Publications

MONOGRAPHS, EDITED VOLUMES, SPECIAL ISSUES

(in preparation) Umbach, Gaby | Kietlińska-Radwańska, Bogna | Harmáček, Jaromir (guest eds): Counting what matters: The role of sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics in social policy, Special Collection, Data & Policy, Cambridge University Press (see D&P blog post).

(in preparation) Umbach, Gaby | Tkalec, Igor (eds.) with Tiwari, Mira Manini: The Elgar Companion to Data and Indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals, Edward Elgar.

(under conceptualisation) Malito, Debora Valentina | Umbach, Gaby (eds.): The Palgrave Handbook on Indicators in Global Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edition.

(under conceptualisation) WE BE - States of WEll-BEing and the measurement of healthy lives, special journal issue

Umbach, Gaby (ed.) (2022): Statistical and Data Literacy in Policy-making, Special Stream of the Statistical Journal of the International Association of Official Statistics (SJIAOS), 38(2), June.

Umbach, Gaby | Tkalec, Igor (eds.) (2022): Special issue on ‘Evaluating e-Governance – Assessing Digitalisation of Public Administration in Disruptive Times‘, Evaluation and Program Planning – An International Journal.

Editor ‘GlobalStat Policy Puzzle‘ Publication series.

Co-Editor GlobalStat-EPRS Publication series ‚Living in the EU‘ and ‚Economic indicators and trade with EU‘.

Malito, Debora Valentina | Umbach, Gaby | Bhuta, Nehal (eds.) (2018): The Palgrave Handbook on Indicators in Global Governance, Palgrave Macmillan.

Diedrichs, Udo | Faber, Anne | Tekin, Funda | Umbach, Gaby (eds.) (2011): Europe Reloaded: Differentiation or Fusion?, Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (2009): Intent and Reality of the European Employment Strategy. Europeanisation of National Employment Policies and Policy-Making?, Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (2006): Intent and Reality of a New Mode of Governance: ‘Get together’ or ‘Mind the Gap’? The Impact of the European Employment Strategy on the Europeanisation of National Employment Policy Co-ordination and Policies in the United Kingdom and Germany, Cologne.

Lippert, Barbara | Umbach, Gaby (2005): Pressures of Europeanisation. From post-communist state administrations towards normal players in the EU system, Baden-Baden.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

(in preparation) Umbach, Gaby | Tiwari, Mira Manini | Tkalec, Igor | Ventura, Raffaele: Flourishing sustainably: A critical mapping of sustainable development and wellbeing measures to contribute to the flourishing of all life forms, in: Mountbatten-O’Malley, Eri | Antonacopoulou, Elena | Duffy, Simon (eds): Reimagining Global Progress: Evaluating the Prospects of the Global Flourishing Goals.

Umbach, Gaby (2024): Futures in EU governance: Anticipatory governance, strategic foresight and EU Better Regulation, European Law Journal 30(3), pp. 409-421.

Umbach, Gaby (2024): Open science and the impact of open access, open data, and FAIR publishing principles on data-driven academic research : towards ever more transparent, accessible, and reproducible academic output?, Statistical Journal of the International Association of Official Statistics, 40(1), pp. 59-70.

Umbach, Gaby (2023): Knowledge, Governance, Transformations – Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies | European University Institute, in: Revillard, Anne | Corno, Lucia | Fernandez, José Luis | Mason, Danielle | Umbach, Gaby | et al.. (2023): Developing policy evaluation in an academic setting: assets and challenges. Débat du LIEPP n°7, 2023. hal- 04074380, pp. 8-10.

Umbach, Gaby (2022): Statistical and Data Literacy in Policy-Making, Special Stream on ‘Statistical and Data Literacy in Policy-making’ of the Statistical Journal of the International Association of Official Statistics (SJIAOS), 38(2), June.

Umbach, Gaby | Tkalec, Igor (2022): Evaluating e-governance through e-government: Practices and challenges of assessing the digitalisation of public governmental services, introduction of a special issue on ‘Evaluating e-Governance – Assessing Digitalisation of Public Administration in Disruptive Times‘, Evaluation and Program Planning – An International Journal.

