Contact: Date of Birth: January 16 th, 1977 S Stockholm, Sverige

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1 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Thomas Sommerer Statsvetenskapliga Institutionen Stockholm Universitetet Contact: Date of Birth: January 16 th, 1977 S Stockholm, Sverige Phone: Citizenship: German Fax: thomas.sommerer@statsvet.su.se Education 2009 PhD in Political Science (Dr. rer. soc.) From the University of Konstanz, Germany. Thesis on Können Staaten voneinander Lernen? Transnationales Modelllernen als Einflussfaktor von Wandel in der Umweltpolitik (summa cum laude with distinction) Degree in Political Science (Diploma) From the University of Bamberg, Germany. Studies of Political Science, Public Administration, Statistics and Public Law at the University of Bamberg and Université Catholique de Louvain. Research Experience Since 2009 Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC-funded project The Design of International Institutions: Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and Distribution in Global Governance (Transaccess), Department of Political Science, Stockholm Universitetet Junior Research Fellow in the DFG-funded project Policy-Change in Environmental Policy and the EU-funded project Environment and the Single Market, at the Chair of International Relations and Conflict Management, Konstanz University.

2 Junior Research Fellow in the EU-funded project Environmental Governance in Europe (ENVIPOLCON), Hamburg University Junior Research Fellow in the EU-funded project Environmental Governance in Europe (ENVIPOLCON) Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn Visiting Researcher May-June 2011 Guest Researcher At the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Research Unit on Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions Scholarship Student Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) Teaching Spring term 2012 Seminar Environmental Politics (14h), Stockholm University Seminar Swedish Politics (6h), Stockholm University Lecture Methods and the research process in Political science (14h), Stockholm University Supervision of Master thesis Fall term 2011 Seminar Environmental Politics (14h), Stockholm University Lecture Methods and the research process in Political science (14h), Stockholm University Graduate seminar Theory of Science and Methods in Social Sciences - Comparative Politics and Case Studies (15h), Stockholm University and Uppsala University CV Dr. Thomas Sommerer 2

3 Spring term 2011 Lecture Methods I (20h), Stockholm University Seminar Methods I (12h), Stockholm University Fall term 2010 Lecture Methods I (20h), Stockholm University Seminar Methods I (12h), Stockholm University Spring term 2010 Seminar Independent Research Project, Stockholm University Seminar Methods I (12h), Stockholm University Fall term 2006 Seminar Politikdiffusion: Die Ausbreitung von Innovationen als Aspekt der Globalisierung, Hamburg University Spring term 2006 Seminar Empirische Globalisierungsforschung, Hamburg University Fall term 2004 Seminar Politikgestaltung durch Lernprozesse: eine Einführung in Theorien und Konzepte des Policy Learning, Hamburg University Professional Training Spring term 2012: Seminar UP1: Course design, Center for University Pedagogy, Stockholm University Professional Activities Deputy member of departmental board, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University (since December 2011) CV Dr. Thomas Sommerer 3

4 Reviewer For: International Studies Quarterly Journal of European Public Policy Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis International Interactions Environmental Politics Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning European Integration Online Papers Memberships Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, American Political Science Association. Language German (mother tongue), English, Swedish, French CV Dr. Thomas Sommerer 4

