Dr. Paul

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I am standing in for the Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Kassel from April 2019 to March 2021.

After completing a Master's degree in Political Science at the TU Braunschweig (2007) and an MA in European Studies at the Universities of Bath (UK) and Siena (Italy) (2008), I received my PhD from the University of Bath in 2012 with a comparative study on the governance of labor migration in Germany, France, and the UK (The Political Economy of Border Drawing, Berghahn 2015).

As a member of an international research team (Open Research Area project HowSAFE) at Bielefeld University (2013-2017), I then explored the institutional validity conditions of analytical innovations in policy-making in a cross-country and policy field comparison. As a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies Harvardin 2017/18, I was also able to dedicate myself to consolidating my post-doctoral research in a second monograph(Varieties of Risk Regulation in Public Administrations, Routledge 2021).

In addition to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and edited volume contributions (see Publications) on migration governance, regulation, and innovations in policymaking, I am co-editor of the Edward Elgar Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration (2021).

I have been teaching at English, Dutch, and German universities since 2009, covering in particular the fields of comparative politics, comparative political economy, comparative social science methods, and (comparative) policy analysis and regulatory research.

From 2015 to 2019, I was co-chair of the European Integration and the Global Political Economy research network at the Council for European Studies. In 2003, I was awarded the Braunschweig Citizen's Prize for my student achievements and anti-racist commitment, and was able to use the prize money to top up my BAföG for an Erasmus stay in Paris.

Monographs

(1) 2015: The Political Economy of Border Drawing. Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies.Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books (peer-reviewed, paperback edition published in 2019).

(2) 2021: Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations. Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe. London: Routledge (in the series 'Studies in Governance and Public Policy') (peer-reviewed).

Editorships

(1) Series editor of Comparative Political Economy at Agenda Publishing (with Dermot Hodson, Erik Jones, Alison Johnston, and Aidan Regan).

(2) 2021: Handbook of the Governance and Politics of Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Emma Carmel and Katharina Lenner).

(3) 2017: Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Marc Mölders, Alfons Bora, Michael Huber, and Peter Münte).

(4) 2017: The Crises of European Integration, special edition of EuropeNow on political economy accounts of the diverse "crises" diagnoses in Europe (with Erik Jones).

(5) 2013: Special issue of Policy Studies on 'Mobility and Migration in Europe' (with Emma Carmel)

Journal articles (peer-reviewed only)

(1) 2020:'Analysis and rule? A conceptual framework for explaining the variable appeals of ex-ante evaluation in policymaking', the modern state: journal of public policy, law and management, 13(1): 124-142.

(2) 2020: 'Why regulators assess risk differently: regulatory style, business organization, and the varied practice of risk-based food safety inspections across the EU', Regulation & Governance, with Olivier Borraz et al.

(3) 2019: 'Towards a new ontology of crisis? Resilience in EU migration governance?', European Security, 28(4): 393-412, with Christof Roos.

(4) 2019: 'The boundary conditions for regulation: Welfare systems, state traditions & the varied governance of work safety in Europe', Governance, 33(1): 21-39 (contribution to a special issue 'Varieties of regulatory capitalism', eds: M. Guidi, I. Guardiancich and D. Levi-Faur), with Henry Rothstein and David Demeritt.

(5) 2017: 'Varieties of risk regulation in Europe: coordination, complementarity & occupational safety in capitalist welfare states', Socio-Economic Review, 17(4): 993-1020, with Henry Rothstein et al.

(6) 2017, 'Harmonization by risk analysis? Frontex and the risk-based governance of European border control.' Journal of European Integration 39(6): 689-706.

(7) 2016: 'Against all odds? Explanatory approaches to the diffusion of risk-based regulation in Germany's federal system.' der moderne staat - Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, 9(2): 325-352.

(8) 2016: 'Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labor migration policies.' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42(10), 1631-1650.

(9) 2016: 'Risk-based governance against national obstacles? Comparative dynamics of Europeanization in Dutch, French and German flooding policies.' Journal of Risk Research, 19(8): 1043-1062, with Fréderic Bouder and Mara Wesseling.

(10) 2015, 'Risk-based regulation in continental Europe? Explaining the corporatist turn to risk in German work safety policies.' European Policy Analysis 1(2): 5-33, with Michael Huber.

(11) 2013: 'Complex stratification: understanding European Union governance of migrant rights.' Regions and Cohesion 3(3), pp. 56-85, with Emma Carmel.

(12) 2013: 'Migration, mobility and rights regulation in the EU', Policy Studies 34(2):113-121, editorial of the special issue, with Emma Carmel.

(13) 2013: 'Strategic contextualization: EU free movement, labor migration policies and the governance of foreign workers in Europe.' Policy Studies 34(2): 122-141.

(14) 2012: 'Limits of the competition state: The cultural political economy of European labor migration policies.' Critical Policy Studies 6(4): 379-401.

