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Vivien A. Schmidt

Vivien A. Schmidt

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Political Science
USA
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
58
Citations
24408
World Ranking
127
National Ranking
76

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Vivien A. Schmidt is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Political Science and International Relations. Their work also intersects with subfields such as Strategy and Management, Law, General Health Professions, and Communication.

The main topics covered by Vivien A. Schmidt's research include:

  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • European and International Law Studies
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • EU Law and Policy Analysis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schmidt include Amandine Crespy, Martin B. Carstensen, Ramona Coman, Rasmus Corlin Christensen, and Leonard Seabrooke.

The researcher has contributed to several academic journals, most notably to the Journal of European Public Policy, where they have authored six publications. Other venues include the Journal of European Integration, Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, Policy and Society, and the JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies.

Key recent papers authored by Vivien A. Schmidt are:

  • Theorizing institutional change and governance in European responses to the Covid-19 pandemic (2020) - Journal of European Integration
  • European emergency politics and the question of legitimacy (2021) - Journal of European Public Policy
  • The discursive construction of discontent: varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discursive interactions in Europe (2022) - Journal of European Integration

Additionally, Schmidt has contributed to collaborative papers such as "Ideas and power in employment relations studies" (2022) published in Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, and "Beyond 'responsibility vs. responsiveness': reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises" (2024) published in the Journal of European Public Policy.

Vivien A. Schmidt has published books including "Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union" (2020) through Cambridge University Press.

The researcher received the distinction of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Taking ideas and discourse seriously: explaining change through discursive institutionalism as the fourth ‘new institutionalism’

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • The Futures of European Capitalism

    Vivien Ann Schmidt

  • Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited: Input, Output and ‘Throughput’

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities

    Vivien Ann Schmidt

  • Policy Change and Discourse in Europe: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

    Vivien A Schmidt;Claudio M Radaelli

  • Power through, over and in ideas: conceptualizing ideational power in discursive institutionalism

    Martin Bæk Carstensen;Vivien Schmidt

  • Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy

    Vivien A. Schmidt;Mark Thatcher

  • Putting the Political Back into Political Economy by Bringing the State Back in yet Again

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • From State to Market?: The Transformation of French Business and Government

    Vivien Ann Schmidt

  • French capitalism ­transformed, yet still a third variety of capitalism

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Does Discourse Matter in the Politics of Welfare State Adjustment

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Reconciling Ideas and Institutions through Discursive Institutionalism

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Speaking of change: why discourse is key to the dynamics of policy transformation

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • The New World Order, Incorporated:The Rise of Business and the Decline of the Nation-State

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, Vol. 1: From Vulnerability to Competitiveness

    Fritz W. Scharpf;Vivien A. Schmidt;Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Democratizing France: The Political and Administrative History of Decentralization

    Vivien Ann Schmidt

  • Europeanization and the mechanics of economic policy adjustment

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Speaking to the Markets or to the People? A Discursive Institutionalist Analysis of the EU's Sovereign Debt Crisis

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Values and Discourse in the Politics of Adjustment

    Vivien A. Schmidt;Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Democracy in Europe

    Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Conceptualizing throughput legitimacy: procedural mechanisms of accountability, transparency, inclusiveness and openness in EU governance

    Vivien Schmidt;Matthew Wood

  • Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, Vol. 2: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges

    Fritz W. Scharpf;Vivien A. Schmidt;Vivien A. Schmidt

  • Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited

    Vivien Schmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Fritz W. Scharpf
Fritz W. Scharpf Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Mark Thatcher
Mark Thatcher Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies
Claudio M. Radaelli
Claudio M. Radaelli European University Institute
Philippe C. Schmitter
Philippe C. Schmitter European University Institute
Wolfgang Streeck
Wolfgang Streeck Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
George Tsebelis
George Tsebelis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Leonard Seabrooke
Leonard Seabrooke Copenhagen Business School
Sergio Fabbrini
Sergio Fabbrini Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies
Susana Borrás
Susana Borrás Copenhagen Business School

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