Time and Social Power

As part of the series Seminars and Colloquia On Ökonomie, Politics and Society (SCOOPS)

Guest speaker: Claus OFFE, Hertie School of Governance

Discussants: Jenny ANDERSSON, Sciences Po, CEE / CNRS and Cornelia Woll, MaxPo / Sciences Po

 

Claus OFFE is Professor of Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance. He has held chairs for political science and political sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld and Bremen and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and worked as fellow or visiting professor at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Stanford, Princeton, and the Australian National University, Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the New School University, New York. His fields of research include democratic theory, transition studies, EU integration, and welfare state and labor market studies. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in these fields, a selection of which is recently reprinted as Herausforderungen der Demokratie. Zur Integrations- und Leistungsfähigkeit politischer Institutionen (2003). Book publications in English include Contradictions of the Welfare State (1984, Chinese translation 2005), Varieties of Transition (1996), Modernity and the State: East and West (1996), Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies (1998, with J. Elster and U. K. Preuss), Reflections on America. Tocqueville, Weber, and Adorno in the United States (2006) and Europe Entrapped (forthcoming 2014).

Jenny ANDERSSON is an economic historian and a senior research fellow of the CNRS. She has published widely on the transformation of European social democracy and the idea of the knowledge economy. Jenny Andersson received an ERC Starting-Grant to lead a 5 year research project on the history of knowledge production and forms of governance devoted to the long term. The Futurepol project started in January 2012 and brings together a research team dedicated to the research project.

Cornelia WOLL is professor of political science at Sciences Po, where she co-directs MaxPo and LIEPP. Her research focuses on the international political economy and economic sociology, in particular regulatory issues, economic policy and finance in the European Union and the United States. A specialist on business-government relations, she is the author of Firm Interests: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade (Cornell University Press, 2008) and has just published The Power of Inaction: Bank Bailouts in Comparison (Cornell University Press, 2014).

 

 

Please make sure to register before 14th April with Marina Abelskaïa-Graziani at marina.abelskaiagraziani@sciences-po.fr