David Vogel

David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley 

CAREER AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS / STATEMENT OF VIEWS

David Vogel is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Haas School of Business and an affiliate professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at Princeton University and has taught at Berkeley since 1973. Vogel's research focuses on business-government relations, business political activity, and government regulation. He has made contributions to American politics, comparative politics, and international political economy.

Vogel's books include Lobbying the Corporation: Citizen Challenges to Business Authority (Basic Books, 1978); National Styles of Regulation: Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States (Cornell, 1986); Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America (Basic Books, 1989); Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy (Harvard 1995); Kindred Strangers: The Uneasy Relationship Between Business and Politics in America (Princeton, 1996); and Benefits or Barriers? Regulation in Transatlantic Trade (Brookings, 1998). He is also co-editor of The Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies (UC Press, 2004). Vogel has also published more than 50 scholarly articles and essays.

He is currently working on a study of the contested governance of food safety regulation in Europe, and an analysis of changes in risk regulation in the US and the EU. Vogel is also completing a monograph on corporate social responsibility for Brookings Institution Press.

He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Policy History, Political Research Quarterly, Business and Politics, Business Ethics Quarterly, and the Journal of Public Affairs. Since 1982, he has edited the California Management Review.

Vogel has served on six award committees for the APSA and the History and Politics Section and as program co-chair for the History and Politics Section. He has held the Jean Monnet Chair and the BP Chair in Transatlantic Relations at European University Institute and been a visiting professor at INSEAD, Sciences Po, Bren School of Environmental Management, and Hebrew University.

I have been an active member of the APSA for thirty-five years and welcome the opportunity to participate in its governance. I want to help maintain and enhance a diversity of approaches to the study of politics. I also would like to promote opportunities for political scientists to work in professional schools and to strengthen links between the APSA and the members of our discipline who work outside departments of political science.