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Prof. B.M. (Brian) Burgoon

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Political Economy and Transnational Governance
Photographer: Jeroen Oerlemans
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Room number:B8.05
Postal address
  • Postbus 15578
    1001 NB Amsterdam
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  • Short bio

    Brian Burgoon is Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He received his PhD from MIT in 1998 and has been on the UvA faculty since 2001, serving as Academic Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the UvA from 2014 till December 2020.  His research focuses on the politics of economic globalization; of welfare and labor-market policies and standards; and of how economic conditions influence political conflict. 

    Current positions

    • Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy at the Dept. of Political Science, UvA
    • Member of AISSR Programme Group, Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV)
    • Member of Amsterdam Center for Inequality Studies (AMCIS)
    • Member of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES)
    • Member of Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES)
    • Secretary and Treasurer (of Board of Directors) Dialogue Advisory Group (DAG)

    Education

    • PhD in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1998 (see tab downloads for dissertation)
  • Teaching
    • Inleiding Politicologie (Introduction to Political Science)
    • Kernmodule Internationale Betrekkingen (Core Course on International Relations)
    • Methodology Clinic for PhD students (with Annette Freyberg-Inan)
    • Political Economy of Conflict (with Andrea Ruggeri)
    • American Foreign Policy
    • Politics of Immigration (with Marcel van Egmond)
    • Politics of Globalization
    • Labor Institutions and Globalization (with Jelle Visser)
    • Gevolgen van Welvaartsstaten (Consequences of Welfare States) (with Robert van der Veen)
    • Onderzoeksmodule (BA Honoursprogramma)
  • Unpublished work-in-progress
  • Supplementary/replication material
  • Publication profiles
    Scopus Web of Science Google Scholar
  • Publications

    2021

    2020

    2019

    2018

    2017

    2016

    • Beine, M., Boucher, A., Burgoon, B., Crock, M., Gest, J., Hiscox, M., ... Thielemann, E. (2016). Comparing immigration policies: an overview from the IMPALA database. The International Migration Review, 50(4), 827-863. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12169 [details]
    • Steijn, S., van de Werfhorst, H., & Burgoon, B. (2016). Oordelen over het meritocratische gehalte van de Nederlandse samenleving. In P. de Beer, & M. van Pinxteren (Eds.), Meritocratie: Op weg naar een nieuwe klassensamenleving (pp. 199-207). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462983397 [details]

    2015

    2014

    2013

    2012

    2011

    • Burgoon, B., & Raess, D. (2011). Does the global economy mean more sweat? Trade, investment, migration and working hours in Europe. Socio-Economic Review, 9(4), 699-727. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwr007 [details]
    • Lancee, B., Burgoon, B., Corneo, G., Horn, D., Medgyesi, M., & van de Werfhorst, H. (2011). Political and cultural impacts of inequality. In W. Salverda (Ed.), Inequalities' impacts (pp. 133-140). (GINI State of the Art Review; No. 1). Amsterdam: Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies, University of Amsterdam. [details]

    2010

    2009

    2006

    • Burgoon, B. (2006). On welfare and terror: Social welfare policies and the political-economic roots of terrorism. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50(2), 176-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002705284829
    • Burgoon, B., & Raess, D. (2006). Dogs That Sometimes Bark: Globalization and Works Councils in Germany. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 12(3), 287-309. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680106068914

    2004

    2002

    • Burgoon, B., & Jacoby, W. (2002). Amerikanische Gewerkschaften und Einwanderung: Eine schwierige Umarmung. WSI-Mitteilungen, 55(10), 566-577. [details]

    2001

    • Burgoon, B. (2001). Globalization and Welfare Compensation: Disentangling the Ties that Bind. International Organization, 55(3), 509-551. https://doi.org/10.1162/00208180152507542 [details]
    • Burgoon, B. M. (2001). Partnership and Competition of US and European Embedded Liberalisms. The international spectator: Italian journal of international affairs, 36(2). [details]
    • Burgoon, B. M., & Jacoby, W. (Accepted/In press). Patch-work Solidarity: The Uneven Development of US and European Labor Internationalism. In W. U. Friedrich (Ed.), Transatlantic Politics (tentative title) Greenwood Press.

