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Dr. Sebastian Heidebrecht, BA MA
Publications

Monography

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (in preparation). Technocratic Empowerment. European Central Bank Reform and the Challenge for Democracy (For a European Studies Series).

 

Dissertation

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2019): Stabilising the Euro Area: Monetary Politics in Crisis. Monetary Policy, Institutional Central Bank Choices and the Appointment of Central Bankers in the European Union, University of Duisburg-Essen (currently also in preparation for submission to an international series on contemporary European studies).

 

Editorship

Heidebrecht, Sebastian/Kaeding, Michael (eds.) (2018). The Political Role of the European Central Bank: Reflections on Contemporary Developments in the Monetary Union, Special Issue of Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital (CCM), Vol. 51, No. 1. Available here.

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (forthcoming): Platform Accountability in the European Union: The Cases of Data Protection and Digital Services Regulation. Politique Europeenne. Preprint available here.

Schoeller, Magnus G./Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2023). Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation. Journal of European Public Policy. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2023). From Market Liberalism to Public Intervention: Digital Sovereignty and Changing European Union Digital Single Market Governance. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian/Schoeller, Magnus (2022). The Austrian-German Relationship in EMU Reform: From Asymmetric Partnership to Increased Independence. German Politics, 31:2, pp. 240-262. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2019). Balancing Independence and Legitimacy: How the European Parliament holds the European Central Bank to Account. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol), 29:3, pp. 393-410. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2018). Solidifying Consensus. An Inquiry into the Expertise of European Monetary Policy Makers. Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital (CCM): Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 127-150. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2017). Trying not to be caught in the act: Explaining European Central Bank’s bounded role in shaping the European Banking Union. Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER), 13:2, pp. 1125-1143. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2015). Wie transparent ist die Europäische Zentralbank: Eine international vergleichende Betrachtung vor dem Hintergrund weitreichender Neuerungen zum Januar 2015. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol) 4:2015, pp. 501-526. Available here.

 

Other Journal Articles

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2018). Central Bank Independence: Economic Common Sense and Economic Device. Economic Sociology_The European Electronic Newsletter (ESEEN), 19:2, pp. 25-31. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian/Kaeding, Michael (2018). The Political Role of the European Central Bank: Between European Politics and National Constraints. Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital (CCM): Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 1-13. Available
here.

 

Book Chapters

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2021). Technocratic governance at the centre of the European Economic and Monetary Union. Exploring the accountability of expert-based decision-making in the European Central Bank, in: Arcuri, Alexandra/Coman-Kund, Florin (eds.): Technocracy and the Law: Accountability, Governance and Expertise, London: Routledge, pp. 109-130. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2020). Der Euro und die Europawahl 2019: Wie die großen Europäischen Parteien die Eurozone reformieren wollen, und warum, in: Kaeding, Michael/Müller, Manuel/Schmälter, Julia: Die Europawahl 2019, Wiesbaden, Springer VS, pp. 277-287. Available here.

 

Book Review

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2019). Book Review: The Banking Union and Constitution: Beacon for Advanced Integration or Death-Knell for Democracy? Stefan Grundmann and Hans-W. Micklitz (eds) (2019), Hart. Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), 57:6, pp. 1450-1451. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2018). Book Review: Tangled Governance: International Regime Complexity, the Troika, and the Euro Crisis; C. Randall Henning 2017 OUP. Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), 56:4, p. 990. Available here.

 

Other Academic Articles (working papers, blogs, etc.)

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2023). EU Digital Single Market Governance: More Public-Intervention, More Responsibility. Ideas on Europe JCMS Blog. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2022). Mapping continuity and change of goals, protagonists and instruments of EU digital single market governance over three decades, EIF Working Paper. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2016). Quo Vadis EZB? Unkonventionelle Geldpolitik und die Bedeutung gesellschaftlichen Vertrauens durch europäische demokratische Institutionen. Regierungsforschung, Meinung & Analyse. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2015). Die Europäische Zentralbank im Jahr 2015: Eine Analyse der drei „historischen“ Neuerungen bei der EZB. Regierungsforschung, Meinung & Analyse. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian / Kaeding, Michael (2014). Nach der Europawahl 2014: Neue Machtkonstellationen im Europaparlament und seinen Ausschüssen. Regierungsforschung, Meinung & Analyse. Available here.

Heidebrecht, Sebastian (2014). Eine Annäherung an die Unabhängigkeit und Transparenz der Europäischen Zentralbank. Aus der Wissenschaft für die Politik, Blog der Professur für Empirische Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Duisburg-Essen.

 

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