Curriculum Vitae

Tim Büthe

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Durham, NC 27708

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Education

Areas of Interest: non-tariff barriers to trade
foreign direct investment
European Integration
politics of standards and regulations
non-state actors in world politics
democracy & civil society
research design & methods

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, July 2004-present

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Political Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 2003/04
Jean Monnet Fellowship, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (Florence/Fiesole, Italy), 2003/04 (declined)
James B. Conant Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 2002-2003
Lindt Fellowship, Columbia University, 2001-2002
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, Columbia University, 2000
President's Fellowship, Columbia University, 2000/01,1999/00,1998/99,1996/97,1995/96
A.W. Cordier Fellowship, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 1998-1999
Philip E. Mosely Fellowship, 1997-1998, 1999-2000
Nominee for Columbia Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1996-1997, 1997-1998

Professional Service

Dept Committees: member, Graduate Admissions Committee, July, 2006 - present; member, Qualifying/Prelimintary Exam Committee, IR, July, 2006 - present; chair, Political Science Web Design Committee, July, 2005 - August, 2006; field representative for IR, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, July, 2005 - June, 2006; member, Search committee for senior IR position, November, 2004 - June, 2006; member, Selection Committee for 2 Postdoctoral Fellows in IR, January, 2006 - March, 2006; member, Committee to review request for secondary re-appointment, Judith Kelley, January, 2006 - February, 2006; member, Search committee for junior position in Methods (Leventoglu), January, 2006 - February, 2006; member, Committee to review request for secondary appointment Alexander Rosenberg, November, 2005 - January, 2006

Dept Services: supervisor, Undergradaute independent study, Fall 2004; supervisor, Graduate independent studies, fall 2004 (2x), spring 2005; presenter, Faculty Workshop, October 2004; presenter, Faculty Workshop (Stanford Univ.), May 2004; member and regular participant, Workshop in Statistical Methods (Stanford University), 2003-2004; supervisor, Senior Thesis (Stanford University), 2003-2004

Mentoring: supervisor (see student listings above), Senior theses, May, 2005 - present; supervisor, Undergraduate independent study, May, 2005 - December, 2005; supervisor, Graduate independent study, January, 2005 - May, 2005

University Committee: member, Steering Committee, Center for European Studies, 2005/06 - present; Co-Chair, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, July, 2006 - present; member, Advisory Committee to the Vice Provost on Selection of Fulbright visiting prof, January, 2006 - April, 2006

University Services: Co-Chair, University Seminar on "Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance", July, 2005 - June, 2006; member and active participant, University Seminar on "Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance", September, 2004 - May, 2005

Papers Refereed: Reviewer for APSR, Int'l Organization, Int'l Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Public Choice, Review of Int'l Studies, World Politics, January 01, 2006 - December 31, 2006; Reviewer for APSR, International Organization, World Politics, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Politics, 1/1/2005 - 12/31/2005

Special Projects: Panel Organizer for APSA Theme Panel, "The Politics of Foreign Aid", September, 2006; Discussant for Workshop on "Parties, Identities, and Multilevel Governance", April, 2006

Other: Other Service to the Profession, January, 2005 - December, 2005
Comments that I have provided to numerous colleagues on their work were recognized in published work as having contributed in improving manuscripts by Paul Pierson, Simon Jackman, Jonathan Wand, Margaret Levi.; Member, Professional Memberships, 1/1/2005-12/31/2005
American Political Science Association (APSA); International Studies Association (ISA); European Union Studies Association (EUSA); Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET); Deutsche Vereinigung für politische Wissenschaft (DVPW, German Political Science Association);; Co-Principal Investigator, Internaitonal Standards Project, July 2001-Present
(now Duke & Oxford Universities)

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Antitrust Enforcement and Merger Review Authority in the European Union, McGill University, Montreal, February, 2006; Institutional Persistence and Change in Setting U.S. Standards for Accounting, 1934-2003, Université de Montréal (HEC), February, 2006; "The Politics of Antitrust and Merger Review in the European Union: Institutional Change and Decisions from Messina to 2004", George Washington University, December 2005; "The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Countries", University of California, San Diego, March 2005; "The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Countries.", New York University, School of Law, November 2005

Publications

Monographs

Tim Büthe and Gabriel Swank, The Politics of Antitrust and Merger Review in the European Union: Institutional Change and Decisions from Messina to 2004 (December, 2006), CES Working Paper No.142. Cambridge, MA: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
Tim Büthe and Jan Martin Witte, Product Standards in Transatlantic Trade and Investment: Domestic and International Practices and Institutions, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Policy Report No.13. (May, 2004), Washington: AICGS.
Tim Büthe, European Union and National Electorates: Explaining the Austrian Referendum on Joining the European Union, Working Paper Series for the Study of Germany and Europe No. 5.8 (1995), Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Chapters in Books

Tim Büthe, The Politics of Competition and Institutional Change in the European Union: The First 50 Years, in Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty (The State of the European Union, vol.8), edited by Sophie Meunier and Kathleen R. McNamara (2007 (forthcoming)), pp. 175-194, Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli, Accountability in Accounting? The Politics of Private Rule-Making in the Public Interest, Governance, vol. 18 no. 3 (July, 2005), pp. 399-429.
Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli, Global Private Governance: Lessons from a National Model of Setting Standards in Accounting, Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 68 no. 3/4 (Summer/Fall 2005).
Tim Büthe, Governance through Private Authority? Non-State Actors in World Politics, Journal of International Affairs (New York), vol. 58 no. 1 (Fall, 2004), pp. 281-290.
Walter Mattli and Tim Büthe, Setting International Standards: Technological Rationality or Primacy of Power?, World Politics, vol. 57 no. 1 (October, 2003), pp. 1-42.
Tim Büthe, Taking Temporality Seriously: Modeling History and the Use of Narratives as Evidence, American Political Science Review, vol. 96 no. 3 (September, 2002), pp. 481-493.

Book Reviews

Tim Büthe, "European Integration, 1950-2003", Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 7 no. 4 (Fall, 2005), pp. 166-168.
Tim Büthe, Microcredit as a Development Strategy: A Review of Banker for the Poor, by Muhammad Yunus, Journal of International Affairs, vol. 53 no. 2 (Spring, 2000), pp. 741-745.

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