Curriculum Vitae

Education

2002 Doctorate in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Florence/Italy
1998 Magister Artium in Political Science, University of Munich
1991 High School Diploma, Gymnasium Icking/Oberbayern

Working Experience

Since 2010 Professor of Transnational Governance, Technische Universität Darmstadt
2008 – 2009 University Lecturer in Political Science, Jacobs University Bremen
2003 – 2008 Assistant Professor, University of Bremen
2006 – 2007 Visiting Professor, International University Bremen
2002 – 2003 Research Associate, Universität Bremen
2001 – 2002 Research Associate, Robert-Schuman-Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence/Italy
1998 Student Assistant, Technische Universität München
1996 – 1998 Student Assistant, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen
1993 – 1998 Freelance Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung
1991 – 1992 Civil Service, Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e.V.

Publications

Books

2010 Evaluating Transnational NGOs – Legitimacy, Accountability, Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (ed., with K. Hahn).

2009 Was bleibt vom Staat? Demokratie, Verfassung und Recht im globalen Zeitalter, Frankfurt am Main: Campus (ed., with N. Deitelhoff).

2008 Civil Society Participation in European and Global Governance: A Cure for the Democratic Deficit?  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (ed., with C. Kissling and P. Nanz).

2007 Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (ed., with A. Hurrelmann and S. Schneider).

2006 Embedded Liberalism and Its Critics: Justifying Global Governance in the American Century, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

(forthcoming) ‘Explaining Cooperation between IGOs and NGOs – Push Factors, Pull Factors, and the Policy Cycle’, accepted for publication in Review of International Studies

(forthcoming) ‘Do Members Make a Difference? A Study of Transnational Civil Society Organizations’, accepted for publication in European Political Science Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S175577391200001X (with P. Kotzian).

2012 ‘Die Output-Legitimität internationaler Organisationen und die Idee des globalen Gemeinwohls’ Leviathan: Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft 40: Sonderheft 27, 83-99

2010 ‘Civil Society in World Politics: How Accountable Are Transnational CSOs?’ Journal of Civil Society, 6(3), 237-258 (with M. Piewitt and M. Rodekamp).

2010 ‘Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance’ Ethics & International Affairs, 24(1), 45-67.

2009 ‘Discursive Legitimation in Environmental Governance’ Forest Policy and Economics 11(5/6), special issue ‘Expertise and Discourse in Governance’, 313-318.

2009 ‘Accountability or “Good Decisions”? The Competing Goals of Civil Society Participation in International Governance’ Global Society 23(1), 37-57 (with MP Ferretti).

2008 ‚Zähmt zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation die internationale Politik? Vom exekutiven zum partizipativen Multilateralismus’ Leviathan: Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft 36(1), 105-122.

2005 ‘Incomplete Agreements and the Limits of Persuasion in International Politics’ Journal of International Relations and Development 8(3): 229-256.

2005 ‘Assessing the Democratic Quality of Deliberation in International Governance: Criteria and Research Strategies’ Acta Politica 40 (3):368-383 (with P. Nanz).

2004 ‘Why IR Needs Legitimacy – a Rejoinder’ European Journal of International Relations 10(3), 485-490.

2004 ‘Global Governance, Participation and the Public Sphere’ Government and Opposition 39(2), 314-335 (with P. Nanz). Reprinted in David Held and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (eds.) Accountability in Global Governance, Oxford: Blackwell, 190-211.

2003 ‘The Legitimation of International Governance: a Discourse Approach’ European Journal of International Relations 9(2): 249-275.

Book Chapters

2012 ‚Accountability und politische Öffentlichkeit im Zeitalter des globalen Regierens’ in: Peter Niesen (Hg.) Transnationale Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie, Frankfurt/Main: Campus (in print).

2012 ‚Mandatskonflikte, Liberalismuskritik und die Politisierung von GATT und WTO’ in: Michael Zürn und Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt (eds.) Gesellschaftliche Politisierung und internationale Institutionen, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 213-239.

2012 ‚Awkward Partners: NGOs and Social Movements at the WTO’ in: Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, und Robert M. Stern (eds.) Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 301-319.

2011 ‘Transnational Governance Networks and Democracy: What Are the Standards?’ in: Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg and Gerd Winter (eds.) Transnational Administrative Rule-Making: Performance, Legal Effects and Legitimacy, Oxford: Hart, 281-304 (with M. Gomes Pereira).