Umbach, Gaby | Tkalec, Igor (2021): Social Investment Policies in the EU: Actively Concrete or Passively Abstract? , in: Politics and Governance, 2021, 9(3): Steering in Governance: Evolutionary Perspectives, Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen (eds.), pp. 403-414 plus supplementary file.

Malito, Debora | Umbach, Gaby | Savoia, Antonio | Hulme, David (2021): Measuring Governance to achieve Sustainable Development: Promises and Challenges, in: Leal Filho, Walter | Azul, A.M. | Brandli, Luciana | Özuyar, Pinar G. | Wall, Tony (eds.) in: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Springer, pp. 1-8.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): Of Numbers, Narratives and Challenges: Data as Evidence in 21st Century Policy-Making, Statistical Journal of the IAOS (SJIAOS), Special Feature on Governing by the Numbers – Statistical Governance, Walter Radermacher (lead) December 2020, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 1043-1055.

Umbach, Gaby (2019): Evidence-informed Policy-Making, Expert Report Contribution to the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre report “Understanding our political nature: How to put knowledge and reason at the heart of policymaking”, Brussels.

Bhuta, Nehal | Malito, Debora Valentina | Umbach, Gaby (2018): Introduction: Of Numbers and Narratives— Indicators in Global Governance and the Rise of a Reflexive Indicator Culture, in: Malito, Debora Valentina | Umbach, Gaby | Bhuta, Nehal (eds.) (2018): The Palgrave Handbook on Indicators in Global Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-29.

Malito, Debora Valentina | Bhuta, Nehal | Umbach, Gaby (2018): Conclusions: Knowing and Governing, in: Malito, Debora Valentina | Umbach, Gaby | Bhuta, Nehal (eds.) (2018): The Palgrave Handbook on Indicators in Global Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 503-512.

Umbach, Gaby (2017): Measuring (Global) Governance – The Potential, the Practical and the Problematic Assessment of Governance within and beyond the State, in: Triandafyllidou, Anna (ed.): Global Governance from Regional Cultural Perspectives: A Critical View, Oxford University Press, pp. 45-69. [peer-reviewed]

Umbach, Gaby | Wessels, Wolfgang (2009): The European System of Central Banks: Circles, Core, and Directoire, in: Dyson, Kenneth | Marcussen, Martin (eds.): Central Banking in the Age of the Euro, Oxford, pp. 53-71.

Umbach, Gaby | Wessels, Wolfgang (2008): The Changing Context of Economic and Monetary Union: ‘Deepening’, ‘Widening’ and Stability, in: Dyson, Kenneth (eds.): The Euro at Ten. Europeanization, Convergence and Power, Oxford, pp. 54-68.

Meyer, Christoph O. | Umbach, Gaby (2007): Europeanisation of National Economic Governance Through Policy Co-ordination? Gains and Pains of a New Policy Instrument, in: Linsenmann, Ingo | Meyer, Christoph O. | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Economic Government of the EU. A Balance Sheet of New Modes of Policy Coordination, Basingstoke | New York, pp. 91-118.

Lippert, Barbara | Umbach, Gaby (2004): EU-Beitritt als Herausforderung für die Verwaltungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Uniformer Europäisierungsdruck – individuelle Entwicklungspfade, in: Lippert, Barbara (ed.): Bilanz und Folgeprobleme der EU-Erweiterung, Baden-Baden, pp. 111-138.

Lippert, Barbara | Umbach, Gaby (2004): Verwaltungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa unter Europäisierungsdruck, in: integration 1-2 | 2004, pp. 56-74.

Umbach, Gaby (2003): Responding to the European curricula development: A ‘teaching companion’ in EU studies, in: Kiosk Plus (EpsNet’s electronic Newsletter Kiosk), June.

Umbach, Gaby | Scholl, Bruno (2003): Towards A Core Curriculum in EU Studies, in: ecpr eps (European Political Science), spring 2.2, pp. 71-80.

Lippert, Barbara | Umbach, Gaby | Wessels, Wolfgang (2001): Europeanisation of CEE Executives: EU Membership Negotiations as a Shaping Power, in: Journal of European Public Policy 8(6), pp. 980-1012.

