Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen

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Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen researches in EU integration and Europeanisation, focusing on welfare policies, free movement of persons, the dynamics between law and politics in the EU as well as implementation, enforcement and compliance with EU policies. 

Martinsen work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Public Administration, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics and European Union Politics among other journals and in 2015 her book An Ever More Powerful Court? The Political Constraints of Legal Integration in the European Union with Oxford University Press. 

Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen is co-editor of West European Politics. Martinsen sits as expert in the Danish government's committee for implementation of EU rules, 'Erhvervslivets EU- og Regelforum'. She is part of the Research Centre of Excellence MOBILE, placed at the faculty of law, which examines legal infrastructures of human mobility. 

Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen has a higher doctorate (dr.scient.pol.) from University of Copenhagen (2015) and a Ph.D. (2004) from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. She has a master in Political Science (cand.scient.pol) from University of Copenhagen (1999) and a MSc in European politics and policy from London School of Economics and Political Science, Government Department (1997).

Primary research areas:

• Social Europe, including health
• EU; free movement, welfare and health
• European Administrative Networks
• Implementation and enforcement of EU's policies
• The European Court of Justice's impact on integration and Europeanization
• Integration between law and politics 

Project webpages and publications   

European Administrative Networks - project period 2018-2023

TransJudFare - project period 2015-2018

Healthcare Regulation in the European Union - project period 2011-2016

Publications can be downloaded here, through Social Science Research Network (SSRN) or through ResearchGate. Office hours: Tuesdays 13-14

Selected publications

1. Published

   COVID-19 and European Multi-Level Democracy

   Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg & Goetz, K. H., 2022, In: Journal of Common Market Studies. 60, S1, p. 137-149

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   Networked Health Cooperation in the European Union: Horizontal or Hierarchical?

   Schrama, R., Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg & Mastenbroek, E., 2022, In: Journal of Common Market Studies. 60, 5, p. 1488-1510

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   The power of ‘weak’ institutions: assessing the EU’s emerging institutional architecture for improving the implementation and enforcement of joint policies

   Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, Mastenbroek, E. & Schrama, R., 2022, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 29, 10, p. 1529-1545 17 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Research › peer-review

4. Published

   The political drivers of information exchange: Explaining interactions in the European Migration Network

   Mastenbroek, E., Schrama, R. & Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 2022, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 29, 10, p. 1656-1676 21 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

5. Published

   A gendered pattern? Publishing, submission and reviewing in West European Politics

   Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, Goetz, K. H. & Müller, W. C., 2022, In: European Political Science. 21, p. 430-442 13 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Review › Research › peer-review

6. Published

   COVID-19: a dual challenge to European liberal democracy

   Goetz, K. H. & Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 2021, In: West European Politics. 44, 5-6, p. 1003-1024 22 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

7. Published

   The court of justice of the european union and the megapolitics of posted workers

   Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg & Blauberger, M., 2022, In: Law and Contemporary Problems. 84, 4, p. 29-57 29 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

8. Published

   Who Interacts with Whom? Drivers of Networked Welfare Governance in Europe

   Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, Schrama, R. & Mastenbroek, E., 2021, In: British Journal of Political Science. 51, 4, p. 1636-53 18 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

9. Published

   Experimenting European healthcare forward: Do institutional differences condition networked governance?

   Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, Schrama, R. & Mastenbroek, E., 2021, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 28, 11, p. 1849-70 22 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

10. Published

    The Court of Justice in times of politicisation: ‘law as a mask and shield’ revisited

    Blauberger, M. & Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 2020, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 27, 3, p. 382-399 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

11. Published

    Implementing European Case Law at the Bureaucratic Frontline: How Domestic Signalling Influences the Outcomes of EU Law

    Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, Blauberger, M., Heindlmaier, A. & Thierry, J. M. S., 2019, In: Public Administration. 97, 4, p. 814-828 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

12. Published

    No welfare magnets – free movement and cross-border welfare in Germany and Denmark compared

    Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg & Werner, B., 2019, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 26, 5, p. 637-655

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

13. Published

    EU constitutionalisation revisited: Redressing a central assumption in European studies

    Rasmussen, M. & Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 1 Jan 2019, In: European Law Journal. 25, 3, p. 251-272 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

14. Published

    ECJ judges read the morning papers. Explaining the turnaround of European citizenship jurisprudence

    Blauberger, M., Heindlmaier, A., Kramer, D., Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, Thierry, J. M. S., Angelika, S. & Werner, B., 2018, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 25, 10, p. 1422-1441

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

15. Published

    Free movement of People and Cross-Border Welfare in the European Union: Dynamic Rules, Limited Outcomes

    Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, Pons Rotger, G. & Thierry, J. M. S., 2019, In: Journal of European Social Policy. 29, 1, p. 84-99 7.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

16. Published

    Free movement and equal treatment in an unequal union

    Schmidt, S. K., Blauberger, M. & Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 2018, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 25, 10, p. 1391-1402

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

17. Published

    Lost in Translation: How Street-Level Bureaucrats Condition Union Solidarity

    Thierry, J. M. S. & Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 2018, In: Journal of European Integration. 40, 6, p. 819-834

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

18. Published

    The fiscal impact of EU immigration on the tax-financed welfare state: Testing the ‘welfare burden’ thesis

    Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg & Rotger, G. P., 2017, In: European Union Politics. 18, 4, p. 620-639 6.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

19. Published

    An Ever More Powerful Court? The Political Constraints of Legal Integration in the European Union.

    Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 2015, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 256 p. (Oxford Studies in European Law).

    Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

20. Published

    Judicial Influence on Policy Outputs? The Political Constraints of Legal Integration in the European Union

    Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 2015, In: Comparative Political Studies. 48, 12, p. 1612-1660 49 p., 5.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

21. Published

    The Rise of a European Healthcare Union

    Vollaard, H. & Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, May 2017, In: Comparative European Politics. 15, 3, p. 337-352 1.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

22. Published

    The making of a European healthcare union: a federalist perspective

    Vollaard, H., van de Bovenkamp, H. M. & Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 2016, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 23, 2, p. 157-176 1.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

23. Published

    Implementing Social Europe in Times of Crisis: Re-established Boundaries of Welfare

    Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg & Vollaard, H., 4 Jul 2014, In: West European Politics. 37, 4, p. 677-692

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

24. Published

    Transgovernmental networks in the European Union: Improving compliance effectively?

    Hobolth, M. & Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg, 2013, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 20, 10, p. 1406-1424 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review