Publications – Markus Gastinger

Peer-reviewed book

Gastinger, M. (2024) EU Trade Agreements and European Integration: Commission Autonomy or Council Control?, London: Routledge. [publisher’s website; open-access introduction]

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Gastinger, M. and Dür, A. (2026) ‘The institutional design of joint bodies in trade agreements: monitoring commitments, facilitating negotiations, avoiding ratification’, Review of International Political Economy. Advance online publication. [publisher’s website; replication data]

Wonka, A., Gastinger, M. and Blauberger, M. (2025) ‘The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding: Public debates in Hungarian and Polish newspapers’, Journal of European Public Policy 32(2): 498–521. [publisher’s website]

Gastinger, M. and Schmidtke, H. (2023) ‘Measuring precision precisely: A dictionary-based measure of imprecision’, The Review of International Organizations 18(3): 553–571. [publisher’s website; replication data]

Dür, A. and Gastinger, M. (2023) ‘Spinning a global web of EU external relations: How the EU establishes stronger joint bodies where they matter most’, Journal of European Public Policy 30(6): 1072–1091. [publisher’s website; replication data]

Gastinger, M. and Heldt, E. C. (2022) ‘Measuring actual discretion of the European Commission: Using the discretion index to guide empirical research’, European Union Politics 23(3): 541–558. [publisher’s website; supplementary material]

Gastinger, M. and Dür, A. (2021) ‘Joint bodies in the European Union’s international agreements: Delegating powers to the European Commission in EU external relations’, European Union Politics 22(4): 611–630. [publisher’s website; replication data]

Gastinger, M. (2021) ‘Introducing the EU exit index measuring each member state’s propensity to leave the European Union’, European Union Politics 22(3): 566–585. [publisher’s website; replication data; YouTube presentation]

Gastinger, M. and Adriaensen, J. (2019) ‘Of principal(s’) interest? A disaggregated, multiple principals’ approach to Commission discretion’, Journal of Common Market Studies 57(2): 353–370. [publisher’s website; replication data]

Gastinger, M. (2017) ‘Play it again, Sam! Teaching transferable skills through multiple repetitions of “simple” simulations (with research benefits)’, European Political Science 16(2): 233–245. [publisher’s website; post-print]

Gastinger, M. (2016) ‘The tables have turned on the European Commission: the changing nature of the pre-negotiation phase in EU bilateral trade agreements’, Journal of European Public Policy 23(9): 1367–1385. [publisher’s website; post-print; JEPP Online blog feature]

Peer-reviewed book chapter

Gastinger, M. (2017) ‘Effects of contestation within a collective agent in EU trade policy-making’, in T. Delreux and J. Adriaensen (eds), The Principal Agent Model and the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 181–202. [publisher’s website]

Scholarly blogs

Dür, A. and Gastinger, M. (2022) ‘Understanding the role of joint bodies in EU external relations’, LSE EUROPP blog.

Gastinger, M. (2020) ‘Wird ein anderes Land Großbritannien aus der EU folgen?’, DER STANDARD Politikwissenschaftsblog.

Gastinger, M. (2019) ‘Will another country follow the UK out of the EU? This is why it’s unlikely’, LSE Brexit blog.

Gastinger, M. (2018) ‘Don’t shoot the messenger: The European Commission’s role in the Brexit negotiations’, The UK in a Changing Europe.

Gastinger, M. (2017) ‘Donald Trump’s flawed plan to strong-arm other countries into “one-on-one” trade deals’, LSE American Politics and Policy blog.

Gastinger, M. (2016) ‘Teaching the value of replicability’, Active Learning in Political Science.

Commentary and opinion

Gastinger, M. (2021) ‘MEPs have one last chance to save Erasmus from Brexit’, EUobserver, 15 February.

Gastinger, M. (2015) ‘Time for Plan C on the refugee crisis’, EUobserver, 29 October.

Gastinger, M. (2014) ‘Wider den Wanderzirkus – ein “olympisches Europaparlament”?’, EurActiv.de, 19 May.

Gastinger, M. (2014) ‘Students should vote for pro-Erasmus MEPs’, EUobserver, 23 April.

Gastinger, M. (2011) ‘Der Euro-Stabilitätspakt: An inconvenient truth’, derStandard.at, 8 June.

Reports and policy papers

Gastinger, M. (2019) Brexit! Grexit? Frexit? Considerations on how to explain and measure the propensities of member states to leave the European Union, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) Working Paper 2019/85. [download]

Gastinger, M., Lieb, J., Maurer, A. and McGinley, M. (2008) ‘Das irische Nein zum Lissabonner Vertrag: Kampagnen, Abstimmungsmotive und Perspektiven des Reformvertrages’, SWP Diskussionspapier. [publisher’s website]

Mirela, N., Czerniak, M., Gastinger, M., Hueter, H. and Jodoin, A. (2003) Continuing Coverage: “Out-Biggin’ the Smalls and Out-Smallin’ the Bigs”, Investment Research Report on MidSouth Bancorp (MSL-AMEX), Tulane University: Burkenroad Reports. [download]

Other

Dür, A. and Gastinger, M. (2022) Executive Summary: Joint Bodies in International Agreements of the EU, University of Salzburg. [download]

Gastinger, M. (2022) Is civil society involved in the EU’s trade policy? The case of CETA, commUNIty – the University of Salzburg blog. [link]

Gastinger, M. (2022) Freihandelsabkommen und Umweltschutz: Ein Widerspruch?, commUNIty – the University of Salzburg blog. [link]

Gastinger, M. (2021) The EU Exit Index: Could any other countries leave the EU in the future?, PLUS Dossier. [download]

Gastinger, M. (2017) Donald J. Trump – Free to (f)act? A short introduction to international relations (IR) theories, YouTube, 13 January. [link; related blog post]