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Thomas Sommerer

Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow

E-mail: thomas.sommerer@statsvet.su.se

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Thomas Sommerer is currently a postdoc research fellow at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. He is part of the Transacces research team. His research interests are international institutions, policy change and convergence, diffusion and transnational learning, comparative environmental politics and quantitative methodology.

Education and Research Experience

2009
PhD in Political Science, received from the Konstanz University (Dr. rer. soc.). Dissertation: 'Können Staaten voneinander Lernen? Transnationales Modelllernen als Einflussfaktor von Wandel in der Umweltpolitik'.

2007-2009
Junior research fellow, Konstanz University

2004-2007
Junior research fellow, Hamburg University

2003-2004
Junior research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn

2003
Degree in Political Science (Diplom), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

Selected Publications

Holzinger, Katharina and Sommerer, Thomas (forthcoming 2011): "Race to the Bottom or Race to Brussels? Environmental Competition in Europe". Journal for Common Market Studies, Vol. 49 (1).

Holzinger, Katharina, Knill, Christoph und Thomas Sommerer (forthcoming 2011): Is There Convergence of National Environmental Policies? An Analysis of Policy Outputs in 24 OECD Countries. Environmental Politics. Vol. 20 (1).

Sommerer, Thomas (2010): Transnationales Lernen als Faktor von Policy-Wandel: eine vergleichende Analyse der Umweltpolitik in 24 OECD-Staaten. Wiesbaden: vs Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Holzinger, Katharina, Knill, Christoph and Sommerer, Thomas (2008): Environmental Policy Convergence: The Impact of International Harmonization, Transnational Communication and Regulatory Competition. In: International Organization, Volume 62 (4) pp. 553-588.

Heichel, Stephan, Pape, Jessica and Sommerer, Thomas (2005): Is There Convergence in Convergence Research? An Overview of Empirical Studies on Policy Convergence, Journal of European Public Policy 12 (5): pp. 817-840.

Curriculum Vitae

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