Curriculum Vitae Thomas König Professional Career Since 2010 Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 884 "The Political Economy of Reforms". Since 2007 Chair of Political Science II at the University of Mannheim. 2007-2010 Head of Department "European Political Systems and their Integration" at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). 2003-2007 Chair of Political Science at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. 2002-2003 Fulbright Chair for German Studies at the Washington University in St. Louis, USA. 1999-2002 Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz. Degrees and Awards 2009 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship and Research affiliate at the Stanford Forum on Contemporary Europe. 2006 Nomination for the Descartes Prize for Research of the European Commission. 2002 Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Washington University in St. Louis. 2001 Harrison Prize of the British Political Science Association (PSA) for the best article. 2000 Visiting Professor at the University of Rome III. 1998 Karl W. Deutsch-Professor at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). 1997 Habilitation in Political Science at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim (Thesis: "Coordination, Cooperation and State Sovereignty"). 1990 Dissertation in Political Science at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim (Thesis: "Organized Influence on Legislative Politics in the German Labor Policy Domain"). Projects and Funding Since 2014 Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 884 "The Political Economy of Reforms", financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Total research grant: 11.794.800,00 € (Second period). Since 2014 Co-Director of the Project C1 "Legislative Reforms and Party Competition" in the CRC 884. Research grant: 483,800 €. Since 2014 Director of the Project C6 "The Domestic Foundation of Governmental Preferences over European Politics" in the CRC 884. Research grant: 408,000 €. Since 2014 Director of the Project Z2 "Central Administration" in the CRC 884. Research grant: 1,591,300 €. 2010-2013 Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 884 "The Political Economy of Reforms", financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Total research grant: 6,789,000 € (First period). 2010-2013 Director of the Project B1 "The Domestic Foundation of Governmental Preferences over European Politics" in the CRC 884. Research grant: 258,000 €. 2010-2013 Co-Director of the Project C1 "Legislative Reforms and Party Competition" in the CRC 884. Research grant: 471,400 €. 2010-2013 Director of the Project Z2 "Central Administration" in the CRC 884. Research grant: 1,366,000 €. 2009-2014 Director of the Project "Policy Change and Reform: The Determinants of Success and Duration of German Legislation between 1961 and 2005", financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Research grant: 236,249 €. 2008-2013 Director of the Project "European Legislative Responses to International Terrorism (ELIT)" (with Dr. Daniel Finke), financed by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Research grant: 70,000 €. 2007-2009 Director of the Project "The Implementation of Community Law in the Member States", financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Research grant: 76,800 €. 2007-2008 Director of the Project "European Integration and Political Union", financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Research grant: 25,308 €. 2003-2006 Director of the Project "Domestic Structures and European Integration. A Multi-stage two level game-analysis of European constitutionbuilding" (with Professor Dr. Christophe Crombez, Professor Dr. Han Dorussen, Professor Dr. Madeleine Hosli, Professor Dr. Simon Hix, Professor Dr. Simon Hug, Professor Dr. Michael Laver, Professor Dr. George Tsebelis), financed by the 6th framework of the European Commission. 2002-2009 Co-Director of the Research Group "Institutional Design of Federal Systems. Theorie and Empirics" (with Professor Dr. Charles Blankart, Professor Dr. Wolfgang Kitterer, Professor Dr. Wolfram Richter, Professor Dr. Helmut Seitz, Professor Dr. Jürgen von Hagen), financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Research grant: 248,160 €. 2001-2003 Co-Director of the Project "Domestic Preference Formation on Proposals of the European Commission: A Comparative Analysis of Cleavages and Interest Intermediation Patterns in Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom" (with Professor Dr. Gerald Schneider), financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Research grant: 143,700 €. 1999-2003 Co-Director of the Project "Explaining European Decision Making", (with Professor Dr. Frans Stokman), financed by the Dutch Science Foundation (NOW). 1999-2001 Co-Director of the Project "The Relevance of Threats and Promises in EU Negotiations“ (with Professor Dr. Gerald Schneider), financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Scholarships and Memberships Since 2015 Member of the Editorial Board of “Journal of Politics”. Since 2014 Associate Editor of “Research and Politics”. Since 2014 Member of the Research Council at the University of Mannheim. Since 2013 Member of the Editorial Board of “British Journal of Political Science”. Since 2013 Member of the Editorial Board of “Political Science Research and Methods”. 