CURRICULUM VITAE

Christopher K. Ansell

Department of Political Science

210 Barrows Hall

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-1950

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE

Professor. Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, July 2011-present.

Fields: Public Policy and Administration (organization theory; governance; regulation); Comparative

Politics (Western Europe & advanced industrial democracies).

Associate Professor. Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. 2000-2011

Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. 1993-2000.

Instructor, University of Chicago, winter 1991 (Political Economy) and spring 1992 (West

European Parties and Party Systems).

Research Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, November 1979-September

1984.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, June, 1993.

Dissertation: French Workers Between Party and Union, 1872-1922.

M.A., University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, 1986.

B.A., University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, 1979.

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Editorial Roles

U.S. Editor, Public Administration: An International Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell

Publications), 2010-2016; editorial advisory board, 2008-2010

Editorial Boards: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2011-present; Risk,

Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 2017-

Co-Editor (with Jacob Torfing) of a special edition of Politics & Policy on How does

Collaborative Governance Scale? (vol. 43, no. 3, 2015).

Co-Editor (with Mark Bevir), Studies in Governance, UC Berkeley International and Area

Studies Book Series; published in conjunction with the University of California Press. 2009-

2012

Co-Editor (with Arjen Boin) of an edition of the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis

Management on the work of Todd La Porte, vol. 19, no. 1: 1-2. 2011.

Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Governance. Sage Publications. 2007.

Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1998-2000

Institutional Leadership

Advisory Board Member, Coordination, Capacity and Legitimacy: Organizing for Climate

Change, Immigration, and the Police Project. Uni Research Rokkan Center, University of

Berkeley. 2016-

Director, Travers Program on Ethics and Accountability in Government, UC Berkeley, 2007-

2013

International Advisory Board, Center for Metropolitan Studies, CEBRAP, Sao Paulo, Brazil,

2006-2012

Executive Council Member, Political Networks Section, APSA, 2010-11; steering committee

member (and founding member), Networks in Political Science, 2008-2010.

Executive Committee Member, Energy and Resources Graduate Group, 2005-6

European Union Colloquium Chair, 1997-2000, Center for Western European Studies,

University of California, Berkeley

Section Representative for Methods & Theory and Social Networks Sections, 1996-1998,

Social Science History Association

Board Member: 1997-1998, Center for Culture, Organizations, and Politics, University of

California Berkeley

Advisory Committee Member, 1996-1998, Center for Western European Studies, University

of California, Berkeley

Grants and Awards:

Peder Sather Institute for Advanced Study awards: “Governing World Politics: Dissecting the

Role of Global Governance Architectures (with Jarle Trondal),” 2016; “Organizing for

Societal Security and Crisis Management” (with Per Lægreid), 2015; Governance in

Turbulent Times (with Jarle Trondal), 2014.

Norway House Foundation, “Organizing for Societal Security and Crisis Management” (with

Per Lægreid) 2015

Honorary Doctorate (Doctoral Degree in Administration, Honoris Causi, Roskilde University,

Denmark, awarded September 20, 2013

IBM Business of Government Grant (with Ann Keller; 2013)

Presidential Chair Fellows, 2012-2013 (UC Berkeley)

Principal Investigator (with Ann Keller and Art Reingold), “The Global Infectious Disease

Response System,” National Science Foundation, September 2008-August 2012, $725,000.

Grant Recipient, Institute of Global Cooperation and Conflict, for “Far Flung Networks:

Rapid Deployment and Customized Response,” 2007

Grant recipient, Kaufman Foundation, “Network Leverage,” 2006

Nominee for the Graduate Division’s Faculty Mentor Award, 2004

1999-2000 Distinguished Teaching Award, Division of Social Sciences, University of

California, Berkeley

Junior Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley, spring 1994

Harper Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1989-90

Morton Grodzins Fellowship in recognition of outstanding academic achievement, University

of Chicago, Department of Political Science, 1985-88

Research Groups & Conference Organizing:

Panel co-organizer (with Per Ola Öberg), “Collaborative Governance and Deliberative

Policymaking in Comparative Perspective,” 3rd International Conference on Public Policy,

June 28-30, 2017. Singapore

Subtheme Co-Chair (with Peter Scholten), “International Migration, Changing Demographics

and the Rise of Intense Nationalism,” Transatlantic Dialogue, Miami, April 5-8 2017,

Co-organizer (with Per Lægreid), Organizing Societal Security, sponsored by the Peder Sather

Center, UC Berkeley, Norway House Foundation, and the University of Bergen, April 29-30,

2016, UC Berkeley

Co-organizer (with Arjen Boin), Complex Transboundary Problems: EU and US

Perspectives, sponsored by the UCB EU Centre of Excellence and Utrecht University,

October 18-19, 2013, UC Berkeley.

