Cathie Jo Martin
Mars, 2022 - Avril, 2022
Visiting Professor (MaxPo/CEE)
Cathie Jo Martin is Professor of Political Science at Boston University. Her book with Duane Swank, The Political Construction of Business Interests (Cambridge 2012) received the APSA Politics and History book award.
In 2013-2014, she co-chaired with Jane Mansbridge an APSA presidential task force on political negotiation, which produced Negotiating Agreement in Politics (Brookings 2015). Martin is also author of Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy (Princeton 2000), Shifting the Burden: the Struggle over Growth and Corporate Taxation (Chicago 1991), and articles in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Sociology and Socio-Economic Review among others.
Cathie Jo Martin has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Russell Sage Foundation, Boston University Center for the Humanities and University of Copenhagen. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, German Marshall Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Danish Social Science Research Council, Boston University Hariri Institute for Computing and National Science Foundation. She is the former chair of the Council for European Studies and former director of the Boston University Center for the Study of Europe.
She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark in October 2019.
Research interests
Cathie Jo Martin’s current book project explores how British and Danish authors contribute to the deep cultural roots of education reform. Martin has also written broadly about comparative welfare states, business-government relations and education policy.
Research project pursued at the CEE
Cathie Jo Martin plans to work on a short book entitled, «Narratives of Society: The Path to Collective Action in an Age of Chaos»
To know more
- cjmartin@bu.edu
- Link to personal webpage
