J-Nicholas Ziegler
Professor of International and Public Affairs (Research) at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University
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Biography
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy of Europe, comparative financial regulation, ideology and party politics in France and Germany.
Nick Ziegler specializes in the politics of the advanced industrial democracies, with an emphasis on the political economy of Western Europe. He is currently interested in the politics of institutional change in Germany, as well as financial regulation in comparative perspective. He received a B.A. in European History from Princeton and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. He taught at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and in the Political Science Department at Berkeley before joining the faculty at Brown University. Ziegler has published articles in World Politics, Daedalus, Politics and Society, and other journals. He has been a research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, the German Marshall Fund, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforchung in Cologne.
Research
Ziegler’s research focuses on two main projects. His current book project examines the politics of institutional change in Germany and Europe. This project highlights the problem of maintaining institutions that provide long-term social infrastructure over multiple generations, while also adapting them to changing circumstances. Key examples include the politics of pension reform, corporate governance, and citizenship rules. Increasingly, the regulation of financial markets also looks like an institutional task with intertemporal preconditions and consequences.
Ziegler’s second project examines the regulation of financial markets in more depth. Based on research in the United States as well as Europe, findings to date show that new interest formations are taking shape around differing conceptions of financial stability and risk. The projects includes papers on the enactment of the Dodd-Frank reforms in the United States, post-enactment politics of consolidating financial reform in the United States, the changing dimensions of competition in the derivatives business; and the comparative politics of structural reform or bank separation in the United States, the UK, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Teaching
- MPA 2055 The Politics of Policymaking in Comparative Perspective
- Comparative Politics of Financial Regulation (seminar, undergraduate)
- Introduction to Comparative Political Economy (seminar, graduate)
- Politics of European Integration (lecture, undergraduate)
- Democratic and Non-Democratic Ideologies (seminar, undergraduate)
- Interests and Institutions in Comparative Perspective (seminar, graduate)
Videos
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire book talk
“The Refugee Crisis: Reshaping Europe and the Middle East” – A Teach-In
Gérard Araud ─ French Foreign Policy in an Unstable World
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