2010 ‘Explaining Patterns of Transnational Participation: the Role of Policy Fields’ in: Christer Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg (eds.) Transnational Actors in Global Governance, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 67-87.

2010 ‘Norms, Persuasion and the New German Idealism in IR’ in: Oliver Kessler et al. (eds.) On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 191-201.

2010 ‘Introduction: Transnational NGOs and Legitimacy, Accountability, Representation’ in: Jens Steffek and Kristina Hahn (eds.) Evaluating Transnational NGOs – Legitimacy, Accountability, Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-25 (with K. Hahn).

2010 ‘Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Transnational CSOs: Five Criteria’ in: Jens Steffek and Kristina Hahn (eds.) Evaluating Transnational NGOs – Legitimacy, Accountability, Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 100-125 (with Ralf Bendrath, Simon Dalferth, Kristina Hahn, Martina Piewitt and Meike Rodekamp).

2010 ‘Evaluating NGOs: Prospects for Academic Analysis’ in: Jens Steffek and Kristina Hahn (eds.) Evaluating Transnational NGOs – Legitimacy, Accountability, Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 258-264 (with K. Hahn).

2009 ‘Die Legitimation internationalen Regierens: vom Staatenkonsens zum Bürgerkonsens’, in: Jens Steffek and Nicole Deitelhoff (eds.) Was bleibt vom Staat? Demokratie, Verfassung und Recht im globalen Zeitalter, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 161-186.

2009 ‘Einleitung: Staatlichkeit ohne Staat?’, in: Jens Steffek and Nicole Deitelhoff (eds.) Was bleibt vom Staat? Demokratie, Verfassung und Recht im globalen Zeitalter, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 7-34 (with N. Deitelhoff).

2008 ‘Civil Society Participation at the Margins: the Case of WTO’, in: Jens Steffek, Claudia Kissling, Patrizia Nanz (eds.) Civil Society Participation in European and Global Governance: A Cure for the Democratic Deficit? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 95-115 (with U. Ehling).

2008 ‘Emergent Patterns of Civil Society Participation in Global and European Governance ‘, in: Jens Steffek, Claudia Kissling, Patrizia Nanz (eds.) Civil Society Participation in European and Global Governance: A Cure for the Democratic Deficit? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-29 (with P. Nanz).

2008 ‘CSOs and the Democratization of International Governance: Prospects and Problems’, in: Jens Steffek, Claudia Kissling, Patrizia Nanz (eds.) Civil Society Participation in European and Global Governance: A Cure for the Democratic Deficit? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 208-218 (with C. Kissling).

2008 ‚Legitimität jenseits des Nationalstaats – vom exekutiven zum partizipativen Multilateralismus?’, in: Achim Hurrelmann et al. (eds.) Zerfasert der Nationalstaat? Die Internationalisierung politischer Verantwortung, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 179-205.

2007 ‘Breaking the Nation State Shell: Prospects for Democratic Legitimacy in the International Domain’, in: Achim Hurrelmann et al. (eds.) Transforming the Golden-Age Nation State, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 109-129.

2007 ‘Legitimacy in International Relations: From State Compliance to Citizen Consensus’, in: A. Hurrelmann, S. Schneider, J. Steffek (eds.) Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 175-192.

2007 ‘Introduction: Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics’, in: A. Hurrelmann, S. Schneider, J. Steffek (eds.) Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-16 (with A. Hurrelmann and S. Schneider).

2007 ‘Conclusion: Legitimacy – Making Sense of an Essentially Contested Concept’, in: A. Hurrelmann, S. Schneider, J. Steffek (eds.) Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 229-237 (with A. Hurrelmann and S. Schneider).

2007 ‘Zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation und die Demokratisierung internationalen Regierens’, in: Peter Niesen and Benjamin Herborth (eds.) Anarchie der kommunikativen Freiheit: Jürgen Habermas und die Theorie der internationalen Politik, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp, 87-110 (with P. Nanz).

2007 ‘Deliberation and Democracy in Global Governance: the Role of Civil Society’, in: Sophie Thoyer and Bénoit Martimort-Asso (eds.) Participation for Sustainability in Trade, Aldershot: Ashgate, 61-72 (with P. Nanz).

