Tim Buthe, Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• POLSCI 113.01, INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECON Synopsis

  Allen 318, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• POLSCI 330.01, RSCH DESIGN & QUAL METHODS Synopsis

  Social Sciences 105, Tu 01:15 PM-03:45 PM

Education:

PhD, Columbia University, 2002

M.Phil., Columbia University, 1998

M.A., Columbia University, 1997

B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1995

Specialties:

Political Institutions
Political Economy
Security, Peace, and Conflict

Research Interests:

Current projects: Business Partisanship in a Global Economy, Institutional Change & Competition Policy in the European Union, The Allocation of Private Development Aid

My overarching research interests are the evolution and persistence of institutions, the interaction between domestic and international institutions, and the ways in which institutions enable and constrain actors. Substantively, my work on global private politics focuses primarily on the causes and consequences of delegating governance--and especially regulatory authority--to non-state and increasingly also non-governmental bodies. As Co-Principal Investigator of the International Standards Project, I have directed multi-country, multi-industry business surveys about the global private politics of setting standards for international product and financial markets. This research is presented in a forthcoming book, New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy (co-authored with Walter Mattli, Princeton University Press, March 2011). I have also recently guest-edited a special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Business and Politics on "Private Regulation in the Global Economy." My other work focuses institutional development and the regulation of competition in the European Union, foreign direct investment by multinational corporations, the allocation of foreign aid by humanitarian and development NGOs, and business partisanship.

Areas of Interest:

politics of standards and regulations
interaction of domestic and international institutions
institutional change
non-tariff barriers to trade
foreign direct investment
European Integration
non-state actors in world politics
research design & methods

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Tim Büthe, Solomon Major, and Andre de Mello e Souza, The Politics of Private Foreign Aid: Humanitarian Principles, Economic Development Objectives, and Organizational Interests in the Allocation of Private Aid by NGOs, International Organization, vol. 66 (Accepted, 2012 (forthcoming))  [abs].
2. Tim Büthe, Beyond Supply and Demand: A Political-Economic Conceptual Model, in Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings, edited by Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Engle Merry (2012, forthcoming), Oxford University Press .
3. Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli, The Privatization of Regulation in Global Markets: Winners and Losers in the Private Governance of Financial and Product Markets, World Financial Review (September/October, 2011), pp. 66-69 .
4. Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli, Mehr deutscher Einfluss auf die Bilanzierungsregeln?, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (May 30, 2011), pp. 14 .
5. Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli, The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy, RegBlog: Regulatory News, Analysis, and Opinion (May 25, 2011) [regblog] .