[2] In 2024, she was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for her book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology.

[13] In February 2020, Oxford University Press published Bradford's first book, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World.

[16] Reviewing the book for the Financial Times, Alan Beattie wrote, "What is incontrovertible is that the Brussels effect has dominated global economic regulation to an under-appreciated extent.

[17] In The Economist, the Charlemagne column, "The parable of the plug," published in the 6 Feb 2020 edition[18] focused on Bradford's new book.

Andrew Moravcsik wrote in Foreign Affairs that The Brussels Effect "may well be the single most important book on Europe's global influence to appear in a decade.