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Blauberger, M. & Wonka, A. (2026). Debating EU actions against democratic backsliding in Hungary: shifting government and opposition frames. Journal of Common Market Studies, 64(2), 641-668. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13759   

Wonka A., Gastinger, M. & 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2279245 

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Blauberger, M. & Sedelmeier, U. (2026). Flexible Firewalls: Selective Cooperation and Strategic Demarcation Between Centre-Right and Far-Right Parties in the EU. Journal of European Public policy, early view online. https://https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2026.2706559

Blauberger, M., Makaradze, S. & Spilker, G. (2026). International sanctions and domestic backlash. Exploring public support towards the EU’s rule of law enforcement. European Union Politics, 27(1), 60-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165251395302 

Koranyi, K. (2025). The limits of EU rule of law financial sanctions: how economic and political costs shaped Hungary’s selective compliance strategy. Journal of European Public Policy, early view online. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2553752 

Blauberger, M. & Sedelmeier, U. (2025). Sanctioning democratic backsliding in the European Union: Transnational salience, negative intergovernmental spillover, and policy change. Journal of European Public Policy, 32(2), 365-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2318483