Email: John L. Campbell
Class of 1925 Professor of Sociology
Professor of Political Economy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Dartmouth College
6104 Silsby - Room 123
Hanover, NH 03755
603-646-2542
St. Lawrence University, B.A.,1974
Michigan State University, M.A.,1977
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., 1984
Curriculum vitae (PDF format, requires free Acrobat Reader)
Where do the ideas come from over which policy makers fight? Political sociologists and political scientists know surprisingly little about this. To answer this question, this project examines the development and operation of knowledge regimes in the United States, France, Germany and Denmark over the last twenty years. A knowledge regime is a national field of policy research organizations (e.g., think tanks, government research units) that generates and disseminates policy analyses and recommendations. This project pays special attention to how change in the surrounding political-economic environment has affected knowledge regimes and whether the organizations that constitute them have grown more or less similar to each other since the late 1980s. Data are being collected through in-depth interviews with leaders from a variety of policy research organizations in each country as well as documents from each organization. The project is funded by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (SES-0813633) and is affiliated with the Social Science Research Council in New York City.
Why do small and often culturally homogeneous advanced capitalist countries tend to be especially successful in today’s global economy? This project examines the proposition that their success stems in part from the fact that they have developed strong national identities (based on common linguistic, ethnic and religious characteristics) and, in turn, institutional capacities for maneuvering successfully in an increasingly volatile international economy. The importance of national identity and nationalism more generally has been neglected by most economic sociologists and comparative political economists. Quantitative analysis of OECD data as well as detailed historical case studies of a few OECD countries are used to develop and test the argument. Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Switzerland are featured cases.
Campbell, John L., John A. Hall, Ove K. Pedersen, editors. 2006. National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism: The Danish Experience. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Campbell, John L. 2004. Institutional Change and Globalization. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Campbell, John L. and Ove K. Pedersen, editors. 2001. The Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysis. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Campbell, John L. 2009. "What Do Sociologists Bring to International Political Economy?" Pp. 260-73 in Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy, edited by Mark Blyth. London: Routledge.
Campbell, John J. 2007. "Challenges for Institutional Theory: A Response to Crouch, Streeck, and Whitley," Socio-Economic Review 5(3)556-67. (Part of a symposium on my Institutional Change and Globalization in Socio-Economic Review 5(3)527-67.)
Campbell, John L. and Ove K. Pedersen. 2007. “The Varieties of Capitalism and Hybrid Success: Denmark in the Global Economy.” Comparative Political Studies 40(2)307-32.
Campbell, John L. 2007. “Why Would Corporations Behave in Socially Responsible Ways? An Institutional Theory of Corporate Social Responsibility.” Academy of Management Review 32(3)946-67.
Campbell, John L. and John A. Hall. 2006. "The State of Denmark." Pp. 3-50 in National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism: The Danish Experience, edited by John L. Campbell, John A. Hall and Ove K. Pedersen. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Campbell, John L. 2005. “Where Do We Stand? Common Mechanisms in Organizations and Social Movements Research.” Pp. 41-68 in Social Movements and Organization Theory, edited by Gerald F. Davis, Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer N. Zald. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Campbell, John L. 2005. “Fiscal Sociology in an Age of Globalization: Comparing Tax Regimes in Advanced Capitalist Countries.” Pp. 391-418 in The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Campbell, John L. 2003. “States, Politics and Globalization: Why Institutions Still Matter.” Pp. 234-59 in The Nation-State in Question, edited by T.V. Paul, G. John Ikenberry and John A. Hall. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Campbell, John L. 2002. “Ideas, Politics and Public Policy.” Annual Review of Sociology 28:21-38.
Campbell, John L. 2001. “Convergence or Divergence? Globalization, Neoliberalism and Fiscal Policy in Postcommunist Europe.” Pp. 107-39 in Globalization and the European Political Economy, edited by Steven Weber. New York: Columbia University Press.
