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences
American Political Science Review|2001
1.1k cit.
7
THE FAILURE OF TRAINING IN BRITAIN: ANALYSIS AND PRESCRIPTION
Oxford Review of Economic Policy|1988
1.1k cit.
8
WAGE DETERMINATION: THE CHANGING ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN ADVANCED INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES
Oxford Review of Economic Policy|1990
972 cit.
9
The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik|2018
958 cit.
10
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Evolution, Scope and Enhancements
SSRN Electronic Journal|2007
949 cit.

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