2013 Deputy Convener of the ECPR Standing Group on the EU. 2013 Convener of the 6th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations February 7-9. 2012 Organizer of the 6th Pan-European Conference on the EU for the ECPR Standing Group on the EU, Tampere, Finland, 13-15. Since 2012 Member of the Editorial Board of “Legislative Studies Quarterly“. Since 2011 Evaluator of the French Research Cooperation l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), European Research Council (ERC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). Since 2011 Member of the Scientific Board of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University (Frankfurt). Since 2011 Official Representative of the University of Mannheim at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). 2011-2013 Founding Member of the European Political Science Association (EPSA) Since 2009 Founder and Director of the Summer Institute on “Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM Europe)”. Since 2008 Member of the DAAD Review Board for Scholarships and the Fulbright Review Board for Scholarships, Tutor of the German National Academic Foundation. Since 2007 Member of the Editorial Board of "Political Analysis" and "International Interactions". 2004-2008 Evaluator of the Exchange Program of the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD). Since 2000 Director of the "Summer School on Analytical Approaches to European Union Policy Making" (University of Konstanz 2000, LSE 2001; Leiden 2002, Zürich 2006, Turku 2007, Torino 2009). Since 1999 Member of the Editorial Board of "Political Studies". Since 1999 Evaluator of the Research Program of the European Commission. Since 1998 Member of the Editorial Board of "European Union Politics". Referee Activities American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), American Political Science Review (APSR), British Journal of Political Science (BJPS), Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies (CPS), European Journal for Political Research, European Journal for Public Policy (JEPP), European Research Council (ERC), European Union Politics (EUP), German Academic Exchange Foundation (DAAD), German National Academic Foundation, German National Science Foundation (DFG), German Political Science Quarterly (PVS), Governance, International Organization (IO), International Studies Quarterly (ISQ), Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR), Journal of European Integration, Journal of Politics (JOP), Journal of Theoretical Politics (JTP), Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Political Analysis (KZfSS), Legislative Studies Quarterly (LSQ), MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Party Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Political Studies, Princeton University Press, Public Choice, Research and Politics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Research Program of the European Commission, Review of International Organization, Schweizer Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft. Teaching Lectures (last 5 years) Principles of European Integration, International Politics, European Integration and Cooperation, Transition und Transformation, Foreign and Conflict Analysis, Comparative Systems, Parliaments and Legislatures in Comparative Perspective, Introduction into international Relations, Introduction into Comparative Political Analysis Seminars (last 5 years) Comparative institutional analysis, Understanding European Decision Making, Political Economy of Europe, Judicial Politics in the European Union, Compliance and Infringements, Bicameralism, Veto players – Comparing Political Systems, The Analysis of European Decision Making, The European Union Decides, Two-Level Game Analysis, Power, Strategies and Cooperation, Governance, Comparing Coalitions, Coalition Governance, Parliaments and Coalitions, Legislatures and Decision Making, Transition and Transformation, Comparative Political Economy List of Publications Publications in Scholar Journals: König, Thomas König and Sebastian Köhler. 2014.“Fiscal Governance in the Eurozone: How Effectively Does the Stability and Growth Pact Limit Governmental Debt in the Euro Countries?“ Political Science Research and Methods: first view article. online December 2014: 1-23 . "Legislative Gridlock and Bureaucratic Politics in the European Union". British Journal of Political Science: first view article. online 09 June. "The Strategic Nature of Compliance. An Empirical Evaluation of Law Implementation in the Central Monitoring System of the European Union". American Journal of Political Science 58 (1): 246-263. Ministerial Gatekeeping and Parliamentary Involvement in the Implementation Process of EU Directives". Public Choice 160 (34): 501-519. "Legislative Governnance in Times of International Terrorism", Journal of Conflict Resolution: 0022002713503298. online. "The Strategic Nature of Compliance: An Empirical Evaluation of Law Implementation in the Central Monitoring System of the European Union". American Journal of Political Science: first view article. online 06 June 2013. -Oliver Proksch. 