Prof J. Timo Weishaupt , Ph.D.

Project director
Timo [dot] Weishaupt [at] uni-mannheim [dot] de
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+49-621-181-3640
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+49-621-181-2803
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+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:426
68159  Mannheim

Research Interests

  • Labor market policy in international perspective
  • Labor market administration/governance in international perspective
  • Institutional evolution
  • Comparative economic sociology/comparative political economy
  • Welfare State analysis

Profile/Career

Ph.D. UW-Madison. His dissertation, entitled “The Emergence of a New Labor Market Policy Regime? Assessing Continuity and Change in an Integrating Europe,” received the 2009 APSA Ernst Haas Award for best dissertation in European Politics & Society

Projects

A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States

A1.5
Governing Activation in Europe: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges?

Publications

Monographs

Weishaupt, J. Timo (2011): From the Manpower Revolution to the Activation Paradigm: Explaining Institutional Continuity and Change in an Integrating Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Changing Welfare States] more

Journal Articles

Hörisch, Felix, and J. Timo Weishaupt (2012): It’s the Youth, Stupid! Explaining Labour Market Policy Reactions to the Crisis. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 6, issue 2, p. 233-253. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo, and Katja Lack (2011): The European employment strategy: assessing the status quo. German Policy Studies, Special Issue edited by Karin Schulze Buschoff and Florian Blank, 7, issue 1, p. 9-44. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2010): A silent revolution? New management ideas and the reinvention of European public employment services. Socio-Economic Review, 8, issue 3, p. 461-486. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2010): Germany after a decade of Social Democrats in government: the end of the continental model?. German Politics, 19, issue 2, p. 105-122. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2009): Book Review: David Rueda: Social Democracy Inside Out. Partisanship and Labor Market Policy in Industrialized Democracies. Oxford 2007: Oxford University Press. Czech Sociological Review, 45, issue 3, p. 622-625. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2009): Money, votes or 'good' ideas? Partisan politics and the effectiveness of the European Employment Strategy in Austria and Ireland. European Integration online Papers (EIoP), 13, issue 1, Art. 14, p. 1-17. more

Book Chapters

Weishaupt, J. Timo (2012): Origin and Genesis of Activation Policies in ‘Old’ Europe: Toward a Balanced Approach?. p. 190-216 in: Ive Marx, Kenneth Nelson (Eds.) Minimum Income Protection in Flux. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. more

MZES Working Papers

Hörisch, Felix, and J. Timo Weishaupt (2010): Explaining Variations in the Fight against Unemployment in Times of the Global Financial Crisis: A Mixed-Methods Approach. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 135] more

Papers / Reports

Weishaupt, J. Timo (2011): Social Partners and the Governance of Public Employment Services: Trends and Experiences from Western Europe. [Intenational Labour Office; Labour Administration and Inspection Programme (LAB/ADMIN) Working Paper] more

Conference Presentations

Weishaupt, J. Timo (2012): Beyond National Navel Gazing: Assessing the Impact of International Organizations on National Labor-Market Reforms. [American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, August 30th to September 02nd, 2012] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo, and Tobias Schulze-Cleven (2012): Leveraging Ideational Legacies: Partisan Labor Market Policies in Crisis-Ridden Europe. [24th Annual Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference, Cambridge, June 28th to June 30th, 2012] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2011): Assessing the Effectiveness and Impact of the Social OMC in Germany. [Presentation to the Europe Committee of the "Gesellschaft für Versicherungswissenschaft und –gestaltung e.V", Berlin, May 27th, 2011] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2011): Die Offene Methode der Koordinierung: Ergebnisse der EU-weiten Studie zu Effektivität und Einfluss. [Tagung der Deutschen Rentenversicherung (DRV) Bund: “Alterssicherung im internationalen Vergleich”, Bildungszentrum Erkner, September 26th to September 28th, 2011] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2011): Reforming Activation Policy in Western Europe – A Process of Neo-Convergernce?. [DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Märkte und Sozialräume in Europa”, University of Bamberg, June 09th, 2011] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo, and Caroline de la Porte (2011): State of the Art. The Open Method of Coordination for Social Inclusion and Social Protection. [9th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Valencia, September 08th to September 10th, 2011] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2011): The Role of the Social Partners in Public Employment Services. [European Labor Forum on the Role of the Labor Administration in Overcoming Economic Crises, Turin, February 23rd to February 25th, 2011] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2010): After the Crisis is Before the Crisis? European Labor Market Policy Responses in Comparative Perspective. [Annual Meeting of the American Political Sciene Association (APSA), Washington, D.C., September 01st to December 04th, 2010] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2010): Explaining Labour Market Policy Reactions to the Crisis: Beyond Path Dependency?. [EQUALSOC/TRALEG Group Workshop on Institutional Change, Mannheim, November 25th to November 26th, 2010] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo, and Felix Hörisch (2010): Explaining Variations in the Fight against Unemployment in Times of the Global Financial Crisis: A Mixed-Methods Approach. [First Annual MZES Postdoc Conference, Mannheim, November 05th to November 06th, 2010] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo, and Felix Hörisch (2010): In the Midst of the Crisis: Supporting the Unemployed through Direct Job-Creation Schemes?. [Council for European Studies (CES) Annual Conference, Montreal, April 15th to April 17th, 2010] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2010): Reforming Unemployment Policy in Europe: A Common Turn to Activation?. [Final Meeting of the Equalsoc MIPI Group, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, June 15th to June 16th, 2010] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2009): A silent revolution: new management ideas and the reinvention of European public employment services. [IMPALLA-ESPANET Conference: The European Social Model in a Global Perspective, Cultural Centre of Neumünster in Luxembourg, March 06th to March 07th, 2009] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2009): A Silent Revolution? The Discovery of Management Ideas and the Reinvention of European Public Employment Services. [EQUALSOC (TRALEG) Institutional Change Project Meeting, Amsterdam, June 18th to June 19th, 2009] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2009): Analyzing labor market policy reforms in an integrating Europe: radical departure, muddling through or self-transformation?. [International Symposium. Reforming Unemployment Policy in Europe: A Common Turn Towards Activation?, Universität Hamburg (CGG), May 15th to May 16th, 2009] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2009): Childcare reforms in Austria and Germany after Barcelona: Toward a paradigm shift?. [5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 12th, 2009] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2009): Small country, big role model? What EU member states could learn from Austria about activation policy and flexicurity. [Second ASPEN/ETUI Conference: Activation and Security, Masaryk University, Brno, March 20th to March 21st, 2009] more