Research Activities


Publications (Selected)
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Articles and Chapters

*"Global Governance, Japan and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development" In: Global Governance and Japan, ed. by Glenn Hook and Hugo Dobson. Oxford: Routledge, 2007, pp. 76-91.

Reviewed by:
Marie Söderberg, Social Science Japan Journal, 10(2), 2007, 347-349.

*"Constructing 'Corporatist' State-Society Relations?: Current Discourses on the European NGOs and Its Democratic Weakness." Kobe University Law Review, 38, 2004, 1-20D

Get cited in:
*Justin Greenwood, "The Future of Consultation with, and Participation by, Interest Groups in the European Union," Transnational Associations, 4/2005, 219-230;
*Deirdre Curtin, "Framing Public Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union." In: Deliberative Democracy And Its Discontents, ed. by Samantha Besson, Jose Luis Marti and Verena Seiler. London: Ashgate, 2006, 133-156;
*Justin Greenwood, "Organized Civil Society and Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union," British Journal of Political Science, 37(2), 2007, 333-357;
*Justing Greenwood and Darren Halpin, "The European Commission and the Public Governance of Interest Groups in the European Union: Seeking a Niche between Accreditation and laissez-faire," Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 8(2), 2007, 189-210;
*The Evaluation Partnership, "Final External Evaluation of the Community Action Programme to Promote Bodies Active at European Level in the Field of Culture," Report Submitted to the Directorate-General for Education and Culture, October 2007.

*"Functional Differentiation and Democracy: a Hidden Agenda of Globalisation ?" In: Anglo-Japanese Academy Proceedings (4-9 September 2001) (ICCLP Publications No.7). Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 2002, 539-557.

*"Sengo nishi doitsu ni okeru 'shinchitsujyo' no zasetsu," Research Thesis, University of Tokyo, 1996. (The Failure of the "New Order" Strategies of the Postwar West German Labour Movement)

*"'Tenkan' go no doitsu shakai minshu to -- seiken heno mosaku --," Masters Thesis, University of Tokyo, 1992. (The Social Democratic Party of Germany after the 'Transformation' -- Searching for a Road to Government).


Unpublished Papers and Presentations

*"How long do constructivists have to struggle for their recognition?: Comments on Kondo and Schmidt", Committe on Political Science of the Science Council of Japan, International Symposium on Constructivist Political Theory, Nagoya, May 2008.

*"From the 'Rescue of the Nation State' to the Emergence of European Spaces", EUIJ-Kansai Workshop "New Research Horizons of the History of European Integration", Toyonaka (Osaka), May 2008.

*"Social Democratic Politics after 'Organised Class-compromise Democracy': Comments on Crouch and Boyer", Symposium of the Civil Social Democracy Project, "Beyond Post-democracy: Possibilities of Social Democraci in the Era of Globalization", Tokyo, April 2008.

*"Transposition Strategy and Political Time in the Europeanisation of Social Norms: Comparing Transposition of the Anti-discrimination Directives in Germany and Austria," paper deliverd at the 4th General Conference of the European Consortium fo Political Research, Pisa (Italy)CSeptember 2007.

*"Austria and the European Integration," paper delivered at the Anglo-Japanese Seminar, "Japan, Asia-Pacific and Regionalism", Kobe (Japan), March 1997.

*"Regional Responses to the Globalisation in the Intersection of Economic Interests and Political Values: An Overview of the Issues at the Kobe-Seminar," paper delivered at the Sheffield-Kobe Seminar "Globalisation and Universalism in Regions", Ullswater (U. K.), October 1997.



Current Research Projects

*"European Level Social Policy Expert Community and Its Function"
*"Core Exectutive in the Time of Change: The Case of Germany"
*"Protection of Minority Culture in Gernamy and Austria"

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