2013. "Government AgendaSetting and Bicameral Conflict Resolution." Political Research Quarterly: 66 (4):938951. "Estimating Party Positions across Countries and Time—A Dynamic Latent Variable Model for Manifesto Data". Political Analysis 21(4): 468-491. "Non-Conformable, Partial and Conformable Transposition: A Competing Risk Analysis of the Transposition Process of Directives in the EU15". European Union Politics 14 (1): 46-69. nja Dannwolf und Thomas König. 2012. "How Robust are Compliance Findings? A Research Synthesis." Journal of European Public Policy 19 (8): 1269-1291. "Party Ideology and Legislative Agendas: Estimating Contextual Policy Positions for the Study of EU Decision-Making." European Union Politics 13 (4): 604-625. "Why Risk Popular Ratification Failure? A Comparative Analysis of the Choice of the Ratification Instrument in the 25 Member States of the EU." Constitutional Political Economy 20 (3): 341-365. "Why Don't Veto Players Use Their Power?" . European Union Politics 10 (4): 507-534. "Troubles with Transposition? Explaining Trends in Member-State Notification and the Delayed Transposition of EU Directives." British Journal of Political Science 39 (1): 163-194. "Antwort auf die Replik von Daniel Göler zum Beitrag “Das Regieren jenseits des Nationalstaates und der Mythos einer 80-ProzentEuropäisierung in Deutschland”. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 50 (1): 80-85. "Analysing the Process of EU Legislative Decision-Making: To Make a Long Story Short." European Union Politics 9 (1): 145-165. "Why do Member States Empower the European Parliament?" Journal of European Public Policy 15 (2): 167-188. "The Treaty Reform of the EU: Constitutional Agenda-Setting, Intergovernmental Bargains and the Presidency's Crisis Management of Ratification Failure." Journal of Common Market Studies 46 (2): 337-363. "Das Regieren jenseits des Nationalstaates und der Mythos einer 80-Prozent-Europäisierung in Deutschland." Politische Vierteljahresschrift 49 (3): 438-463. 2007. "Domestic Structures and Constitution-Building in an International Organization: Introduction." The Review of International Organizations 2 (2): 105-113. "Who Calls for a Common EU Foreign Policy?: Partisan Constraints on CFSP Reform." European Union Politics 8 (3): 387-410. "What's Wrong With EU Spatial Analysis?: The Accuracy and Robustness of Empirical Applications To the Interpretation of the Legislative Process and the Specification of Preferences." Journal of Theoretical Politics 19 (4): 465-487. mas. 2007. "Discontinuity: Another Source of the EU's Democratic Deficit?" European Union Politics 8 (3): 411-432. 2007. "Divergence or Convergence? From Ever-Growing to Ever-Slowing European Legislative Decision Making." European Journal of Political Research 46 (3): 417-444. "Reforming the Equilibrium? Veto Players and Policy Change in the European Constitution-Building Process." The Review of International Organizations 2 (2): 153-176. 2007. "Bicameral Conflict Resolution in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis of Conciliation Committee Bargains." British Journal of Political Science 37 (2): 281-312. König, Thomas, Brooke Luetgert und Tanja Dannwolf. 2006. "Quantifying European Legislative Research: Using CELEX and PreLex in EU Legislative Studies." European Union Politics 7 (4): 553-574. -Oliver Proksch. 2006. "Exchanging and Voting in the Council: Endogenizing the Spatial Model of Legislative Politics." Journal of European Public Policy 13 (5): 647-669. "From Unanimity to Consensus: An Analysis of the Negotiations at the EU's Constitutional Convention." World Politics 58 (3): 413445. "Die Europäische Republik - so nah und wohl doch so fern?" Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 12 (2): 361-367. "Measuring and Analysing Positions on European Constitutionbuilding."European Union Politics 6 (3): 259-267. "The Unit of Analysis, the Nature of Policy Spaces and the Model Approach." Journal of Theoretical Politics 17 (3): 363-369. phanie Daimer. 2005. "Ignoring the Non-ignorables?: Missingness and Missing Positions." European Union Politics 6 (3): 269-290. "Budgetary Politics and Veto Players." Swiss Political Science Review 11 (4): 47-75. "Accession and Reform of the European Union: A Game-Theoretical Analysis of Eastern Enlargement and the Constitutional Reform." European Union Politics 5 (4): 419-439. "Bringing Parliaments Back in: The Sources of Power in the European Treaty Negotiations." Journal of Theoretical Politics 16 (3): 357-394. "In View of Ratification: Governmental Preferences and Domestic Constraints at the Amsterdam Intergovernmental Conference." International Organization 56 (2): 447-476. "Bicameralism and Party Politics in Germany: An Empirical Social Choice Analysis." Political Studies 49 (3): 411-437. d Mirja Pöter. 