Faculty and Graduate Student Research is the heart of IES activity.
The Institute's organized research projects are centered around
four research themes: Political Economy of International
Finance, Political Relations and Institutions,
European Society and Culture, and Socio-Economic
Integration. Each project is led by a team of conveners
drawn from UC Berkeley and other University of California campuses.
Each project spans one to two years in which participants conduct
research, meet together in closed workshops and working groups to
discuss preliminary findings, and hold a major research conference
at the conclusion of the project. Research results are published
in the Institute's Working Paper Series and later collected in an
edited volume or as a special issue of a major scholarly journal.
The conveners of these projects, together with the Center Chairs,
constitute the Institute's core faculty.
Please note that most current working papers produced in association
with IES are accessible through our Working
Papers series.
European Food Safety Regulation
Food Safety Convener Group Descripiton
We convened an international group of scholars to analyze the
evolving institutional and regulatory framework of European food
safety. Following highly contentious public health crises associated
with Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease")
and dioxins and international trade disputes over beef growth
hormones and genetically-modified foods, European food safety
institutions have been undergoing a major transformation.
Three
broad reforms have fundamentally reshaped the institutional framework
for food safety regulation in Europe:
- The consolidation and strengthening of national food safety
systems in several member states (including the UK, France,
and Germany)
- The creation of a separate European Food Authority
- The emergence of an international food safety regime around
the institutional framework of the Codex Alimentarius and the
World Trade Organizatio.
These institutional transformations
have far reaching implications for understanding both consumer
protection and trade policy.
They also provide a powerful lens for examining the on-going
political construction of the European Union.
We examined this
evolving institutional and regulatory framework as a problem
of multi-level governance. As a convenor group,
we explored the alignments and conflicts arising between the
national, European, and international frameworks of food safety
regulation.
Click
here to visit the convenor group website.
Germany in Transit
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to website....
This convener group on Rethinking Diversity
has been extraordinarily productive: Within 18 months they have created a 300-page
sourcebook on Multicultural Germany, established an archive of newspaper and
magazine articles on the topic, held two public workshops with colleagues in
Germany, and had monthly meetings that brought together graduate and undergraduate
students from different departments.
For the 2004 fall semester they have planned a large international conference
on multiculturalism in Germany and the future of the nation state. Their conference
statement includes the following acknowledgement of IES
support: "This international conference is part of an ongoing research project
initiated by Berkeley's Department of German and sponsored by the Center for
German and European Studies."
Political Economy of International Finance
Ongoing Research Projects
This research group, led by
Barry
Eichengreen, Professor of Economics at Berkeley, Andrew Rose,
Professor of Economics at Berkeley, and Jeff Frieden, Professor
of Political Science, formerly at UCLA and now at Harvard, takes
a formal interdisciplinary approach to the study of the causes
and
consequences of political and economic integration in Western Europe
within the broader context of the International financial system.
New projects focus on the implications of the euro for the operation
of the international monetary system. The advent of the euro
is
arguably the most important event affecting the operation of the
international monetary system since the collapse of the Bretton
Woods System of fixed but adjustable exchange rates in 1973, or
even possibly since the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, which
established
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Two annual
meetings, one in Berkeley and one in Cambridge, will explore
the repercussions
of European monetary integration for the politics and economics
of international finance. These meetings also involve graduate
students
from the Berkeley campus and scholars from other institutions throughout
the United States and Europe.
Political Relations and Institutions
Ongoing Research Projects
Since 1999, with funding from the Institute for Global Cooperation
and Conflict and from the European Union, researchers have been
tracing progress in the European Union's Euro-Med process. Led
by Beverly Crawford of IES, the project is entitled
The
Euro-Med Partnership: Constructing a Region of Stability. See
below for Med
Conference papers.
Jonah Levy of UC Berkeley has organized a collaborative research project entitled
The
State after Statism: Economic and Social Policy in the Global Age. See
below for State After Statism Conference papers.
Projects 2002-2003
Vinod Aggarwal of UC Berkeley is heading a project entitled
Between
Regionalism and Globalism: European Union Transregional Strategies
in the New Economy.
Steve Weber of UC Berkeley is leading a collaborative project entitled
The New Economy
and Financial Change in Europe.
Russ Dalton of UC Irvine and Bruce Cain of UC Berkeley are organizing
a project entitled
The
Transformation of Democratic Institutions in Europe: Is the Cure
for the Problems of Democracy More Democracy?
In addition to these long-term research projects, Nick Ziegler of
UC Berkeley has organized a speaker series on
Politics and
Enterprise that focuses on the intersection of politics
and business issues in Europe and the industrialized democracies.
The series provides a forum for social-science researchers who are
examining business-government relations, social and regulatory policies
that affect the choices of managers, the relations among stakeholder
groups inside the firm, and related topics. Speakers are drawn from
disciplines including political science, comparative management,
sociology, business history, applied economics and private-sector
industry analysts. By featuring speakers who take an organizational
perspective in analyzing comparative political economy, the series
brings together faculty and graduate students from these and other
fields.