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, DATA VISUALISATIONS, PAPERS, BLOGS, INTERVIEWS, MODERATION

Umbach, Gaby (2025): The interaction between science and policies, Capable podcast nr. 5, Horizon Europe project CAPABLE (ClimAte Policy AcceptaBiLity Economic framework), Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (contributor) (2025): Conference Brief: ‘Enhancing Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIPM) ecosystems through better integration of social sciences, arts and humanities (SSAH) expertise in multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches', edited by Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO) for the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Brussels.

Umbach, Gaby (2025): Umwelt- und Klimapolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang | Tekin, Funda (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration, Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Ventura, Raffaele | Umbach, Gaby (2025): Counting what matters: The role of sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics in social policy, Data & Policy Blog, 19 August, Cambridge University Press.

Umbach, Gaby (2023): Umwelt- und Klimapolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang | Tekin, Funda (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, pp. 609-614.

Rappold, Julian | Rosa, Aaron | Tekin, Funda | Umbach, Gaby (2023): Vision einer EU-Erweiterungspolitik des Jahres 2042, Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin.

Umbach, Gaby (2022): Report on the Development of the Online atlas of the EU’s involvement in global governance, i.e. software development for open data access, TRIGGER project Deliverable 3.5, Florence.

Böttger, Katrin | Umbach, Gaby (2022): Strategic foresight: imperative for good policy-making, Berlin Perspectives 02|2022, Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin.

Tkalec, Igor | Umbach, Gaby (2022): NextGenerationEU under a social equity lens, Global Governance Programme Policy Briefs; 2022/26; Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2021): Report on the Development of the Database on existing global governance regimes, tools and approaches, i.e. software development for open data access as input of AGGREGATOR, TRIGGER project Deliverable 3.3, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2021): Report on the Development of the Dataset on existing global governance regimes, tools and approaches, TRIGGER project Deliverable 1.1, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2021): Working paper on the analytical development of WP1 datasets & the technical development of the AGGREGATOR database, TRIGGER project Deliverable 1.5, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby | Laurer, Moritz (2021): Report on the Development of the Dataset on transnational private regulatory regimes, TRIGGER project Deliverable 1.3, Florence.

Laurer, Moritz | Nguyen, Hieu | Umbach, Gaby (2021): Report on the workshop on trends and patterns of EU multi-level governance TRIGGER project Deliverable 2.6, Brussels/Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): Report on the Development of the Dataset on measuring governance performance as a global governance instrument, TRIGGER project Deliverable 1.4, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): Report on the Software Development for Open Data Access for the Database on measuring governance performance as a global governance instrument, with contributions by Ottaviano, Simone (EUI) and Cloete, Alistair (adjoli), TRIGGER project Deliverable 3.4, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): Climate Change and Sustainability, TEPSA recommendations for the German EU Presidency 2020, prepared for the Shaping the Future of Europe: Pre-Presidency Conference (online), organised by the Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin, 25 to 26 June.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): Climate Change and Sustainability, presentation video of the TEPSA recommendations for the German EU Presidency 2020, prepared for the Shaping the Future of Europe: Pre-Presidency Conference (online), organised by the Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin, 25 to 26 June.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): Evidence and expertise in 21st century policy-making, EUIdeas – Evidence-driven contributions on social, political, legal, and economic issues, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): Klimawandel und Nachhaltigkeit, TEPSA recommendations for the German EU Presidency 2020, prepared for the Shaping the Future of Europe: Pre-Presidency Conference (online), organised by the Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin, 25 to 26 June.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): Umwelt- und Klimapolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang | Tekin, Funda (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration, Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Laurer, Moritz | Umbach, Gaby (2020): Technical Brief on AGGREGATOR, TRIGGER project Deliverable 3.7, Brussels/Florence.

Laurer, Moritz | Renda, Andrea | Umbach, Gaby (2020): Guidance on how to use AGGREGATOR for Deep Dives, TRIGGER project Deliverable 7.2, Brussels/Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2019): Of Numbers and Narratives: Evidence for Policy-Making in the 21st Century, paper prepared for ISI2019, Kuala Lumpur, August 2019.

Tkalec, Igor | Umbach, Gaby (2020): Politicisation of statistics, GlobalStat Policy Puzzle No. 3, Policy Briefs 2020/38, Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2019): The Elephant and the Meter: Valuing and Evaluating Global Governance, TRIGGER project Blog post, August.

