This series reflects the interdiscipinary nature of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Papers written by affiliates of the Center or presented at study groups & conferences at CES range in topic from economics & political science to sociology & culture. European issues are looked at from both comparative & historical perspectives.

This list arranged in reverse chronological order from most recent to oldest. A list of CES working papers in pdf format arranged alphabetically by the author's last name is available here. Most older papers are not available in pdf format but may be available in paper for $5 a copy. For paper copies, contact ces@fas.harvard.edu

The Master Author Index for all CES working papers is available here.

• 08.1 Katja M. Guenther, Localizing EU Gender Policy: The Diffusion of Gender Mainstreaming across Feminist Movements in Eastern Germany
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• 07.3 Vivien A. Schmidt, Bringing the State Back Into the Varieties of Capitalism And Discourse Back Into the Explanation of Change
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• 07.2 Michel Goyer, Institutional Investors in French and German Corporate Governance: The Transformation of Corporate Governance and the Stability of Coordination
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• 07.1 Manfred Antoni & Elke J. Jahn, Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies?
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• 06.2 Annette Elisabeth Töller, How European Integration Impacts on National Legislatures: The Europeanization of The German Bundestag
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• 06.1 Steffen Hillmert, Skill formation in Britain and Germany: Recent developments in the context of traditional differences
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• 05.3 Wolfgang Schroeder and Stephen J. Silvia, Why Are German Employers Associations Declining? A Challenge to the Conventional Wisdom
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• 05.2 Reimut Zohlnhöfer, The Politics of Budget Consolidation In Britain and Germany: The Impact of Blame-Avoidance Opportunities
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• 05.1 Justin J. W. Powell, Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated in Germany and the United States
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• 04.2 Endre M. Tvinnereim, Democratic Contestation, Accountability, and Citizen Satisfaction at the Regional Level
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• 04.1 Jeffrey Herf and Jürgen Neyer, The “New World Order”: From Unilateralism to Cosmopolitanism
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• 03.2 Ludger Helms, Executive Leadership and the Role of 'Veto Players' in the United States and Germany
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• 03.1 Martin Höpner, European Corporate Governance Reform and the German Party Paradox
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• 02.7 Helga A. Welsh, Disentangling the Reform Gridlock: Higher Education in Germany
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• 02.6 Michael Neugart and Donald Storrie, Temporary work agencies and equilibrium unemployment
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• 02.4 Ulrich Krotz, Ties That Bind? The Parapublic Underpinnings of Franco-German Relations as Construction of International Value
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• 02.3 Ulrich Krotz, Structure as Process: The Regularized Intergovernmentalism of Franco-German Bilateralism
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• 02.2 Ulrich Krotz, Social Content of the International Sphere: Symbols and Meaning in Franco-German Relations
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• 02.1 Ulrich Krotz, "National Role Conceptions and Foreign Policies: France and Germany Compared"
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• 01.5 Stefan Collignon, Economic Policy Coordination in EMU: Institutional and Political Requirements
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• 01.4 Claus Hofhansel, "Germany, Multilateralism, and the Eastern Enlargement of the EU"
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• 01.3 Carlos A. Rozo, European Monetary Union: between the stakeholder and the stockholder models of capitalism
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• 01.2 Christiane Lemke, Social Citizenship and Institution Building: EU-Enlargement and the Restructuring of Welfare States in East Central Europe
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• 01.1 Pepper Culpepper, Decentralized Cooperation and the Future of Regulatory Reform
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• 00.9 Mark Aspinwall, Creating Stability: National Preferences and the Origins of European Monetary System
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• 00.8 Ansgar Belke and Rainer Fehn, "Institutions and Structural Unemployment: Do Capital-Market Imperfections Matter?" (December 2000)
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• 00.7 Waltraud Schelkle, "Beyond Cooperation and Competition: What Kind of Federalism for EU Social Policy?" (December 2000)
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• 00.6 Christopher S. Allen, "Social Democracy, Globalization and Governance: Why is there no European Left Program in the EU?" (September 2000)
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• 00.5 Mathias Bös, The Legal Construction of Membership: Nationality Law in Germany and the United States.