Co-founder (with Jacob Torfing), the Global Governance Club, an international network of

scholars from Europe, the U.S., China, Australia, and Brazil working on governance issues.

First meeting in Denmark 2012; second meeting in Netherlands, 2013; third meeting in the

UK, 2014

Co-organizer (with Arjen Boin, Sanneke Kuiper, and Todd La Porte) of the Berkeley-Utrecht

Conference on Complex Systems, Pernicious Instability, and Institutional Resilience: Urgent

Challenges for Public Administration, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 11-13, 2012 and co-

organizer (with Todd La Porte) of the Colloquium on Complexity and Public Organization at

UC Berkeley, Spring Semester 2012.

Co-Chair (with Jacob Torfing) of Managing Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector (3

panels) at the 25th International Research Society for Public Management conference. Rome

Italy, April 11-13, 2012.

Co-Chair (with Shirin Åhlback Öberg) of the Politics & Expertise Workshop, at the Nordic

Political Science Conference, August 9-12, 2011, Vasa Finland.

Organizer of Six Travers Public Affairs Conferences: California’s Energy Future (2013),

Managing the Delta (2012) Financing California (2010), How to Reform California (2009),

Protecting U.S. Consumers (2008), and The Future of California Media (2007)

Co-Organizer (with Ann Keller and Paul Schulman), The Future of Public Organization,

University of California, Berkeley, April 12-14, 2007

Co-Organizer (with David Vogel), Convenor Group on European Food Safety Regulation,

2002-4; funded by the Institute of European Studies

Co-Organizer (with Michael Cohen and Karl Weick), Reading Dewey: Augmenting the

Foundations of Organizational Studies, funded by the University of Michigan’s

Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS), October 24, 2003, University

of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Co-Organizer (with Mark Bevir) of the Interpretive Politics Group, Department of Political

Science, 2002-3, 2003-4

Organizer, Working Group on Comparative Political Sociology (Center for Culture,

Organization, and Politics, 2001-2)

Co-organizer (with Giuseppe Di Palma), Convenor Group on Changing Center-Periphery

Relations (1998-2000), sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, UC

Berkeley

Organizer of the Comparative Federalism Roundtable: Europe, Germany, and the United

States (held November 11, 1997; Co-sponsored by IGS, CWES, CGES)

University and Professional Service:

Departmental Service: Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2000-1, 2001-2, 2002-3,

2003-4, 2010-11, 2011-12 and committee member, 2005-6, 2006-7, 2016-17; Post-

Communism recruitment committee 2003-4; IR recruitment committee 2000-1; Global Metro

Studies recruitment committee (representing Political Science on a university-wide

committee), 2006-7; Graduate Affairs Committee, 1997-1999

Grant & Award Committees: Chair, 2013 Book Award Committee, Political Networks

Section, APSA; Award Committee, Ernst Haas Award for the Best Dissertation on European

Politics, APSA European Politics & Society Group, 2005 & 2009; German Marshal Fund

Grant Reviewer (2002-3); Chair, Strauss Scholarship for Public Service Committee, 2000-

2001 and committee member, 1998-9, 1999-2000; Truman Scholarship Committee, 2000-

2001; Sharlin and Bendix Award Committees (Institute for International Studies), 1999-2000,

2001-2; 2006-7 (Sharlin only), 2014; Judge, Bennet Prize in Political Science, 1998-9;

Interviewer for 1994-1995 University of California Regents' and Chancellors' Scholarships;

German and European Studies Center awards for graduate research assistance, June 1996-7,

