research

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Articles and Chapters


"Different Legacies, Common Pressures, and Converging Institutions: The Politics of Muslim integration in Austria and Germany." The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity,ed. Steven Ratuva. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 1853-1876.

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*Fujinami, Nobuyoshi, "Defining Religion in a State that wasn’t: Autonomous Crete and the Question of Post-Ottoman Millet System ," Journal of Church and State, Forthcoming.

"Lightening of Citizenship and its Implication for Social Policy: 'Social Security Lite' in the Making?" Journal of Tsuda College, 49, 2017, 1-28.

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*Boschetti, Barbara L., "Social Goals via Public Contracts in the EU: a New Deal?," Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico, 67:4, 2017.

"Transposition Strategy and Political Time in the Europeanisation of Social Norms: Comparing Transposition of the Anti-discrimination Directives in Germany and Austria." Study of Internaitonal Relations (Tsuda College),43, 2017, 1-14.

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*Röder, Ingrid, "Gender and Equality Policies as Europeanization of Old and New Member States? - An Ongoing Process," QUING Conference, October 2009.

*Boccadoro, Natalie, "Housing Rights and Racial Discrimination," European Anti-discrimination Law Review, 9, 2009, 21-32.

*Givens, Terri E., and Rhonda Evans Case, Legislating Equality: The Politics of Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

*Petričević, Vanja,Compliance Patterns with EU Anti-Discrimination Legislation. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

*Mulder, Jule, EU Non-Discrimination Law in the Courts: Approaches to Sex and Sexualities Discrimination in EU Law. London: Hart, 2017.

*Meer, Nasar, "What will Happen to Race Equality Policy on the Brexit Archipelago? Multi-Level Governance, ‘Sunk Costs’ and the ‘Mischief of Faction’," Journal of Social Policy, 46:4, 2017, 657-674.

"Difficulties of Crafting 'Working' Party Democracy through Institutional Engineering: Some Hunches from the Japanese Case." Tsukimura, Taro and Ivona Lađevac, eds. Major International Issues in the 21st Century from a Perspective of Japan and Europe. Belgrade: Institute of International Politics and Economics, 2015, 65-72.

"Experts and Academics as Ideas Generators and Promulgators: Identifying the Social Policy Community of the European Union." University of Tokyo Journal of Law and Politics, 9, 2012, 162-182.

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*Deganis, Isabelle, A Dialogue across Paradigms. The European Commission’s Autonomous Power within the Open Method of Coordination. D. Phil Thesis, Oxford University, 2011.

*Schellinger, Alexander, EU Labor Market Policy: Ideas, Thought Communities and Policy Change. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

"Global Governance, Japan and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development" In: Global Governance and Japan, ed. by Glenn Hook and Hugo Dobson. Oxford: Routledge, 2007, pp. 76-91.

Reviewed by:

Marie Söderberg, Social Science Japan Journal, 10(2), 2007, 347-349.

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*Kratzer, Evan, "Japanese Foreign Aid," Columbia East Asia Review, 8.

"Constructing 'Corporatist' State-Society Relations?: Current Discourses on the European NGOs and Its Democratic Weakness." Kobe University Law Review, 38, 2004, 1-20.

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*Greenwood, Justin, "The Future of Consultation with, and Participation by, Interest Groups in the European Union," Transnational Associations, 4/2005, 219-230;

*Curtin, Deirdre, "Framing Public Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union." In: Deliberative Democracy And Its Discontents, ed. by Samantha Besson, Jose Luis Marti and Verena Seiler. London: Ashgate, 2006, 133-156;

*Greenwood, Justin, "Organized Civil Society and Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union," British Journal of Political Science, 37(2), 2007, 333-357;

*Greenwood, Justin, and Darren Halpin, "The European Commission and the Public Governance of Interest Groups in the European Union: Seeking a Niche between Accreditation and laissez-faire," Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 8(2), 2007, 189-210;

*The Evaluation Partnership, "Final External Evaluation of the Community Action Programme to Promote Bodies Active at European Level in the Field of Culture," Report Submitted to the Directorate-General for Education and Culture, October 2007;

*A Concise Bibliography of Civil Society. Szombathely and Kőszeg: Társadalomtudományok és Európa-tanulmányok Intézete, 2008;

*Chen, Rebecca King, "Institutionalizing expertise in policy-making: A study of European-level interest intermediation," Ph. D Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

*Kurzer, Paulette and Alice H. Cooper, "Ongoing Debates on Participatory Governance in the EU: Evidence from Consumer Protection and Health," Western Political Science Association 2011 Annual Meeting Paper, April 2011.

