List of Publications: Dr. Thomas Sommerer. Monographs

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1 List of Publications: Dr. Thomas Sommerer Monographs Tallberg, Jonas, Sommerer, Thomas, Squatrito, Theresa and Jönsson, Christer (2013 forthcoming ): The Opening Up of International Organizations. Transnational Access in Global Governance. Cambridge University Press. 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 Tallberg, Jonas, Sommerer, Thomas, Squatrito, Theresa and Jönsson, Christer (forthcoming): The Transnational Design of International Organizations. Accepted for publication in International Organization. Holzinger, Katharina and Thomas Sommerer (2012): Was verursacht die Aufwärtsspirale in der Umweltpolitik? Der Einfuss internationaler Harmonisierung auf nationale Umweltstandards. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 41 (1), Holzinger, Katharina und Sommerer, Thomas (2011). The Myth of the Downward Spiral in Environmental Policy Regulation, in: Perspectives on Europe 41 (1), 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and Sommerer, Thomas (2003): Der Effekt der Neueinteilung 1

2 der Wahlkreise auf die Entstehung von Überhangmandaten. In: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, Volume 34 (1), Chapter in Books and Edited Volumes Squatrito, Theresa, Sommerer, Thomas, Tallberg, Jonas (forthcoming 2014): Institutional Dynamics in World Politics: Explaining Variation in the Scope, Pace, and Direction of International Institutional Change. In: Thomas Rixen, Lora Viola and Michael Zürn (eds.): Understanding Institutional Change in World Politics: Historical Institutionalism and International Relations (under review at OUP). Sommerer, Thomas (forthcoming 2014): Early Bird or Copycat, Leader or Laggard? A Comparison of Cross-National Patterns of Environmental Policy Change. In: Andreas Duit (ed.), State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Holzinger, Katharina and Sommerer, Thomas (forthcoming 2013): EU Environmental Policy: Greening the World? In: Falkner, Gerda and Mueller, Patrick (eds.): EU Policies in a Global Perspective: Shaping or taking international regimes? London: Routledge. Holzinger, Katharina, Knill, Christoph and Sommerer, Thomas (forthcoming 2013): Is There Convergence of National Environmental Policies? An Analysis of Policy Outputs in 24 OECD Countries. In: Helge Jörgens, Andrea Lenschow and Duncan Liefferink (eds.) Understanding Environmental Policy Convergence The Power of Words, Rules and Money. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 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 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 and 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 and 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 2

3 Holzinger, Christoph Knill and Bas Arts (eds.): 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? Spezifkation 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 Einfuss 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 and 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, Work in Progress Tallberg, Jonas, Sommerer, Thomas, Squatrito, Theresa (2013): Uploading Democracy: The Domestic Sources of Openness in Global Governance. Paper prepared for presentation at the workshop The Design of International Institutions: Theory Meets Data, Chapel Hill, April 26-27, Sommerer, Thomas/Tallberg, Jonas (2013): The Global Diffusion of Participatory Governance: Rational Learning, Strategic Mimicking, and Norm Socialization (Manuscript). Sommerer, Thomas/Tallberg, Jonas (2013): The Dataset on Transnational Access to International Organizations (Manuscript). Tallberg, Jonas, Sommerer, Thomas, Squatrito, Theresa (2013): Policy Approaches Matter: Explaining Within-Issue -Area Variation in IO Openness. (Manuscript). Sommerer, Thomas (2013): Institutionelle Öffnung durch globale Opposition? Eine quantitative Analyse der Partizipationsmöglichkeiten von transnationalen Akteuren in internationalen Organisationen von 1950 bis 2010 (Manuscript). Sommerer, Thomas (2012): Learning by Difference or Lessons from the Peer? A Cross- National Analysis of Dyadic Change in 17 Environmental Standards (Manuscript). 3

4 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. Holzinger, Katharina/Sommerer, Thomas (2008): 'Race to the Bottom' or 'Race to Brussels'? Environmental Competition in Europe. Chair of International Relations and Confict 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. 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 The Global Diffusion of Participatory Governance. To be presented at workshop on How to study diffusion -Theories, methods, and research designs, University of Göttingen, October 2013 Explaining the Transnational Design of International Organizations. To be presented at Workshop on NGOs in World Politics - New Directions for Research. City University London, 18. October 2013 The Opening Up of International Organizations: Transnational Access in Global Governance To be presented at the Conference on The Legitimation and Delegitimation of Global Governance Organizations, University of Bremen, September

5 Explaining the Transnational Design of International Organizations. Paper presented at the 20th International Conference of Europeanists, Amsterdam 25 June The Global Diffusion of Participatory Governance:Rational Learning, Strategic Mimicking, and Norm Socialization. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 5. April Transnational Access and the Politicization of International Organizations. presented at the Workshop Politicization of Supranational Governance in the EU and Beyond, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin (WZB), 7th February Institutionelle Öffnung durch globale Opposition? Eine quantitative Analyse der Partizipationsmöglichkeiten von transnationalen Akteuren in internationalen Organisationen von 1950 bis 2010, presented at the Panel Globale Opposition? Postnationale Governance und ihre KritikerInnen, DVPW Kongress 2012, Tübingen, 27th September Civil Society Involvement in International Organizations: Effects on Security? presented at the workshop The Civil Society-Security Nexus Facing the Challenges of International Terrorism and Domestic Resistance, Stockholm University, 3rd May 2012 (with Hans Agné). 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). 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 5

6 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 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 Infuence 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 6

7 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 Z. Juhasz). 7