Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streeck

 

Research Projects

• The Fiscal Crisis of the State in Contemporary Capitalism
• Social Conditions and Consequences of Flexible Labor Markets
• Social Science and the Practice of Politics

Selected Publications

The Crises of Democratic Capitalism. New Left Review 71, Sept./Oct 2011, 5-29 (2011), and MPIfG Discussion Paper 11/15. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2011  
E Pluribus Unum? Varieties and Commonalities of Capitalism. In: The Sociology of Economic Life. 3rd ed. (Eds.) M. Granovetter, R. Swedberg. Boulder, CO: Westview, 419-455 (2011), and MPIfG Discussion Paper 10/12, Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2010  
Institutions in History: Bringing Capitalism Back In. In: The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis. (Eds.) G. Morgan et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 659-686, and MPIfG Discussion Paper 09/8. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2009  
Taking Capitalism Seriously: Towards an Institutional Approach to Contemporary Political Economy. Socio-Economic Review, 9, 1, 137-167 (2011), and MPIfG Discussion Paper 10/15, Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2010  
Re-Forming Capitalism: Institutional Change in the German Political Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009  
Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (ed. with K. Thelen). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
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Vita

since 1995	Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
since 1999	Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Social Science, University of Cologne
1988-1995	Professor of Sociology and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1980-1988	Senior fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
1986	Habilitation in sociology, University of Bielefeld
1980	Dr. phil., Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
1976-1980	Research Fellow, International Institute of Management, Berlin
1974-1976	Wissenschaftlicher Assistent for sociology, University of Münster, Department of Economics and Social Sciences
1972-1974	Graduate student of sociology, Columbia University
1972	Diplom in sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

 

Professional Activities (Selected)

Chief Editor, Socio-Economic Review (since 2007)
 

Awards and Honors (Selected)

Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences  
Honorary Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)  
Member, Academia Europaea  
Doctor of Science honoris causa, University of Birmingham  
Commendatore della Republica Italiana