Dr. Jan Drahokoupil

Research Fellow, Project director
Jan [dot] Drahokoupil [at] mzes [dot] uni-mannheim [dot] de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2813
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2803
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:107
68159  Mannheim

Projects

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

A1.1
Weathering the Crisis? Adjusting Welfare States in Eastern Europe after the Crisis of 2008

Publications

Monographs

Myant, Martin, and Jan Drahokoupil (2010): Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2008): Globalization and the State in Central and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment. London: Routledge. [BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies] more

Editions

van Apeldoorn, Bastiaan, Jan Drahokoupil and Laura Horn (Eds.) (2009): Contradictions and limits of neoliberal European governance. From Lisbon to Lisbon. Basingstoke: Palgrave. more

Journal Articles

Drahokoupil, Jan, and Stefan Domonkos (2012): Averting the funding–gap crisis: East European pension reforms after 2008. Global Social Policy, 12, issue 3, p. 283-299. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2012): Beyond lock-in versus evolution, towards punctuated co-evolution: On Ron Martin's 'Rethinking regional path dependence'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36, issue 1, p. 166-177. more
Myant, Martin, and Jan Drahokoupil (2012): International Integration, Varieties of Capitalism and Resilience to Crisis in Transition Economies. Europe-Asia Studies , 64, issue 1, p. 1-33. more
Myant, Martin, and Jan Drahokoupil (2012): Transition Indicators of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: A Doubtful Guide to Economic Success. Competition and Change, 16, issue 1, p. 69-75. more
Capik, Paweł, and Jan Drahokoupil (2011): Foreign direct investments in business services: transforming the Visegrád Four Region into a knowledge-based economy?. European Planning Studies , 19, issue 9, p. 1611-1631. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2010): Jiří Večerník's Czech society in the 2000s. Europe-Asia Studies, 62, issue 9, p. 1583-1586. more
Drahokoupil, Jan, and Martin Myant (2010): Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Vulnerabilities: Financial Crisis and its Impact on Welfare States in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Historical Social Research, 35, issue 2, p. 266-295. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): After transition: Varieties of political-economic development in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Comparative European Politics, 7, issue 2, p. 279-298. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): Internationalisation of the State in the Czech Republic: Igniting the Competition for Foreign Investment in the Visegrád Four Region. Czech Sociological Review, 45, issue 2, p. 549-570. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): Post-perekhodnye varianty politicheskogo i ehkonomicheskogo razvitija stran Vostochnojj Evropy i byvshego Sovetskogo Sojuza. Мир России (Universe of Russia), 18, issue 3, p. 39-60. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2008): The Investment-Promotion Machines: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment Promotion in Central and Eastern Europe. Europe-Asia Studies, 60, issue 2, p. 197-225. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2008): The rise of the comprador service sector: The politics of state transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Polish Sociological Review, 162, issue 2, p. 175-189. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2008): Who won the contest for a new property class? Structural transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four region.. Journal for East European Management Studies, 13, issue 4, p. 361-377. more
Myant, Martin, and Jan Drahokoupil (2008): International Integration and the Structure of Exports in Central Asian Republics. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49, issue 5, p. 604-622. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2007): Analysing the capitalist state in post-socialism: Towards the Porterian Workfare Postnational Regime. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 31, issue 2, p. 401-424. more