Umbach, Gaby (2019): Umwelt- und Klimapolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration, Baden-Baden, pp. 1-6.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina Francesca | Diedrich, Christian (2019): 21st Century Democracy in Europe, GlobalStat Data Dossier for the EUI SOU2019, RSC Policy Brief, Florence.

Jacob, Klaus | Teebken, Julia | Renda, Andrea | Umbach, Gaby (2019): The TRIGGER Model for Evaluating Actorness: Testing EU actorness and influence in domestic and global governance, TRIGGER project Deliverable 3.1, Berlin/Brussels/Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2018): Umwelt-, Klima- und Meerespolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2018, Nomos, pp. 251-258.

Umbach, Gaby (2018): GlobalStat – Methodology and Approach of a Multisource Open Database on Developments in a Globalised World (with contributions of Laura Bartolini, Luca Mancini and Caterina Francesca Guidi), GGP Research Project Report 2018 | 01, doi:10.2870 | 327681, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2018): Evidence-based Policy-making: From Data to Decision-making, Interview with David Mair, Head of Knowledge Management unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, 07 June2018, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2018): Evidence-based Policy-Making: Transparency of Evidence, Interview with Tracey Brown, Director of Sense about Science, 08 June 2018, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2018): Panel Discussion “Governance – From national to transnational”, Panel, Mannheim Forum 2018 “Vernetzte Welten”, Mannheim, 10 March 2018.

Umbach, Gaby (2018): Global Governance, Identity, and the Role of Active Citizenry, Interview with Univox Radio at the occasion of the “Global Governance: From national to transnational?” Panel, Mannheim Forum 2018 “Vernetzte Welten”, Mannheim, 10 March 2018.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina Francesca | Russo, Marta (2018): Evidence-Based Policy-Making: From Data to Decision-Making, GGP Policy Brief, Issue 2018 | 15, July, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina | Marta Russo (2018): Solidarity in Europe, Data Dossiers for the EUI’s State of the Union 2018 Conference, Florence, 10 to 12 May 2018, RSC Policy Brief Issue 2018 | 08, June Florence.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina | Michel, Elie | Piccolo, Lorenzo (2018): Solidarity towards refugees and asylum seekers : understanding the impact of the refugee crisis in the EU and EFTA countries, Mini Data Dossier for the EUI’s State of the Union 2018 Conference, Florence, 10 to 12 May 2018, RSC Information Sheets.

Dinan, Desmond | Umbach, Gaby (2018): A Parliament unlike any other? Academic perspectives on the European Parliament, European Parliamentary Research Service Blog, 23 July 2018.

Umbach, Gaby (2017): Empowering women in the EU and beyond, EUI Times, 07 March 2017.

Umbach, Gaby (2017): Panel Moderation „Towards a people’s Europe : what role for parliaments in coming decades?”, EUI’s State of the Union Conference 2017, Florence, 04 May 2017,

Umbach, Gaby (2017): Umwelt-, Klima- und Meerespolitik,, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2017, Nomos, 2017, pp. 293-300.

Umbach, Gaby | Laurer, Moritz (2021): Report on the Development of the Dataset on transnational private regulatory regimes, TRIGGER project Deliverable 1.3, Florence.

Lehmann, Wilhelm | Umbach, Gaby (2017): EMU: 25 years after Maastricht – Historical challenges, economic ideas, political solutions, RSCAS Policy Brief 2017 | 18, Florence.

Shreeves, Rosamund | Umbach, Gaby (2017): International Women’s Day 2017 – Empowering women in the EU and beyond, European Parliamentary Research Service Blog, 07 March 2017.

Van Ballegooij, Wouter | Umbach, Gaby (2017): Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: The un tapped potential, European Parliamentary Research Service Blog, 13 November 2017.

Umbach, Gaby (2016): Umwelt- und Klimapolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2016, Baden-Baden, pp. 233-240.

Umbach, Gaby | Lehmann, Wilhelm | Guidi, Caterina Francesca (2016): EP-EUI Policy Roundtable ‘Evidence and Analysis in EU Policy-Making: Concepts, Practice And Governance’, Introduction, The ‘Evidence Turn’ in EU Policy Planning and Legislation – Panacea or Mirage?, EU Policy-Making: Concepts, Practice and Governance, Planning and Assessing EU Policies – Practice and Practicability, Legitimacy and Accountability of Evidence-Based Policy-Making, Concluding Remarks, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2016): Women in Leadership, EUI’s State of the Union 2016 Conference on “Women in Europe and the World” at Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 05 and 06 May 2016.

