Recent Publications
Books (with Links to Publishers' Websites)
Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Policy Change and Discourse in Europe (co-edited with Claudio Radaelli) London: Routledge, 2005.
The Futures of European Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, Volume I: From Vulnerability to Competitiveness in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, Volume II: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges in Twelve Countries. Oxford University Press, 2000.
E-journals, Journalistic Pieces, and Op-Ed Pieces
L'Europe à la carte? Vivien A Schmidt 07 Juillet 2008
Re-inventing Europe after the Irish No Vivien A Schmidt 07 July 2008
Forthcoming Articles and Chapters in Books (Text Online)
Putting Politics Back into the Political Economy by Bringing the State Back in Yet Again. Forthcoming: World Politics July 2009.
The EU and its Member-States: From Bottom-up to Top-down. Paper prepared
for presentation at the UACES Conference: “Reflections on European
Integration: 50 Years of the Treaty of Rome” and a chapter in a forthcoming
book of the same title (London: March 23-24, 2007).
Give Peace a Chance: Reconciling the Four (not Three) New
Institutionalisms. Book chapter in Ideas and Politics in Social Science
Research eds. Daniel Béland and Robert H. Cox (forthcoming).
Envisioning a less fragile, more liberal Europe, European Political Science (forthcoming 2009).
European Elites on the European Union: What Vision for the Future? in European Union and World Politics: Consensus and Division eds., Andrew Gamble and David Lane London: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 2009)
Recent Articles and Chapters in Books
A 'menu Europe' will prove more palatable in Financial Times, Comment & Analysis, July 21, 2008.
Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 11, pp. 303-326 (June 2008).
“European Political Economy: Taking Labor Out, Bringing the State Back In,
and Putting the Firm Front and Center.” Paper prepared for presentation at
the conference for the 30th Anniversary Issue of West European Politics,
held at the European University Institute, Florence (18-19 January 2007).
“Trapped by their Ideas: French Elites’ Discourses of European Integration
and Globalization.” Journal of European Public Policy vol. 14, no. 4
(2007).
“Social Contracts under Siege: National Responses to Globalized and
Europeanized Production in Europe” in Global Capitalism Unbound: Winners
and Losers of Offshore Outsourcing Ed. Eva Paus. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan (2007).
“Procedural Democracy in the EU: The Europeanization of National and Sectoral Policymaking Processes,” Journal of European Public Policy vol. 13, no. 5 (2006).: 670-691.
“Adapting to Europe: Is it Harder for Britain?” British Journal of Politics and International Relations vol. 8 (2006): 15-33.
“Democracy in Europe: The Impact of European Integration.” Perspectives on Politics vol. 3, no. 4 (2005): 761-779.
"Institutionalism and the State." Chapter in The State: Theories and Issues, eds., Colin Hay, David Marsh, and Michael Lister. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005.
"The European Union: Democratic Legitimacy in a Regional State?" Journal of Common Market Studies vol. 42, no. 4 (2004): 975-999.
"Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Policy Change in Europe.” (co-authored with C. Radaelli). Introduction to Symposium issue of West European Politics vol. 27, no. 4 (March 2004): 1-28.
"Mapping the Scope of Discourse, Learning, and Europeanisation in Policy Change.” (co-authored with C. Radaelli). Conclusion to Symposium issue of West European Politics vol. 27, no. 4 (March 2004).
Recent Papers (Text Online)
"Taking the State Seriously:Policy,Polity,And the Politics of Ideas and Discourse in Political Economy." Paper prepared for presentation at the National Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston MA (August 28 to September 1, 2008)
"From Historical Institutionalism to Discursive Institutionalism: Explaning Change in Comparative Political Economy." Paper prepared for presentation at the American Political Science Association Meetings, Boston Aug. 2008. Revision of a paper prepared for presentation to the biannual meeting of the Council for European Studies (Chicago, Ill,.March 6-8, 2008)
“Is EU Economic Integration undermining EU Political Democracy?” Keynote paper presented at the ECSA-World Conference (Brussels, November 24-25, 2008).