(15) 2011: 'European labor geography in crisis: the variable governance of foreign workers in Germany, France and Britain.' Perspectives on Europe, autumn 2011: 47-53.

(16) 2010: 'The struggle for coherence in EU migration governance', La Rivisita delle Politiche Sociali (Italian Journal of Social Policy), 1/2010: 209-230, with Emma Carmel.

Contributions to edited volumes

(1) 2021: 'The comparative politics of migration governance in Europe', in Anghel, V. and E. Jones (eds.) Developments in European Politics III, London: Palgrave MacMillan.

(2) 2021: 'True to type? How governance traditions shaped responses to Covid-19 in China, Germany, UK and USA.', in Brown, P. and J. Zinn (eds.) COVID-19 - From the perspective of the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty. London: Palgrave MacMillan, with Henry Rothstein, David Demeritt and Li Wang.

(3) 2021: 'Introduction to the governance and politics of international migration.' Carmel, E., Lenner, K. and R. Paul (eds.) Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Emma Carmel and Katharina Lenner.

(4) 2019: 'The political ordering of migrant workers: comparative governance analysis of European labor migration policies'. Carmel, E. (ed.): Governance Analysis: A New Approach to Politics, Policy and Practice, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

(5) 2018: 'How 'low-skilled' migrant workers are made: border-drawing in migration policy', Rijken, C. and T. de Lange (eds.) Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low Waged Migrant Workers, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 57-78.

(6) 2018: 'Risk as a governance tool in European border control', Weinar, A., Bonjour, S., and L. Zhyznomirska (eds.): Handbook on the Politics of Migration in Europe, London: Routledge, pp. 227-238.

(7) 2017: 'Shaping society: new modes of social change in regulation and governance? An introduction.' Paul, R., Mölders, M., Bora, A., Huber, M. and P. Münte (eds.) Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Marc Mölders, pp. 1-12.

(8) 2017: 'Risk: new issue or new tool in regulation and governance research?' Paul, R., Mölders, M., Bora, A., Huber, M. and P. Münte (eds.) Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 59-74.

(9) 2013: 'Managing diverse policy contexts: the welfare state as repertoire of policy logics in German and French labor migration governance.' Vad Jønsson, H. et al. (eds.): Migrations and welfare states. Policies, discourses and institutions.(NordWel book series), Helsinki, pp. 139-174.

(10) 2011: 'Differential inclusion in Germany's conservative welfare state: Policy legacies and structural constraints.' Carmel, E., Cerami, A. and T. Papadopoulos (eds.): Migration and welfare in the 'new' Europe. Social protection and the challenges of integration. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 121-142, with Lutz Kaiser.

Keynote

(1) 'Varieties of labor migration governance in Europe: past, present and future', opening lecture at a conference on "Migrant labor markets in Europe", Tilburg University, 19 January 2018.

Conference papers

(1) 'Resilience analysis in European migration governance', workshop on innovations in European migration governance, University of Bamberg, 13-14 December 2018 (Presenter: Christof Roos).

(2) 'Instrumentality, legitimacy and power: the comparative politics of policy analysis in German public administration', Workshop on Policy Evaluation and Evaluation Policy, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 16-17 November 2018.

(3) 'Conceptualizing resilience in migration governance', ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018 (speaker: Christof Roos).

(4) 'Instrumentality, legitimacy and power: the comparative politics of policy analysis in German public administration', International Workshop on Public Policy (organized by the International Public Policy Association), Pittsburgh, 26-28 June 2018.

(5) 'What is resilience in migration governance? A concept across sectors and jurisdictions', Council for European Studies meeting, Chicago, 29-31 March 2018 and EU in International Affairs conference, Brussels, May 2018 (speaker: Christof Roos).

(6) 'Resilience assessments in migration governance: conceptual foundations', meeting on resilience in migration governance, organized by the Demography, Migration & Governance Unit of the Joint Research Centre of the EU Commission, Ispra, December 2017 (Presenter: Christof Roos).

(7) 'Decentralization in multi-level governance: what might it mean for risk governance?', contribution to a roundtable at the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, Washington D.C., 10-14 December 2017.

(8) 'Frontex risk analysis: a tool for integrated border management in Europe?', Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 10-14 December 2017.

(9) 'European integration through risk analysis? The case of European border control', Council for European Studies meeting, Glasgow, 12-14 July 2017.

(10) 'Varieties of risk regulation in European work safety: yet another institutional complementarity in capitalist coordination regimes?', Workshop on 'varieties of regulatory capitalism' led by David Levi-Faur, Mattia Guidi and Igor Guardiancich at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Nottingham, 25-30 April 2017.

(11) 'Frontex's magic bullet: Experimentalist governance and risk in European border control policies', EU in International Affairs conference, Brussels, 11-13 May 2016.

(12) 'Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labor migration policies', Council for European Studies meeting, Paris, 8-10 July 2015.