Umbach, Gaby (2016): Klimapolitik (pp. 330-332), Rat der EU (pp. 372-379), Umweltpolitik (pp. 403-405), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, 14. ed., Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina (2016): Women in Europe and the World, Data Dossiers for the EUI’s State of the Union Conference 2016, Florence, 5 May 2016.

Umbach, Gaby (2015): COP21 Paris: Doomed to Succeed, Eutopia Magazine, Special Issue on Climate and Sustainability, 30 November 2015.

Umbach, Gaby (2015): EUI Interviews: Gaby Umbach.

Umbach, Gaby (2015): Meerespolitik (pp. 207-208), Umwelt- und Klimapolitik (pp. 233-238), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2015, Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (2015): Reflecting on… Cop21-Paris: The ‘turning point in the world’s fight against unmanaged climate change’?, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Opinions, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2015): The ‘turning point in the world’s fight against unmanaged climate change’?, Eutopia Magazine, Special Issue on Climate and Sustainability, 22 December 2015.

Bartolini, Laura | Umbach, Gaby (2015): Empowerment Through Knowledge: GlobalStat database available soon on the EPRS website, European Parliamentary Research Service Blog, 02 October 2015.

Guidi, Caterina Francesca | Umbach, Gaby | Scholz, Nicole (2015): The Importance of Statistics in Public Health Sector Analysis, European Parliamentary Research Service Blog, 25 November 2015.

Hulme, David | Malito, Debora | Savoia, Antonio | Umbach, Gaby (2015): The political economy of governance measurement, Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre ESID (University of Manchester) Blog, 09 June 2015.

Malito, Debora Valentina | Umbach, Gaby (2015): Governance by Indicators: The Challenges for Democracy, Paper prepared for the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops March | April 2015, Warsaw, Workshop No. 3 ‘Can Democratic Innovations Improve the Quality of Democracy?’.

Umbach, Gaby (2014): Meerespolitik (pp. 145-146), Umwelt- und Klimapolitik (pp. 165-170), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2014, Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (2014): Klimapolitik (pp. 353-354), Rat der EU (pp. 392-400), Umweltpolitik (pp. 426-429), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, 13. ed., Baden-Baden.

Bhuta, Nehal | Malito, Debora Valentina | Umbach, Gaby (2014): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Producing, Using and Debating Corruption Indicators, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2014 | 37, Florence.

Bhuta, Nehal | Malito, Debora Valentina | Umbach, Gaby (2014): Representing, Reducing and Removing Complexity: Indicators of Sustainability and Fiscal Sustainability, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. 2014 | 78, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2013): Meerespolitik (pp. 201-202), Umwelt- und Klimapolitik (pp. 227-232), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2013, Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (2012): Meerespolitik (pp. 65-66), Umwelt- und Klimapolitik (pp. 99-104), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2012, Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (2011): Book Review on Governing Social Inclusion. Europeanization through Policy Coordination by Kenneth A. Armstrong, in: Yearbook of European Law 2011, pp. 1-8.

Umbach, Gaby (2011): Meerespolitik (pp. 97-98), Umwelt- und Klimapolitik (pp. 177-180), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2011, Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (2011): Klimapolitik (pp. 240-242), Rat der EU (pp. 267-274), Umweltpolitik (pp. 301-304), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, 12. ed., Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (2010): Meerespolitik (pp. 201-202), Umwelt- und Klimapolitik (pp. 203-206), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2010, Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (Comp., ed., eval.) (2010): EU-CONSENT 2005-2009: Four Years of Research on EU ‘Deepening’ and ‘Widening’: Evidence, Explanation, Extrapolation, EU-CONSENT Deliverable 144, Cologne.

Umbach, Gaby (2009): Umwelt- und Klimapolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2009, Baden-Baden, pp. 201-206.

