CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Christopher S. Allen

September 2009

Department of International Affairs
School for Public and International Affairs
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30606-1492

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(e): csallen@uga.edu
(w): csallen.myweb.uga.edu

PRESENT POSITIONS:

·  2008- Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Georgia

·  1991-: Associate Professor, Department of International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs,  University of Georgia.

·  1986-91: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Georgia.

·  2004-: Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of International Affairs

·  2003-: Associate Director, UGA à Paris Study Abroad Program

·  1999-: Member Editorial Board, German Politics & Society

 

EDUCATION:

·  1983: Ph.D. Brandeis University (Politics)

·  1975: M.A. Northeastern University (Political Science)

·  1969: B.S. Boston College (Management)

 

RESEARCH, ADMINISTRATIVE, TEACHING AND PRIVATE SECTOR POSITIONS:

·  Research:

·  2010: Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (January-June)

·  2009: Visiting Research Affiliate, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne Germany, May - June. ($1,000)

·  2008:  Research Fellow, DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. ($5,000).

·  2008: Visiting Research Affiliate, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne Germany, May - June. ($1,100)

·  2007:  Research Fellow, DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. ($10,000) - declined.

·  2005: Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (January-August)

·  2002: Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (January-August)

·  1990-91 German Marshall Fund Research Fellow. Project Title: "Democratic Politics and Capital Investment: De-regulation, Re-regulation and Self-regulation in Industrial Societies." (Research conducted at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University).

·  1988-1989 Visiting Hoechst-Celanese/Siemens Research Fellow, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

·  Summers 1987-89: Research Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Harvard University Center for European Studies

·  1984-1986: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Business School

·  1983-1986: Research Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Harvard University Center for European Studies

·  1983: Researcher, Massachusetts Governor’s Commission on the Future of Mature Industries

·  Administrative:

·  2001-2005: Board Member, Institute for Mexican Development.

·  1999-2002: Member, Academic Research Council, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

·  1995-99: Chair, Academic Research Council, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

·  1991-94: Director, M.A. and Ph.D. Program, Department of Political Science, University of Georgia.

·  Teaching:

·  1990-91: Visiting Associate Professor, Boston University School of Management, Department of Management Policy.

·  Summers 1987-89: Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston University Graduate School of Management

·  Summers 1987-89: Visiting Assistant Professor, Brandeis University

·  1982 Visiting Lecturer, Colby College

·  1980-1981 Visiting Lecturer, University of New Hampshire

·  1977-78 Visiting Lecturer, Northeastern University

·  Private Sector:

·  1969-72 Sales Representative, Exxon Corporation, U.S.A., Everett, MA.

 

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

"Some Always Win, Some Always Lose: Pempel's Uncommon Democracies Twenty Years Later" (with Carolyn A. Forestiere). To be submitted to the International Political Science Review.

 

The Case for a Multi-Party U.S. Parliament? American Politics in Comparative Perspective. Book manuscript project to be submitted to Penn State University Press.

 

Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: Germany, Europe and 21st Century Economic Policy Models. Book manuscript project to be submitted to Cornell University Press.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

Introduction to Comparative Politics 5th Ed. (Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2010). With William Joseph, Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, et al. (co-author)

 

European Politics in Transition 6th Ed. (Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2009), With Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, Joan DeBardeleben, Steven Hellman, George Ross, and David Ost. (co-author).

 

Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas 4th Ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007). With William Joseph, Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, et al. (co-author)

European Politics in Transition 5th Ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), With Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, Joan DeBardeleben, Steven Hellman, George Ross, and David Ost. (co-author).

Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas 3rd Ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003). With William Joseph, Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, et al. (co-author)

European Politics in Transition 4th Ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), With Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, Joan DeBardeleben, Steven Hellman, George Ross, and David Ost. (co-author).

Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas   2nd. Ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000). With William Joseph, Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, et al. (co-author)

Transformation of the German Political Party System: Institutional Crisis or Democratic Renewal?, (editor). (New York: Berghahn, 1999 - cloth & 2001 - paper).

European Politics in Transition 3rd Ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), With Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, Joan DeBardeleben, Steven Hellman, and George Ross. (co-author).

Comparative Politics at the Crossroads (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996), With William Joseph, Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, et al. (co-author)

European Politics in Transition 2nd Ed. (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1992), With Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, Joan DeBardeleben, Steven Hellman, and Jonas Pontusson (co-author).

Innovating to Compete: Lessons for Diffusing and Managing Change in the Workplace (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1987). (Junior author), with Richard E. Walton (Senior Author) and Michael Gaffney (Junior Author).

European Politics in Transition 1st Ed. (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1987), With Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, Joan DeBardeleben, Steven Hellman, and Jonas Pontusson (co-author).

Unions and Economic Crisis: Britain, West Germany and Sweden (London: Allen and Unwin, 1984), With Peter Gourevitch, Andrew Martin, George Ross, Steven Bornstein, and Andrei Markovits. (co-author)

MONOGRAPHS:

 

Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: Germany, Europe and 21st Century Economic Policy Models. AICGS Adviser American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington DC, December 19, 2009. http://www.aicgs.org/documents/advisor/callen1208.pdf

 

Ideas, Institutions and the Exhaustion of Modell Deutschland? Working Paper Series Number 7, The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies/Le Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes. Toronto and Montreal. 2004.

