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David Soskice, Research Professor

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On leave Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and London School of Economics, Fall 2006, Fall 2007; Department of Government, Harvard University, Spring 2007.

Education:

M.A., 1968

Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1967

Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Trinity College, Oxford, 1964

B.A. (PPE), PPE, 1964

Specialties:

Methods
Comparative Politics

Research Interests: Varieties of Capitalism, Comparative Political Economy, Macroeconomics and Labor Markets

David Soskice is Research Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He also holds a research professorship at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Socialforschung in Berlin (WZB) where he was Director of the Research Institute for Economic Change and Employment from 1990 to 2001. And he is currently School Centennial Professor of European Political Economy at the London School of Economics. He did his undergraduate and graduate studies at Trinity and Nuffield Colleges at Oxford, and from 1968 to 1990 he was Official Fellow in Economics at University College, Oxford, where he is now Emeritus. He has been visiting professor at the Dept of Economics, Berkeley (1973/4, 1977, 1979, 1983), the Dept of Political Science, Duke University, the Industrial and Labour Relations School, Cornell University, at the Johns Hopkins Graduate Center for Advanced International Studies at Bologna, and in Dept of Social Sciences at Trento. In 2004 he was the Mars visiting professor of Political Science at Yale. And in Spring 2007 he is visiting professor of Government at Harvard. He was seconded to the Prime Minister's Policy Unit in 10 Downing St (May 1998 to Feb 1999) to develop long-term policies on education and training. He wrote Unionism, Economic Stabilization and Incomes Policies: Euopean Experience (Brookings, 1983) with Robert Flanagan and Lloyd Ulman, and Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain (OUP,1990) with Wendy Carlin. Recent publications include "Can High Technology Industries Prosper in Germany? Institutional Frameworks and the Evolution of the German Software and Biotechnology Industries", Industry and Innovation, June 1999 with Steven Casper and Mark Lehrer, "The Non-neutrality of Monetary Policy with Large Wage and Price Setters", Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2000, "An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences" American Political Science Review, December 2001, "Electoral Systems and the Politics of Coalitions", American Political Science Review, May 2006, "New Macroeconomics and Political Science", Annual Review of Political Science, 2006, all with Torben Iversen. His major research area is comparative systems of advanced capitalism, and he and Peter Hall published an edited volume, Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford Univ Press, 2001) in which much of this work is summarised. With Wendy Carlin, he has just published Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Information and Policies (OUP, 2006). More broadly his work is on the application of macroeconomics and game theory to comparative political economy.

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Thomas Cusack, Torben Iversen and David Soskice, Economic Interests and the Origins of Electoral Systems, American Political Science Review, vol. 101 (2007, forthcoming) .
2. Torben Iversen and David Soskice, Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why some Democracies Distribute More than Others, American Political Science Review, vol. 100 no. 2 (May, 2006) .
3. Wendy Carlin and David Soskice, Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006), pp. 788 + xxiv, Oxford University Press, Oxford .
4. Torben Iversen and David Soskice, The New Macroeconomics and Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science (2006) .
5. Wendy Carlin and David Soskice, The 3-Equation New Keynesian Model - A Graphical Exposition, Contributions to Macroeconomics, vol. 5 no. 1 (November, 2005) (Article 13.) .
6. D. Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism and Cross-National Gender Differences, Social Politics (Summer, 2005) .
7. Varieties of Capitalism: the Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, edited by Peter Hall and David Soskice (2001), Oxford University Press .
8. Peter Hall and David Soskice, Introduction, in Varieties of Capitalism: the Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, edited by Peter Hall and David Soskice (2001), OUP .
9. Margarita Estevez, Torben Iversen, David Soskice, Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State, in Varieties of Capitalism: the Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, edited by Peter Hall and David Soskice (2001), OUP .
10. Torben Iversen and David Soskice, An Asset Theory of Social Preferences, American Political Science Review (2001) .
11. D. Soskice and Torben Iversen, The Non-Neutrality of Monetary Policy with Large Wage and Price Setters, Quarterly Journal of Economics (February, 2000) .
12. D. Soskice, Divergent Production Regimes: Coordinated and Uncoordinated Market Economies in the 1980s and 1990s, in Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, edited by Herbert Kitschelt, Peter Lange, Gary Marks and John D. Stephens (1999), Cambridge University Press .
13. D. Soskice, The German Training System: Reconciling Markets and Institutions, in International Comparisons of Private Sector Training, edited by Lisa Lynch (1994), University of Chicago Press, NBER Conference Volume .
14. D. Soskice, Wage Determination: The Changing Role of Institutions in Advanced Industrialised Countries, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 6 no. 4 (1990) (reprinted in Tim Jenkinson, ed., Readings in Macroeconomics (Oxford University Press, 1996)..) .
15. David Finegold and David Soskice, Britain's Failure to Train: Explanations and Possible Strategies, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 4 no. 3 (1988) (reprinted as "Britain's Failure to Train: Analysis and Presciption", in David Gleeson, ed., Training and its Alternatives, (Open University Press, Buckingham, 1990). reprinted in Tim Jenkinson, ed., Readings in Microeconomics (Oxford University Press, 1996)..) .
16. D. Soskice, Reinterpreting Corporatism and Explaining Unemployment: Co-ordinated and Uncorordinated Market Economies, in Labour Relations and Economic Performance, edited by C. Dell'Aringa and R. Brunetta (1990), International Economic Association, vol. 95; Macmillan (A version of this was translated in Italian as "Perche variano i tassi di disoccupazione: economia e istituzioni nei paesi industriali avazati", Stato e Mercato, n. 27, December 1989..) .
17. Robert Flanagan, David Soskice and Lloyd Ulman, Unionism, Economic Stabilisation and Incomes Policies: European Experience (1983), pp. 705 + xviii, Brookings Institution, Washington (translated into Spanish as Sindacalismo, estabilacion economica y poiticade rentas: la experiencia europea, (MTSS, 1985)..) .