Umbach, Gaby (2009): Klimapolitik (pp. 282-284), Rat der EU (pp. 306-313; based on Hartwig, Ines | Umbach, Gaby (2007), Umweltpolitik (pp. 338-341), in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, 11. ed., Baden-Baden.

Umbach, Gaby (2009): Umwelt- und Klimapolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2008, Baden-Baden, pp. 201-206.

Umbach, Gaby | Hofmann, Andreas (2009): Towards a theoretical link between EU widening and deepening. Paper prepared for the EUSA Eleventh Biennial International Conference Los Angeles, 23 to 25. March 2009.

Umbach, Gaby (2008): Book Review on New Governance in European Social Policy: The Open Method of Co-ordination – by M. Büchs, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 46(4), pp. 923-924.

Umbach, Gaby (2008): Strategies and scenarios of post-enlargement deepening and widening of the EU. Synergy paper integrating the third round of annual state of the art papers of EU-CONSENT Work Pack- age II | III ‘Theories’’ teams, EU-CONSENT Deliverable No. 111, Cologne.

Umbach, Gaby (2008): Umweltpolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2007, Baden-Baden, pp. 189-192.

Umbach, Gaby | Zuber, Christina (2008): ‘Beyond initial scenarios.’ Developing guiding assumptions and theses on EU deepening and widening: The Mission of EU-CONSENT’s Task Force Research Frame. EU-CONSENT Deliverable No. 106, Cologne.

Umbach, Gaby (2007): Umweltpolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2006, Baden-Baden, pp. 209-212.

Umbach, Gaby (2007): Umweltpolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, 10. ed., Baden-Baden, pp. 353-355.

Hartwig, Ines | Umbach, Gaby (2007): Rat der EU, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, 10. ed., Baden-Baden, pp. 325-331.

Umbach, Gaby (2006): EU-CONSENT: A core curriculum on EU deepening and widening; EU-CONSENT Deliverable No. 50, Cologne.

Umbach, Gaby (2005): Umweltpolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2005, Baden-Baden, pp. 201-204.

Umbach, Gaby (2005): Umweltpolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, Baden-Baden, 9. ed., pp. 355-357

Hartwig, Ines | Umbach, Gaby (2005): Rat der EU, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, 9. ed., Baden-Baden, pp. 327-333.

Umbach, Gaby (2004): The impact of Member State policies on social and economic cohesion at regional level – Germany, Contribution to the report ‘Impact of Member State Policies on Cohesion’, Project Lead: Iain Begg, London School of Economics and Political Science, Cologne.

Umbach, Gaby (2004): Umweltpolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2003 | 2004, Baden-Baden, pp. 189-192.

Ardy, Brian | Umbach, Gaby (2004): The European Employment Strategy and employment policy in the UK and Germany, Centre for International Business Studies, Working Papers 4-04, Research Papers in International Business, Cologne | London.

Ardy, Brian | Umbach, Gaby (2004): Employment policies in Germany and the United Kingdom: The impact of Europeanisation. An Anglo-German Foundation Report and Executive Summary, Cologne | London.

Meyer, Christoph O. | Umbach, Gaby | Linsenmann, Ingo (2004): Self-Coordination at the National-Level. To- wards a collective ‘gouvernement économique’? Final National Reports and Synthesis Report of the GOVECOR-project, Cologne.

Ardy, Brian | Umbach, Gaby (2003 | 04): Employment Policies in Germany and the United Kingdom – The impact of Europeanisation, Economic and political science synthesis Paper, Executive Summary, and German Summary, Cologne | London.

Ardy, Brian | Umbach, Gaby (2003 | 04): Employment Policies in Germany and the United Kingdom – The impact of Europeanisation, Final Report, Cologne | London. Umbach, Gaby (2003): Employment Policies in Germany and the United Kingdom – The impact of the European Employment Strategy, political science project report, Cologne.

Umbach, Gaby (2003): Employment Policies in Germany and the United Kingdom – The impact of the European Employment Strategy, Political Science Project Report, Cologne.

Umbach, Gaby (2003): Employment policies in Germany and the UK: The impact of Europeanisation, political sciences briefing paper, Cologne

Umbach, Gaby (2003): Umweltpolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2002 | 2003, Bonn, pp. 201-204.