Social Democracy, Globalization and Governance: Why is there no European Left Program in the EU? Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Working Paper No. 00.6, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (September 2000). Paper simultaneously published at Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) http://www.ciaonet.org/.

Social Democracy, Globalization and Governance: Center-Left Governments and the European Union, in the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Workshop VII: Governance, in the series Responses to Governance in Germany and the United States, AICGS, March 8, 1999.

Germany and the Comparative Political Party Experience: Sclerotic or Dynamic Institutions? Working Paper 7.2, Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, March 1996.

Domestic Politics and Private Investment: Financial Regulation in West Germany and the United States. Research Report No. 2, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, 1990.

The Massachusetts High Tech Industry: The Promise and the Reality, April 1984, With the High Technology Research Group.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

“’Empty Nets’: Social Democracy and the ‘Catch-all Party Thesis’ in Germany and Sweden.” Party Politics Vol. 15 No. 5 (September 2009), pp. 635-653.

 

"The Road to 2005: The Policy of Economic Modernisation" German Politics Vol 15. No. 4 (December 2006), pp. 347-360.

"Ideas, Institutions and the Exhaustion of Modell Deutschland?" German Law Journal, 5  9 (September 2004), pp. 1133-1154..

"Ideas, Networks, and Policy Streams: Privatization in Britain and Germany," Policy Studies Review, 14 1/2 (Spring/Summer 1996), pp. 71-98. (Second Author: with Nikos Zahariadis).

"The Financial System and Corporate Governance in Germany: Institutions and the Diffusion of Innovations," Journal of Public Policy, 13 2 (1993), pp. 183-202. (Second Author: with Kirsten S. Wever).

"Is Germany a ‘Model’ for Managers?" Harvard Business Review, 70 5 (September-October 1992), pp. 36-43. (Second Author: with Kirsten S. Wever.)

"Trade Unions, Worker Participation and Flexibility: Linking the Micro to the Macro." Comparative Politics, 22 3 (April 1990), pp. 253-272.

"From Social Market to Meso-Corporatism: The Politics of West German Economic Policy." German Studies Review, 13 (DAAD Special Issue) 1990, pp. 13-25.

"Regional Governments and Economic Policies in West Germany: The ‘Meso’ Politics of Industrial Adjustment." Publius, 19 4 (1989), pp. 147-164.

"Between Social Market Economy and Corporatist Crisis Management," German Politics and Society, No. 16 (Spring 1989), pp. 41-53.

"The Defense Issue in West Germany: The Economic and Political Constraints on Increased Military Allocations," Armed Forces and Society, 15 1, (Fall 1988), pp. 93-112. (First Author: With Paul F. Diehl.)

"Big Business and the State in Germany," in Business History Review, 59 2, (Summer 1985), pp. 284-288.

"Tale Thrice Told: Industrial Policy Proposals Reviewed," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 4 2, (Winter 1985), pp. 234-249. (First Author: With Harvey Rishikof.)

"Trade Union Responses to the Contemporary Economic Problems in Western Europe: The Context of Current Debates and Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany," Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2 1, (February 1981), pp. 49-85. (Second Author: With Andrei S. Markovits.)

"Power and Dissent: The Trade Unions in the Federal Republic of Germany Re-examined," West European Politics, 3 1, (January 1980), pp. 68-86. (Second Author: With Andrei S. Markovits.)

"The German Conscience," Jewish Frontier, (April 1979), pp. 23-37. (Second Author: With Andrei S. Markovits.)

BOOK CHAPTERS:

"The Road to 2005: The Policy of Economic Modernisation" in Thomas Saalfeld and Clay Clemens, eds., The German Election of 2005: Voters, Parties and Grand Coalition Politics (London: Routledge, 2007) pp. 347-360.

"The Case for a Multi-Party U.S. Parliament? American Politics in Comparative Perspective." in Christian Soe, Annual Editions: Comparative Politics, 25th ed. (Dushkin, 2007), pp. 99-107.

"Ordo-Liberalism Trumps Keynesianism in the Federal Republic of Germany" in Bernard Moss, ed., Monetary Union in Crisis: The European Union as a Neo-Liberal Construction." (London: Palgrave, 2005), pp. 199-221.

"Ideas and Policy Change in Britain and Germany," (2nd author, with Nikolaos Zahariadis) in Nikolaos Zahariadis, ed., Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy: Political Decision Making in Modern Democracies (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003).

"The Politics of Adapting Organized Capitalism: United Germany, the New Europe, and Globalization," in Carl Lankowski, ed. Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough: Germany’s Difficult Passage to Modernity (New York: Berghahn, 1999).

"Institutions Challenged: German Unification, Policy Errors and the ‘Siren Song’ of Deregulation," in Lowell Turner, ed. Negotiating the New Germany: Can Social Partnership Survive? (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), pp. 137-156.

"Principles of the Economic System: An American View," in Germany and its Basic Law, Paul Kirchhof and Donald Kommers, eds. (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1993), pp. 339-354. "Prinzipien des Wirtschaftssystems: aus amerikanischer Sicht," in Deutschland und sein Grundgesetz, Paul Kirschhof and Donald Kommers, eds. (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1993), pp. 379-399.

