Regine Paul

Biography

Regine Paul is a post-doc political scientist with an interest in comparative regulatory reforms, risk-based governance and migration governance in Europe. Regine holds a PhD in European social policy from the University of Bath/England (2012). Her thesis examined contemporary labour migration regimes in Britain, France and Germany across multiple institutionalist logics of 'border-drawing' comparatively (published as "The Political Economy of Border-Drawing" with Berghahn in 2015). She has previously studied at universities in Germany, England, Italy and France.

At CES, Regine will work on her second monograph which explores causal mechanisms for the adoption of risk-based regulation within German public administration. In a process-tracing study of three policy domains the research seeks to explain (a) why a regulatory reform that has so far been discussed as rather inhibited by the German institutional setting succeeded nonetheless, and (b) how risk-based forms of rationalizing public administrative actions change this very institutional setting.

Regine co-chairs the research network "European integration and the global political economy" at the Council for European Studies, jointly with Erik Jones.

This information was last updated for the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, September 2017.

Affiliations

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Law and Society Unit, Faculty of Sociology, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2017-2018, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
• Visiting Scholar 2017-2018, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University