5 Publications Monographs 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/Heichel, Stephan/Sommerer, Thomas (2010): Theorie und Empirie internationaler Politikkonvergenz: Eine Analyse der Umweltpolitik in 24 OECD Staaten, Leverkusen: Budrich. Articles in peer reviewed journals Holzinger, Katharina and Sommerer, Thomas (2011): "Race to the Bottom or Race to Brussels? Environmental Competition in Europe". In: Journal for Common Market Studies, Volume 49, (2), Holzinger, Katharina/Knill, Christoph/Sommerer, Thomas (2011): Is There Convergence of National Environmental Policies? An Analysis of Policy Outputs in 24 OECD Countries. In: Environmental Politics, Volume 20, (1), Holzinger, Katharina/Knill, Christoph/Sommerer, Thomas (2010): Umweltpolitik zwischen Annäherung und Aufholjagd: Eine Analyse umweltpolitischer Konvergenz in 24 OECD- Länder In: Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht, Volume 33 (1), Holzinger, Katharina/Knill, Christoph/Sommerer, Thomas (2008): Environmental Policy Convergence: The Impact of International Harmonization, Transnational Communication and Regulatory Competition. In: International Organization, Volume 62, (4), Heichel, Stephan/Pape, Jessica/Sommerer, Thomas (2005): Is There Convergence in Convergence Research? An Overview of Empirical Studies on Policy Convergence. In: Journal of European Public Policy, Volume 12 (5), Behnke, Joachim/Kamm, Ruth/Sommerer, Thomas (2003): Der Effekt der Neueinteilung der Wahlkreise auf die Entstehung von Überhangmandaten. In: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, Volume 34, (1), Chapter in Books and Edited Volumes Sommerer, Thomas and Heichel, Stephan (2009): Globalisierung und Umweltregieren: Die Konvergenz von Politiken in der OECD-Welt. In: Johannes Kessler and Christian Steiner (Eds.): Facetten der Globalisierung: Zwischen Ökonomie, Politik und Kultur, Wiesbaden: vs Verlag, Heichel, Stefan and Sommerer, Thomas (2009): Mixed-Methodologies: Ein kombiniertes quantitatives und qualitatives Forschungsdesign in der Policy-Analyse am Beispiel eines CV Dr. Thomas Sommerer 5

6 Projekts zu Konvergenz in der Umweltpolitik. In: Schnapp, Kai-Uwe/Nathalie Behnke and Joachim Behnke (Eds.): Datenwelten. Datenerhebung und Datenbestände in der Politikwissenschaft, Baden-Baden: Nomos, Sommerer, Thomas/Holzinger, Katharina/Knill, Christoph (2008): The pair approach: what causes convergence of environmental policies? In: Katharina Holzinger, Christoph Knill and Bas Arts (Eds.): Environmental policy convergence in Europe: the impact of international institutions and trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Knill, Christoph/Sommerer, Thomas/Holzinger, Katharina (2008): Degree and direction of environmental policy convergence: analysis of aggregate data. In: Katharina Holzinger, Christoph Knill and Bas Arts (Ed.): Environmental policy convergence in Europe: the impact of international institutions and trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Heichel, Stephan/Holzinger, Katharina/Sommerer, Thomas/Liefferink, Duncan/Pape, Jessica/ Veenman, Sietske (2008): Research design, variables and data. In: Katharina Holzinger, Christoph Knill and Bas Arts (Ed.): Environmental policy convergence in Europe: the impact of international institutions and trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Heichel, Stephan and Sommerer, Thomas (2007): Unterschiedliche Pfade, ein Ziel? Spezifikation im Forschungsdesign und Vergleichbarkeit der Ergebnisse bei der Suche nach der Konvergenz nationalstaatlicher Politiken. In: Katharina Holzinger, Helge Jörgens and Christoph Knill (Eds.): Transfer, Diffusion und Konvergenz von Politiken. Politische Vierteljahresschrift Sonderhefte 38/2007. Wiesbaden: vs Verlag, Holzinger, Katharina, Knill, Christoph and Sommerer, Thomas (2007): Konvergenz der Umweltpolitiken in Europa? Der Einfluss internationaler Institutionen und der ökonomischen Integration. In: Katharina Holzinger, Helge Jörgens and Christoph Knill (Eds.): Transfer, Diffusion und Konvergenz von Politiken. Politische Vierteljahresschrift Sonderhefte 38/2007. Wiesbaden: vs Verlag, Holzinger, Katharina and Sommerer, Thomas (2007): Race to the Top oder Race to Brussels? Harmonisierung und Regulierungswettbewerb im Umweltschutz. In: Wolfgang Kerber and Klaus Heine (Eds.): Zentralität und Dezentralität von Regulierung in Europa. Stuttgart: Lucius und Lucius, Heichel, Stephan/Pope, Jessica/Sommerer, Thomas (2006): Is There Convergence in Convergence Research? An Overview of Empirical Studies on Policy Convergence. In: Christoph Knill (Ed.): Cross-national Policy Convergence. Causes, Concepts and Empirical Findings. New York: Taylor and Francis, Working Paper and other Publications Holzinger, Katharina and Sommerer, Thomas (2011). The Myth of the Downward Spiral in Environmental Policy Regulation (with Thomas Sommerer), in: Perspectives on Europe 41,1: Jacob, Klaus/Haum, Rüdiger/Eisgruber, Jesco/Kahlenborn, Walter/Lux, Florian/Sommerer, Thomas/Müller, Aike/Holzinger, Katharina/Adarsh Varma/Leveson-Gower, Henry/Ekins, Paul (2009): Environment and the Single Market. Final Report to the European Commission. FFU, Berlin. CV Dr. Thomas Sommerer 6

