Dr. Helen Callaghan
Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-516
Fax: +49 221 2767-555
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-516
Fax: +49 221 2767-555
Personal homepage
Research Interests
comparative political economy; European integration; corporate governance; preference formation in political parties and interest groups; changes in the structure of corporate ownership and their political impactResearch Projects
Selected Publications
Changing Ideas: Organized Capitalism and the German Left (with M. Höpner). West European Politics 35, 3, 551-573 (2012)The Phantom of Palais Brongniart: Economic Patriotism and the Paris Stock Exchange (with P. Lagneau-Ymonet). Journal of European Public Policy 19, 3, 307-323 (2012).
Constrain-Thy-Neighbor Effects as a Determinant of Transnational Interest Group Cohesion. Comparative Political Studies 44, 8, 910-931 (2011)
Insiders, Outsiders and the Politics of Corporate Governance: How Ownership Structure Affects Party Positions in Britain, Germany and France. Comparative Political Studies 42, 733-762 (2009).
Beyond Methodological Nationalism: How Multilevel Governance Affects the Clash of Capitalisms. Journal of European Public Policy 17, 4, 560-584 (2010)
European Integration and the Clash of Capitalisms: Political Cleavages over Takeover Liberalization (with M. Höpner). Comparative European Politics 3, 3, 307-332 (2005)
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Vita
| since 2008 | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2006-2008 | Max Weber postdoctoral fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence |
| 2003-2006 | CES (Council for European Studies)/Max Planck dissertation fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2002-2003 | Chateaubriand dissertation fellowship, École Normale Supérieure, Paris |
| 2001-2006 | Ph.D. studies in political science at Northwestern University, Chicago; thesis on "European integration and the clash of capitalisms: British, French and German disagreement over corporate governance, 1970-2003" |
| 1999-2001 | MSc, "Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences," Northwestern University, Chicago |
| 1998-1999 | Research assistant at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin |
| 1995-1998 | BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford University |