David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley
Council 2004-06

David Vogel is professor in the department of political science and the Haas School of Business 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 the fields of 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 (with Robert Kagan) 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 with Chris Ansell on an edited volume on food safety regulation in Europe as a case-study of contested governance, (MIT Press, forthcoming), and a monograph comparing changes in risk regulation in the United States and the European Union. Vogel is also writing a study of the potential and limitations of corporate social responsibility.

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 the European University Institute and been a visiting professor at INSEAD, Sciences Po, the Bren School of Environmental Management, and the Hebrew University.