7 Holzinger, Katharina/Sommerer, Thomas (2008): 'Race to the Bottom' or 'Race to Brussels'? Environmental Competition in Europe. Chair of International Relations and Conflict Managament Working Paper Series 1/2008, Konstanz UNiversity Holzinger, Katharina/Knill, Christoph/Sommerer, Thomas (2006): The Impact of International Institutions and Trade on Environmental Policy Convergence. Centrum für Globalisierung und Governance, Hamburg University, Preprint Nr 3. Work in Progress Sommerer, Thomas: Early Bird or Copycat, Leader or Laggard? A Comparison of Cross- National Patterns of Change in Environmental Policy. Contribution to the edited volume by Andreas Duit (eds.) Comparative Environmental Politics. (under review at MIT Press). Holzinger, Katharina/Sommerer, Thomas: Die Abwärtsspirale bleibt aus: Nationale Umweltstandards zwischen internationaler Harmonisierung und Wettbewerb (under review at Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft). Tallberg, Jonas/Sommerer, Thomas/Squatrito, Theresa/Jönsson, Christer: Opening Up. The Access of Transnational Actors to International Organisations (Book manuscript). Conferences Organized Panels International Institutions and Policy Diffusion: Sources Mechanisms - Impact. ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Antwerp, Belgium, April 2012 (with Anja Jakobi). Global Governance: NGO Participation and IO Openness. ECPR General Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, 27. August Learning, Institutions and the Dynamics of Environmental Regimes. ECPR General Conference in Potsdam, Germany 12. September 2009 (with Christoph Knill and Detlev Jahn). Conference Presentations Global Diffusion of Participatory Governance: Rational Learning, Strategic Mimicking, and Norm Socialization. Presentation at the Workshop International Institutions and Policy Diffusion: Sources Mechanisms - Impact. ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Antwerp, Belgium, April 2012 (with Jonas Tallberg) Explaining Formal Access of Transnational Actors to International Organizations. Presentation in Panel Explaining Transnational Actor Access to International Organizations, APSA Annual Meeting, Seattle (USA), September 2011 (with Jonas Tallberg). CV Dr. Thomas Sommerer 7