European Society and Culture
Conveners of groups focused on European Society and Culture take
as their starting point the recognition that Europe's transformation
after the Cold War is characterized by dissolving and contested
political, ideological, and territorial boundaries that have a
profound
impact on European society and culture. Research in this thematic
area is presented in the Society, Politics and Culture Colloquium.
Last year, the emphasis was on
Multiculturalism in Europe.
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this project addressed the
challenges to identity posed by the flows, networks, and population
movements in Europe. In particular, the project focuses on the ways
in which migration from Muslim majority countries contributes to
the making of multicultural identities and societies in Europe.
New Projects: 2002-2003
Aaron Belkin of UC Santa Barbara departs from the concentration
on the impact of boundary changes on identity and instead focuses
on the impact of European boundary changes on the relationship between
the military and society. The project is entitled:
Integrated
Military Units and the Coordination of Policies on Women and Sexual
Minorities.
Socio-Economic Integration
Ongoing Research Projects
Europe is now simultaneously contending with the problems of national
integration into the European Union, on the one hand, and the social
integration of first generation immigrants from North Africa, the
Middle East, and Eastern Europe on the other. European governments
also continue to contend with the integration of second and third
generation immigrants: For the first time, all of the major OECD
countries have become net immigration countries. The issues surrounding
immigration will also affect politics and society in fundamental
ways. In France, there has been a defection of working class voters
from the Socialist party and the Communist party to the far-right
National Front, largely as a result of job and wage competition
from North African immigrants, who account for 20 to 30 percent
of the population in urban industrial areas. Also, the end of Europe's
division will add to social pressures and party realignments if
unemployment in Western Europe results from plant relocation to
Eastern Europe, or if large numbers of East Europeans migrate westward
in search of jobs.
This research group, led by
Philip
Martin of Agricultural Economics at Davis, Wayne Cornelius of
U.S. Mexican Studies at San Diego, and Roger Waldinger of the Sociology
Department at UCLA investigates the costs and benefits of immigrant
workers in comparative perspective, and examines how immigration
will affect legal, social, and aid policies, in England, France,
and Germany in particular. Projects in this group focus on the impact
of immigration on labor markets, on Education, and on family policies,
and the prospects for the integration of immigrants into European
societies.
Conference Draft Papers
Available in Microsoft Word (.doc) and
Adobe
Acrobat (.pdf) formats. Many of these files are quite large.
To view files more quickly (especially .pdfs), right click file links and
choose "Save target as..." so you can save
the paper to your computer before reading. For more information on research
projects, see the
Working
Papers page.
State After Statism
European Union, Nation-State and the Quality of Democracy:
Lessons from Southern Europe
Med Conference
State After Statism Conference
Draft Papers
- The State and the Reconstruction of Industrial Relations
Institutions After Fordism: Britain and France Compared
Chris Howell
PDF (146kb) WORD (179kb)
- The British State Transformed: Post Modernism and High Modernism
Michael Moran
PDF (73kb) WORD (132kb)
- Exiting Etatisme? New Directions in State Policy in France
and Japan
Jonah D. Levy, Mari Miura, and Gene Park
PDF (155kb) WORD (594kb)
- Institutions and the Restructuring Global Networks
Peter F. Cowhey and John E. Richards
PDF (106kb) WORD (138kb)
- Expansive Retrenchment: The Regulatory Politics of Corporate
Governance Reform and the Foundations of Finance Capitalism
John W. Cioffi
PDF (160kb) WORD (196kb)
- Expansive Retrenchment (Tables)
John W. Cioffi
PDF (36kb) WORD (73kb)
- Introduction -- The State Also Rises: The Roots
of Contemporary State Activism
Jonah D. Levy
PDF (51kb) WORD (92kb)
- The Forgotten Center: The State as Dynamic Actor in Corporatist
Political
Economies
Anton C. Hemerijck and Mark I. Vail
PDF (139kb) WORD (177kb)
European
Union, Nation-State and the Quality of Democracy: Lessons from
Southern Europe Conference Draft Papers
- Second-Order Elections in Democratic Portugal,
1975-2001
Michael Baum and André Freire
PDF (114kb) WORD (349kb)
- From Close to Open Doors: Portuguese Emigration
under the Corporative Regime
Maria Ioannis B. Baganha
PDF (80kb) WORD (251kb)
- We the Portuguese People of the United Europe:
Democracy and National Representation in the European Union
António Goucha Soares
PDF (66kb) WORD (118kb)
- Portuguese Emigration After World War II
Maria Ioannis B. Baganha
PDF (70kb) WORD (209kb)
- Portugal and European integration -- An Introduction
António Costa Pinto
PDF (53kb) WORD (82kb)
- What Ever Happened to Portuguese Euroskepticism?
The Depoliticization of Europe and its Consequences
Pedro C. Magalhães
PDF (75kb) WORD (130kb)
- What is a 'Good' Democracy? Theory and Empirical
Analysis
Leonardo Morlino
PDF (129kb) WORD (186kb)
- Where is Portuguese Agriculture Headed? An Analysis
of the Common Agricultural Policy
Dulce Freire and Shawn Parkhurst
PDF (79kb) WORD (101kb)
Med Conference Draft Papers
