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title: What an AI agent reads on Dr. Steffen Hurka · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/steffenhurka.com/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Dr. Steffen Hurka

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [steffenhurka.com](https://www.steffenhurka.com/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

3,458

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

1

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (ClaudeBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: STEFFEN HURKA - Start · language en. First 1,800 of 3,458 characters:

```
STEFFEN HURKA - Start STEFFEN HURKA Professor of European Politics Start About Publications Teaching Blogs & Media EUPLEX data Contact Welcome to my website! I am Professor of European Politics at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. My academic work predominantly focuses on legislative processes in the European Union and matters of comparative public policy. Since April 2019, I have been leading an Emmy Noether research group entitled "EUPLEX - Coping with policy complexity in the European Union", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In this project, we investigate what policy complexity is, how it can measured, where it comes from and how it affects political processes like decision-making and implementation.Since 1 October 2024, I have been leading the project "DEMOLAW - The Design, Creation and Survival of Democratic Laws", a Consolidator Grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Recent news and publications Daniel, William T. and Hurka, Steffen (2026). Expertise, Interests, and Impact: The Importance of MEP Background on Policy Positions. European Policy Analysis (online first, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.70062).Link to the publication (OPEN ACCESS) Cowburn, Mike, Hurka, Steffen, Rueß, Stefanie and Kaplaner, Constantin (2026). Divided We Legislate: How Party Conflict Shapes Legislative Design. APSA Preprints. DOI: 10.33774/apsa-2026-247lk.Link to the preprint (not peer-reviewed yet). On 9 May 2026, a ceremonial event marking the 76th Europe Day took place at the Friedrichshafen Music School. The event was jointly organized by Europe Direct Friedrichshafen and the Europa-Union Bodenseekreis. The main speech of the event was delivered by Armin Laschet, MdB.I was invited to give a keynote address. You can read the manuscript of the sp
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

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```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```