8 Explaining Formal Access of Transnational Actors to International Organizations. Presentation at the Panel Global Governance: NGO Participation and IO Openness, ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik (Island) August 2011 (with Jonas Tallberg). Learning by Difference or Lessons from the Peer? A Cross-National Analysis of Dyadic Change in 17 Environmental Standards. Presentation at the Workshop The Environmental State: Environmental Politics, Policy and Natural Resource Management in a Comparative Perspective. 10th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference (NESS), Stockholm) June Learning by Difference or Lessons from the Peer? A Cross-National Analysis of Dyadic Change in 17 Environmental Standards. Presentation at the Workshop Learning in Politics and Public Policy, ECPR Joint Sessions 2011, St. Gallen, Switzerland, April Transnational Access to International Organizations: Change and Continuity, Presentation at the Workshop Institutional Dynamics in World Politics: Explaining Variation at the Scope, Pace, and Direction of International Institutional Change, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 7. April 2011 (with Jonas Tallberg and Theresa Squatrito). A Quantitative Analysis of the Formal Access of Transnational Actors to International Organizations. Presentation at the Panel The Transnational Design of International Organizations, ISA Annual Convention in Montreal, 17. March Measuring Formal Access of Non-State Actors to International Organizations. Presentation at the Workshop Interest Groups and Lobbying at National, Regional, and Global Levels, Annual Convention of the Swedish Political Science Association, Gothenburg, 29. September -2. October Of Early Birds and Copycats - A Comparative Analysis of Different Types of Regulatory Change in Environmental Policy. Presentation at the Workshop Mapping the Politics of Ecology: Environmental Politics and Policy in a Comparative Perspective, Stockholm, 28. June Drifting towards the top? The effects of herding on change in domestic environmental policies'. Presentation at the Workshop 'Effects of globalization on environmental regulation in North America and Europe'. Seventeenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies in Montreal, Canada, 15. April Environmental Policy Change in Europe: Learning by Difference or Lesson from the Peer. Presentation at the Panel Environmental policy between internal and international forces Impacts of international cooperation, transnational learning and domestic politics, ECPR General Conference in Potsdam, 11. September Environmental Policy Change in Europe: Learning by Difference or Lesson from the Peer. Presentation at the Panel Regulation and the Design of International Institutions, 2009 MPSA National Conference in Chicago, USA, 4. April Environmental Policy Change in Europe beyond Harmonisation: Learning by Difference or Lesson from the Peer. Presentation at the Workshop Theories of Policy Change in Comparative Perspective, 4th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations & Public Policy in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 18. December CV Dr. Thomas Sommerer 8

9 Regulatory Competition and Environmental Harmonization: Race to the Bottom or Race to Brussels? Präsentation bei der Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in Chicago, USA, 3. März 2007 (with Katharina Holzinger). Mixed Methods im Forschungsfeld Politik: Möglichkeiten und Unmöglichkeiten. Präsentation bei der Frühjahrstagung des Arbeitskreises Empirische Methoden der Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) in Hamburg, 12. Mai 2006 (with Stephan Heichel). The Impact of International Institutions and Trade on Environmental Policy Convergence. Präsentation bei der Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), San Diego, USA, 24. März 2006 (with Katharina Holzinger). Tracing Patterns of Learning and Harmonization: An Approach to Quantify Institutional Influence on Convergence in Environmental Policy. Präsentation at the Panel The Diffusion of Regulatory Reforms, ECPR General Conference in Budapest, Ungarn, 10. September Policy-Output-Daten aus dem Bereich der Umweltpolitik als Basis empirischer Konvergenzforschung. Präsentation bei der Frühjahrstagung des Arbeitskreises Empirische Methoden der Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) in Hagen, 15. Mai 2005 (with Stephan Heichel). The Impact of International Institutions and Trade on Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe. Paper presented at the Workshop Pioneers and Convergence in National Environmental Policy: Concepts, Causes and Conditions, ECPR Joint Sessions in Granada, Spain, April 15 th, 2005 (with Christoph Knill). Konvergenz der Umweltpolitiken in Europa? Lecture Series of the Center for Globalisation and Governance (CGG), Hamburg, 8. December 2004 (with Katharina Holzinger). Denken Singles politisch anders? Präsentation bei der Jahrestagung des DVPW- Arbeitskreises Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung in Berlin, 11. Mai 2001 (with Zoltan Juhasz). CV Dr. Thomas Sommerer 9