1997-1998

Professional and Civic Service: member of the Independent External Evaluation Team for the

Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, 2009; expert testimony, Little Hoover

Commission investigation on School Facilities Governance, Sacramento California, May 24,

2007; funding proposal reviewer, San Francisco Department of Children, Youth & Their

Families, Spring 2007; Jefferson Elementary School, Berkeley Unified School District, Site

Committee member, 2000-2001

University Service: committee member, Barbara Weinstock Memorial Lectures on the Morals

of Trade Committee, 2015-16, 2016-present; UC Institute of European Studies Director

Search Committee, 2014; Faculty Representative, Commercial and Student Services Board,

2012-2014; Co-Chair (with Malcolm Potts/Jane Mauldon), Committee on the Protection of

Human Subjects, 2007-9; committee member, 2006-2007; member, Graduate Council, UC

Berkeley Faculty Senate Committee, 2004-5, 2005-6

Visiting & Affiliated Scholar:

Visiting Professor, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France), May 15-June 14,

2015

Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University, March 22-28, 2015 and January 9-16, 2016

Professor, Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, Introduction to Social

Network short course, Accra, Johannesburg, and Dar es Salaam (2012), Nairobi (2013), Accra

(2014), Nairobi (2015), Nairobi (2017).

Visiting Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), Spring 2010,

2011, 2012, 2013 and Fellow at the Uppsala Forum on Peace and Democracy, Spring 2010

Visiting Researcher, Policy Unit, H1N1 Response Team, U.S. Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention, November 2009

Affiliated Faculty Member of the Energy and Resources Graduate Group and the Health

Service and Policy Analysis Graduate Group (School of Public Health)

Invited Visitor at the Santa Fe Institute, Program on the Emergence of States and

Markets, June 1998

PUBLICATIONS

Books

How does Collaborative Governance Scale? (editor, with Jacob Torfing). Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

Forthcoming.

Governance in Turbulent Times. (editor, with Jarle Trondal and Morten Øgård). Oxford University

Press. 2017.

Handbook on Theories of Governance. (editor, with Jacob Torfing). Edgar Elgar Publishing. 2016.

Public Innovation through Collaboration and Design. (editor, with Jacob Torfing). Routledge 2014.

Pragmatist Democracy: Evolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy. Oxford University Press.

2011.

What’s the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety. (editor, with David Vogel).

MIT Press. 2006.

On Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and North America (editor, with Giuseppe Di Palma).

Cambridge University Press. 2004.

Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements: The Politics of Labor in the French Third Republic.

Cambridge University Press (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series). 2001.

Articles (Journals and Chapters)

“Collaborative Platforms as a Governance Strategies (with Alison Gash), JPART, forthcoming 2017.

“Governing Turbulence: An Organizational-Institutional Agenda,” Perspectives in Public

Management and Governance, forthcoming 2017.

“Experimentalist Governance in Global Public Health: UNAIDS and Its Place in the Global AIDS

Regime” (with Gabrielle Goldstein), American Journal of International and Comparative Law,

forthcoming 2017.

“Taming Deep Uncertainty: The Potential of Pragmatist Principles for Understanding and Improving

Strategic Crisis Management” (with Arjen Boin), Administration & Society, forthcoming 2017.

“The Diversity of Experimentation in the Experimenting Society” (with Martin Bartenberger) in Ibo

van de Poel, Lotte Asveld, Donna C. Mehos (Eds.), Experimentation Beyond the Laboratory: New

Perspectives on Technology in Society. Routledge. Forthcoming 2017.

“The Network Approach” (with Jacob Torfing), Chapter 7 in Klaus Brummer, Sebastian Harnisch,

Kai Oppermann, and Diana Panke (Eds.), Foreign Policy Analysis and Public Policy Approaches:

Bridging the Gap, forthcoming 2017.

“Improving policy implementation through collaborative policymaking” (with Eva Sørensen and

Jacob Torfing) Policy & Politics, 45(3), 467-486. 2017.

“How Learning Aggregates: A Social Network Analysis of Learning between Swedish

Municipalities” (with Martin Lundin and Per Ola Öberg) Local Government Studies. 2017.

