Sabine Saurugger
University professor
Public policies
Laboratory(ies): PACTE
Keywords
- European & international public policy & internat.
- Institutions
- European integration
- Collective action - Lobbying
Biography
Sabine Saurugger is a full professor of political science. From 2020 to 2025, she served as director of Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA. Prior to assuming this position, she served as director of research (2010–2020) and chair of the academic committee (2010–2013). She currently co-directs the “European Governance” program with Fabien Terpan.
From 2018 to 2024, she served on the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and from 2009 to 2014, she was a junior member of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF).
Her research focuses on the political system of the European Union, public policy and interest groups, political institutions, the relationship between law and politics, and the impact of crises on political systems. Together with Patrick Hassenteufel, she has published Public Policy in Crisis (Presses de Sciences Po), and, with Dermot Hodson and Uwe Puetter, Institutions of the European Union (Oxford University Press), and, with Fabien Terpan, The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Politics of Law (Palgrave). She is currently working on the second edition of her book Theoretical Approaches to the European Union (Bloomsbury).
Responsibilities
- Member of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
Current Projects
Law and Politics in the European Union - the CJEU and the Politics of Law
H2020 EU3D
EfSoLaw
PEPR eNSEMBLE the future of digital collaboration
IGLitStrat
Publications
The Power of Framing: Institutional Policy Entrepreneurship in the EU's Wildfire Risk Management (WFRM)
Damien Ballereau , Sabine Saurugger
European Policy Analysis, 2026, 12 (2), 10.1002/epa2.70042
European Court of Justice on Public Policy
Sabine Saurugger , Fabien Terpan
Minna van Gerven; Christine Rothmayr Allison; Klaus Schubert. Encyclopedia of Public Policy, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 1–8, 2026, 978-3-030-90434-0. 10.1007/978-3-030-90434-0_117-1
The Future of the European Union
Sabine Saurugger
Michelle Cini; Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán. *European Union Politics*, Oxford University Press, pp. 463–476, 2025, 9780198898986
Constructivism and Agenda Setting
Sabine Saurugger
Nikolaos Zahariadis; Kristin Taylor. Handbook of Public Policy Agenda-Setting, Edward Elgar, pp. 137–152, 2025, Political Science and Public Policy, 9781035318506
EU soft law: Non-binding but enforceable
Anne Ausfelder , Adam Eick , Miriam Hartlapp , Romain Mespoulet , Fabien Terpan , Sabine Saurugger , Bartolomeo Cappellina
European Law Journal, 2024, 30 (4), pp. 668–684. 10.1111/eulj.12537
Thesis supervision
Anton EICHBERGER
How can we explain the emergence and stability of “de facto states” in the post-Soviet space? A comparative analysis of separatist regions and recent and long-standing “de facto states” in Moldova (Transnistria, Gagauzia), Georgia (Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Adjara), Ukraine (the Donbas region: Luhansk, Donetsk), and Russia (Chechnya, Talysh, Ingushetia).
Romain MESPOULET
European soft law as a framework of opportunity: intermediation regimes and interest group strategies.
Damien BALLEREAU
From Scientific Knowledge to Public Civil Protection Policies: Governing Forest Fire Risks in Mediterranean Europe
Lucian CHARVIN
Redistributive Policies as the Foundation of Political Communities? A Comparative Analysis of the Spillover Effects of the CAP and the European Union’s Cohesion Policy on Attitudes Toward the EU