Book Chapters

Myant, Martin, and Jan Drahokoupil (2013): Central Asian countries: Forms of International Integration and the Impact of the Crisis of 2008. p. 257–274 in: Joachim Ahrens, Herman W. Hoen (Eds.) Institutional reform in Central Asia: Politico–economic challenges. London: Routledge. more
Myant, Martin, and Jan Drahokoupil (2013): Central Asian Countries: forms of international integration and the impact of the crisis of 2008. p. 257-274 in: Joachim Ahrens, Herman W. Hoen (Eds.) Institutional reform in Central Asia: politico-economic challenges. London: Routledge. more
Drahokoupil, Jan, and Martin Myant (2012): The European sub–prime? Financial crisis and the East–European periphery. p. 130–153 in: Petros Nousios, Henk Overbeek, Andreas Tsolakis (Eds.) Globalisation and European integration: Critical approaches to regional order and international relations. London: Routledge. more
Drahokoupil, Jan, and Martin Myant (2011): The politics of welfare restructuring in transition countries and the crisis of 2008. p. 149-180 in: Ipek Eren Vural (Ed.) Converging Europe: Transformation of Social Policy in the Enlarged European Union and in Turkey. Farnham: Ashgate. more
Drahokoupil, Jan, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Laura Horn (2009): Introduction: Towards a critical political economy of European governance. p. 1-17 in: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Jan Drahokoupil, Laura Horn (Eds.) Contradictions and limits of neoliberal European governance. From Lisbon to Lisbon. Basingstoke: Palgrave. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): The politics of the competition state: The agents and mechanisms of state transnationalization in Central and Eastern Europe. p. 135-155 in: László Bruszt, Ron Holzhacker (Eds.) The transnationalization of economies, states, and civil societies: new challenges for governance in Europe. New York: Springer. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): The rise of the competition state in the Visegrád Four: Internationalization of the state as a local project. p. 186 - 207 in: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Jan Drahokoupil, Laura Horn (Eds.) Contradictions and limits of neoliberal European governance. From Lisbon to Lisbon. Basingstoke: Palgrave. more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2008): On the state of the state: The Czech transformation and the moment of convergence in the Visegrad region. p. 69 - 91 in: John Pickles (Ed.) State and society in post-socialist economies. Basingstoke: Palgrave. more

Papers / Reports

Beblavý, Miroslav, Lucia Kureková, Martin Myant, Stefan Domonkos and Jan Drahokoupil (2012): Linking labour regimes and technological innovation in Central and Eastern Europe: The case of automotive and software industries. Brussels [FP7 NEUJOBS Working Paper; 6.2] more