“Learning Networks among Swedish Municipalities: Is Sweden a Small World?” in Glückler J,

Lazega E, Hammer I (ed). Knowledge and Networks. Vol 11. Knowledge and Space. Berlin: Springer

(with Martin Lundin and Per Ola Öberg). 2017.

“Tackling Unruly Public Problems” (with M. Bartenberger) in Governance in Turbulent Times. (C.

Ansell, J. Trondal and M. Øgård, Eds.). Oxford University Press. 2017.

“Turbulence, Adaptation and Change” in Governance in Turbulent Times. (C. Ansell, J. Trondal and

M. Øgård, Eds.). Oxford University Press. 2017.

“An Organizational-Institutional Approach to Governance” (with D. Levi-Faur and J. Trondal) in

Governance in Turbulent Times. (C. Ansell, J. Trondal and M. Øgård, Eds.). Oxford University

Press. 2017.

“Strengthening political leadership and policy innovation through the expansion of collaborative

forms of governance,” Public Management Review, 1-18. (with Jacob Torfing). 2016.

“’Pragmatic complexity’: A new foundation for moving beyond ‘evidence-based policy making’?”

Policy Studies, 1-19 (with Robert Geyer). 2016.

“Who says Networks, says Oligarchy? Oligarchies as Rich Club Networks,” Connections, 35, 2: 20-

32 (with Renata Bichir and Shi Zhou). 2016.

“Varieties of Experimentalism,” Ecological Economics, vol. 130: 64-73 (with Martin Bartenberger).

2016.

“Collaborative Governance as Creative Problem-Solving,” chapter 2 in J. Torfing and Peter

Triantafilou. Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance. Cambridge

University Press. Pp. 35-53. 2016.

“Pragmatism in Organization Studies: Meeting the Challenge of a Dynamic and Complex World,”

Organization Science, on-line version, October 2015 (with Arjen Boin and Moshe Farjoun).

“When Collaborative Governance Scales Up: Lessons from Global Public Health about Compound

Collaboration,” Policy & Politics, on-line version, June 2015

“How Does Collaborative Governance Scale?” Policy & Politics, on-line version, June 2015 (with

Jacob Torfing).

“Dynamic Conservatism: How Institutions Change to Remain the Same,” in Matthew Kraatz (ed.),

Institutions and Ideals: Philip Selznick’s Legacy for Organizational Studies, Research in the

Sociology of Organizations, vol. 44: 89-119 (with Arjen Boin and Moshe Farjoun). 2015.

“Regulatory Capitalism and its Discontents: Bilateral Interdependence and the Adaptability of

Regulatory Styles,” Regulation & Governance (with John Yasuda), 2104.

“Adapting the Incident Command Model for Knowledge-Based Crises,” IBM Center for the

Business of Government, Collaboration Series (with Ann Keller). May 2014.

“Ecological Explanation,” in Gerald Berk, Dennis Galvan, and Victoria Hattam (eds). Unstructuring

Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2013.

“What is a Democratic Experiment?” Contemporary Pragmatism, 9, 2. 2012: 159-180.

“Improving Pandemic Response: A Sensemaking Perspective on the Spring 2009 H1N1 Pandemic”

(with Ann Keller, Mathilde Bourrier, Sahai Burrowes, Mark Hunter, Art Reingold, and Teresa

Sullivan), Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy. 3, 2. 2012.

“The Promise and Challenge of Global Network Governance: The Global Outbreak Alert and

Response Network,” (with Egbert Sondorp and Robert Stevens), Global Governance. 18: 317-337.

2012.

“Stewards, Mediators, and Catalysts: Toward a Model of Collaborative Leadership,” (with Alison

Gash), The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, 17, 1, 2012.

“Circuits of Regulation: Transatlantic Perspectives on Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine

Disrupting Chemicals (with Jörg Balsiger), in Jo Swinnen and David Vogel (eds.), Transatlantic

Regulatory Cooperation. Edward Elgar Publishers. 2011.

“Managing Transboundary Crises: Identifying the Building Blocks of an Effective Response

System,” (with Arjen Boin and Ann Keller). Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 18, 4:

195-207. 2010.