Umbach, Gaby | Lippert, Barbara (eds.) (2003): Project Documents. Administrative Capacities in CEEC-5 in selected policy fields. Synoptic Paper based on Regular Reports 1997-2002 by Lakatos Gábor, Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Dorota Pyszna, Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), Brussels, Petr Reimer, Institute for International Relations, Prague, Darja Saar, Tallinn University of Educational Sciences, Cologne | Berlin.

Wessels, Wolfgang | Grothe, Tobias | Umbach, Gaby (2003): The Constitutional Treaty as Empirical Focus for a ‘Teaching Companion’ in EU Studies. A contribution to the debate on European curricula development. Paper for the ECPR General Conference 2003, Panel No. 25-2 ‘Teaching Europe: A ‘Teaching Companion’ in EU Studies’, Marburg, 18 to 21 September 2003, Cologne.

Umbach, Gaby (2002): Umweltpolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2001 | 2002, Bonn, pp. 181-186.

Hartwig, Ines | Umbach, Gaby (2002): Rat der EU, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, 8. ed., Bonn, pp. 315-320.

Maurer, Andreas | Umbach, Gaby (eds.) (2002): TEPSA Project for the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia: Towards a monitoring system for the Charter of political parties for a non-racist society. Final report, Cologne.

Umbach, Gaby (2001): Umweltpolitik, in: Weidenfeld, Werner | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2000 | 2001, Bonn, pp. 185-190.

Umbach, Gaby | Wessels, Wolfgang (2001): Entwicklungsstrategien der Europäischen Union zwischen Erweiterung und Vertiefung. Zur Notwendigkeit begrenzter, aber tragfähiger Reformen, in: Gellner, Winand | Strohmeier, Gerd (eds.): Identität und Fremdheit. Eine amerikanische Leitkultur für Europa? Baden- Baden, pp. 151-161.

Maurer, Andreas | Umbach, Gaby | Wessels, Wolfgang (2001): Die Deutsche Debatte – bewährte Strategien für eine unsichere EU, in: Maurer, Andreas | Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), Brussels: Constitutionalism and the Future of the European Union. Comparing national views and discourses. Report for the Austrian Academy of Sciences ICE-Research Unit, Cologne | Brussels, pp. 60-100.

Umbach, Gaby | Wessels, Wolfgang (2000): Entwicklungsstrategien der Europäischen Union zwischen Erweiterung und Vertiefung. Zur Notwendigkeit begrenzter, aber tragfähiger Reformen, in: Politik im Netz, November.

Umbach, Gaby (1999): Querschnittsanalyse der Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in: A(frika | Asien) B(rasilien) P(ortugal) 1 | 1999: Das Bild Brasiliens in Deutschland, pp. 13.

DATABASES, DATASETS, DYNAMIC DATA VISUALISATIONS, VIRTUAL TEACHING UNITS

Tiwari, Mira Manini | Umbach, Gaby (2026): Dataset of gender indicators and sex-disaggregated data in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), European Union Sustainable Development monitoring, and the World Development Indicators' Gender Statistics (data collection 2025-26), research area 'Knowledge, Governance, Transformations', Global Governance Programme/Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence.

Ventura, Raffael | Umbach, Gaby | Tiwari, Mira Manini (2026): FEMETRICS survey on sex- and gender-disaggregated data collection and analysis by Eurostat and national statistical offices (NSO) in the European Union (data collection 2024), research area 'Knowledge, Governance, Transformations', Global Governance Programme/Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Research Data; European University Institute, Florence.

Macsai, Györgyi | Umbach, Gaby (2023): Australia and New Zealand: Economic indicators and trade with EU, GlobalStat-EPRS At A Glance series, PE 739.279 and blog post, Brussels.

Umbach, Gaby (2023): Updated TRIGGER AGGREGATOR – Atlas of Global Governance REGgulation and Europe’s Ac-TORness, TRIGGER Project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2022): Online atlas of the EU’s involvement in global governance, TRIGGER project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby & TRIGGER Deep Dive authors (2022): Atlas of the EU’s involvement in global governance, TRIGGER project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2022): Key Developments in the Governance of EU Development Cooperation and Relations to Africa, PDF and Excel, TRIGGER project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2022): Timeline of Key Developments in the Governance of EU Development Cooperation and Relations to Africa, PDF and Excel, TRIGGER project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2021): Key Developments in Climate Change Governance, PDF and Excel, TRIGGER project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2021): Key Developments in the Governance of the Sustainable Development Goals, PDF and Excel, TRIGGER project, Florence.

