Wolfgang Streeck#
| Membership Number: | 2148 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 1995 Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, and Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Social Science, University of Köln
- 1988 - 1995 Professor of Sociology and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 1980 - 1988 Senior Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
- 1976 - 1980 Research Fellow, International Institute of Management, Berlin
- 1974 - 1976 Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Münster, Department of Economics and Social Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Social conditions and consequences of flexible labor markets
- Commonalities of capitalism
- Fiscal crisis of the state in contemporary capitalism
- Social science and the practice of politics
- Theories of institutional change
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Member, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAE)
- 2000 - 2003 Honorary President, Association for the Study of German Politics (ASGP)
- 2000 Doctor of Science honoris causa, University of Birmingham
- 2002 Commendatore della Republica Italiana
- 2002 Member, Academia Europaea
- 2006 Honorary Fellow, Society fot the Advancement of Socio-Economics
- 2011 Order of Merit, Land of North Rhine-Westphalia
