Martin Höpner

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Martin Höpner (born November 27, 1969 in Heidelberg ) is a German political scientist and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne .

Career

Höpner grew up in Oldenburg and studied political science and German at the University of Heidelberg from 1992 to 1998 . In 1999 he became a doctoral candidate in a research association for the internationalization of German industrial relations based at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation. His dissertation with the title “Who Controls Companies? Shareholder value, managerial rule and co-determination in Germany ”he defended in 2002 at the University of Hagen. This was followed by a research stay at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and the 2007 habilitation on "Organized Capitalism in Germany: Complementarity, Politics, Decline". Höpner has been head of an independent research group on the political economy of European integration at the MPIfG since 2008 and an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne since 2013 .

Höpner has been a regular author of the heterodox business portal Makoskop since 2016 . He is also a member of the Society for Socio-Economic Education and Science (GSÖBW).

Research areas

Höpner's focus area is comparative political economy. In his dissertation and up to his habilitation, he dealt with industrial relations, corporate governance and theories about production regimes ("varieties of capitalism"). Since then he has focused on research on the political economy of European integration with a special focus on the euro and on the asymmetry between market-creating and market-correcting European politics and jurisprudence.

selected Writings

  • Martin Höpner, 2003: Who controls the company? Shareholder value, managerial rule and participation. Frankfurt / New York: Campus.
  • Martin Höpner and Gregory Jackson, 2006: Revisiting the Mannesmann Takeover: How Markets for Corporate Control Emerge. In: European Management Review 3, 3, 142–155.
  • John W. Cioffi and Martin Höpner, 2006: The party-political paradox of financial market capitalism. Shareholder-oriented reforms in Germany, France, Italy and the USA. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 47, 3, 419–440.
  • Martin Höpner, 2007: Corporate Governance Reform and the German Party Paradox. In: Comparative Politics 39, 4, 401-420.
  • Martin Höpner and Armin Schäfer, 2010: A New Phase of European Integration: Organized Capitalisms in Post-Ricardian Europe. In: West European Politics 33, 2, 344–368.
  • Martin Höpner, 2011: The European Court of Justice as the engine of European integration: An actor-related declaration. In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 21, 2, 203–229.
  • Martin Höpner and Armin Schäfer, 2012: Embeddedness and Regional Integration. Waiting for Polanyi in a Hayekian Setting. In: International Organization 66, 3, 429-455.
  • Martin Höpner and Bojan Jurczyk, 2012: Critique of the Eurobarometer. About the blurring of the line between serious opinion polls and interest-based propaganda. In: Leviathan 40, 3, 326-349.
  • Martin Höpner and Mark Lutter, 2014: One Currency and Many Modes of Wage Formation. Why the Eurozone Is Too Heterogeneous for the Euro. MPIfG Discussion Paper 14/14. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  • Martin Höpner, 2015: The integrationist fallacy. In: Leviathan 43, 1, 29-42.
  • Martin Höpner and Lena Ehret, 2016: Finally subsidiarity? Parliamentary subsidiarity control using the example of “Monti II”. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 57,3, 403–429.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Höpner. In: macroscope. Critical analyzes of politics and economics. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Members | Society for Socio-Economic Education and Science. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Höpner, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century