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• 00.4 Bernhard Ebbinghaus, When Labour and Capital Collude: The Varieties of Welfare Capitalism and Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA.
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• 00.3 Philip Manow, Modell Deutschland as an Interdenominational Compromise
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• 00.2 Rainer Fehn, Norbert Berhold, Eric Thode "Falling Labor Share and Rising Unemployment: Long-Run Consequences of Institutional Shocks?" (February 2000).
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• 00.1 Katharina Bluhm, "Capitalism without Capitalists? A Bottom-Up View of Industrial Transformation in East Germany" (January 2000).
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• 9.3 Andreas Busch, "The Grundgesetz After 50 Years: Analyzing Changes in the German Constitution" (December 1999).
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• 9.2 Jacques E. C. Hymans, "Do Too Many Chefs Really Spoil the Broth? The European Commission, Bureaucratic Politics and European Integration" (1999)
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• 9.1 Jeffrey M. Sellers, "Policies, Markets and Urban Governance in the New Europe" (1999)
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• 8.6-Mark Duckenfield, "The Goldkrieg: Revaluing the Bundesbank's Reserves and the Politics of EMU" (1998)
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• 8.5-Andrew Moravcsik, "De Gaulle and Europe: Historical Revision and Social Science Theory" (1998)
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• 8.4-Colin Hay and Matthew Watson, "Rendering the Contingent Necessary: New Labour's Neo-Liberal Conversion and the Discourse of Globalisation" (1998)
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• 8.3 Colin Hay and Daniel Wincott, "Interrogating Institutionalism Interrogating Institutions: Beyond 'Calculus' and 'Cultural' Approaches" (1998)
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• 8.2-Constantine Papadopoulos, "Greece & the European Agenda: EU Enlargement and European Monetary Union" (1998)
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• 8.1-Thomas Banchoff, "Germany's European Policy: A Constructivist Perspective" (1998)
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• 7.9-Paul Pierson, "Path Dependence, Increasing Returns, and the Study of Politics" (1997)
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• 7.8-Steven Young, "Beyond the Union of Social Unions: Civil Society, Political Society, and Liberal Individuality in Wilhelm von Humboldt and John Stuart Mill" (1997)
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• 7.7-Wolfgang Gick, "On Incentives in Technology Policymaking: What the EU Can Learn from U.S. Developments" 2000. (Revised version of 1997 paper)
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• 7.7-Wolfgang Gick, "On Incentives in Technology Policymaking: What the EU Can Learn from U.S. Developments" (1997)
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• 7.6 Jet Bussemaker, "Recent Changes in European Welfare State Services: A Comparison of Child Care Politics in the U.K., Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands" (1997)
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• 7.5-Andrew Martin, "What Does Globalization Have to Do with the Erosion of Welfare States? Sorting Out the Issues" (1997)
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• 7.4-Joseph Esser, "The Future of Model Germany: Challenges to the Corporatist System of Business Labor Relations" (1997)
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• 7.3-Sophie Meunier, "Divided but United: European Trade Policy & EC-U.S. Agricultural Negotiations in the Uruguay Round" (1997)
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• 7.2-Theodore Pelagidis, "Europe on the Road to the Third Stage of EMU: Recent Evidence" (1997)
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• 7.1-Richard Swedberg, "Max Weber's Vision of Economics" (1997)
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• 6.4-Birgitta Wolff, "Incentive-Compatible Change Management in a Welfare State" (1996)
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• 6.3-Laurent Goetschel, "Europe as International Actor: Maximizing Nation-State Sovereignty" (1996)
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• 6.2-Stefan A. Schirm, "Transnational Globalization & Regional Governance" (1996)
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• 6.1-Stefan A. Schirm, "Does Europe Need a Common Foreign & Security Policy?" (1996)
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• 5.10-Richard Locke & Wade Jacoby, "The Dilemmas of Diffusion: Institutional Transfer & the Remaking of Vocational Training Practices in Eastern Germany" (1995)