Conference Presentations

Drahokoupil, Jan, and Stefan Domonkos (2012): Averting the Funding-Gap Crisis: East European Pension Reforms since 2008. [Espanet 10th Annual Conference, Edinburgh, September 06th to September 08th, 2012] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2011): Coping with the Crisis: Policy Responses to the Crisis of 2008 in Eastern Europe. [Tagung DVPW-Arbeitskreis Internationale Politische Ökonomie 'Die Globale Finanzkrise in politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive', Magdeburg, May 27th to May 28th, 2011] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2011): East European Pension Politics 2.0: The emergence of diversity in Eastern European pension reforms after the crisis of 2008. [Invited talk, Tallinn University of Technology, November 28th, 2011] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2011): East European Pension Politics 2.0: The emergence of diversity in Eastern European pension reforms after the crisis of 2008. [Pension Outcomes, FP7 Gusto Project Workshop, Bologna, November 18th to November 19th, 2011] more
Drahokoupil, Jan, and Stefan Domonkos (2011): East European Pension Politics 2.0: The emergence of diversity in Eastern European pension reforms after the crisis of 2008. [The Global Economic Crisis and the Welfare State: Short-Term Responses and Long-Term Effects, University of Bremen, November 24th to November 25th, 2011] more
Drahokoupil, Jan, and Martin Myant (2011): The road to a distorted system? Welfare states in East-Central Europe. [Welfare State in Europe in the 20th Century, Prag, November 14th to November 16th, 2011] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2011): Varieties of Capitalism in Transition Economies. [Rethinking Capitalist Development in Emerging Countries, Rio de Janeiro, October 19th to October 21st, 2011] more
Drahokoupil, Jan, and Martin Myant (2011): What explains governments' responses to the world economic crisis. [European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Conference, Wien, October 27th to October 30th, 2011] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2010): Financial Crisis and the Politics of Welfare Restructuring in Eastern Europe: Short-Term Impacts and Long-Term Prospects. [Centre for Comparative Economics Seminar Series, SSEES, University College London, London, February 09th, 2010] more
Drahokoupil, Jan, and Martin Myant (2010): Financial Crisis as a Verdict on Transition: Introducing the Book Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia by Martin Myant and Jan Drahokoupil. [Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Los Angeles, November 18th to November 21st, 2010] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2010): Forms of international integration and the vulnerabilities and resiliences to the crisis in Eastern Europe. [The financial crisis in Central Eastern Europe, University of Osnabrück, June 17th to June 18th, 2010] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2010): International Integration and Resilience to Crisis in Transition Economies. [ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Münster, March 22nd to March 27th, 2010] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2010): International Integration and Resilience to Crisis in Transition Economies. [International Studies Association annual convention, New Orleans, February 17th to February 20th, 2010] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2010): International Integration and Resilience to Crisis in Transition Economies. [Council for European Studies International Conference, Montreal, April 15th to April 17th, 2010] more
Drahokoupil, Jan, and Martin Myant (2010): Political economy of crisis adjustment in Eastern Europe. [European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Annual Conference, Bordeaux, October 28th to October 31st, 2010] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2010): Political economy of crisis adjustment in Eastern Europe. [ECPR SGIR 7th Pan-European International Relations Conference, Stockholm, September 08th to September 11th, 2010] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): Capitalist variety in Central and Eastern Europe: financial crisis as a verdict on 'transition'. [Transitions – Transformations: Trajectories of Social, Economic and Political Change after Communism, University of Jena, July 02nd to July 03rd, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): Global Financial Crisis and its Impacts in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the CIS: Crisis of and crisis in the varieties of dependent capitalism. [EAEPE & University of Hertfordshire symposium ‘The transformation of post-Soviet economies twenty years on’, Offley Place Country House, October 09th to October 10th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): Neoliberalism and welfare reform in Central and Eastern Europe: What is driving the ‘second-generation reforms’?. ['Activation and Security' ASPEN/ETUI-REHS conference, Brno, March 20th to March 21st, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): Neoliberalism and welfare reform in Central and Eastern Europe: What is driving the ‘second-generation reforms’?. [The European Social Model in a Global Perspective, Luxembourg, March 06th to March 07th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): Neoliberalism and welfare reform in Central and Eastern Europe: What is driving the ‘second-generation reforms’?. [BASEES Conference, Cambridge, March 28th to March 30th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): Service Sector Outsourcing in the Visegrád Four: Transforming the European Assembly Platform into a Knowledge-Based Economy?. [RSA Research Network Seminar ‘The Role of Business Services and Knowledge Transfer in Cluster Formation in Central and Eastern Europe’, Jagiellonian University, Krakau, September 17th to September 18th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): The European subprime. [5th CEU Conference in Social Sciences: “Old Challenges in a New Era: Development and Participation”, Budapest, June 19th to June 21st, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): The IMF is back: Conditionalities in crisis lending to post-communist countries in 2008-2009 and their impact on national strategies and political identities. [CEELBAS seminar ‘Elites and the Formation of Political Identity in Post Soviet Space. Global Influences’, University of Cambridge, November 27th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): The new capitalist habitus of Europe: How social and political actors respond to the changing capitalist environment. [Europe and the World before and after 1989: Trans-national and comparative perspectives on Eastern and Western Europe, University of Padua, June 10th to June 11th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): The politics of welfare reforms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. ['Discourse, Power and Politics', 4th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis, Kassel, June 25th to June 27th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): The ‘European sub-prime’: the financial crisis and the European periphery. [Globalisation and European Integration: 'The Nature of the Beast', University of Warwick, June 05th to June 06th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): What difference does the financial crisis make for welfare states in Eastern Europe and the CIS?. [9th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Lisbon, September 02nd to September 05th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009): What difference has the financial crisis made for the welfare-state regimes in Eastern Europe and the CIS?. [Debatte conference ‘1989−2009: the East European revolutions in perspective’, London, October 17th to October 18th, 2009] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2008): On the Position of New Member States within the EU and Its Implications for the European Regulatory Model. [Transformation of social policy in and around Europe, Ankara, October 13th to October 14th, 2008] more
Drahokoupil, Jan (2008): State and development in the post-communist world. [Comparative perspectives of development experiences in South America and Eastern Europe, Tallinn, October 09th to October 10th, 2008] more