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Ellen Immergut
Born1957[1]
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
ThesisThe political construction of interests : national health insurance politics in Sweden, France and Switzerland, 1930-1970 (1987)

Ellen Margaretha Immergut (born 1957) is a political scientist known for her work on electoral and political competition on welfare state reforms, policy analysis, health politics in Europe, and the impact of right-wing populism on social policies.

Education and career

In 1979, Immergut received her B.A. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University. She received her M.A. in 1983 and her Ph.D. in 1987 from the Faculty of Sociology at Harvard University. From 1986 to 1987, she was a lecturer in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This was followed by a position as assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1991.[2] In 1991 she was promoted to associate professor[3] and held the Ford International Development Chair.[2] Between 1994 and 2002 she held the professorship for Political Theory in the Faculty of Administrative Science at the University of Konstanz. From 2002 to 2017 she was Professor for Comparative Analysis of Political Systems at the Humboldt University of Berlin.[2][4] As of 2022 she is the head of the department of political and social science at the European University Institute.[2]

In 2012, Immergut served on the international committee that reviewed the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and presented recommendations change the department,[5] recommendations that were not followed and led to a plan to cancel politics classes at the university.[6][7][8]

Selected publications

As of 2022 Immergut's publications have over 7000 citations and she has an h-index of 22.[9]

  • Immergut, Ellen M. (1990). "Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care *". Journal of Public Policy. 10 (4): 391–416. doi:10.1017/S0143814X00006061. ISSN 1469-7815. S2CID 55825849.
  • Immergut, Ellen M. (1992). Health politics : interests and institutions in Western Europe. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521413350.
  • Immergut, Ellen M. (March 1998). "The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism". Politics & Society. 26 (1): 5–34. doi:10.1177/0032329298026001002. ISSN 0032-3292. S2CID 143375959.
  • Immergut, Ellen M.; Schulze, Isabelle; Anderson, Karen M., eds. (2006). The handbook of West European pension politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199291472.

References

  1. ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  2. ^ a b c d "Ellen M. Immergut". European University Institute. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  3. ^ "People in Political Science". PS: Political Science and Politics. 24 (2): 247–257. 1991. ISSN 1049-0965. JSTOR 419944.
  4. ^ "Curriculum Vitae — Comparative Politics". www.sowi.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  5. ^ Shtull-Trauring, Asaf (April 3, 2012). "Israeli Panel Urges to Keep Ben-Gurion Political Science Department Open". Haaretz. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  6. ^ "How the Israeli right conspired to shut down 'lefty' department at BGU". +972 Magazine. 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  7. ^ Winstanley, Asa (2012-10-22). "The full story behind the war against free speech in Israel's universities". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  8. ^ Jeffay, Nathan (October 7, 2012). "Politics at Ben Gurion May Eliminate Politics in Class". The Forward. Archived from the original on 2018-12-06. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  9. ^ "Ellen M. Immergut". scholar.google.de. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  10. ^ Rodwin, Victor G. (1995). "Review of Health Politics, Interests and Institutions in Western Europe". Journal of Public Health Policy. 16 (1): 116–119. doi:10.2307/3342982. ISSN 0197-5897. JSTOR 3342982. S2CID 68905259.
  11. ^ Light, Donald W. (1994). "Review of Health Politics: Interests and Institutions in Western Europe.; Doctors and the State: The Politics of Health Care in France and the United States". Contemporary Sociology. 23 (5): 745–747. doi:10.2307/2074342. ISSN 0094-3061. JSTOR 2074342.
  12. ^ Cohn, Daniel (1994). "Review of Health Politics: Interests and Institutions in Western Europe". Acta Sociologica. 37 (1): 113–116. doi:10.1177/000169939403700111. ISSN 0001-6993. JSTOR 4200892. S2CID 145203146.
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