“How to Reform a Reform Agenda: Outreach, Agenda Expansion, and Brokerage in Urban School

Reform” (with Sarah Reckhow and Andrew Kelly). Policy Studies Journal 37, 4: 717-743, 2009.

“Collaboration is Not Enough: Virtual Cycles of Reform in Transportation Policy (with Margaret

Weir and Jane Rongerude), Urban Affairs Quarterly, 44, 4: 455-89, 2009.

“Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice” (with Alison Gash) Journal of Public

Administration Theory and Research, 18, 4: 543-71, 2008.

“Emergent Institutionalism: The United Kingdom’s Response to the BSE Epidemic,” (with Jane

Gingrich) in Deborah Gibbons (ed.), Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery in

the Global Arena. Information Age Press. 2007

“Pragmatist Philosophy and Interactive Research,” in Gunnar Gjelstrup and Eva Sorenson (eds.).

Public Administration in Transition. Copenhagen: DJOF Publishing. 2007.

“The Contested Governance of European Food Safety” (with David Vogel) in Ansell and Vogel

(eds.). What’s the Beef? MIT Press. 2006.

“Protesting Food: NGO’s and Political Mobilization in Europe” (with Rahsaan Maxwell and Daniela

Sicurelli) in Ansell and Vogel (eds.), What’s the Beef? MIT Press. 2006.

“Aymmetries of Governance,” in Ansell and Vogel (eds.), What’s the Beef? MIT Press. 2006.

“Territorial Representation: Similar Dynamics of Federalism?” (with Rebecca Chen). Nicolas Jabko

and Craig Parsons (eds.) With US or Against US: European Trends in American Perspective. Oxford

University Press. 2005.

“Restructuring Authority and Territoriality,” (Chapter 1) and “Territoriality, Authority, and

Democracy” (Chapter 12) in Ansell and Di Palma (eds.) Restructuring Territoriality. 2004.

“Reforming the Administrative State” (with Jane Gingrich) in Bruce Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and

Susan Scarrow (eds.). Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced

Industrial Democracies. Oxford University Press. 2003.

“Trends in Decentralization” (with Jane Gingrich) in Bruce Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and Susan

Scarrow (eds.) Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial

Democracies. Oxford University Press. 2003.

“Community Embeddedness and Collaborative Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area

Environmental Movement,” in Mario Diani and Doug McAdam (eds.) Social Movements and

Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.

“The Variable Geometry of European Regional Development” (with Vanna Gonzales and Conor

O’Dwyer) in Steven Weber (ed.). Globalization and the European Political Economy. New York:

Columbia University Press. 2001.

“The Networked Polity: Regional Development in Western Europe,” Governance, 13, 3: July 2000.

“The Art of Being Indispensable: Noncharismatic Personalism in Contemporary Political Parties,”

(with M. Steven Fish). Comparative Political Studies. 1999.

“Organizing International Politics: Sovereignty and Open Systems” (with Steven Weber).

International Political Science Review. 1999.

“The Mass Production of Craft Unionism: Exploring the Sources of Workers’ Solidarity in France

and the US” (with Antoine Joseph), Politics & Society (December, 1998).

"Symbolic Networks: The Realignment of the French Working Class, 1887-1894,” American Journal

of Sociology, Vol. 103, no. 2, September 1997, 359-90.

"Dual Networks in the European Union," (with Craig Parsons and Keith Darden) Journal of Common

Market Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 1997, 347-375.

"Bosses of the City Unite! Labor Politics and Political Machine Consolidation, 1870-1910" (with

Arthur Burris), Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 11, Spring 1997, 1-43.

"Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434" (with John Padgett), American Journal of

Sociology, Vol. 98, (May 1993): 1259-1319.

“The Use of Models for Water Resources Management, Planning, and Policy” (with Robert Friedman,

Stuart Diamond, and Yacov Y. Haimes), Water Resources Research, 20, 7: 793-802.

Book Reviews and Review Articles (Handbook or Encyclopedia Articles)

“Institutional crisis and the policy agenda,” in N. Zahariadis (Ed.) Handbook of Public Policy Agenda

Setting, Edgar Elgar Publishers. Pp. 415-432 (with Arjen Boin, A., & Sanneke Kuipers). 2016.