"From Social Market to Meso-Corporatism to European Integration: The Politics of German Economic Policy," in Michael G. Huelshoff, Andrei S. Markovits, and Simon Reich, eds., From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), pp. 61-76.

"United Europe and Social Democracy: The EEC, Germany and its Three Small Neighbors," (Second Author: with Paulette Kurzer), in Carl Lankowski, ed., Germany and the European Community: Beyond Hegemony and Containment (New York: St. Martin’s, 1993), pp. 101-123.

"The Underdevelopment of Keynesianism in the Federal Republic of Germany" in The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism Across Nations, Peter A. Hall, (ed.). (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), pp. 263-289.

"The Political Consequences of Change in the West German Chemical Industry." In The Politics of Industry in West Germany: Toward the Third Republic, Peter J. Katzenstein, (ed.). (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 157-184.

"The Industrial Policy Controversy in West Germany: Organized Adjustment and the Emergence of Meso-Corporatism," (First Author: With Jeremiah Riemer), in Richard Fogelsong and Joel Wolfe, eds. The Politics of Economic Adjustment: A Comparative Study of Corporatism, Privatization, and Pluralism (Chicago: Greenwood Press, 1989), pp. 45-64.

"The Trade Unions," (First Author: With Andrei S. Markovits) in Gordon Smith, William E. Paterson, and Peter H. Merkl eds., Developments in German Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989), pp. 289-307.

"Worker Participation and the West German Trade Unions: An Unfulfilled Dream?" in Carmen Sirianni, ed., Worker Participation: The Politics of Reform (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987), pp. 174-197.

"Germany: Competing Communitarianisms," in George C. Lodge and Ezra Vogel, eds., Ideology and National Competitiveness, (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987), pp. 79-102.

"Trade Unions and Paths toward Economic Conversion: European and American Contrasts," in Suzanne Gordon and David McFadden, (eds.), Economic Conversion: Revitalizing the American Economy (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1984), pp. 204-218.

"Power and Dissent: The Trade Unions in the Federal Republic of Germany Re-examined," in Jack Hayward, (ed.), Trade Unions and Politics in Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 1980), pp. 68-96. (Second Author: With Andrei S. Markovits.)

"The Mediterranean: The Politics of Instability - An Overview," in Roy C. Macridis, (ed.), Modern Political Systems: Europe, 4th Ed., (Englewood Cliffs N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1978), (Second Author: With Roy C. Macridis and Winston L. Amselem.)

REPRINTS:

"The Case for a Multi-Party U.S. Parliament? American Politics in Comparative Perspective." in Christian Soe, Annual Editions: Comparative Politics, 22nd ed. (Greenwich, CT: Dushkin, 2005), pp. 103-111.

"Is Germany’s Economic Success a Model for America?" The National Times, December 1992, pp. 32-35. (Second Author: with Kirsten S. Wever.). Reprint of: "Is Germany a ‘Model’ for Managers?" Harvard Business Review, 70 5 (September-October 1992), pp. 36-43. (Second Author: with Kirsten S. Wever.)

REFERENCE WORKS:

"Social Market Economy" (772),  "Codetermination" (149), "Proportional Representation"  (694-695), "Gerhard Schröder" (755-756) and "Helmut Kohl" (469-471);  Bibliographic Entries for The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World 2nd Ed.(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), Joel Krieger, Ed.

"Social Market Economy," "Codetermination," "Proportional Representation," and "Helmut Kohl." Bibliographic Entries for The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World 1st. Ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), Joel Krieger, Ed..

REVIEWS:

Jan Erk, Explaining Federalism: State, Society and Congruence in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. (London & New York: Routledge Press, 2008) in Publius: The Journal of Federalism 2009; doi: 10.1093/publius/pjp002

 

Dan Hough, Michael Koss, and Jonathan Olsen. The Left Party in Contemporary German Politics. (Basingstoke [England ]; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) in German Politics and Society 26 3 (2008), pp. 96-101..

 

E. P. Hennock, The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2007) in German Politics and Society 25 4 (2007), pp. 118-122.

 

Sergio Ortino, Mitja Zagar and Vojtech Mastny, eds., The Changing Faces of Federalism: Institutional Reconfiguration and Europe from East to West. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005) in Publius 36  3 (2006), pp. 468-469.

Chris Howell, Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations in Britain, 1890-2000 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005), in the Journal of Politics, 68 1 (2006), pp. 226-227.

"Up in the Clouds." Review essay of Jon C. Pevehouse, Democracy from Above: Regional Organizations and Democratization. (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005) in Harvard International Review, 27  3 (2005), pp. 78-79.

Arthur B. Gunlicks, The Länder and German Federalism. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003). and Arthur B. Gunlicks, ed., German Public Policy and Federalism: Current Debates on Political, Legal and Social Issues. (New York: Berghahn, 2003), in Publius 34  4 (Fall 2004), pp. 173-175.

"Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm, eds. Coalition Governments in Western Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)," in the American Political Science Review, 96  2 (June, 2002), p. 449.

"Jeffrey J. Anderson, The Territorial Imperative: Pluralism, Corporatism, and Economic Crisis (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)," in the American Political Science Review, 87 1 (March 1993), p. 230.