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• 5.9-Michael Lechner, "Continuous Off-the-Job Training in East Germany After Unification: Preliminary Results of an Evaluation of the Effects for Individual Workers" (1995)
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• 5.8-Tim Büthe, "European Union & National Electorates: The Austrian Public Debate & Referendum on Joining the European Union in June 1994" (1995)
  
  
• 5.7-Christoph Conrad, "Income Packaging in Historical Perspective: Public & Private Support for the Elderly in Germany, 1890s-1950s" (1995)
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• 5.6-Christoph Conrad, Michael Lechner, & Welf Werner, "The Fall of the East German Birth Rate After Unification: Crisis or Means of Adaptation?" (1995)
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• 5.5-Stephen J. Silvia, "A House Divided: Employers & the Challenge to Pattern Bargaining in a United Germany" (1995)
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• 5.4-Susan E. Scarrow & Jonathan Stein, "The Politics of Retrospective Justice in Germany & the Czech Republic" (1995)
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• 5.3-Torben Iversen, "Wage Bargaining, Monetary Regimes, & Economic Performance in Organized Market Economies: Theory & Evidence" (1995)
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• 5.2-Paul Pierson, "The Path to European Integration: A Historical Institutionalist Perspective" (1995)
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• 5.1-Robert J. Franzese, Jr., "Central Bank Independence, Sectoral Interest, & the Wage Bargain" (1995)
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• 4.9-Jadwiga Staniszkis, "Ontology, Context, & Chance: Three Exit Routes from Communism" (1994)
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• 4.8-Jens Alber, "Towards Explaining Anti-Foreign Violence in Germany" (1994)
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• 4.7-Paul Nolte, "Hanging Together, Falling Apart: Self-Understandings of German Society from 1800 to the Present" (1994)
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• 4.6-Carles Boix, "Partisan Strategies & Supply-Side Policies in Industrialized Nations, 1960-1990" (1994)
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• 4.5-J. Nicholas Ziegler,"Knowledge-Bearing Elites & Industrial Performance in France & Germany" (1994)
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• 4.4-Peter A. Hall, "Central Bank Independence & Coordinated Wage Bargaining: Their Interaction in Germany & Europe" (1994)
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• 4.3-Neil Fligstein, "The Cultural Construction of Political Action: The Case of the European Community's Single Market Program" (1994)
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• 4.2-Harold Marcuse, "The Politics of Memory: Nazi Crimes & Identity in West Germany,1945-1990" (1994)
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• 4.1-Richard Locke & Kathleen Thelen, "The Shifting Boundaries of Labor Politics: New Directions for Comparative Research & Theory" (1994)
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• 3.1-Pamela Camerra-Rowe, "The Political Response of Firms to the 1992 Single Market Program: The Case of the German Automobile Industry" (1993)
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• 2.3-Jos de Beus, "Is Regulatory Convergence Efficient?" (1992)
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• 2.2-Steve Weber, "Origins of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development" (1992)
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• 2.1-David Vogel, "Protective Regulation & Protectionism in the European Community: The Creation of a Common Market for Food & Beverages" (1992)
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• 1.7-Marilyn Rueschemeyer, "East German Women in Transition" (1991)
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• 1.6-Michael Fichter, "From Transmission Belt to Social Partnership: The Case of Organized Labor in East Germany" (1991)
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• 1.5-Anthony Daley, Chris Howell, & Stephen Silvia, "Labor Parties & Labor Movements in a Post-Fordist Political Economy: The British, French, & German Cases" (1991)
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• 1.4-Stephan Leibfried & Paul Pierson, "The Prospects for Social Europe" (1991)
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• 1.3-Ton Notermans, "Domestic Preferences & External Constraints: The Bundesbank Between Internal & External Pressures" (1991)
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• 1.2-Thomas Koelble, "Recasting Social Democracy in Europe: 'Nested Games' & Rational Choices in the Strategic Adjustment Process" (1991)
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• 1.1-Ivar Bleiklie, "Implications of the Growth of Non-Material Assistance for the Contemporary Welfare State" (1991)
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