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2026
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Netherlands
2022

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Political Science

D-Index
46
Citations
11333
World Ranking
318
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 1994 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jonathan Zeitlin is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with specific focus on subfields including Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, Finance, Global and Planetary Change, and Law.

Their scholarly work addresses several main topics, such as European Union Policy and Governance, Global Financial Regulation and Crises, Corporate Governance and Law, Global trade, sustainability, and social impact, Forest Management and Policy, Social Policy and Reform Studies, and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies.

Jonathan Zeitlin has published extensively, with frequent contributions to various academic journals and venues. The most common publication outlets include The Business History Review, Regulation & Governance, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of European Public Policy, and Journal of Environmental Management.

Notable recent papers authored by Zeitlin include:

  • Experimentalist interactions: Joining up the transnational timber legality regime, 2020, Regulation & Governance
  • Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance-based financing in theory and practice, 2024, Regulation & Governance

Frequent collaborators of Jonathan Zeitlin include Walter Friedman, Geoffrey Jones, Franco Amatori, Edward J. Balleisen, and Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, each with whom Zeitlin has worked on multiple occasions.

Jonathan Zeitlin's work intersects with topics concerning governance structures, regulatory frameworks, and policy dynamics within the European Union context, as well as broader themes related to global sustainability and financial systems.

They were awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU

    Charles F. Sabel;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Local players in global games : the strategic constitution of a multinational corporation

    Peer Hull Kristensen;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Experimentalist Governance in the European Union: Towards a New Architecture

    Charles F. Sabel;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization

    Charles F. Sabel;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Americanization and its limits : reworking US technology and management in post-war Europe and Japan

    Jonathan Zeitlin;Gary Herrigel

  • Assembling an experimentalist regime: Transnational governance interactions in the forest sector

    Christine Overdevest;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • The Open method of Coordination in Action

    Lars Magnusson;Jonathan Zeitlin;Philippe Pochet

  • The Open Method of Co-Ordination in Action: The European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies

    Jonathan Zeitlin;Philippe Pochet;Lars Magnusson;Saltsa (Program)

  • Governing work and welfare in a new economy : European and American experiments

    Jonathan Zeitlin;David M. Trubek

  • Capacitating Services and the Bottom-Up Approach to Social Investment

    Charles Sabel;Jonathan Zeitlin;Sigrid Quack;Sigrid Quack

  • Reversing industrial decline? : industrial structure and policy in Britain and her competitors

    Jonathan Zeitlin;Paul Q. Hirst

  • Socializing the European Semester: EU social and economic policy co-ordination in crisis and beyond

    Jonathan Zeitlin;Bart Vanhercke

  • Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes: The influence of the open method of coordination on national reforms

    Martin Heidenreich;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • The Oxford Handbook of Business History

    Geoffrey Jones;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Learning from Difference : The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the European Union

    Charles F. Sabel;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Introduction: the European Union beyond the polycrisis? Integration and politicization in an age of shifting cleavages

    Jonathan Zeitlin;Francesco Nicoli;Brigid Laffan

  • World of Possibilities: The battle of the systems

    Charles F. Sabel;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Neither Modularity nor Relational Contracting: Inter-Firm Collaboration in the New Economy

    Charles F. Sabel;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Introduction: The European Semester as a new architecture of EU socioeconomic governance in theory and practice

    Amy Verdun;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party.

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  • World of Possibilities: Stories, strategies, structures: rethinking historical alternatives to mass production

    Charles F. Sabel;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Experimentalism in the EU: Common ground and persistent differences

    Charles F. Sabel;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Industrial Districts and Regional Clusters

    Jonathan Zeitlin

  • The Making of a Global Firm: Local Pathways to Multinational Enterprise

    Peer Hull Kristensen;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Experimentalism in transnational forest governance: Implementing European Union Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreements in Indonesia and Ghana

    Christine Overdevest;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Assessing the Open Method of Coordination : Institutional Design and National Influence of EU Social Policy Coordination

    E. Barcevičius;J.T. Weishaupt;J. Zeitlin

  • Local players in global games

    Peer Hull Kristensen;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Learning from difference: the new architecture of experimentalist governance in the EU

    J. Zeitlin;C. Sabel;C.F. Sabel

  • The European Union Beyond the Polycrisis? : Integration and politicization in an age of shifting cleavages

    J. Zeitlin;F. Nicoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles F. Sabel
Charles F. Sabel Columbia University
Geoffrey Jones
Geoffrey Jones Harvard University
Amy Verdun
Amy Verdun University of Victoria
Paul Hirst
Paul Hirst Birkbeck, University of London
William Lazonick
William Lazonick University of Massachusetts Lowell
David M. Trubek
David M. Trubek University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bruno Palier
Bruno Palier Sciences Po
Maurizio Ferrera
Maurizio Ferrera University of Milan
Wolfgang Streeck
Wolfgang Streeck Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

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