Following my brief stint in academic policy consulting as part of the Alliance for Jobs (1998–2000), and especially since the global financial crisis of 2008, I have been working toward a sociologically ...
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Most of my work on political economy deals, in one way or another, with Germany and German capitalism in international comparison. Much of it was written at a time when Germany was regarded abroad ...
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Political economy at the MPIfG views the economy as a sociopolitical system, with states, political parties, classes, and firms as collective actors—rather than the other way around, ...
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Democracy as a theme is present in all the subject areas I have explored. Political democracy, however, did not emerge in my work until later, after a long period of studying industrial democracy ...
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When working towards Gekaufte Zeit (in English: Buying Time), I hit on the subject of state finance, especially state budget deficits and public debt. The issue had already been discussed in the 1920s ...
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Building on my work on free collective bargaining and the role of labor unions in postwar democratic capitalism, I produced, beginning in the 1980s, a series of articles ...
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My first research topics were collective labor relations and labor unions, with my first publication appearing in 1972. My particular focus was initially on the organizational dimension of trade unionism, ...
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Production systems are configurations of labor relations and labor policies on the one hand, and product and marketing strategies of firms on the other. We have termed one manifestation ...
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At some point, it made sense to link the growing flexibility of working hours to changes in family structure and family life, as one manifestation of the multifaceted interplay ...
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My research on the EU and Europe began in the late 1980s, when it became necessary to adapt my perspective on national capital-labor relations to their interdependence within ...
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My interest in the topic of internationalization—or globalization—began with my return to Germany in 1995 and the emergence of the New World Order following the end of communism, ...
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Until recently war never played a role in my work. This changed when I was asked to give a plenary lecture at a conference in Wuppertal in 2020, commemorating Friedrich Engels’ ...
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You won’t find general theories of society here, rather something like “medium-range theories” (Merton), covering dysfunctions as well as functions; or “grounded theory,” ...
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I am a sociologist by profession, though I am now something of an outsider within the discipline. By the late 1960s at the latest, sociology had ceded the study of economics to a separate discipline ...
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Review articles are not written on one’s own initiative, but at the request of the editors of a handbook or an encyclopedia intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge ... mehr
Occasional forays into advising policymakers, not all of which have left a trace in my academic publications, have made me skeptical on the capacity of both ...
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Sometimes scholarly journals or the editors of an anthology organize a discussion forum on a newly published book they consider important. Three to five reviewers are invited, ...
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