"Alan Peacock and Hans Willgerodt, eds., Germany’s Social Market Economy: Origins and Evolution (New York: St. Martin’s, 1989); and German Neo-Liberals and the Social Market Economy (New York: St. Martin’s, 1989)," in German Politics and Society, 23 (Summer 1991), pp. 103-107.

"Gary Marks, Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; and Peter Swenson, Fair Shares: Unions, Pay and Politics in Sweden and West Germany" in the American Political Science Review, 84 2 (June 1990), pp. 694-696.

"Kim Quaile Hill, Democracies in Crisis: Public Policy Responses to the Great Depression in The Journal of Politics, 52 1 (February 1990), pp. 315-317.

"Wyn Grant, William Paterson, and Colin Whitson, Government and the Chemical Industry: A Comparative Study of Britain and West Germany" in the British Politics Group Newsletter, No. 58 (Fall 1989), pp. 28-30.

"Michael L. Hughes, Paying for the German Inflation," in German Studies Review, 12 2 (May 1989), pp. 403-404.

"Peter Katzenstein, Policy and Politics in West Germany: The Growth of a Semi-Sovereign State," in German Politics and Society, No. 13, (February 1988), 52-55.

"Andrei S. Markovits, The Politics of the West German Trade Unions," in Review of Politics, 50 1, (Winter 1988), pp. 161-164.

"Peter Katzenstein, Corporatism and Change and Small States in World Markets, in The German Studies Newsletter (September 1985), 33-36.

"Walter Laqueur, Germany Today, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, August 18, 1985, p. 9.

"Vernon Bogdanor, ed., Parties and Democracy in Britain and America" in the American Political Science Review, 79 2, (Summer 1985), 547-548.

"Gerald A. Dorfman, British Trade Unionism Against the Trade Union Congress" in the American Political Science Review, 78 3 (Fall 1984), 826-827.

"Gerard Braunthal, The West German Social Democrats: Profile of a Party in Power, 1969-1982," in The German Studies Newsletter, (December 1983), 24-26.

"Joshua Cohen and Jerome Rogers, On Democracy" in The Boston Review, (June 1984), 16-20. (First Author: With Suzanne Gordon.)
 

OP-ED ARTICLES:

"A Better Way to Play -- At Home and for Pay." Boston Globe, February 18, 1996, p. 80.

 

"’United Europe’ May Look Unlike a U.S. Democracy," Atlanta Constitution, November 14, 1989, p. A-27.

"Why Not a Parliamentary System?" Philadelphia Inquirer, January 5, 1988, p. 9-A.

"If U.S. Unions Would Speak for All Workers, Mondale Would Profit." Newsday, April 12, 1984.

"A costly independent streak," Boston Globe (Business Extra Section), January 10, 1984.

"A win for Kohl, but more important a loss for Social Democrats," Boston Globe (Op-Ed Page), March 8, 1983.

"Schmidt Paved Way for his Fall," Boston Globe, (Op-Ed Page), October 2, 1982

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

"Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: Germany, Europe and 21st Century Path Dependent Economic Policy Models" Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, ON, September 2-6, 2009.

 

"Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: Germany, Europe and 21st Century Path Dependent Economic Policy Models."  Paper presented at the The 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE): Capitalism in Crisis: What's Next? Economic Regulation and Social Solidarity After the Fall of Finance Capitalism. Sciences Po, Paris France July 16-18, 2009

 

"Ideas, Institutions and Organised Capitalism: Germany, Europe and 21st Century Path Dependent Economic Policy Models." Paper presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of German Politics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, May 26-27, 2009.

 

"The German Model of Political Economy 20 Years after Unification" Paper presented at The Bonn/Berlin Republic at 20: From Unification to Unity? A Symposium organized by the editors of German Politics and Society Sponsored by the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University May 7-8, 2009

 

"Ideas, Institutions, and Organized Capitalism: Germany, Europe, and 21st Century Path Dependent Economic Policy Models" Paper presented at the Johns Hopkins University's American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC, December 10, 2008.

 

"Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism:." Paper Accepted for presentation at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 29-31, 2008. (not delivered due to illness)

 

"Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism:." Paper Presented at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany,  May 21, 2008.

 

"BioBricks or BioConflicts? Building Public Trust in European Governance of Synthetic Biology." (with Amy L. Fletcher). Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL August 30 - September 2, 2007.

“’Empty Nets’: Social Democracy and the ‘Catch-all Party Thesis’ in Germany and Sweden." Paper prepared for presentation at the “Kirchheimer Reconsidered: Applications and Implications of the Catch-All Thesis Forty Years Later” Conference, University of Iowa, July 26-28, 2007

"Forming Left Wing Coalition Governments? Sweden and Germany in the early 21st Century." Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 31 - September 3, 2006.

"Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: Germany, Europe and 21st Century Economic Policy Models." Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1-4, 2005.

"Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: Is a Renewed Modell Deutschland an Option for European Economic Policy?" Paper presented in the Visiting Scholars Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 27, 2005.

"Ideas, Institutions and Modell Deutschland." Address delivered in the Guest Speakers' Series, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, April 21, 2005.

"Is the German Model Really Dead?". Address delivered at the conference "Ties that Divide:  A Conference on United States-German Relations", Richmond, VA, April 15, 2005.

"American Soccer's 'Civilizing' Mission." Address delivered at the German Stammtisch, Harvard Center for European Studies, Cambridge, MA, February 28, 2005.