Disasters and the American State: How Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Public Prepare for the

Unexpected by Patrick S. Roberts. New York, Cambridge University Press. 2013. Political Science

Quarterly. Forthcoming. [Book Review]

“Pragmatism,” ch. 32 in Handbook on Theories of Governance. (C. Ansell and J. Torfing Eds). Edgar

Elgar Publishing. 2016. Pp. 392-401.

“Pragmatist Interpretivism,” in Mark Bevir and Rod Rhodes (Eds). Routledge Handbook of

Interpretive Political Science. Pp. 86-98. 2015

Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck. Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change

in Brazilian Water Politics (Oxford University Press 2013). Perspectives in Politics. Perspectives in

Politics, 13 (02), 547-548. 2015. [Book Review]

“Political Leadership in Times of Crisis” (with Arjen Boin and Paul t’Hart) in R.A.W. Rhodes and

Paul t’Hart. The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014,

pp. 418-433.

“The Political Consequences of Learning,” review of Jack Knight and James Johnson. 2011. The

Priority of Democracy: Political Consequences of Pragmatism (Princeton University Press), Crooked

Timber blog, February 11, 2013. [Book Review]

“Collaborative Governance,” in David Levi-Faur (ed.). Oxford Handbook of Governance. Oxford:

Oxford University Press. 2012.

Pierre Rosanvallon. Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust, Public Administration: An

International Quarterly. 89, 2: 705-6. 2011. [Book Review]

“Mary Parker Follett and Pragmatist Organization,” in Paul Adler (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of

Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Gregory Huber. The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutrality: Interests and Influence in Governmental

Regulation of Occupational Safety. In: Public Administration: An International Quarterly, 87, 4:

974-976. 2009. [Book Review]

“The Governance Dilemma” (review of 4 books on European and transnational governance),

European Political Science, 7: 460-71. 2008.

Arend Lijphart. Thinking about Democracy: Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and

Practice. In: Democratization. 15, 5: 1018-1019. 2008. [Book Review]

“Network Institutionalism,” in Sarah Binder, Rod Rhodes, and Bert Rockman. Oxford Handbook of

Political Institutions. Oxford University Press. 2006.

“Pragmatism” in Mark Bevir (ed.). Encyclopedia of Governance. Sage Publications. 2006.

“The Sociology of Governance,” in Mark Bevir (ed.) Encyclopedia of Governance. Forthcoming.

Sage Publications. 2007.

Ronald Burt. Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Political Capital. In Administrative

Science Quarterly, 52, 3: 482-485, 2007. [Book Review]

Jon Pierre. Debating Governance: Authority, Steering, and Democracy. American Political Science

Review, 93, 3, 668. 2002. [Book Review]

“The Garbage Can Model of Behavior,” in N.J. Smelser and Paul Bates (eds.) International

Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Pp. 5883-6. 2001.

“Political Legitimacy,” N.J. Smelser and Paul Bates (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social

and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Pp. 8704-6. 2001.

“The Iron Law of Oligarchy,” N.J. Smelser and Paul Bates (eds.) International Encylopedia of the

Social & Behavioral Science, Oxford: Pergamon Press. Pp. 10853-5. 2001.

Pierre Martin. Comprendre les evolutions electorales. In French Studies in Society & Politics, 19, 1:

134-8. 2001. [Book Review]

Kenneth Tucker. French Revolution Syndicalism and the Public Sphere. In Social Forces. 76, 4:

1562-4. 1998. [Book Review]

Peter Bearman, Relations into Rhetorics: Local Elite Social Structure in Norfolk, England, 1540-

1640. In American Journal of Sociology, 100, 2, 533-535. 1994. [Book Review]

Jeff Bridgford, The Politics of French Trade Unionism, Contemporary Sociology, 22, 2: 194-195.

1993. [Book Review]

Ellen Furlough, Consumer Cooperation in France: The Politics of Consumption, 1834-1930, In

Contemporary Sociology, 21, 3: 381-382. 1992. [Book Review]

Rick Fantasia, Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers.

