Helena Seibicke

• Seibicke, Helena & Michailidou, Asimina (2022). The Challenges of Reconstructing Citizen-Driven EU Contestation in the Digital Media Sphere. Politics and Governance. ISSN 2183-2463. 10(1), p. 97–107. doi: 10.17645/pag.v10i1.4674. Full text in Research Archive
• Seibicke, Helena (2020). Gender Expertise in Public Policymaking: The European Women’s Lobby and the EU Maternity Leave Directive. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. ISSN 1072-4745. 27(2), p. 385–408. doi: 10.1093/sp/jxz007. Show summary

  Civil society organizations are involved in EU policymaking processes, but are faced with the potential dilemma of providing efficient expertise while at the same time advocating for their interests. This article asks whether the European Women’s Lobby, an EU-level umbrella organization representing women’s interests, manages this inbuilt tension by empirically investigating the balancing of three different types of expertise-based claims (procedural, technical, and normative) in a concrete instance of policymaking, namely the European Maternity Leave Directive. The analysis shows that although the EWL engaged in technical expertise provision, it infused the policy process with normative expertise-based claims.

• Seibicke, Helena (2019). Europeisering av nordisk kvinnebevegelse? In Holst, Cathrine; Skjeie, Hege & Teigen, Mari (Ed.), Europeisering av nordisk likestillingspolitikk. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 978-82-05-42704-4. p. 57–73.
• Seibicke, Helena (2019). Gender Expertise in Public Policymaking: The European Women’s Lobby and the EU Maternity Leave Directive. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. ISSN 1072-4745. 0(0), p. 1–24. doi: 10.1093/sp/jxz007.
• Seibicke, Helena & Holst, Cathrine (2018). Unpacking Gender Expertise: The Case of the European Women’s Lobby. In Holst, Cathrine; Warat, Marta & Góra, Magdalena (Ed.), Expertisation and Democracy in Europe. Routledge. ISSN 978-1138288232. doi: 10.4324/9781315268033-8. Show summary

  Expertisation and Democracy in Europe provides a much-needed account of the role and re-organisation of expertise and expert knowledge in Europe and the European Union in a broad range of policy spheres, contributing to the debate triggered by the recent crises. It brings novel perspectives to debates on technocracy and our understanding of the relations between knowledge, experts and democracy. The book explores and assesses new and old linkages between knowledge, expertise and democracy, and expands and deepens the current debates by addressing questions such as: What is the role of expertise in Europe? How is knowledge of different kinds embedded in and decisive for democratic practice in contemporary democracies? How are we to assess recent transformations of the expert-citizens and government-civil society relationships from the perspective of democracy, and which paths are viable in the years to come? Finally, the book engages with and gives flesh to the notion of expertisation not only as a broad political and societal diagnosis, but also as a multidimensional and deeply contested process that enfolds in concrete practices and institutional settings.

• Seibicke, Helena (2017). Campaigning for Gender Equality Through Social Media: The European Women’s Lobby. In Michailidou, Asimina & Barisione, Mauro (Ed.), Social Media and European Politics Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9781137598899. p. 123–142. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-59890-5_6.

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• Seibicke, Helena (2022). Taking the citizen out of citizen participation?
• Seibicke, Helena (2021). Taking the ‘citizen’ out of ‘citizen participation’? The discursive, legal and practical challenges of reconstructing citizen-driven EU contestation in the digital media sphere.
• Seibicke, Helena (2019). The role of civil society in communicating Europe.
• Holst, Cathrine & Seibicke, Helena (2015). Gender expertise in the EU: the case of the European Women's Lobby.
• Seibicke, Helena & Holst, Catherine (2015). Gender Expertise in the EU: The Case of the European Women’s Lobby.
• Seibicke, Helena & Holst, Cathrine (2014). Experts on gender: On the role of expertise in EU gender politics.
• Seibicke, Helena (2014). Book review of "Lobbying in the European Union" by H.Kluver. Journal of Common Market Studies. ISSN 0021-9886. 52(4), p. 964–965.

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