"Social Democracy and Capital Investment: An Unexplored Option in Western Europe?" Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 2-5, 2004.

"Ideas, Institutions and the Exhaustion of Modell Deutschland?" Paper Presented at the Canadian Center for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, February 12, 2004.

"Ideas, Institutions and the Exhaustion of Modell Deutschland?" Paper Presented at the German Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, September 18-20, 2003.

"Legislative and Executive Disporportionality: The Quality of Democracy in Four Parliamentary Systems" Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28 - 31, 2003.

"Representation and Exclusion: The Quality of Democracy in Consensus and Majoritarian Systems" Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 29 - September 1, 2002.

"Representation and Exclusion: The Quality of Democracy in Consensus and Majoritarian Systems" Paper Presented at the Visiting Scholar Lunch Series, Harvard University Center for European Studies, March 20, 2002.

"Social Democracy, Globalization and Governance: Why is there no European Left Program in the EU?" Paper Presented at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 3, 2000.

"Reflections on the Third Way: The European Left in Power." Roundable presentation, 12th Biennial Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, IL, March 30 - April 2, 2000.

"Regionalism, Globalization and the Red-Green Coalition." Paper Presented at the 41st Annual International Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, March 14-18 2000.

"The Politics of European Unemployment." Paper Presented at the 4th Annual Europe Seminar "Europe: The Transatlantic Relationship" at the Sheraton Colony Square Hotel, Atlanta, GA, October 15, 1999.

"The Case for a US Parliament? American Politics in Comparative Perspective." Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 2-5, 1999.

"The Case for a US Parliament? American Politics in Comparative Perspective." Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 14-17, 1999.

"The Search for a Red-Green Economic Policy." Paper Presented at the Conference on Contemporary German Politics, University of Richmond, November 21, 1998.

"The Search for a Red-Green Economic Policy." Presentation at the Roundtable on the the German Elections, Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, October 30, 1998. "Germany, the European Union, and the Politics of Global Telecommunications." Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 3-6, 1998 (Second author: with Amy Fletcher).

"Euro vs Dollar" Roundtable presentation at the conference: Federalism and Compounded Representation in Western Europe, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, April 3-4, 1998.

"German Labor and the Left" Roundtable presentation "What’s Left of the Left?", Conference of Europeanists, Baltimore, MD, February 26-28, 1998.

"Institutions and Political Reform: Eastern German Lessons for Mexico?" Paper presented at CIDAC, Mexico City, October 31, 1997.

"Labor, Business, Banking and the EMU: The German Model in Europe?" Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 1997.

"The Future of the German Economic Model," Paper presented at the Foreign Service Institute, US State Department, Arlington, VA, March 12, 1997.

"Germany’s Political and Economic Leadership in Europe," Paper presented at the Southern Center for International Studies, Atlanta, GA, October 31, 1996.

"Negotiating and Coperating." Paper presented at the Conference Cultural Gateways to Business and the European Union, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, AZ, May 3, 1996

"The German Political Economy in the 1990s: Departure from the Model," Paper presented at the conference on the Political Economy of the New Germany, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 14-15, 1994.

"New Institutionalism and the Politics of Financial Reform: Ideas vs. Institutions," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York Hilton and Sheraton New York, September 1-4, 1994.

"Democratic Politics and Capital Investment: Collective Funds and Private Markets in Germany and Sweden," Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2-4, 1993.

"Collective Privatization: Industrial Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany." Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2-4, 1993.

"The German Production Regime in Comparative Perspective," Paper Presented at the international conference on "Production Regimes in an Integrating Europe" at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, July 23-25, 1993.

"A German Europe or a European Germany? Hegemony, Institutions, and Foreign Economic Policy," Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL September 3-7, 1992 (with Paulette Kurzer).

 "Democratic Politics and Capital Investment: Collective Funds and Private Markets in Germany and Sweden," Paper Presented at the conference on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Regimes in Europe from the 1930s to the 1980s, July 9-10, 1992 at the Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin (WZB), Federal Republic of Germany.

 "Deregulation: Individuals, Collectivities and Democratic Theory," Paper presented at the Conference "Deregulating the Economy: Politics and Regulation in Advanced Industrial Democracies," Harvard University Center for European Studies, April 24-26, 1992.

 "The German Financial System and the EC." Paper presented at the Conference "The Faces of a United Germany," at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 11-12, 1991.

 "German Unification and Industrial Adjustment: Patterns of Organized Innovation." Paper presented at the Annual Symposium on Technology and its Social Context, Michigan Technical University, Houghton, MI, April 12, 1991.

 "United Europe and Social Democracy: The EEC, West Germany and its Three Small Neighbors." Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 29 - September 3, 1990 (with Paulette Kurzer).

 "Ideas, Institutions and Capital Investment in the United States and West Germany: The Politics of Banking and Stock Market Regulation." Paper presented at the Conference on the New Institutionalism, Boulder, CO, January 12-13, 1990.

 "The Social Market Economy: What Americans Should Know About How the German Economy Works." Paper presented at the Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State, Arlington, VA, December 12, 1989.

 "Principles of the Economic System: An American View." Paper presented at the German-American Conference, Federal Republic of Germany - 40 Years of the Basic Law: Experience and Prospects, Washington, DC, October 23-25, 1989.