2006 ‘Why Co-operate? Civil Society Participation at the WTO’, in: Christian Joerges and Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (eds.) Constitutionalism, Multilevel Trade Governance and Social Regulation, Oxford: Hart, 135-155 (with C. Kissling).

2005 ‘Legitimation durch Deliberation? Die Rolle der Zivilgesellschaft in der supranationalen Politik’, in: Michèle Knodt and Barbara Finke (eds.) Europäische Zivilgesellschaft: Konzepte, Akteure, Strategien. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (with P. Nanz), 79-102.

2004 ‚Gerechtigkeit zwischen Staaten: eine empirische Spurensuche’, in: Stefan Liebig, Holger Lengfeld and Steffen Mau (eds.) Verteilungsprobleme und Gerechtigkeit in modernen Gesellschaften, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 361-386.

2004 ‘Sources of Legitimacy beyond the Democratic State – a View from International Relations’, in: Christian Joerges, Inger-Johanne Sand and Gunther Teubner (eds.) Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance. Oxford: Hart, 82-101.

2001 ‘Free Trade as a Moral Choice?’ in: European University Institute (ed.), Resolving and Preventing Transatlantic Trade Disputes, 26-41.

Working papers and minor publications

2010 Review of Madeleine Herren. Internationale Organisationen seit 1865: Eine Globalgeschichte der internationalen Ordnung. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009, in: The International History Review 32(2): 340-41.

2009 ‘Multilateralismus’, in: Dieter Nohlen and Rainer-Olaf Schultze (eds.) Lexikon der Politikwissenschaft, Munich: C.H. Beck.

2009 ‘Begrenzte Staatlichkeit’, in: Dieter Nohlen and Rainer-Olaf Schultze (eds.) Lexikon der Politikwissenschaft, Munich: C.H. Beck.

2008 ‘Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance’, University of Oslo/ARENA, Recon Working Paper No. 2008/03.

2008 ‘From Utopia to Apology – The Return to Inter-state Justice in Normative IR Scholarship’, in: Christian Joerges and Poul F. Kjaer (eds.) Transnational Standards of Social Protection, University of Oslo, ARENA Report No 5/08, 255-260.

2008 ‘Civil Society Participation in European Governance’, European University Institute, New Modes of Governance Project, Policy Brief No. 11 (with S. Smismans).

2008 ‘Organised Civil Society and the Accountability of European Governance’, in: Krassimir Nikolov (ed.) Adapting to Integration in an Enlarged European Union, Sofia: Bulgarian Community Studies Association, Vol. II, 108-135.

*2006 ‘Civil Society Participation in International Governance: The UN and the WTO Compared’, University of Bremen, TranState Working Paper No. 42/2006 (with C. Kissling).

2003 Review of George A. Bermann, Matthias Herdegen, and Peter L. Lindseth (eds.): Transatlantic Regulatory Co-operation: Legal Problems and Political Prospects, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2000, in: Annual of German and European Law 1, 656-57.

*2000 ‘The Power of Rational Discourse and the Legitimacy of International Governance’ EUI / Robert-Schuman Centre, Working Paper No. 2000/46.

Service to the profession

Project referee for

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
• Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur
• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Reviewer for

• American Journal of Political Science
• Cambridge University Press
• Environmental Politics
• European Journal of International Relations
• European Journal of Political Research
• Global Governance
• International Studies Quarterly
• International Theory
• Journal of European Public Policy
• Journal of International Relations and Development
• Millennium: Journal of International Studies
• Nomos Verlag
• Oxford University Press
• Political Studies
• Politische Vierteljahresschrift
• Review of International Studies
• West European Politics
• Zeitschrift für internationale Beziehungen

Contact

Prof. Dr. Jens Steffek

Technische Universität Darmstadt
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Residenzschloss
64283 Darmstadt

steffek(at)pg.tu-darmstadt.de
Phone: +49 (0)6151/ 16-64203
Fax: +49 (0)6151/ 16-4602
Room: S3/13/248

Sekretariat

Martina Dingeldein

dingeldein(at)pg.tu-darmstadt.de
Phone: +49 (0)6151/ 16-6135
Fax: +49 (0)6151/ 16-4602
Room: S3/13/247