Pepper Culpepper

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Office Address
Taubman-470
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 103
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-0760
Fax: 617-496-9053
Email: Pepper_Culpepper@ksg.harvard.edu
Pepper Culpepper

Profile

Pepper D. Culpepper, Associate Professor of Public Policy, teaches the MPP core course on comparative politics and the doctoral research seminar. He has taught electives on comparative capitalism, the European Union, institution building, and (in cooperation with the ENA in France) European policymaking. His research focuses on the politics of business-government relations in the advanced industrial democracies, particularly in Europe. He speaks French, German, and Italian. He has authored three books - Creating Cooperation, Changing France, and TheGerman Skills Machine - and is currently completing a fourth on the politics of financial reform. Culpepper is affiliated with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and the Wiener Center for Social Policy; he is also a faculty associate for the Center for European Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. He received his PhD in political science from Harvard University and holds degrees from Oxford University and Duke University.

 

Courses

Spring

  • PAL-110 Political Institutions and Public Policy: Comparative Politics

Fall

  • API-901 Doctoral Research Seminar

Media Expertise

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Culpepper. Pepper D. "The Politics of Common Knowledge: Ideas and Institutional Change in Wage Bargaining." International Organization 62.1 (January 2008): 1-33.
    • Culpepper, Pepper D., and Archon Fung. “Do all Bridges Collapse? Possibilities for Democracy in the European Union.” Politische Vierteljahresschrift 48.4 (December 2007): 730-739.
    • Culpepper, Pepper D. "Eppure, non si muove: Legal Change, Institutional Stability and Italian Corporate Governance." West European Politics 30.4 (September 2007): 784-802.
    • Culpepper, Pepper D. "Small States and Skill Specificity." Comparative Political Studies 40.6 (June 2007): 611-637.
    • Culpepper, Pepper D., Peter Hall, and Bruno Palier. "Les Silences de la France en Mutation." Revue Française de Science Politique 57.2 (April 2007): 248-250.
    • Culpepper, Pepper D., and Archon Fung. "Listen to the Citizens: The Radical Way Forward for the European Union." Harvard International Review (November 2, 2006).
  • Op-Eds
    • Culpepper, Pepper D. "Obama's Biggest Obstacle: If He Beats Clinton, He Must Heed a Lesson from French Politics to Win It All." Christian Science Monitor, February 7, 2008.
    • Culpepper, Pepper D., Archon Fung, and Taeku Lee. "Public Deliberation and Legitimate Governance." openDemocracy.net, October 15, 2007.
  • Reviews
    • Culpepper, Pepper D. Review of Europe in Search of Political Order, by Johan P. Olsen West European Politics, 31.3 May 2008: 624-625.