 "The Politics of Regulating Domestic Capital Investment: Banks and Stock Markets in West Germany and the United States." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 6-8, 1989.

 "De-Regulation, Re-Regulation, or Self-Regulation? Banks and the Politics of Domestic Capital Investment in West Germany." Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, August 31-September 3, 1989.

 "Ideas, Instutions and Capital Investment in the United States & West Germany: Laissez Faire vs Organized Capitalism." Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, August 31-September 3, 1989.

 "From Social Market to Meso-Corporatism: The Politics of West German Economic Policy." Paper Presented at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Workshop on the "Federal Republic at Forty," Atlanta, GA, August 29-30, 1989.

 "Economic Convergence and Social Democratic Decline: The EC, West Germany and its Three Small Neighbors." Paper presented at the Inaugural Conference on the European Community in the 1990s, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, May 24-25, 1989. (with Paulette Kurzer).

 "The Politics of Private Investment: German Banks on the Road to 1992." Paper presented at the 4th Pacific Workshop on German Affairs, California State University, Long Beach, CA, April 7-8, 1989.

 "Economic Convergence and Social Democratic Decline: The EC, West Germany and its Three Small Neighbors." Paper presented at the International Studies Association World Congress, London, March 30 - April 1, 1989. (with Paulette Kurzer).

 "Collective Privatization in Germany." Paper presented at the International Studies Association World Congress, London, March 30 - April 1, 1989.

 "The Politics of Regulating Domestic Capital Investment: German Banks vs. the American Stock Market." Paper presented at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 14, 1989.

 "Gewerkschaften, 'Mitbestimmung,' und Flexibilisierung: zur Verknüpfung der Makro- und der Mikroperspektive." Paper presented at the Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, West Germany, February 1, 1989.

 "Collective Privatization in the Federal Republic of Germany." Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Meetings, Atlanta, November 2-4, 1988.

 "Raising Capital: Banking Systems and the Politics of Investment Policies in West Germany and the U.S." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1-4, 1988.

 Corporatism and Regional Economic Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany: The 'Meso' Politics of Industrial Adjustment." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1-4, 1988.

 "Parliamentary Systems vs. Separation of Powers," at the Business and Industry Conference, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA, May 4-5, 1988.

 "Collective Privatization: Industrial Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany," at the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago Hilton and Towers, Chicago, IL, April 14-16, 1988.

 "The Politics of Change in the West German Chemical Industry," at the conference on "The Third West German Republic, Wissenschaftzentrum, Berlin, January 8-10, 1988.

 "Regional Industrial Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany: The Politics of Meso-Economic Change." Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Meetings, Charlotte, NC, November 5-6, 1987.

 "Trade Unions, Worker Participation, and Flexibility." Paper presented at the Conference of Europeanists, Washington, DC, October 30 - November 2, 1987.

 "Industrial Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany: 'Taking the State Back Out.'" at the Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 3-6, 1987.

 "The Politics of Change in the West German Chemical Industry," at the conference on Industry and Political Change, Cornell University, April 16-18, 1987.

 "West German Industrial Policy: the Pre-eminence of Private Sector Institutions." at the Third Pacific Workshop on German Affairs, Long Beach, CA, April 9-11, 1987.

 "The Politics of West German Industrial Policy," at the German Studies Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, September 26-28. 1986.

 "Trade Unions, Self Management, and Theories of Innovation," at the American Political Science Association Conference, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 1986.

 "West Germany's 'Comment Adaptation': Privatized and Regionalized Industrial Policies," at the American Society of Public Administration Conference, Anaheim, CA, April 13-16, 1986.

 "West Germany's Economic Adaptation: the 'Meso' Politics of Industrial Policies," at California State University, Long Beach, April 15, 1986.

 "Workplace Change and the Politics of Industrial Adjustment: the Shipping Industry in Britain, the Netherlands, West Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark," at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, University of California at Berkeley, April 14, 1986.

 "Industrial Policies in West Germany: Multiple Paths toward Adjustment," at the International Studies Association Conference, Anaheim, CA, March 28-30, 1986.

 "Patterns of German Industrialization," at Wellesley College, October 2, 1985.

 "The Reindustrialization Debate in West Germany." At the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, September 1985, With Jeremiah M. Riemer.

 "Country Analysis and Managing in the International Arena," at the Boston University School of Management, August 13, 1985.

 "Trade Unions, Self Management, and Innovation," at the conference Capitalism, Trade Unions, and Self Management, University of Osnabrueck, West Germany, July 5-9, 1985.

 "Threatened Industries and Organizational Innovation: The Shipping Industry in Northwestern Europe," at the Harvard Business School Research Dinner Seminar Series, April 29, 1985.

 "Innovation Misperceived: American Views of the German Economy" at the Second Pacific Workshop on German Affairs, April 19-20, 1985, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

 "West German Labor's Demand for the 35 Hour Week: A Step Away from Economic Democracy," at the conference Managing Modern Capitalism, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 21-23, 1985

 "West Germany's Economic Adaptation Strategies for the 1980s," at the Visiting Lecture Series, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, March 6, 1985.

 "Patterns of Industrial Adaptation: the U.S. and West Germany," at the Seminar on German and Japanese Industrial Policy, Cornell University, November 1984.

