apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Höpner

 

Research Projects

• Introduction to "Political Economy of European Integration"
• "Integration through Law" as a Source of European Liberalization Policies

Research Group on Political Economy of European Integration
 

Selected Publications

Regional Integration and Embeddedness: Waiting for Polanyi in a Hayekian Setting (with A. Schäfer). International Organization 66, 3, 429-455 (2012)  
Changing Ideas: Organized Capitalism and the German Left (with H. Callaghan). West European Politics 35, 3, 551-573 (2012)  
Liberalisierungspolitik: Eine Bestandsaufnahme des Rückbaus wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Interventionen in entwickelten Industrieländern (with A. Petring, D. Seikel, B. Werner). In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 63, 1-32 (2011)  
A New Phase of European Integration: Organized Capitalisms in Post-Ricardian Europe (with A. Schäfer). West European Politics, 33, 2, 344-368 (2010)  
Corporate Governance Reform and the German Party Paradox. Comparative Politics 39, 4, 401-420 (2007)  
What Connects Industrial Relations with Corporate Governance? Explaining Complementarity. Socio-Economic Review 3, 2, 331-358 (2005)
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Vita

since 2012	Adjunct Professor, University of Cologne, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Nov. 2007	Postdoctoral degree (habilitation), political science, University of Cologne
since 2007	Head of Research Group on "Liberalization Policies," Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
2002-2007	Research Fellow at the MPI for the Study of Societies, Cologne
2002	Doctorate from FernUniversität Hagen; thesis (in German) on "Who Rules the Corporations? Shareholder Value, Managerial Control and Codetermination in Germany"
1999-2001	Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, in the Ph.D. Group "The German System of Industrial Relations under the Influence of Internationalization"
1992-1998	Studied political science and German literature at the University of Heidelberg; Staatsexamen (MA equivalent)

 

Professional Activities (Selected)

Member of the board of the "Political Economy" section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW)
 

Awards and Honors (Selected)

2005: Journal Prize for best refereed journal article published by an MPIfG researcher in 2004, for "Was bewegt die Führungskräfte? Von der Agency-Theorie zur Soziologie des Management," in Soziale Welt 3/2004  
2003: MPIfG Paper Prize for the best MPIfG Discussion Paper or Working Paper by a junior MPIfG researcher published in 2001-2002, for MPIfG Discussion Paper 01/5, "Corporate Governance in Transition: Ten Empirical Findings on Shareholder Value and Industrial Relations in Germany" (2001)