Tobias Schulze-Cleven
Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Chapter Member: New Jersey-Philadelphia SSN
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About Tobias
Schulze-Cleven's research examines the comparative political economy of labor markets and higher education in rich democracies. Trained as a political scientist and working in a department of labor studies & employment relations, Schulze-Cleven engages across disciplines to understand the politics of work in the digital era. He has published in outlets such as Comparative Political Studies, Higher Education, New Political Economy, and Politics & Society. He serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Global Work and Employment at the School of Management and Labor Relations.
Contributions
Can Lessons from Abroad Help Solve the Crisis in U.S. Public Higher Education?
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Opinion: "Germany in the Euro Crisis: Discovering the Limits of Ordnungspolitik," Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Monkey Cage Blog, January 21, 2011.
Publications
"Playing Normative Legacies: Partisanship and Employment Policies in Crisis-Ridden Europe" (with ). Politics & Society (forthcoming).
Analyzes how politicians seek to play the populace’s institutionally embedded value orientations about appropriate state actions in the labor market. Rather than merely representing constraints that politicians need to overcome, widely held norms can provide opportunities for political initiative from very different quarters.
"Liberalizing the Academy: The Transformation of Higher Education in the United States and Germany," CSHE Research & Occasional Paper 1.15, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, February 2015.
Probes the evolution of public higher education in the United States and Germany. Argues that public authorities in both countries have liberalized their systems to spur innovation in the provision of higher education. Broad convergence in market expansion has coincided with divergence in its modes and consequences.
"Labor Market Policy: Toward A ‘Flexicurity’ Model in the US?" in Lessons from Europe? What Americans Can Learn from European Public Policies, edited by R. Daniel Kelemen (CQ Press, 2014), 77-96.
Provides a new way of looking at the challenges and options for US labor market policymaking by examining other countries’ experiences with labor market policy and reform. Argues that US policymakers could draw inspiration from other democracies’ experiences with respect to both labor market policy and the policy process.
"Conceptualizing Cooperation: Coordination and Concertation as Two Logics of Collective Action" (with ). Comparative Political Studies 48, no. 5 (2014): 555-585.
Conceptualizes distinct logics of collective action among employers, unions and the state. Argues that it is imperative to distinguish between processes of cross-class policy cooperation (i.e., concertation) and intra-class cooperation in production (i.e., employer coordination) to better understand the evolution of macro-level collective action.
"The Transatlantic Agenda for Labor Market Reform: Increasing Adaptability through Continuing Training," American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, June 2009.
Examines how the economic crisis will affect higher education and vocational training in the U.S. and Germany. Discusses both the shared and differing characteristics between German and American education models.
"Against the Brain Drain of Young Researchers: Reform Proposals for Higher Education Policy in Germany" (with ). Forschung & Lehre 7 (2007): 404-405.
Lays out proposals on how to reform the German higher education system in order to make it a more attractive place to work for young researchers.
"How Wealthy Nations Can Stay Wealthy: Innovation and Adaptability in a Digital Era" (with ). New Political Economy 12, no. 4 (2007): 451-475.
Probes the challenge for advanced countries to stay wealthy in a rapidly evolving and ever more competitive global economy. Reviews how changes in the mechanisms of value creation require wealthy nations to find new ways to adapt, and shows that social protection systems have an important role to play in helping societies reorganize existing economic structures.