Colin Crouch
- Professor - Governance & Public Management Fellow, British Academy External Scientific member, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
BA (LSE), DPhil (Oxford)
Biography
Previously Professor of Comparative Social Institutions at the European University Institute, Florence. Also held positions at LSE and Oxford. Chairman of The Political Quarterly, and past President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Fellow of the British Academy, member of the Academy of Social Sciences, and External Scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research at Cologne. Expert consultant to the Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD.
Research interests
structure of European societies, with special reference to labour market, gender and family issues; economic sociology; neo-institutional analysis; local economic development and public service reform.
Selected research projects
- GUSTO: Meeting the challenges of economic uncertainty and sustainability: EU, October 2008 - September 2011.
- Supporting Public Scrutiny: Understanding and Developing the Role of the Professional Scrutiny Officer: Centre for Public Scrutiny, June 2008 - August 2008.
- Supporting Public Scrutiny: Understanding and Developing the Role of the Professional Scrutiny Officer: Centre for Public Scrutiny, October 2006 - May 2008.
Only selected externally-funded projects are listed here.
Teaching activity this year
Masters Portfolio
- IB91U0 Governance and Corporate Responsibility module leader
Undergraduate
- IB1120 Business in Social and Political Context
- IB2480 Governance and the Social Environment of Business module leader
Warwick MPA
- IB94H0 Markets, Publ. Service & New Forms of Delivery Org module leader
- IB95D0 Policy Making in Central Government module leader
- IB9J20 The Political Economy of Public Policy module leader
- XX8250 MPA Introductory Weekend module leader
Publications
Reports to government
- Competitive Cities in the Global Economy. OECD (2006).
Journal articles
- Modelling the Firm in its Market and Organizational Environment: Methodologies for Studying Corporate Social Responsibility. Organization Studies 27 (2006): 1533-1551.
Books
- Capitalist Diversity and Change: Recombinant Governance and Institutional Entrepreneurs. Oxford University Press, 2005.

