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 courses on comparative politics, comparative capitalism, and the doctoral research seminar. He also directs a seminar on European policymaking, which is conducted jointly by the Kennedy School and the École Nationale dAdministration (ENA) in France. His research focuses on the politics of institutional change in the advanced industrial democracies, particularly in Europe. He has authored three books — Creating Cooperation, Changing France, and The German Skills Machine — and his articles have appeared in a variety of journals and edited volumes. At the Kennedy School Culpepper is affiliated with the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and the Center for Business and Government. He is also a faculty associate of 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

Fall

  • API-901 Doctoral Research Seminar

Media Expertise

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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. "Business Power, Policy Salience, and the Study of Politics." European Studies Forum 38.2 (Autumn 2008): 5-11.
  • Book Chapters
    • Culpepper, Pepper D., and Kathleen Thelen. "Institutions and Collective Actors in the Provision of Training: Historical and Cross-National Comparisons." Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives. Ed. Karl Ulrich Mayer and Heike Solga. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 21-49.
  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Culpepper, Pepper D. "How to Succeed in Regulating Business." The New Republic. March 17, 2009.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Culpepper, Pepper D. "The Netherlands and the Myth of the Corporatist Coalition." Paper for the Sixteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 6-8, 2008.
    • Culpepper, Pepper D. "Legal Change, Institutional Stability, and Italian Corporate Governance." Paper for the Berkeley Workshop on Comparative Corporate Governance, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, March 14-15, 2008.
    • Culpepper, Pepper D. "Why Managers Usually Win in the Politics of Corporate Control: Japan and the Netherlands Compared." Paper for Seminar Series of the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University, Cambridge, April 8, 2008.
    • Culpepper, Pepper D., Elena Fagotto, Archon Fung, and Taeku Lee. "Can Deliberative Democracy Reduce the EU's Democratic Deficit?" Paper for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 28-31, 2008.
  • Reviews
    • Culpepper, Pepper D. Review of Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity, eds. Masahiko Aoki, Gregory Jackson, and Hideaki Miyajima. Social Science Japan Journal, 11.2, October 2008: 339-343.