(13) 'Epistemic prerequisite for 'remote control'? Risk as a governance tool in European border control', Council for European Studies meeting, Paris, 8-10 July 2015.

(14) 'Risk-based regulation against national obstacles? Understanding the role of Europeanisation', Society of Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Maastricht, 15-17 June 2015.

(15) 'Risk-based approaches in German occupational health and safety policies', ESA Risk and Uncertainty Studies Group meeting, Stuttgart, 8-10 April 2015.

(16) 'A generalisable promise of risk? Risk-based self-regulation and the inherent limits of state intervention in German occupational health and safety governance', with Michael Huber, meeting of the International Sociological Association, Yokohama/Japan, 13-19 July 2014.

(17) 'Driving or impeding risk-based governance? The role of professions in occupational health and safety regulation', with Michael Huber, meeting of the International Sociological Association, Yokohama/Japan, 13-19 July 2014.

(18) 'The mis-directed promise of risk: Risk-based self-regulation in German occupational health and safety governance', with Michael Huber, ECPR Standing Group Regulatory Governance meeting, Barcelona, 25-27 June 2014.

(19) 'Migration policies as border-drawing: Methodological reflections on the interpretive analysis of policy rationalities', Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference, Vienna, 3-5 July 2013.

(20) 'Ambiguous stratification, ambiguous principles of deservingness: European Union governance of migrant rights and statuses', Council for European Studies conference, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013.

(21) 'Poles "don't even play cricket!" - EU free movement, national labor migration policies and the strategic composition of the foreign workforce in Europe', IMISCOE conference 'Managing migrant integration in a multi-level context', Amsterdam, 28-29 August 2012.

(22) 'EU free movement as variable policy context: policy interdependencies between free movement and extra-EU labor migration in Germany, France and Britain', Council for European Studies meeting, Boston, 22-24 March 2012.

(23) 'Hegemonic discourse across divided economic imaginaries? Making sense of competing state projects in European labor migration policy', Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference, Cardiff, 23-25 June 2011.

(24) 'Understanding borders in 'managed migration': Labour migration selectivity in European economies, labour markets and societies', Methods Workshop of the Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference, Cardiff, 23-25 June 2011.

(25) 'Yet another 'tool for growth'? Labour migration policy and varieties of capitalism in France and Germany.', NORFACE conference, London, 6-9 April 2011.

(26) 'The struggle for coherence in EU migration policy', with Emma Carmel, ESPAnet Annual Conference, Urbino, 17-19 September 2009.

(27) 'From stratification to bricolage: Politics, markets and migrant rights in the EU', with Emma Carmel, ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, 10-12 September 2009

(28) 'The vision of control: Self-limited sovereignty and the paradoxes of Italian labor migration policy', CRONEM-AHRC meeting, Guildford, 11-12 June 2009

Presentations at international research centers

(1) 'Mere adaptation? The politics of policy tool change in Germany's multi-level governance system', Visiting Scholars Seminar at the Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University, 1 November 2017.

(2) 'Corporatist risk-based regulation in Continental Europe?', workshop on risk-based regulation in Europe, Sciences-Po CNRS Paris, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO), 8-9 September 2016.

(3) 'Labour mobility and migration governance in the European Union', workshop on labour mobility and migration in the EU and Japan, Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, 23 January 2016.

(4) 'Comparing labor migration regimes: methodological reflections and practical insights', Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück, April 30, 2015.

(5) 'A 'systematic approach to risk'? Developing risk-based regulation in the European Union', Centre for European Studies of Kobe University/Japan, July 24-25, 2014.

(6) 'EU mobility, national labor migration policies, and the governance of foreign workers in Europe', Centre of European Studies of Kobe University/Japan, July 24-25, 2014.

(7) 'Crises' governance in European capitalisms: understanding change in British and German labor migration policies, final conference of the Collaborative Research Centre 597 'Transformations of the State', University of Bremen, April 4, 2014.

(8) 'Limits of the competition state? The cultural political economy of European labor migration policies', International Centre for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, February 11, 2013.

(9) 'Labour migration policies in Europe: convergence or national trends?', international research workshop 'Labour migration programmes in comparative perspective', Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, 18-19 July 2012.

(10) 'Linchpin or poor cousin? On the variable role of the Bismarckian welfare state in German and French labor migration governance', at the workshop 'Migration, institutions and welfare states - Negotiating practices of inclusion and exclusion', Centre for Welfare State Research at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, 27 October 2011.

(11) 'Open borders, closed labor markets? Comparing labor migration management in European capitalisms', Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 12 January 2010.

List of topics for state exams and core studies.

My main topics for exams are:

• Comparative government

• Types of Democracy

• Systems of government

• Administrative systems

• Institutional change

• Europeanization of Policymaking

• Comparative policy research

• Governance and regulation (governance between state, market and society)

• Migration policy (Germany, EU and international comparisons)

Of these, relevant to core studies in particular:

• Democracies in comparison

• Migration policy