Publications

Forthcoming

Resilient Liberalism: The Political Economy of Europe through Boom and Bust. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. [ed., with Mark Thatcher]

Discursive Institutionalism: Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

“Discursive Institutionalism: Scope, Dynamics, and Philosophical Underpinnings.” The Argumentative Turn Revised: Public Policy as Communicative Practice. eds. Frank Fischer and John Forester. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

“Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited:  Input, Output and  Throughput.” Political Studies (forthcoming).

“European Elites’ Diverging Visions of the European Union: Diverging Differently Since the Economic Crisis and the Arab Spring?” in Diverging Views of Europe: The EU Against Itself? edited by Olivier Costa and Nathalie Brack. Symposium issue of Journal of European Integration 34, no. 2 (February 2012).

“A Curious Constructivism: A Response to Professor Bell.” British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).

“What Happened to the State-Influenced Market Economies (SMEs)? France, Italy and Spain confront the Crisis as the Good, the Bad, and The Ugly.” The Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis edited by Graham Wilson and Wyn Grant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

“France’s Postwar Model from the State in Action to a State of Mind: A Review Essay of Philip Nord’s France’s New Deal.” French Politics (forthcoming)

Books

Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union. London:  Routledge, 2011. [ed., with Sonia Lucarelli and Furio Cerutti]

Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Public Discourse and Welfare State Reform:  The Social Democratic Experience. Amsterdam: Mets & Schilt, 2005.

  • Sponsored by the Forum Scholars for European Social Democracy: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Berlin; Karl Renner Institut, Vienna; Wiardi Beckman Stichting, Amsterdam

Policy Change and Discourse in Europe. London: Routledge, 2005. [ed., with Claudio Radaelli] [pdf]

  • Symposium issue of West European Politics 27, no. 4 (March 2004).

The Futures of European Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

  • Chinese translation. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2010.

Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, Volume I:  From Vulnerability to Competitiveness. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2000. [ed., with Fritz W. Scharpf]

Welfare and Work in the Open Economy  Volume II:  Diverse Responses to Common Challenges. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2000. [ed., with Fritz W. Scharpf]

From State to Market?  The Transformation of French Business and Government. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Democratizing France: The Political and Administrative History of Decentralization. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

  • Special award (Mention d’Honneur), Gaston Defferre Prize Ceremony, Marseilles, May 1992

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“Speaking of Change: Why Discourse is Key to the Dynamics of Policy Transformation.” Critical Policy Studies 5, no. 2 (2011): 106-126.

The European Union’s Eurozone Crisis and What (not) to do about it.” Brown Journal of World Affairs 17, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2010): 199-214.

“The Unfinished Architecture of Europe’s Economic Union.” Governance 23, no. 4 (2010): 555–559.

“Taking Ideas and Discourse Seriously: Explaining Change through Discursive Institutionalism as the Fourth New Institutionalism.” European Political Science Review 2, no. 1 (2010): 1-25.

  • Reprinted in Institutionalism II, edited by Guy Peters and Jon Pierre. SAGE Library of Political Science (2011).

“Re-Envisioning the European Union: Identity, Democracy, Economy,” in “The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2008.” Special Issue, Journal of Common Market Studies 47 (2009): 17-42.

“Putting the Political Back into Political Economy by Bringing the State Back Yet Again.” World Politics 61, no. 3 (2009): 516-548.

“The Challenges to European Citizenship from Global Capitalism and European Integration.” Politica & Società (2009).

“Explaining ‘Democracy in Europe.’” Comparative European Politics 7, no. 3 (2009): 396-407. [A response to three reviews of my book Democracy in Europe]

“Déliberation publique et discours de légitimation en France et le Royaume Uni face à l’Intégration Européenne.” Revue internationale de politique comparée 15, no. 4 (2009): 555-571.

“Envisioning a less fragile, more liberal Europe.” European Political Science 8, no. 2 (2009): 212-224.

  • Italian translation: “Immaginare un’Europa meno fragile, più liberale.” Biblioteca della Libertà 43, no 193 (2008).

“Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse.” Annual Review of Political Science 11 (2008): 303-26.

“European Political Economy: Labor Out, State Back In, Firm to the Fore.” 30th Anniversary Issue, West European Politics 31, nos. 1-2 (2008): 302-320.

“La Democracia en Europa.” Papeles de Relaciones Ecosociales y Cambio Global, no. 100 (2007): 87-108.

“Trapped by their Ideas: French Elites’ Discourses of European Integration and Globalization.” Journal of European Public Policy 14, no. 4 (2007): 992-1009.

“Procedural Democracy in the EU: The Europeanization of National and Sectoral Policymaking Processes.” Journal of European Public Policy 13, no. 5 (2006): 670-691.

“Adapting to Europe: Is it Harder for Britain?” British Journal of Politics and International Relations 8, no. 1 (2006): 15-33.

Selected Papers Available Online

“Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited: Input, Output, and Throughput,” KFG Working Paper Series, No. 21, November 2010, Kolleg-Forshergruppe (KFG) “The Transformative Power of Europe” Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Press

Die EU – eine erloschene Vision?” (“The EU—An Extinct Vision?”), Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte 2011, no. 7/8.

“Transatlantische Beziehungen im Übergang“ (”TransAtlantic Relations in transition”), Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte 2010, no. 10. [with Jolyon Howorth] .

Europe : pour plus de démocratie!” (“EU economic governance needs more democracy”), Telos, July 19, 2010.

Ökonomische Solidarität in der EU: Großer Sprung nach vorn oder zu große Herausforderung?” (EU Economic Solidarity: A Great Leap Forward or a Bridge too Far?), Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte 2010, no. 7/8.

A ‘menu Europe’ will prove more palatable,” Financial Times, July 21, 2008.

L’Europe à la carte?Telos, July 7, 2008.

Re-inventing Europe after the Irish No,” Telos, July 7, 2008.

Complete List

Vivien A. Schmidt CV, October 2011 [pdf]