Collins, Aengus | Umbach, Gaby (2021): Key Developments in Data Protection Governance, PDF and Excel, TRIGGER project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne /European University Institute, Lausanne/Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2021): Timeline of Key Developments in Climate Change Governance, PDF and Excel, TRIGGER project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2021): Timeline of Key Developments in the Governance of the Sustainable Development Goals, PDF and Excel, TRIGGER project, Florence.

Collins, Aengus | Umbach, Gaby (2021): Timeline of Key Developments in Data Protection Governance, PDF and Excel, TRIGGER project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne /European University Institute, Lausanne/Florence.Umbach, Gaby (2022): TRIGGER project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2021): Dataset and -base on global governance regimes, tools and approaches, TRIGGER project.

Umbach, Gaby (2021): Database on transnational private regulatory regimes, Dataset on transnational private regulatory regimes, plus Codebook, TRIGGER Project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby | Tkalec, Igor (2021): UN Resident Coordinator Offices Learning Path Programme – Online Module on ‘Data-driven Evidence-informed Policy-making for Sustainable Development’, GlobalStat, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby | Tkalec, Igor | Dietrich, Christian (2021): Europe in a Changing World, Data Dossier for the EUI’s State of the Union 2021 Conference, Florence, 06 – 08 May.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): Database on measuring global governance, Dataset on measuring global governance, plus Codebook, TRIGGER Project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby (2020): TRIGGER AGGREGATOR – Atlas of Global Governance REGgulation and Europe’s Ac-TORness, technical support by Ottaviano, Simone, TRIGGER Project, Florence.

Umbach, Gaby | Malito, Debora Valentina | Savoia, Antonio (2020): Dataset on the Political Economy of Measuring State Capacity and Governance; updated version of Malito, Debora Valentina | Savoia, Antonio | Umbach, Gaby (2015): Dataset on the Political Economy of Measuring State Capacity and Governance, Florence | Manchester.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina Francesca | Diedrich, Christian (2019): 21st Century Democracy in Europe, 21st Century Democracy in Europe, Infographics Video, for the EUI’s State of the Union 2019 Conference, Florence, 02 May 2019.

Umbach, Gaby | GlobalStat Team (2019): GlobalStat – Database on Developments in a Globalised World, 2.0 – new website developed jointly with the OECD.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina (2018): Solidarity in Europe, Infographics Video for the EUI’s State of the Union 2018 Conference, Florence, 10 May 2018.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina (2017): Demography: Ageing Europe, Infographics Video for the EUI’s State of the Union Conference 2017, Florence, 04 May 2017.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina (2017): Access to Citizenship and Political Participation, In-fographics Video for the EUI’s State of the Union Conference 2017, Florence, 04 May 2017.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina (2017): Attitudes towards Citizenship and Immigration in Europe, Infographics Video for the EUI’s State of the Union Conference 2017, Florence, 04 May 2017.

Umbach, Gaby | Guidi, Caterina (2016): Women in Europe and the World, Video for the EUI’s State of the Union Conference 2016, Florence, 5 May 2016.

Umbach, Gaby | GlobalStat Team (2015): GlobalStat – Database on Developments in a Globalised World, 1.0.

Malito, Debora Valentina | Savoia, Antonio | Umbach, Gaby (2015): Dataset on the Political Economy of Measuring State Capacity and Governance, Florence | Manchester.

Bensch, Hendrik | Gottwald, Marlene | Umbach, Gaby (2009): Milestones of European integration, EU- CONSENT virtual teaching unit.

Bensch, Hendrik | Bopp, Franziska | Gottwald, Marlene | Umbach, Gaby (2008): Deepening: The EU and its enlargements, EU-CONSENT virtual teaching unit.

Lead coordination on four additional EU-CONSENT virtual teaching units: Theories and Strategies of European integration; EMU and European Economic Governance; Impact of enlargement on the CFSP; ‘Deeper Europe’: The Lisbon Treaty and institutional reforms of the EU.

Gaby Umbach personal website

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