Monographs

Regulating Islamic religious education in German states. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (first view). [Excerpt]
Politicisation without party discipline. A new perspective on Christian Democracy in modern times. Parliamentary Affairs 70(3): 465–488. (with C. Preidel) [Excerpt]

2013

Regulating Sexual Behaviour in Catholic Societies: A Comparison between Italy and Spain. Journal of European Public Policy, 20 (3): 425-441. (with S. Schmitt and C. Preidel) [Excerpt]
From "Morality" Policy to "Normal" Policy: Framing Drug Consumption and Gambling in Germany and the Netherlands and their Regulatory Consequences. Journal of European Public Policy, 20 (3): 372-389. (with S. Heichel, K. Nebel and A. Raschzok) [Excerpt]

2021

Solving Europe’s value deficit via economic well-being? The complex relationship between morality issues and economic well-being, in Francois Foret and Jana Vargovčíková (eds.), Value Politics in the European Union. From Market to Culture and Back. London: Routledge. (co-author B. Bakey)

Islamic Religious Education in German State Schools, in Leni Franken and Bill Gent (eds.), Islamic Religious Education in Europe: A Comparative Study. London: Routledge. (co-author K. Hackner)

2019

Morality Policies: current and future research agenda. Research Encyclopedia on Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2018

Conflict over values in the European Multilevel Space: The case of morality policies, in Francois Foret and Oriane Calligaro (eds.), European Values: Challenges and Opportunities for EU Governance. London: Routledge. (with I. Engeli)

2016

Moralpolitik in Deutschland: Konformität mit internationalen Trends und öffentlicher Meinung? In Ulrike Ackermann and Jörg Schmidt (eds), Genuss, Askese und Moral. Über die Paternalisierung des guten Lebens. Frankfurt: Humanities Online, 23-45. (with C. Knill, C. Adam, S. Heichel, S. Hurka, C. Preidel)

2015

Prostitution: sin, unavoidable evil or recognized profession? In Christoph Knill et al. (eds), On the road to permissiveness? Change and Convergence of Moral Regulation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 129-157. (with C. Knill) [Excerpt]

2014

Prostitutionsregulierung: Politische Einigung zulasten der Implementation. In Christoph Knill et al. (eds), Moralpolitik in Deutschland. Staatliche Regulierung gesellschaftlicher Wertekonflikte im historischen und internationalen Vergleich. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 107-126.

2012

Non-decisions and invisible cutbacks? The Indexation of Social Benefits in Four Countries. In Michael Bauer et al. (eds), Dismantling Public Policies: Preferences, Strategies, and Effects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 129-155. (with C. Green-Pedersen, F. Juul Christiansen, C. Jensen and J. Turnpenny)

2019b: Blog post "Katholische Wohlfahrt: Politikimplementation im Spannungsfeld zwischen sozialer Arbeit und katholischem Auftrag", Regierungsforschung.de (with Olivia Mettang).
2019a: Blog post "Secular Politics of Sexuality and Christian Churches", Woolf Institut, Cambridge.
2018: Blog post titled "Why are private actors able to co-govern prostitution policy and assisted dying in Germany?" Core Blog of Cambridge University Press.
2015: Politics of dilemma: Coalition considerations and party conflicts on morality policies in the "religious world". Doctoral Thesis. Konstanz: University of Konstanz.
2010: Environmental Policy: Review on Leader and Laggard Countries in Europe. In Klaus Jakob et al. (eds), Environment and the Single Market. Final Report to the European Commission Brüssel. Berlin: FFU - Forschungsstelle für Umweltpolitik der Freien Universität zu Berlin, 23-45. (with A. Müller und T. Sommerer)

Special Issue: The new contestation of social care (with Agnes Blome)
Contested forms of elderly care (with V. Benoit)
The church's role as provider of morality-based social services in German states: A question of religious denomination and the room for intervention. (with O. Mettang).
Who are the agents of societal minorities? Regulating prostitution and same-sex partnership rights in Europe.