    2020

    2017

    • Burgoon, B. (2017). When it comes to globalisation, not all radicalisms are created equal. In T. Beck, & G. Underhill (Eds.), Quo Vadis? Identity, policy and the future of the European Union: VOXEU Book (pp. 47-53). London: CEPR Press. [details]

    2016

    2015

    • Crock, M., Hiscox, M., Beine, M., Burgoon, B., Thielemann, E., Gest, J., ... Schaper, J. (2015). Law as an agent of social transformation: trends in the legal regulation of migration. In S. Castles, D. Ozkul, & M. Arias Cubas (Eds.), Social transformation and migration: national and local experiences in South Korea, Turkey, Mexico and Australia (pp. 269-282). (Migration, diasporas and citizenship). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137474957.0028 [details]

    2014

    • Burgoon, B., Ruggeri, A., & Manikkalingam, R. (2014). Human rights promotion, the media and peacemaking in Africa. In C. K. W. de Dreu (Ed.), Social conflict within and between groups (pp. 131-150). (Current issues in social psychology). London [etc.]: Psychology Press. [details]

    2012

    • Burgoon, B., Demetriades, P., & Underhill, G. (2012). Bronnen en legitimiteit van financiële liberalisering. Res Publica, 54(3), 391-394. [details]
    • van de Werfhorst, H., Tóth, I. G., Horn, D., Medgyesi, M., Notten, N., Haas, C., & Burgoon, B. (2012). Political and cultural impacts of growing inequalities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies, University of Amsterdam. [details]

    2007

    • Burgoon, B. M. (2007). National and Supranational Embedding of liberalism in Europe. European Studies Forum, 7(3), 29-44.

    2005

    • Burgoon, B. M. (2005). "The Political Economy of Post-September 11th Security". In R. Stubbs, & G. Underhill (Eds.), Political Economy and the New Global Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [details]

    2020

    2018

    2017

    • Burgoon, B., de Goede, M., Glasius, M., & Schliesser, E. (2017). Too Big to Innovate? The Sense and Nonsense of Big Programmatic Research. In B. de Graaf, A. Rinnooy Kan, & H. Molenaar (Eds.), The Dutch National Research Agenda in Perspective: A Reflection on Research and Science Policy in Practice (pp. 121-135). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462982796 [details]

    2013

    • Burgoon, B. (2013). Political Economy of Re-embedding Liberalism. (Inaugural lecture; No. 482). Universiteit van Amsterdam. [details]

    2009

    2008

    • Burgoon, B., Demetriades, P., & Underhill, G. (2008). Financial liberalisation and political variables: A response to Abiad and Mody. (Working paper / University of Leicester, Department of Economics; No. 08/30). Leicester: University of Leicester. [details]

    2003

    • Burgoon, B. M., & Hiscox, M. (2003). Mysterious Case of Female Protectionism: Gender Bias in Attitudes Toward International Trade. In UCSD Political Economy Working Papers series [details]

    2020

    • Vandenbroucke, F. I. G., Nicoli, F., de Ruijter, A., Burgoon, B. M., & Beetsma, R. M. W. J. (2020). Europese solidariteit is noodzakelijk en mogelijk. De Morgen, 23. https://www.demorgen.be/es-b15997ba

    2003

    • Burgoon, B. M. (2003). "Tussen Venus en Mars: De Transatlantische Verhouding". Project&Nieuws (Groenlinks Stichting Duurzame Solidariteit), (14). [details]
    • Burgoon, B. M. (2003). De Oorlog in Irak en het 'Veiligheidsdilemma'. NRC Handelsblad.

