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Publications of Leon Wansleben

Journal Article (15)

2025
Journal Article
Crowley, Ned, Rebecca Elliott, Leon Wansleben
Fiscal Relations in Multilevel Climate Governance: How Conditional Project Grants Shape Local Climate Action. In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2025.
Journal Article
Wansleben, Leon
Ortstermin: Stadthaus Köln, Willy-Brandt-Platz 2-3. In: Mittelweg 36 34(3-4), 2025, 158–167.
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Wansleben, Leon, Carlotta Terhorst
Ungleichheiten in der grünen Transformation: Die prädistributive Macht von Infrastrukturen. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 54(3), 2025, 342–361.
2024
Journal Article
Wansleben, Leon
Growth Models and Central Banking: Dominant Coalitions, Organizational Sense-Making, and Conservative Policy Innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed. In: Review of International Political Economy 31(1), 2024, 124–148.
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Wansleben, Leon
Verfallende Infrastruktur bei Rekordeinnahmen: Eine Institutionssoziologie bundesdeutscher Haushaltspolitik. In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 34(1), 2024, 103–128.
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Wansleben, Leon
Rethinking Economic Sovereignty. In: Economic Anthropology 11(1), 2024, 148–149.
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Wansleben, Leon
Leveraging Uncertainty, Market-Power, and Fiscal Opacity: The Growth of Financial Security States. In: European Journal of Sociology 65(2), 2024, 248–280.
Journal Article
Wansleben, Leon, Nils Neumann
Entrepreneurs beyond Neoliberalism: Municipally Owned Corporations and Climate Change Mitigation in German Cities. In: Urban Studies 61(5), 2024, 799–820.
2023
Journal Article
Bremer, Björn, Donato Di Carlo, Leon Wansleben
The Constrained Politics of Local Public Investment Under Cooperative Federalism. In: Socio-Economic Review 21(2), 2023, 1007–1034.
2022
Journal Article
Dafe, Florence, Sandy Brian Hager, Natalya Naqvi, Leon Wansleben
Introduction: The Structural Power of Finance Meets Financialization. In: Politics & Society 50(4), 2022, 523–542.
2021
Journal Article
Wansleben, Leon
Capitalization and its Legal Friends. In: Accounting, Economics, and Law 11(1), 2021, 53–64.
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Wansleben, Leon
Divisions of Regulatory Labor, Institutional Closure, and Structural Secrecy in New Regulatory States: The Case of Neglected Liquidity Risks in Market‐Based Banking. In: Regulation & Governance 15(3), 2021, 909–932.
2020
Journal Article
Walter, Timo, Leon Wansleben
How Central Bankers Learned to Love Financialization: The Fed, the Bank, and the Enlisting of Unfettered Markets in the Conduct of Monetary Policy. In: Socio-Economic Review 18(3), 2020, 625–653.
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Wansleben, Leon
"Ghost in the Machine": Der Staat in Luhmanns Theorie politischer Systeme. In: Soziale Systeme 21(2), 2020, 279–306.
Journal Article
Wansleben, Leon
Formal Institution Building in Financialized Capitalism: The Case of Repo Markets. In: Theory and Society 49(2), 2020, 187–213.

Book (1)

2023
Book
Wansleben, Leon
The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2023.

Talk (1)

2025
Talk
Wansleben, Leon
Social Change Within, Beyond, and Against Institutions. 40 Jahre MPIfG 2025, Köln, May 16, 2025.

Working Paper (2)

2025
Working Paper
Diermeier, Matthias, Jan Engler, Melinda Fremerey, Leon Wansleben
Sozioökonomische Segregation und Kitaversorgung: Eine georeferenzierte Analyse deutscher Städte. MPIfG Discussion Paper 25/6. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2025.
2021
Working Paper
Bremer, Björn, Donato Di Carlo, Leon Wansleben
The Constrained Politics of Local Public Investments under Cooperative Federalism. MPIfG Discussion Paper 21/4. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2021.

Issue (4)

2025
Issue
Wansleben, Leon (ed.)
The "Liberal Compromise" and After: Realities and Fictions of Global Climate Governance. Economic Sociology: Perspectives and Conversations, Volume 26(2). 2025.
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