Publications
Stakeholder consultations and engagement in public policymaking Interest groups and lobbying; lobbying regulation The politics and dynamics of Better Regulation reforms The methodology of interest groups research Bureaucratic policymaking European Union Participatory governance Public comments Stakeholder engagement
Stakeholder consultations and engagement in public policymaking
Adriana Bunea & Idunn Nørbech (2023): "Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission." Journal of European Public Policy 30(9): 1762-1792..
Adriana Bunea (2020): "Understanding the European Commission’s use of politicisation in the negotiation of interinstitutional agreements: the role of consultations and issue framing," Journal of European Public Policy 27(3): 439-459. Part of a special issue on EU Actors Under Pressure: Politicisation and Depoliticisation as Strategic Responses. Guest Editors: Edoardo Bressanelli, Christel Koop, and Christine Reh.
Adriana Bunea (2020): "Stakeholder Consultations," In P. Harris et al. (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Adriana Bunea (2017): "Designing stakeholder consultations: reinforcing or alleviating bias in the European Union system of governance?" European Journal of Political Research 56(1), 46-69.
Adriana Bunea and Robert Thomson (2015): "Consultations with Interest Groups and the Empowerment of Executives: Evidence from the European Union," Governance 28(4), 517-531.
Interest groups and lobbying; lobbying regulation
Adriana Bunea, Raimondas Ibenskas, Florian Weiler (2022): "Interest group networks in the European Union," European Journal of Political Research. 61(3), 718-739.
Raimondas Ibenskas and Adriana Bunea (2021): "Legislators, organizations and ties: understanding interest group recognition in the European Parliament," European Journal of Political Research. 60(3), 560-582.
Adriana Bunea and Vlad Gross (2019): "Regulating Lobbying Through Voluntary Transparency Clubs: the Connoisseurs’ Assessment. Evidence from the European Union," Public Administration. 97(4), 797-813.
Adriana Bunea (2019): "Regulating EU lobbying: in whose interest?" Journal of European Public Policy. 26(11), 1579-1599.
Adriana Bunea (2018): "Reconciling the 'logic of influence' and the 'logic of membership' in the EU: The case of lobbying networks in environmental consultations," In Doris Dialer and Margarethe Richter (eds.) Lobbying in the European Union: Successful Strategies and Techniques. Cham: Springer, 115-132.
Adriana Bunea (2018): "Legitimacy through targeted transparency? Regulatory effectiveness and sustainability of lobbying regulation in the European Union," European Journal of Political Research 57(2), 378-403.
Adriana Bunea (2015): "Evaluating Pluralism: Interest Groups’ Policy Demands and Lobbying Success in the European Commission’s Open Consultations. A Case Study in Environmental Policy," In Paul A. Shotton and Paul G. Nixon (eds.) Lobbying the European Union: Changing Minds, Changing Times. London: Routledge.
Adriana Bunea (2015): "Sharing ties and preferences: Stakeholders' position alignments in the European Commission's open consultations," European Union Politics 16(2), 281-299.
Adriana Bunea and Frank R. Baumgartner (2014): "The State of the Discipline: Authorship, Research Designs, and Citation Patterns in Studies of EU Interest Groups and Lobbying," Journal of European Public Policy 21(10), 1412-1434.
Adriana Bunea (2014): "Explaining interest groups’ articulation of policy preferences in the European Commission’s open consultations. An analysis of the environmental policy area," Journal of Common Market Studies 52(6), 1224-1241.
Adriana Bunea (2013): "Issues, Preferences and Ties: determinants of EU interest groups' preference attainment in the environmental policy area," Journal of European Public Policy 20(4), 552-570.
The politics and dynamics of Better Regulation reforms
Adriana Bunea and Joe M. Chrisp (2023): "Reconciling participatory and evidence-based policymaking in the EU Better Regulation policy: mission (im)possible?" Journal of European Integration 45(5): 729-750..
Adriana Bunea and Raimondas Ibenskas (2017): "Unveiling patterns of contestation over Better Regulation reforms in the European Union," Public Administration 95(3), 589-604.
The methodology of interest groups research
Adriana Bunea, Raimondas Ibenskas and Anne S Binderkrantz (2017): "Estimating interest groups' policy positions through content analysis: a discussion of automated and human-coding text analysis techniques applied to studies of EU lobbying," European Political Science 16(3): 337-353. ('Methods to study interest groups' symposium).
Adriana Bunea and Raimondas Ibenskas (2015): "Quantitative text analysis and the study of EU lobbying and interest groups," European Union Politics 16(3), 429-455.
Bureaucratic policymaking
Adriana Bunea & Sergiu Lipcean (2024): "Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union." Regulation & Governance 18: 874-895.
European Union
Adriana Bunea & Sergiu Lipcean (2024): "Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union." Regulation & Governance 18: 874-895.
Participatory governance
Adriana Bunea & Sergiu Lipcean (2024): "Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union." Regulation & Governance 18: 874-895.
Public comments
Adriana Bunea & Sergiu Lipcean (2024): "Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union." Regulation & Governance 18: 874-895.
Stakeholder engagement
Adriana Bunea & Sergiu Lipcean (2024): "Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union." Regulation & Governance 18: 874-895.
Other Topics
Adriana Bunea, Steven J. Balla (forthcoming): "Lobbying and public consultations in the bureaucratic arena." In Chari, R., Crepaz, M., Junk, W.M., Korkea-Aho E., (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Lobbying and Its Regulation. Oxford University Press..
Adriana Bunea and Idunn Nørbech (2025): "Public policymaking and stakeholder consultations in Norway." In Allern, Elin H., Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Kristoffer Kolltveit and Bjørn Erik Rasch (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Adriana Bunea, Idunn Nørbech (2025): "Do government invitations to consultations shape stakeholder participation in public policymaking?" European Journal of Political Research. Online first..
Adriana Bunea, Idunn Nørbech. (2025): "Does public participation foster stakeholder support for policy proposals? Evidence from the European Union." Policy Studies Journal. Online first..
Adriana Bunea, Reto Wüest, Sergiu Lipcean (2025): "Mapping the policy space of public consultations: evidence from the European Union," Journal of European Public Policy, 18(3): 755-783..
Adriana Bunea, Raimondas Ibenskas, Florian Weiler (2025): "Power, policy and national background: understanding interest groups-legislators ties on social media in the European Parliament." Journal of European Public Policy. Online first..