    2001

    • Burgoon, B. M. (2001). Comment on Robert Wright's Dispatch From Davos: The Anti-Globalization Movement. Slate, the on-line magazine. [details]

    2017

    • Lim, S. J., & Burgoon, B. M. (2017). Globalization and Support for Unemployment Spending in Asia: Do Asian Citizens Want to Embed Liberalism?. Paper presented at What's Next? Disruptive/Collaborative Economy or Business as Usual?, Lyon, France.

    2012

    • Burgoon, B. M., & Schaper, J. C. (2012). Welfare States and Support for Immigration in Europe. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, .
    • Fransen, L. W., & Burgoon, B. M. (2012). Global labor-standards advocacy by European Civil Society Organizations: trends and developments. Abstract from Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, .

    2011

    • Burgoon, B. M. (2011). Inmmigration, Integration and Support for Government Redistribution in Europe. Paper presented at Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Chicago, Ill), .
    • Burgoon, B. M. (2011). Partisanship and Anti-globalization Packlash. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal (Canada), .
    • Burgoon, B. M., & Hiscox, M. (2011). The strange politics of compensation: individual attitudes on trade adjustment assistance in the United States. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle Washington (USA), .
    • Burgoon, B. M., & Schudel, C. J. W. (2011). The Political Economy of Aid and Foreign Direct Investment. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal (Canada), .
    • Burgoon, B. M., Schudel, C. J. W., & Manikkalingam, R. (2011). Naming, Shaming and Peacemaking: Civil War and Media Coverage of Human Rights Violations. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal (Canada), .
    • Burgoon, B. M., Schudel, C. J. W., Manikkalingam, R., & Ruggeri, A. (2011). From Naming and Shaming to Negotiated Peace: Civil War and Media Coverage of Human Rights Violations. Paper presented at Network of European Peace Scientist's Annual Conference, Amsterdam (NL), .

    2010

    • Burgoon, B. M., & Raess, D. (2010). Flexible Work in Globalized Europe. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Washington DC (USA), .

    Award

    • Burgoon, B. (2018). Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award of the Luxembourg Income Studies, LIS, for best paper by under-forty researchers.
    • Lim, S. J. & Burgoon, B. M. (2017). 2017 EHESS / Fondation France-Japon Best Paper Award for 'Globalization and Support for Unemployment Spending in Asia: Do Asian Citizens Want to Embed Liberalism?'.
    • Burgoon, B. M. (2003). "Three Worlds of Working Time: Partisanship, Welfare Institutions and the OECD Working Hours".

    Membership

    • Burgoon, B. M. (2012). Member of four-member Editorial Committee of 'Changing Welfare States' book series, Amsterdam University Press.
    • Burgoon, B. M. (2011-2015). Member International Advisory Board, Review of International Political Economy.
    • Burgoon, B. M. (2011-2012). International Advisory Board
      Member of International Advisory Board of 'Review of International Political Economy' (2011-), 'Review of International Political Economy'.
    • Burgoon, B. M., Schudel, C. J. W. & Ruggeri, A. (2011-2012). Host and Co-organizer, Network of European Peace Scientists (Annual Meeting).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (2009). Secretary-Treasurer and Member of Board of Directors, Dialogue Advisory Group (Amsterdam / New York), Offices and Boards in both Amsterdam and New York.
    • Burgoon, B. M. (2008-2009). Member Beste Dataset Award Committee, American Political Science Association.