In American Journal of Sociology, 94, 6: 1526-8. 1998. [Book Review]

Other Publications

“The Pragmatist Promise of a Workable Democracy,” review of C. Ansell, Pragmatism Democracy,

Gerald Berk, Christoph Deutschmann, Sigrid Quack, Marc Schneiberg, and Christopher Ansell,

Socio-economic Review, 10, 3: 581-604. 2012.

“A Time for Public Administration,” editorial (with Arjen Boin, Martin Lodge, Salvador Parrado,

Kai Wegrich, and Lan Xue), Public Administration, 89, 2: 221-225. 2011.

“On Being a LaPortian,” editorial introduction (with Arjen Boin) to a series in Journal of

Contingencies and Crisis Management, edited by Chris Ansell and Arjen Boin. 19, 1: 1-2. 2011.

“Circuits of Regulation: Transatlantic Perspectives on Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine

Disrupting Chemicals,” (with Jörg Balsiger), Center for Institutions and Governance, Institute of

Governmental Studies, U.C. Berkeley. June 2009.

“The Organizational Evolution of Administrative States: The U.S., Britain, and France Compared”

(with Craig Parsons). Working Paper Series. Center for Western European Studies. University of

California, Berkeley. 1995.

French Workers Between Union and Party, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1993.

U.S. Office of Technology Assessment. 1985. R&D in the Maritime Industry: A Supplement to an

Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (served as project staff)

U.S. Office of Technology Assessment. 1984. Wetlands: Their Use and Regulation. (served as

research analyst)

U.S. Office of Technology Assessment. 1982. Use of Models for Water Resource Management,

Planning, and Policy (served as research assistant)

RECENT PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES

Towards a Realistic Perspective on Collaborative Design, American Political Science Association

Routable, San Francisco, September 2, 2017.

Collaborative Platforms as a Governance Strategy, School of Public and Environmental Affairs

(SPEA), Indiana University, November 11, 2016; Annual Meeting of the American Society of Public

Administration, Seattle, Washington, March 20, 2016; International Workshop on the Governance of

Collaboration: Co-Production, Contracting, Commissioning and Certification, Centre for Advanced

Economic Studies, Dubrovnik, August 8-9, 2017.

Governance in Turbulent Times. Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University

of Bergen, Norway, October 20, 2016; Workshop on Governance and Turbulence, Peder Sather

Center for Advanced Studies, May 3, 2016

Pragmatism and Decisionmaking under Uncertainty. Academy of Management Conference,

Anaheim California, August 6, 2016.

The Protective State, Robert Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, March 10,

2016; The Protective State and the Problem-Solving State, Pragmatism and Political Analysis

Conference, École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, June 4-6, 2015.

Transnational Governance as Democratic Experimentalism? Lessons from Global Public Health,

keynote speech, "International Conference on Legal Institution Design: Local Governance and Global

Management," Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan, February 23, 2016; Hong Kong

University Department of Politics and Public Administration, Hong Kong University, March 24,

2015.

Pragmatist Democracy, plenary talk at the Public Management Research Association Conference,

Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, June 10-13, 2015; talk at the

Workshop on Governance, Pragmatism and Democracy, Sir Bernard Crick Centre, University of

Sheffield, September 19, 2014; Joint meeting of Virginia Tech’s Normative Foundations of Public

Administration and Policy classes from Blacksburg and Alexandria, VA campuses, Staunton Public

Library, Staunton Virginia, November 10, 2012.

Pragmatism and Organization and Pragmatism and Experimentalism, lectures to the Pragmatism and

Social Sciences Seminar, École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris, May-June 2015.

Rethinking Implementation Theory: Improving Policy Execution through Collaborative Policy

Innovation, 2015 Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April

17-19, 2015 (with Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing).

Collaborative Governance: Why, When, and How? plenary talk to 2014 Policy & Politics

Conference, Bristol, UK, September 16, 2014; keynote talk, Roskilde University Sunrise Conference

2012: Transforming Governance, Enhancing Innovation. Roskilde, Denmark. October 29, 2012.

Food Safety Regulatory Styles: The EU and Beyond, keynote talk at Workshop on Regulatory

Challenges for Agricultural Biotechnology in the EU, MISTRA Biotech, Swedish University of

Agricultural Science, Uppsala Sweden, May 23, 2014.