Publications

Müller, Henriette. Margrethe Vestager and the Politics of European Competition: Gender and Leadership in Global Economic Governance. (book manuscript, in preparation).

Müller, Henriette. 2027. Special Issue: “New Approaches to the Study of Gender and Leadership: Towards Context-Sensitive and Intersectional Leadership Research,” European Journal of Politics and Gender (10:3) (co-edited with Josefina Erikson).

Müller, Henriette. 2026. Special Issue: “From the Far Left to the Far Right: Women Populist Leaders in Global Perspective,” Politics & Governance Vol. 14(13) (co-edited with Pamela Pansardi).

Müller, Henriette. 2025. Edited Volume: “The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen: Gender, Leadership, Policies, and Crises,” Oxford University Press (co-edited with Gabriele Abels, Johanna Kantola, and Emanuela Lombardo).

Müller, Henriette. 2023. Special Issue: "Women Opposition Leaders: Pathways, Patterns and Performance", Politics & Governance (11:1) (co-edited with Sarah C. Dingler & Ludger Helms).

Müller, Henriette. 2022. Edited Volume: “Women and Leadership in the European Union,” Oxford: Oxford University Press (co-edited with Ingeborg Tömmel).

Müller, Henriette. 2020. Special Issue: “The Role of Leadership in EU Politics and Policy-Making”, in West European Politics (43:5) (co-edited with Femke A.W.J. van Esch).

Müller, Henriette. 2026, forthcoming: “Women and Leadership in the Executive,” in: “The Elgar Encyclopedia on Gender and Politics,” Zoe Lefkofridi (ed.), Edward Elgar.

Müller, Henriette, and Ingeborg Tömmel. "Pathways to Leadership: Women’s Careers in the European Union." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy (2026): 1-20.

Müller, Henriette, and Pamela Pansardi. "Revisiting the political opposition of the European Parliament: a rhetorical analysis of parliamentary speeches." European Politics and Society (2026): 1-18.

Müller, Henriette. “Introduction: The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen—A Critical Actorness Approach,” co-authored with Gabriele Abels, Johanna Kantola, and Emanuela Lombardo, in Abels, Gabriele, Johanna Kantola, Emanuela Lombardo, and Henriette Müller (eds.), The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen: Gender, Leadership, Policies, and Crises, Oxford University Press (2025); 1-19.

Müller, Henriette. “Political Leadership, (Gender) Equality, and Unprecedented Crises: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Agenda-Setting,” in Abels, Gabriele, Johanna Kantola, Emanuela Lombardo, and Henriette Müller (eds.), The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen: Gender, Leadership, Policies, and Crises, Oxford University Press (2025); 81-105.

Müller, Henriette. “Conclusions: Political Leadership and the Differential von der Leyen Effect in European Policy-Making,” co-authored with Michael W. Bauer, in Abels, Gabriele, Johanna Kantola, Emanuela Lombardo, and Henriette Müller (eds.), The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen: Gender, Leadership, Policies, and Crises, Oxford University Press (2025): 379-396.

Müller, Henriette, and Ingeborg Tömmel. 2024. "Between Cooperation and Rivalry: The Leadership of Charles Michel as President of the European Council." JCMS:  Journal of Common Market Studies 62 (2024): 1-12.

Dingler, Sarah C., Ludger Helms, and Müller, Henriette. "Women Opposition Leaders: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Agendas." Politics and Governance 11, no. 1 (2023): 80-84.

Müller, Henriette, and Pamela Pansardi. "Women Leading the Opposition: Gender and Rhetoric in the European Parliament." Part of the special issue “Women Opposition Leaders: Pathways, Patterns and Performance” in Politics and Governance 11, no. 1 (2023): 164-176.

Müller, Henriette, and Christin Camia. "Between Uniformity and Polarization: Women’s Empowerment in the Public Press of GCC States." Politics & Gender 19, no. 1 (2023): 166-194.

Müller, Henriette, and Ingeborg Tömmel. “A Programmatic Introduction: Women’s Leadership in the European Union”, Women and Leadership in the European Union (2022): 1-16.

Müller, Henriette, Ingeborg Tömmel. “Chapter 1: Women and Leadership in the European Union: A Framework for Analysis,” In Henriette Müller and Ingeborg Tömmel (eds.), Women and Leadership in the European Union, Oxford University Press (2022): 19-36.

Müller, Henriette, and Pamela Pansardi. “Chapter 7: Between Rhetoric and Leadership: A Comparison of Female Vice-Presidents of the European Commission (1999-2019),” in Henriette Müller and Ingeborg Tömmel (eds.), Women and Leadership in the European Union, Oxford University Press (2022): 129-149.

Müller, Henriette, and Ingeborg Tömmel. “Chapter 16: The Leadership of Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission,” in Henriette Müller and Ingeborg Tömmel (eds.), Women and Leadership in the European Union, Oxford University Press (2022): 311-330.

Müller, Henriette. “Leaders around the World: New Avenues for the Comparative Study of Political Leadership” in Yulia Tolstikov-Mast, Jennie Walker, and Franziska Bieri (eds.), Handbook of International and Cross-Cultural Leadership Research Processes, pp. 86-97. Routledge (2021).

Hartlapp, Miriam, Henriette Müller, and Ingeborg Tömmel. “Gender Equality and the European Commission,” in Gabriele Abels, Andrea Kriszan, Heather MacRae, and Anna van der Vleuten (eds.), Handbook of Gender and EU Politics, pp. 133-145. Routledge, 2021.

Müller, Henriette, and Femke AWJ Van Esch. "The contested nature of political leadership in the European Union: conceptual and methodological cross-fertilisation.” West European Politics 43, no. 5 (2020): 1051-1071.

Müller, Henriette, and Femke AWJ Van Esch. "Collaborative leadership in EMU governance: a matter of cognitive proximity., West European Politics 43, no. 5 (2020): 1117-1140.

Abdulkadir, Rahma, and Henriette Müller. "The Politics of Women Empowerment: Female Leaders in the UAE.” Hawwa 18, no. 1 (2020): 8-30.

Abdulkadir, Rahma, and Henriette Müller. “Between Leadership and Kinship: Women Empowerment in the GCC Countries,” in Ina Kubbe and Aiysha Varraich (eds.). In Corruption and informal practices in the Middle East and North Africa, pp. 188-206. Routledge, 2019.

Müller, Henriette. "Setting Europe’s agenda: the Commission presidents and political leadership." In Political Leadership in the European Union, pp. 27-40. Routledge, 2018.

Müller, Henriette. "Between potential, performance, and prospect: Revisiting the political leadership of the EU commission president." Politics and Governance 4, no. 2 (2016): 68-79.

Müller, Henriette. 2015. "Zwischen Potenzial und Performanz: Eine (Neu-) Bewertung der politischen Führung des EU-Kommissionspräsidenten." In Frankreich Jahrbuch 2014: Zivilgesellschaft in Frankreich, Deutschland und Europa (pp. 123-145). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

Müller, Henriette. “The Point of No Return: Walter Hallstein and the EEC Commission between Institutional Ambitions and Political Constraints.” Cahiers européens de Sciences Po 3 (2012).