 "West German Management and Trade Union Strategies." at the German Academic Exchange Service Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 1984

 "Current Pressures on West Germany: the Economy." at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1984.

 "The European and American Electoral Systems Compared," at the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, July 1984.

 "The State and Foreign Economic Policy: West German and American Contrasts", at the 5th Workshop on German Affairs, Tufts University, May 11, 1984.

 "SPD and Trade Union Options in the Federal Republic," at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA,  May 4, 1984.

 "Sectors, Unions and Industrial Policy: A Critical Look at the German Model," at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, April 13, 1984.

 "Constructing a Left Alternative in the Federal Republic", at the Northeast Political Science  Association Meetings, Newport, RI, April 1984.

 "Improving the Quality and Accessibility of Labor Market Information", Research presentation to the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on the Future of Mature Industries, January 1984.

 "Profiles of the Massachusetts Labor Market," Research presentation to the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on the Future of Mature Industries, October 1983.

 "The Automobile Industry and the Metalworkers Union in the Federal Republic of Germany: Changing Relationships in Crisis Conditions," at the Conference of Europeanists, Washington, D.C., October 1980, With Andrei S. Markovits.

 "The German Political Economy" at the 1st Workshop on German Affairs, Ogunquit, Maine, June  6-7, 1980, Sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Boston.

 "Trade Union Responses to the Contemporary Economic Problems in Western Europe: West Germany," at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1979, With Andrei S. Markovits.

 "The Experience of Labor in a Changing Market Economy: The Ambivalence of the West German Trade Unions," at the XIth World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Moscow, U.S.S.R., August 1979, With Andrei S. Markovits.

 "The West German Unions' Role in Democratization and Participation: Social Partnership or Class Conflict?" at the XIth World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Moscow, U.S.S.R., August 1979, With Andrei S. Markovits.
 

RELATED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

Panel Discussant, "The Accomplishments and Failures of Social Democratic Governance" at the conference "Social Justice and the Future of Social Democracy." Minda de Gunzburg Harvard Center for European Studies, March 17-18, 2005.

Panel Discussant, "Immigration and Support for the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe." American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28 - 31, 2003.

Panel Discussant, "Issues in German Politics." American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 29 - September 1, 2002.

Panel Chair and Discussant, "European Capitalism in Transition: Liberalization, European Integration, and National Models." American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 30 - September 2, 2001.

Panel Chair and Discussant, "Public Policy in Western Europe and the United States: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches." Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, November 8-11, 2000.

Panel Discussant, "German Politics and Policy in Comparative Perspective" at the conference "The United States, Germany and Europe since 1945," Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi, September 21-23, 2000.

Panel Chair, "Left Politics After the Fall" American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2-5, 2000.

Panel Discussant, "The Politics of High-Technology: A Comparative Perspective." American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 2-5, 1999.

Panel Discussant, European Community Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, June 3-5, 1999. Panel Discussant, "Conference of Europeanists" Baltimore, MD, February 27, 1998.

Panel Chair and Discussant, "Choice and Context: Examining Politics and Economics in Late Capitalism", Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah, GA, February 20-21, 1998.

Panel Discussant, "Project on Federalism and Compounded Representation in Western Europe." Emory University, October 10, 1997.

Panel Discussant, "American Economic and Social Response to Globalization," at the Conference on the Challenge of Globalization, Richmond, VA, November 22-23, 1996.

Panel Discussant, "Welfare States and Corporatism," at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 18-20, 1996.

Panel Discussant, "The Viability of the German Model," at the Conference on Economic Adjustment and Mutual Learning: USA-Germany, Wissenschaftszentrum-Berlin, Berlin, Germany, December 15-16, 1995.

Panel Discussant, "The Politics of Financial Policy." at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 31 - September 3, 1995.

Panel Discussant, "Technology, Industrial Policy, and the Social Organiation of Production" Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Palmer House, Chicago, March 27-29, 1992.

 Panel Chair, "The Politics of Finance," Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Palmer House, Chicago, March 27-29, 1992.

 Panel Discussant, "Rethinking the German Miracle: Volkswagen in Prosperity and Crisis," at the 'Competition and Industry Structure' Seminar (under the auspices of Alfred D. Chandler), Harvard Business School, November 4, 1991.

 Panel Participant, "Germany After the Wall," at the 'Euroforum', Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, April 23, 1991.

 Panel Discussant, "The Structure of Policy Formation in the Federal Republic of Germany," at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Association, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 1990.

 Panel Discussant, "Policy Issues in the Federal Republic of Germany," at the 14th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Buffalo, NY, October 4-7, 1990.

 Panel Discussant, "The Role of West European and Japanese Governments in East-West Economic Relations," at the 12th International Workshop on East-West Economic Interaction, Center for East-West Trade, University of Georgia, April 1-5, 1989.

 Panel Chair and Discussant, "Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy," at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Political Science Association, Charlotte, NC, November 5-6, 1987.

 Panel Chair, "The Welfare State," at the Conference "New Visions and Directions? The West German SPD and the American Democratic Party, at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 22-25, 1987.

 Panel Discussant, at the conference "The Automobile Industry and the Federal Republic of Germany," at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, Berkeley, CA, September 10-12, 1987.

 Panel Discussant, "Production Reorganization, New Skills, and the Challenge to Labor," at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 3-6, 1987.

