Faculty
Professor Peer Hull Kristensen (DBP), Professor Charles Sabel (Columbia), Professor Leonard Seabrooke (DBP), Professor Herman M. Schwartz (University of Virginia), Professor Sven Steinmo (EUI), Associate Professor Benedikte Brincker (DBP), Professor Lars Bo Kaspersen (Copenhagen University), Professor Carsten Greve (DBP) and Associate Professor Tamyko Ysa (Esade Business School, Barcelona).

Course Coordinator
Professor Leonard Seabrooke, Professor Carsten Greve and Associate Professor Benedikte Brincker.

This course provides Ph.D. students with an opportunity to reflect on and engage with different ways of studying the linkages between business and politics. The course unfolds and debates various approaches to the study of business and politics that come together in their insistence on straddling disciplinary boundaries, working comparatively and taking an international outlook on the subject matter. While the course takes a theoretical point of departure dedicating the five days to each of the five approaches: Economic Sociology, International Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy, Political Sociology and studies of Public-Private Partnerships, a substantial part of the course is the engagement with the methodological foundations of the theoretical perspectives. The course will also invite students to reflect upon the place of comparative historical analysis, qualitative methods, and mixed methods in the social and political sciences.

The theme for the course is ‘The Politics of Making Markets’.  The guiding question for the course is ‘how are markets constructed and governed?’ The answer to this question varies according to the field of investigation. The lecturers in the course are leaders in the fields of Economic Sociology, International Political Economy (IPE), Comparative Political Economy (CPE), Political Sociology and studies of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). They will provide different answers to the question of how markets are constructed and governed and will answer the questions through approaches and methods that place emphasis on different actors, structures, ontologies and epistemologies. This ‘perspectives’ course provides insight into the study of business and politics and contains a mix of conventional theories in political science and sociology, including evolutionary theory, rational choice analysis, constructivism, and discourse analysis.

The course will enable participants to:

The course is a mix of lectures given by members of staff at the Department of Business and Politics and guest speakers and discussion seminars and short presentations. Students are required to hand in a paper of max 3000 words in which they relate the course texts to the topics of their theses. The paper must include references to the course literature and should be handed in no later than

 

Lecture Plan:

 

G. Morgan, J.L. Campbell, C. Crouch, P.K. Kristensen, O.K. Pedersen, and R. Whitley (eds) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, especially the following chapters:

 

Blyth, Mark and Richard S. Katz 2005: From Catch-All Politics to Cartelization: The Political Economy of the Cartel Party’, West European Politics 28(1): 33-60.

Greve, Carsten 2010: ‘Public-Private Partnerships in Business and Government’, in David Coen, Wyn Grant & Graham Wilson. Eds. 2010. The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Mann, Michael. 1993. The Sources of Social Power. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Sabel, Charles F. and Jonathan Zeitlin 2008: ‘Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU’, European Law Journal, 14(3): 271-327.

Schwartz, Herman M. 2009. Subprime Nation (Ithaca:  Cornell  University Press).

Seabrooke, Leonard 2006: The Social Sources of Financial Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Smelser, Neil and Richard Swedberg (eds) 2005: The Handbook of Economic Sociology (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Steinmo, Sven 2010. The Evolution of Modern States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Whitford, Joshua 2005: The New Old Economy (New York: Oxford University Press).