Biography

Adrienne Héritier held a joint chair with the Social and Political Sciences Department since 2003. She was a Director of the Max Planck Project Group for ‘Common Goods: Law, Politics, and Economics’ in Bonn from 1999 to 2003.

Before that, from 1995 to 1999, she held a chair in public policy at the EUI. She is a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a member of the Academia Europea. In 1994, she was awarded (jointly with Helmut Willke) the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize for research, by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Prof. Héritier's research focuses on European policy-making, comparative public policy, European decision making processes, theories of institutional change and deregulation and re-regulation and new modes of governance. She has been awarded the doctor honoris causa at the Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Completed

• Realising Europe’s soft power in external cooperation and trade

Recent research output

• MEISSNER, Katharina L.; HERITIER, Adrienne (2023), Post-Brexit EU politics, Contribution to book
• HERITIER, Adrienne (2023), Financial markets regulation : political accountability challenged, Article
• HERITIER, Adrienne (2021), Governing finance in Europe : policy effects and political accountability, Contribution to book
• HERITIER, Adrienne; KARREMANS, Johannes (2021), Regulating finance in Europe : policy effects and political accountability, Book
• HERITIER, Adrienne (1999), Elements of democratic legitimation in Europe : an alternative perspective, Article
• HERITIER, Adrienne (2021), Itinera Europa, Contribution to book
• HERITIER, Adrienne (2011), Europe, shaping and being shaped by globalization, Other
• HERITIER, Adrienne (2021), Quo vadis, Europa? : five paths, their plausibility and impact, Working Paper
• COEN, David; GUIDI, Mattia; YORDANOVA, Nikoleta; HERITIER, Adrienne (2020), The logic of regulatory venue shopping : a firm's perspective, Article
• HERITIER, Adrienne; SCHOELLER, Magnus G. (2020), Governing finance in Europe : a centralisation of rulemaking?, Book