Prof J. Timo Weishaupt, Ph.D.

Former External Fellow and Project director
Timo.Weishaupt [at] sowi.uni-goettingen.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
Georg-August-University
Göttingen
Germany
Visiting Address
Georg-August-University
Göttingen

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

A1.1854
Crisis Corporatism or Corporatism in Crisis? Social Concertation and Social Pacts in Europe

AI Associated Projects

AI.1840
Welfare State Reform Support from Below: Linking Individual Attitudes and Organised Interests in Europe

RP8 A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States

RP8
Governing Activation in Europe: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges?

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

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

Editions

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and J. Timo Weishaupt (Eds.) (2021): The Role of Social Partners in Managing Europe’s Great Recession: Crisis Corporatism or Corporatism in Crisis?. London and New York: Routledge. [Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State] more
Barcevičius, Egidijus, J. Timo Weishaupt and Jonathan Zeitlin (Eds.) (2014): Assessing the Open Method of Coordination: Institutional Design and National Influence of EU Social Policy Coordination. Basingstoke: Palgrave. [Work and Welfare in Europe] more

Journal Articles

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and J. Timo Weishaupt (2022): Readjusting unemployment protection in Europe: how crises reshape varieties of labour market regimes. Tranfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 28, issue 2, pp. 181–194. more
Schulze-Cleven, Tobias, and J. Timo Weishaupt (2015): Playing Normative Legacies: Partisanship and Employment Policies in Crisis-Ridden Europe. Politics & Society, 43, issue 2, pp. 269-299 . more
Soentken, Menno, and J. Timo Weishaupt (2015): When Social Partners Unite: Explaining Continuity and Change in Austrian and Dutch Labour Market Governance. Social Policy and Administration, 49, issue 5, pp. 593–611. more
Eichhorst, Werner, and J. Timo Weishaupt (2013): Mit Neo-Korporatismus durch die Krise? Die Rolle des Sozialen Dialogs in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 59, issue 3, pp. 313-335. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2013): Die offene Methode der Koordinierung in der deutschen Sozialpolitik: Trojanisches Pferd, sozialpolitischer Beschleuniger oder vertane Chance?. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 59, issue 1, pp. 61-84. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo, Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Claus Wendt (2013): Editorial: Der Umbau des Wohlfahrtsstaates in Krisenzeiten - Institutioneller Wandel in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 59, issue 3, pp. 279-290. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo, and Andrej Privara (2013): The Austrian flexicurity model: a source of inspiration for other EU member states?. Nová ekonomika, 6, issue 1, pp. 99-108. more
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, pp. 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, pp. 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, pp. 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, pp. 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, pp. 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, pp. 1-17. more

Book Chapters

Barcevičius, Egidijus, J. Timo Weishaupt and Jonathan Zeitlin (2014): Tracing the Social OMC from its Origins to Europe 2020. Pp. 16-39 in: Egidijus Barcevičius, J. Timo Weishaupt, Jonathan Zeitlin (Eds.) Assessing the Open Method of Coordination: Institutional Design and National Influence of EU Social Policy Coordination. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and J. Timo Weishaupt (2014): Die Zukunft des deutschen Arbeitsmarkts in globalen Wissensgesellschaften. Pp. 667-682 in: Peter Masuch, Wolfgang Spellbrink, Ulrich Becker, Stephan Leibfried (Eds.) Eigenheiten und Zukunft von Sozialpolitik und Sozialrecht. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2014): The Social OMC in Germany: Slow but Steady?. Pp. 138-160 in: Egidijus Barcevičius, J. Timo Weishaupt, Jonathan Zeitlin (Eds.) Assessing the Open Method of Coordination: Institutional Design and National Influence of EU Social Policy Coordination. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2014): The Social OMCs at Work: Identifying and Explaining Variations in National Use and Influence. Pp. 203-233 in: Egidijus Barcevičius, J. Timo Weishaupt, Jonathan Zeitlin (Eds.) Assessing the Open Method of Coordination: Institutional Design and National Influence of EU Social Policy Coordination. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Zeitlin, Jonathan, Egidijus Barcevičius and J. Timo Weishaupt (2014): Institutional Design and National Influence of EU Social Policy Coordination: Advancing a Contradictory Debate. Pp. 1-16 in: Egidijus Barcevičius, J. Timo Weishaupt, Jonathan Zeitlin (Eds.) Assessing the Open Method of Coordination: Institutional Design and National Influence of EU Social Policy Coordination. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Heidenreich, Martin, Klaus Armingeon, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Kerstin Martens and J. Timo Weishaupt (2013): Europäische und internationale Politik. Pp. 75-88 in: Marius Busemeyer, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Stephan Leibfried, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, Herbert Obinger, Birgit Pfau-Effinger (Eds.) Wohlfahrtspolitik im 21. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. more
Porte, Caroline de la, and J. Timo Weishaupt (2013): The Open Method of Co-ordination for Social Inclusion and Social Protection: Theoretical and Empirical State-of-the-Art. Pp. 41-60 in: Jordi Garcés, Irene Monsonís Payá (Eds.) Sustainability and Transformation in European Social Policy. Oxford: Peter Lang. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2013): Governing Public Employment Services: New Public Management, Social Partnership and Privatization. Pp. 194-221 in: Jason Heyes, Ludek Rychly (Eds.) Labour Administration in Uncertain Times: Policy, Practice and Institutions. Cheltenham, Northhampton (MA), Geneva: Edward Elgar and International Labour Office. more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2012): Origin and Genesis of Activation Policies in ‘Old’ Europe: Toward a Balanced Approach?. Pp. 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 (2014): Central Steering and Local Autonomy in Public Employment Services. Brussels [PES to PES Dialogue; Oktober 2014] more
Eichhorst, Werner, and J. Timo Weishaupt (2013): Mit Neo-Korporatismus durch die Krise? Die Rolle des Sozialen Dialogs in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Bonn [IZA Discussion Paper Series; 7498] more
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 (2020): Crisis Corporatism or Corporatism in Crisis? Explaining Social Concertation in Crisis-ridden. [32nd Annual SASE Meeting, (virtual conference), July 18th to July 21st, 2020] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo, and Tobias Schulze-Cleven (2013): Ideational Legacies, Partisanship and Labor Market Policies in Crisis-Ridden Europe. [20th International Conference of Europeanists, University of Amsterdam, June 25th to June 27th, 2013] more
Weishaupt, J. Timo (2013): Neo-corporatist Revival in Continental Europe? Germany’s Social Partners as Crisis Mediators. [Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 29th to September 01st, 2013] more
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