Professor David Soskice (BA (Oxon))

Post: Research Professor of Comparative Political Economy; Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College

Previous Posts Held

Additional current position

Research Professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University; (each Spring semester); (2002-)

Previous positions  

School Centennial Professor in European Political Economy, London School of Economics, (2004-7)

Director, Research Department for Economic Change and Employment, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) (1990-2001), Research Professor (2001-7)

Fellow in Economics (1967-1990), now Emeritus, University College, Oxford University.

Recent visiting positions 

Visiting Professor of Government, Dept of Government, Harvard University, Spring 2007.

Mars Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale University, Spring 2004.

Mary Semens Distinguished Visiting Professor, Duke University, Fall 2001

Publications

(1) Recent Articles

With Sam Abrams and Torben Iversen, “Informal Social Networks and Rational Voting,” British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.

With Torben Iversen, "Real Exchange Rates and Competitiveness: The Political Economy of Skill Formation, Wage Compression, and Electoral Systems," American Political Science Review, August 2010.

With Tom Cusack and Torben Iversen, “The Coevolution of Capitalism and Political Representation: Explaining the Choice of Electoral Systems,”  American Political Science Review, May 2010.  (Symposium on Cusack, Iversen, Soskice 2007 APSR article.)

With Torben Iversen, “Distribution and Redistribution: the Shadow of the Nineteenth Century,” World Politics, July 2009.

With Ben Ross Schneider, “Inequality in Developed Countries and Latin America: Coordinated, Liberal and Hierarchical Systems,” Economy and Society, Feb 2009.

With Wendy Carlin, “German Economic Performance: Disentangling the Role of Supply-Side Reforms, Macroeconomic Policy and Coordinated Economic Institutions,” Socio-Economic Review, January 2009.

With Thomas Cusack and Torben Iversen, “Specific Interests and the Origins of Electoral Systems”, American Political Science Review, August 2007. Lead article.

With Torben Iversen, “Political Science and the New Macroeconomics,” Annual Review of Political Science, (2006).

With Torben Iversen, “Electoral Institutions, Parties and the Politics of Class: Why Some Democracies Distribute More than Others,” American Political Science Review, May 2006. Co-Winner of American Political Science Association 2007 Luebbert Prize, best article in comparative politics.

With Wendy Carlin, “The 3-Equation New Keynesian Model – a Graphical Exposition”,  B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), 2005 Volume 5: No1, 13. 4th most down-loaded article historically and featured article 2009.

With Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth, “Divorce and the Gender Division of Labor in Comparative Perspective”, Social Politics, Summer 2005.

“Varieties of Capitalism and Cross-National Gender Differences”, Social Politics, Summer 2005

With Torben Iversen, “An Asset Theory of Social Preferences”, American Political Science Review, December 2001.

With Torben Iversen, “The Non-neutrality of Monetary Policy with Large Wage and Price Setters”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2000.

 

(2) Books (selected)

With Wendy Carlin, Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies, (Oxford University Press, 2005; pp 788 + xxiv)

With Peter Hall, (eds), Varieties of Capitalism: the Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, (Oxford University Press, 2001. Translated into Japanese 2007. Chinese translation forthcoming.) 

With Torben Iversen and Jonas Pontusson, (eds), Unions, Employers and Central Banks, (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

With Wendy Carlin, Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain, (Oxford University Press, 1990)

With Robert Flanagan and Lloyd Ulman, Unionism, Economic Stabilization and Incomes Policies: European Experience, (Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1983; pp 705)

(3) Book Chapters (selected)

“American Exceptionalism and Comparative Political Economy,” in Clair Brown, Barry Eichengreen and Michael Reich, eds., The Great Unraveling: New Labor Market Institutions and Public Policy Responses, (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

“Macroeconomic Adjustment and Varieties of Capitalism”, in Hancke, B., Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher, eds., Beyond Varieties of Capitalism, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

With Steven Casper, “Sectoral Systems of Innovation and Varieties of Capitalism: Explaining the Development of High-Tech Entrepreneurship in Europe”, in Franco Malerba, ed.,  Sectoral Systems of Innovation: Concepts, issues and Analysis of Six Major Sectors in Europe, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

With Peter Hall, “Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism”, pp 1-68, in Peter Hall, David Soskice (eds), Varieties of Capitalism: the Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

With Margarita Estevez-Abe and Torben Iversen, “Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State,” pp 145-183 in Peter Hall, David Soskice (eds), Varieties of Capitalism: the Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

“Divergent Production Regimes: Coordinated and Uncoordinated Market Economies in the 1980s and 1990s,” pp 101-134  in Herbert Kitschelt, Peter Lange, Gary Marks and John Stephens (eds) Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

“Reconciling Markets and Institutions: the German Apprenticeship System,” pp 25-54 in Lisa Lynch, ed, Training and the private sector: international comparisons, (NBER series: University of Chicago Press, 1994)

“Reinterpreting Corporatism and Explaining Unemployment: Coordinated and non-Coordinated Market Economies,” in Renato Brunetta and Carlo Dell’Aringa (eds), Labour Relations and Economic Performance, (Macmillan, 1990).