| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, November 4, 2010 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Steffen Schneider is a Research Associate (assistant professor) at the Research Centre on Transformations of the State, University of Bremen, and a Lecturer in the International Studies in Political Management program of the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen. He holds a doctorate and an M.A. degree from the University of Augsburg. His research interests and teaching are mostly in the fields of comparative government and policy analysis, with an area focus on Western Europe (Germany) and North America (Canada). Current research projects are focused (1) on the democratic quality and legitimacy of the nation state, the EU and other international regimes, (2) on the phenomenon of single-party dominance in Western democracies, and (3) on federalism and policy making.
Recent publications include: Democracy’s Deep Roots: Why the Nation State Remains Legitimate, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2010 (with Achim Hurrelmann, Zuzana Krell-Laluhová, Frank Nullmeier, and Achim Wiesner); Big Fish in Small Ponds: Dominant Party Regimes in the Canadian Provinces and German Länder, in: Matthijs Bogaards and Françoise Boucek, eds, Dominant Parties and Democracy, London: Routledge 2010 (with Amir Abedi); Why the Democratic Nation State is Still Legitimate, European Journal of Political Research 48 (4) 2009, 483-515 (with Achim Hurrelmann, Zuzana Krell-Laluhová, Frank Nullmeier, and Achim Wiesner); La légitimité des systèmes politiques, l’espace public et les médias: Une étude comparée des discours de légitimation en Allemagne, aux États-Unis, en Grande-Bretagne et en Suisse, Politique et Sociétés 27 (2) 2008, 105-36; Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2007(ed. with Achim Hurrelmann and Jens Steffek); United in Protest? The European Struggle over Genetically Modified Food, in: Hartmut Wessler et al., Transnationalization of Public Spheres, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2008; A Perspective from Abroad: Coordinative Institutions and Labour Market Reform in Germany, in: Rodney Haddow and Thomas R. Klassen, Partisanship, Globalization and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2006.
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