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John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 103
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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
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PAL-110
Political Institutions and Public Policy: Comparative Politics
Fall
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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
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Culpepper. Pepper D. "The Politics of Common Knowledge: Ideas and
Institutional Change in Wage Bargaining." International
Organization 62.1 (January 2008): 1-33.
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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.
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Culpepper, Pepper D. "Eppure, non si muove: Legal Change,
Institutional Stability and Italian Corporate Governance." West
European Politics 30.4 (September 2007): 784-802.
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Culpepper, Pepper D. "Small States and Skill Specificity."
Comparative Political Studies 40.6 (June 2007): 611-637.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Culpepper, Pepper D., Archon Fung, and Taeku Lee. "Public
Deliberation and Legitimate Governance." openDemocracy.net,
October 15, 2007.
- Reviews
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Culpepper, Pepper D. Review of Europe in Search of Political
Order, by Johan P. Olsen West European Politics, 31.3
May 2008: 624-625.