2001. "Examining the EU Legislative Process: The Relative Importance of Agenda and Veto Power." European Union Politics 2 (3): 329-351. "Making Rules for Governing Global Commons: The Case of Deep-Sea Mining." The Journal of Conflict Resolution 44 (5): 604-629. "Decisiveness and Inclusiveness: Two Aspects of the Intergovernmental Choices of European Voting Rules." Homo oeconomicus 17 (1/2): 107-123. "Ratifying Maastricht: Parliamentary Votes on International Treaties and Theoretical Solution Concepts." European Union Politics 1 (1): 93-124. "Institutional Reform and Decision-Making Efficiency in the European Union." American Journal of Political Science 44 (4): 653666. er, Thomas und Thomas König. 1999. "The Checks and Balances of Party Federalism: German Federal Government in a Divided Legislature." European Journal of Political Research 36 (2): 207-234. "Finnland auf dem Weg zum Mehrheitssystem? Eine vergleichende Analyse der politischen Willensbildung vor und nach den finnischen Verfassungsreformen der 90er Jahre." Politische Vierteljahresschrift 40 (1): 40-64. "The Formation of Policy Networks: Preferences, Institutions and Actors' Choice of Information and Exchange Relations." Journal of Theoretical Politics 10 (4): 445-471. "The Inclusiveness of European Decision Rules."Journal of Theoretical Politics 10 (1): 125-142. "The Constitutional Development of European Integration." Journal of Theoretical Politics 8 (4): 553-559. "Power and Political Coordination in American and German Multi-Chamber Legislation." Journal of Theoretical Politics 8 (3): 331-360. "Les Organisations Centrales dans les Réseaux Politiques: Une Comparaison Allemagne - Etats-Unis dans le Champ de la Politiqe du Travail." Revue Française de Sociologie 36 (4): 725-742. Thomas. 1992. "Kollektive Entscheidungsfindung im Politikfeld 'Arbeit': Ein modellorientierter Politikfeld-Ansatz." Politische Vierteljahresschrift 33 (4): 597-621. Monographs Finke, Daniel, Thomas König, Sven-Oliver Proksch und George Tsebelis. 2012. "Reforming the European Union: Realizing the Impossible." Princeton: Princeton University Press. König, Thomas. 1997. "Europa auf dem Weg zum Mehrheitssystem. Gründe und Konsequenzen nationaler und parlamentarischer Integration". Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. König, Thomas. 1996. "Koordination, Kooperation und die Wahrung staatlicher Handlungsfreiheit. Eine Modellierung von Kooperation und Konflikt an den Beispielen der Europäischen Union und der Antarktiskonferenz." Habilitationsschrift zur Erlangung der Venia Legendi in Politikwissenschaft an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Mannheim. Mannheim: Universität Mannheim. Pappi, Franz Urban, Thomas König und David Knoke. 1995. "Entscheidungsprozesse in der Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik. Der Zugang der Interessengruppen zum Regierungssystem über Politikfeldnetze. Ein deutsch-amerikanischer Vergleich." Frankfurt: Campus. König, Thomas. 1992. "Entscheidungen im Politiknetzwerk: der Einfluß von Organisationen auf die arbeits- und sozialrechtliche Gesetzgebung in den 80er Jahren." Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag. Editorials Brouard, Sylvain, Olivier Costa und Thomas König, Hrsg. 2012. "The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures: The Empirical Implications of the Delors' Myth in Nine Countries", Studies in Public Choice. New York: Springer. König, Thomas, George Tsebelis und Marc Debus, Hrsg. 2010. "Reform Processes and Policy Change: Veto Players and Decision-Making in Modern Democracies", Studies in Public Choice. New York: Springer. Hug, Simon und Thomas König, Hrsg. 2007. "Domestic Structures and ConstitutionBuilding in an International Organization", Special Issue of The Review of International Organizations 2 (2). Boston: Springer. König, Thomas und Simon Hug, Hrsg. 2006. "Policy-making Processes and the European Constitution. A Comparative Study of Member States and Accession Countries". London: Routledge. Thomson, Robert, Frans N. Stokman, Christopher H. Achen und Thomas König, Hrsg. 2006. "The European Union Decides". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. König, Thomas, Hrsg. 2005. "Methods and Measuring Positions on European Constitution-building", Special Issue of European Union Politics 6 (3). London: Sage. van Deth, Jan W. und Thomas König, Hrsg. 2000. "Europäische Politikwissenschaft ein Blick in die Werkstatt", Mannheimer Jahrbuch für Europäische Sozialforschung 4. Frankfurt: Campus. König, Thomas, Hrsg. 1998. "Modeling Policy Networks", Special Issue of the Journal of Theoretical Politics 10 (4). London: Sage. König, Thomas, Elmar Rieger und Herrmann Schmitt, Hrsg. 1998. "Europa der Bürger? Voraussetzungen, Alternativen, Konsequenzen", Mannheimer Jahrbuch für Europäische Sozialforschung 3. Frankfurt: Campus. König, Thomas, Elmar Rieger und Herrmann Schmitt, Hrsg. 1997. "Europäische Institutionenpolitik", Mannheimer Jahrbuch für Europäische Sozialforschung 2. Frankfurt: Campus. König, Thomas, Elmar Rieger und Hermann Schmitt, Hrsg. 1996. "Das europäische Mehrebenensystem", Mannheimer Jahrbuch für Europäische Sozialforschung 1. Frankfurt: Campus. Widmaier, Ulrich und Thomas König, Hrsg. 1990. "Technische Perspektiven und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen: Trends und Schwerpunkte der Forschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland". Baden-Baden: Nomos.