Paulette Kurzer

About

Dr. Paulette Kurzer joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona in 1994. She teaches comparative politics with a special focus on Europe, particularly Western Europe, covering domestic politics in these countries and the interaction between national governments and the institutions of the European Union. Her research interests include monetary integration and the single currency, public health, consumer protection, European housing markets, and mortgage lending institutions. She has published articles in major European political science and public policy journals and has a direct interest in German politics, having published several articles on the evolution of German tobacco policy. Currently, she is collaborating on a study examining the politics of the German housing market.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Economic growth
• Political economy
• Business
• Finance
• Public administration
• Market economy
• Medicine
• Virology

Selected publications

• Business and Banking

  Cornell University Press eBooks · 2020 · 58 citations

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  As part of the postwar settlement, and especially since the 1960s, small European democracies instituted many entitlement programs and redistributive income policies. Each country has responded differently, however, to the economic stagnation that followed the turmoil in world trade and monetary relations of the 1970s. Comparing the recent history of relations among business, labor, and government in four countries, Paulette Kurzer addresses complex questions at the heart of contemporary debates…

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• The politics of mortgage credit expansion in the small coordinated market economies

  West European Politics · 2019-05-10 · 26 citations

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  Recent contributions to the comparative political economy literature claim that liberal market economies are vulnerable to asset booms and busts because of financial deregulation, shrinking welfare states and a political ideology emphasising financial self-sufficiency. This article examines the rapid expansion of mortgage lending in three coordinated market economies (CMEs): Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. This expansion is puzzling given that all three countries are CMEs with generous welf…

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• Bricks in the wall: the politics of housing in Europe

  West European Politics · 2019-10-02 · 18 citations

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  Housing has important economic, political, and social ramifications for Western Europe and beyond. Despite its importance in shaping economic and political outcomes, however, housing remains in the peripheral vision of major comparative political economy debates. This introduction to the special issue accomplishes four objectives. First it demonstrates how housing defies current political economy typologies by failing to conform to their theoretical and empirical predictions. Second it summarise…

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• Follow the science: The European public health community confronts the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic

  European Policy Analysis · 2023 · 8 citations

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  Abstract This paper argues that “following the science” is not always the best strategy. It does so by examining the first phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic in three countries: Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden. All three countries possessed highly respected infectious disease agencies with wide stakeholder involvement. Despite this, Danish, Dutch, and Swedish public health agencies underplayed the threat of the COVID‐19 virus, discouraged intrusive mitigation measures…

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• For want of a champion: why the EU won’t be ready for the next public health crisis

  Journal of European Public Policy · 2022-11-04 · 4 citations

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  This article argues that the EU response to the COVID-19 crisis follows a pattern much like its response to earlier public health threats. Though each time the EU commits to being prepared for the next cross-border threat to health, as the immediate crisis recedes, so does the momentum to build the necessary administrative capacity, leaving the EU unprepared to take a leadership role when the next public health crisis emerges. The literature on administrative capacity, identifies authority, auto…

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Frequent coauthors

• Alice Cooper

  10 shared

• Karen M. Anderson

  4 shared

• Francesco Duina

  3 shared

• Honoraryp Rofessor In Politics

  European Commission

  2 shared

• Frank Schimmelfennig

  ETH Zurich

  2 shared

• Piotrb Odganowicz

  University of Warsaw

  2 shared

• Delorsi Sören

  University of Fribourg

  2 shared

• Jeffrey Rosamond

  University of Augsburg

  2 shared

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