Professional Affiliation

Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Expert Bio

 

 

Expertise

Comparative Politics in Western Europe, Corporate Governance, Interfirm Cooperation in Knowledge-Based Industries, Public Policies for Technological Change

 

 

Wilson Center Project

"Liberal Ideas, Organized Interests, and Institutional Reform: Unified Germany in a Changing World Economy"

Project Summary

The capacity of Germany's institutions to adapt to changing economic conditions has long been of great importance for Europe and the international community more generally. This project examines the contemporary politics of institutional reform in Germany. It begins with a critical examination of three perspectives that provide the terms of debate for such reforms: the liberal-market perspective, the social-partnership perspective, and the democratic-experimentalist perspective. The project then uses these perspectives to illuminate how Germany's main interest groups and parties are responding to challenges in three of the country's central institutional arenas for organizing economic resources:

 

• Industrial finance.
  
   
• White-collar training programs.
  
   
• Old-age pension insurance.

 

The way Germany meets these challenges will have broad consequences for its neighbors to the East as well as the West.

 

Major Publications

• "Corporate Governance and the Politics of Property Rights in Germany," Politics and Society, June 2000, pp. 195-221.
  
   
• Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany, Cornell Studies in Political Economy (Cornell University Press, 1997). Also published in German as Technologiepolitik: Innovationsstrategien in Deutschland und Frankreich (Campus Verlag, 1999).
  
   
• "Institutions, Elites, and Technological Advance in France and Germany," World Politics, April 1995, pp. 341-372.