Assoziierter Doktorand am Graduiertenkolleg "Die Zukunft des Europäischen Sozialmodells"

Email: tobysc@socrates.berkeley.edu


Education

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Political Science. Degree expected May 2006. Advanced to candidacy June 2004

Dissertation Title:

Challenging the Status Quo: Advancing Technology, Corporate Strategies and the Changing Social Foundations of Welfare Capitalism
(Committee: John Zysman, J. Nicholas Ziegler, Co-Chairs; Brad Delong)

Exams passed:
Politics of Western Europe (Oct 2003), Comparative Analysis (March 2004), Methodology (June 2004)

M.A. University of California, Berkeley. Political Science. December 2002

M.Sc. University of Oxford. Comparative Social Policy. July 2001

M.A. University of Oxford. Philosophy, Politics and Economics. July 2004 (Oxon) (B.A. degree awarded November 2000)


Academic Awards

Distinction, M.Sc. Examination 2001 (only one of the entire cohort)
Proxime Accessit University Gibbs Prize for the best Thesis in Politics, B.A. Examinations 1999
Cecil King Essay Prize, The Queen’s College, Oxford University, 1999
Exhibition, The Queen’s College, Oxford University, 1997-1999

Fellowships

Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2004 (deferred)
Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley, Predissertation Grant, 2004
Center for German and European Studies (CGES), Predissertation Research Fellowship, 2003
Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, Tuition Fellowship, 2001-2005
CGES, University of California, Entering Student Fellowship, 2001-2003
British Chamber of Commerce in Germany Foundation Scholarship, 1996-1997
Travel Grants from The Queen’s College, Royal Dutch Shell, UC Berkeley’s Graduate Assembly

Teaching Experience

Graduate Student Instructor for the following courses in Berkeley’s Political Science Department:
- ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ (PS 138E), Professor Steven Vogel, Fall 2004
- ‘Governing the E-conomy’ (PS 138D), Professor John Zysman and Dr. Jay Stowsky, Spring 2004
- ‘Introduction to Comparative Politics’ (PS 2), Professor Robert Price, Fall 2003

Research Experience

Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), USA
Research Associate since June 2003

Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, USA
Research Assistance for T.J. Pempel (June 2004) and for J. Nicholas Ziegler (November 2002 - March 2003, June 2003)

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF - Public TV Station), Mainz, Germany
Editorial Work for News Department (July-August 1999)

The Brookings Institution, Governmental Studies Program, Washington DC, USA
Research Assistance for R. Kent Weaver (July-September 1998)

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Washington DC, USA
Internship (July-September 1997)

Presentations and Publications

‘Pension Reform in Germany’, chapter (with Martin Hering and R. Kent Weaver) in the forthcoming volume Reforming Social Security: Lessons from Abroad (R. Kent Weaver, ed.), The Brookings Institution Press

Roundtable on the German Elections, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley, September 24, 2002

‘Social Democratic Rule, Corporatist Arrangements and Progressive Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe’, M.A. Thesis, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, June 2002

‘Preferences and Interests in the German Pension Reform’, 13th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 14-16, 2002 (with J. Nicholas Ziegler)

‘The Politics of Retrenchment in Conservative Corporatist Welfare States’, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Oxford University, June 2001

‘Pension Reform in Germany - A New Politics or Old Consensual Style?’, Graduate Student Conference, Association for the Study of German Politics (ASGP), London, April 26-28, 2000

‘The Semisovereign State Revisited: The Politics of Pension Reform in Germany 1989-1998, B.A. Thesis, Oxford University, May 1999

Language Proficiency

German: native tongue
English: fluent
French: good reading proficiency

References

John Zysman, Director, Berkeley Roundtable for the International Economy (BRIE), University of California, Berkeley, USA, johnz@socrates.berkeley.edu

J. Nicholas Ziegler, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA, nziegler@socrates.berkley.edu

R. Kent Weaver, Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, weaverrk@georgetown.edu