    Media appearance

    • Burgoon, B. & Blaustein, G. (11-11-2020). ‘De status van de democratie in de VS is nog steeds zorgwekkend’ [Web] Folia. ‘De status van de democratie in de VS is nog steeds zorgwekkend’.
    • Burgoon, B. (02-11-2020). ‘Het is een vaststaand feit dat in de VS democratic backsliding plaatsvindt’ [Web] Folia. ‘Het is een vaststaand feit dat in de VS democratic backsliding plaatsvindt’.
    • Burgoon, B. (28-12-2019). 'Trump, alweer! Populisme, alweer!' ; Vier gesprekken in Nederlandse huiskamers [Print] NRC Handelsblad. 'Trump, alweer! Populisme, alweer!' ; Vier gesprekken in Nederlandse huiskamers.
    • Burgoon, B., Jaffe, R., de Lange, S. & Schliesser, E. (29-11-2019). Leuk, dat onderzoek, tot de dreigtweets en de haatmails komen [Web] Folia.nl. Leuk, dat onderzoek, tot de dreigtweets en de haatmails komen.
    • Burgoon, B. M. (13-05-2017). Al sinds haar 25ste zit Fleur dagelijks met terroristen om tafel [Print] De Volkskrant. Al sinds haar 25ste zit Fleur dagelijks met terroristen om tafel (Volkskrant).

    Journal editor

    • Burgoon, B. M. (editor) (2009). ASSR Working Paper Series (Journal).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (editor) (2007). The Political Economist (Journal).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (editor) & Hiscox, M. (editor) (2004). The Political Economist (Journal).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (editor) (2003). The Political Economist (Journal).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (editor) (2002). The Political Economist (Journal).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (editor) (2001). The Political Economist (Journal).

    Talk / presentation

    • Burgoon, B. M. (invited speaker) (2012). Inequality and Anti-globalization Backlash, Columbia University Department of Political Science Invited Speaker Series.
    • Burgoon, B. M. (invited speaker) (2012). Chinese FDI and European Labor, Princeton University Department of Politics workshop on the European Politics of Chinese FDI.
    • Burgoon, B. M. (invited speaker) (14-2-2011). Immigration, Integration and Support for Government Redistribution in Europe, CEACS Invited Speaker Series, Juan March Institute, Madrid.

    Others

    • van Hooren, F. (organiser) & Burgoon, B. M. (organiser) (5-6-2015). Political Economy and the New Welfare State, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (organiser) & Meunier, S. (organiser) (1-11-2012). Special Issue "The Politics of Chinese FDI in Europe", Princeton. (Mede-) organisator (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (organiser) & Underhill, G. R. D. (organiser) (21-6-2012 - 22-6-2012). Research Workshop, Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre, School of Advanced International Studies. Legitimacy, Austerity, and Capital Market Integration (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (organiser) (1-6-2012). Workshop over Immigration and Welfare (als onderdeel van PEGGED project), Brussel. Organisator (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (organiser) & Jacoby, W. (organiser) (1-6-2012). Special Issue "The Politics of Chinese FDI in Europe", Amsterdam. (Mede)organisator (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (participant), Schudel, C. J. W. (participant) & Ruggeri, A. (participant) (2011). European Peace Science Association, Annual Conference June 2011. Conference organizer European Peace Science Association (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (other) (2006). Visiting Professorship, Institut Barcelona D’Estudis Internationals (IBEI), 2006 Summer School in International and Comparative Politics (other).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (other) (2006). Member of editorial committee of ASSR Working Papers Series, Amsterdam School for Social science Research (ASSR), Universiteit van Amsterdam (other).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (participant) (31-8-2004). Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Panel convener and chair: "Public Politics of Globalization", Chicago (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Kahancova, M. (participant), Burgoon, B. M. (participant) & et al., (participant) (1-12-2003 - 2-12-2003). Co-organizator of the ASSR Mini-Conference `Multi-Level Politics in an Era of Globalization¿, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Burgoon, B. M. (participant), Walter, B. (participant) & Hiscox, M. (participant) (2001). Second Annual Torrey Pines Group, San Diego, USA. Second Annual Torrey Pines Group: New Research in International Politics (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

    2017

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  • Ancillary activities
    • Dialogue Advisory Group (DAG)
      Member Board of Directors, Project Mediator
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