 Panel Chair, "A Policy Analysis of the Kohl Government: 1982-87," at the International Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, April 14-18, 1987.

 Panel Discussant, "Europeanism and Atlanticism," at the International Studies Association, South, Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 6-8, 1986.

 Panel Chair, "West Germany in the 1980s," at the International Studies Association Conference, Anaheim, CA, March 26-29, 1986.

 Panel Discussant in Alfred D. Chandler's Seminar "History of the Modern Corporation," Harvard Business School, Fall 1984.

 Member, Planning Committee International Conference on Economic Conversion, June 1984.

 Member, Massachusetts High Technology Research Group, 1984.

 Panel Co-Chair of "The Federal Republic of Germany: Aspects and Prospects," at the Northeastern Political Science Association, Newark, N.J., November 1979.

 Discussant on Panel "People-Oriented Issues in a Comparative Setting" at the Northeastern Political Science Association, Newark, N.J., November 1979.

PROFESSIONAL REVIEWING AND REFEREEING:

Referee for professional articles submitted to American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, German Politics and Society, German Studies Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, International Studies Quarterly, Polity, and Publius.

Referee for manuscripts submitted to Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, University of Chicago Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, Penn State University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Missouri Press, University of Georgia Press, The Dorsey Press, and The Guilford Press.
 

FUNDED RESEARCH, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, ASSISTANTSHIPS AND GRANTS

2010 Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (January-June)

 

2009  Observer, 2009 German Bundestag Election. Project funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Göthe Institute in cooperation with the International Association the Study of German Politics, University of Birmingham, UK. ($1,000)

 

2009 Visiting Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne Germany, May - June. ($1,000)

 

2008 Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Georgia.

 

2008 Research Fellow, DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. ($5,000).

 

2008 Visiting Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne Germany, May - June. ($1,100)

 

2008 Recipient, Award for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, Presented by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society.

 

2007 Research Fellow, DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. ($10,000) - declined.

 

2006 Recipient, Award for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, Presented by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society.

2006 Recipient, School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Georgia.

2005 Observer, 2005 German Bundestag Election. Project funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Göthe Institute in cooperation with the British Association' for the Study of German Politics, University of Birmingham, UK.

2001 Member, "Germany and the Citizens Europe: Labor, Social and Educational Policies in Germany and in Europe". An annual information visit on current developments in Germany for North American policy experts and decision-makers. Sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the University of Bonn.

1991-93 Member, Research Project: "Financial Institutions and Regulatory Regimes in Europe from the 1930s to the 1980s." Project funded by the Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin (WZB), the Harvard University Center for European Studies, the German Marshall Fund, the Hans Böckler Stiftung, and the Deutsche Bank; Douglas Forsyth and Antonius Notermans, Project Directors.

1990-91 German Marshall Fund Research Fellow. Research conducted at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Project Title: "Democratic Politics and Capital Investment: De-regulation, Re-regulation and Self-regulation in Industrial Societies" ($32,000)

1989-90 Member, Research Project: "The New Institutionalism: State, Society, and Economy," Project funded by the Council for European Studies, Columbia University; Sven Steinmo & Kathleen Thelen, Project Directors.

1988-89 Hoechst-Celanese/Siemens Research Fellowship for the Study of the Federal Republic of Germany, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

1989 Organizer, Workshop on "Banks and the Domestic Politics of Regulatory Reform: The United States, Western Europe and Japan." Supported by the German Marshall Fund and held at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC., June 8, 1989.

1988 Recipient, M.G. Michael Award for Research offered by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia for the project: "The Politics of Regulating Domestic Capital Investment: German Banks and the American Stock Market." ($2,500)

1988 Recipient, Faculty Research Grant, University of Georgia for the project: "Stock Markets and Banks: The Politics of Financial Regulation in the U.S. and W. Germany." ($5,299)

1987-88 Member, Research Project: "Industry and Political Change in West Germany," Project funded by the German Marshall Fund; Peter Katzenstein, Project Director.

1987-88 Member, Research Project: "The Political Power of Economic Ideas," Peter A. Hall, (ed.). Project funded by the Social Science Research Council; Albert O. Hirschman and Theda Skocpol, project directors.

1984-1986 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration

1978-1979 Isaiah Leo Sharfman Fellowship, Brandeis University, in support of dissertation research in the Federal Republic of Germany

1979 International Political Science Association Travel Grant in support of travel expenses to the International Political Science Association Congress in Moscow, U.S.S.R.

1979 American Political Science Association/National Science Foundation Travel Grant in support of travel expenses to the International Political Science Association Congress in Moscow, U.S.S.R.

1979 Council for European Studies/Columbia University Travel Grant for graduate students in support of travel expenses to the Conference of Europeanists, Washington, D.C.
 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Editorial Board Member, German Politics and Society

 

Member, Council for European Studies

Member, International Association for the Study of German Politics

Member, American Political Science Association

LANGUAGES:

Proficient in reading, speaking and writing German.

Proficient in reading and speaking Spanish.

Proficient in reading Latin.
 

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE:

Comparative Politics of Developed Democracies, Comparative Political Institutions, European Political Economy, Labor Movements, Management Policy, Business and Government, American Politics, and Politics, Film and Literature.