*Kroqi, Dorian, "The President of the European Council and the quest for an EU Democracy," Ph. D Dissertation, Carleton University, 2015.

*Leticia Biendo-Becerra, "L'encadrement juridique de la participation de la société civile à la procédure décisionnelle européenne.," These, Universite de Picaderie Jules Verne, 2016.

"Functional Differentiation and Democracy: a Hidden Agenda of Globalisation ?" In: Anglo-Japanese Academy Proceedings (4-9 September 2001) (ICCLP Publications No.7). Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 2002, 539-557.

Unpublished Papers and Presentations


"Desigining Rule of Law in Japanese Postwar Democracy: A Pitfall of Transfer." Paper prepared for delivery at IPSA 27th World Congress of Political Science, Buenos Aires, July 2023. 

"Varieties of Postwar Settlements: Germany in Comparative Perspective." Paper prepared for delivery at the SASE 35th annual conference , Virtual Session, July 2023.

"Revisiting Parliamentary Democracy in the Twentieth Century: Is "Competition" the Core Mechanism of Democracy?" Paper Deliverd at the General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research, Montreal (Canada), August 2015.

"The Effect of the Judiciary-Induced Policy Development: Collective Order versus Individual Rights in EU Social and Employment Policy." Paper Delivered at the 12th Biennial Conference of the European Union Studies Association, Boston (United States), March 2011.

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*Dumančić, Kosjenka, Posted Workers in the Light of the Principle „Same Pay for the Same Work at the Same Place“, collection of papers from The 6th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development – „The Legal Challenges of Modern World“, Varaždin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency, Faculty of Law University of Split and University Nord, Split, 2016.

*Comande, Daniela, “The Right to Collective Bargaining in Action: the Ongoing Short-Circuit between the Economic and Social Dimensions." European Journal of Social Law, Vol. 2012, no.2, 99-110.

"How long do constructivists have to struggle for their recognition?: Comments on Kondo and Schmidt." Committe on Political Science of the Science Council of Japan, International Symposium on Constructivist Political Theory, Nagoya, May 2008.

"From the 'Rescue of the Nation State' to the Emergence of European Spaces." EUIJ-Kansai Workshop "New Research Horizons of the History of European Integration", Toyonaka (Osaka), May 2008.

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*Jańczak, Jarosław, "De-Europeanization and Counter-Europeanization asReversed Europeanization. In Search of Categorization." In: Id., ed. Policies and Politicsof the European Union. Poznañ: Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2010.

*Jańczak, Jarosław, "Between the Frontier and the Boundary: Geopolitics and Geostrategies of the EU’s Further Enlargement to the East." In: Antal, Jarolím, ed. The EU Enlargement Policy: Possibilities and Frontiers. Praha: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, Nakladatelství Oeconomica, 2015.

"Social Democratic Politics after 'Organised Class-compromise Democracy': Comments on Crouch and Boyer." Symposium of the Civil Social Democracy Project, "Beyond Post-democracy: Possibilities of Social Democraci in the Era of Globalization", Tokyo, April 2008.

"Austria and the European Integration." Paper Delivered at the Anglo-Japanese Seminar, "Japan, Asia-Pacific and Regionalism", Kobe (Japan), March 1997.

"Regional Responses to the Globalisation in the Intersection of Economic Interests and Political Values: An Overview of the Issues at the Kobe-Seminar." Paper Delivered at the Sheffield-Kobe Seminar "Globalisation and Universalism in Regions", Ullswater (U. K.), October 1997.

Current Research Projects

"Normative and Empirical Foundations of the Postwar European Democracies"

"Genealogy of Functionalist Ideas in the European Integration Process"

"Judicial Politics and Social Policy in the EU"