Information
Membership Number: FCA2505
Membership Type: Full Fellowship
Division: Social Sciences
Corresponding Email: gosta.esping@upf.edu
Homepage(s): https://www.upf.edu/web/esping-andersen
Present and Previous Positions
1978-83 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
1981-82 Research Director, Swedish Institute for Social Research
1983-86 Associate Professor, Harvard University
1985-86 Research Director, Science Center Berlin
1986-88 Associate Professor, European University Institute, Florence
1988-89 Chairman, Political and Social Sciences Department, European University Institute
1989-93 Full Professor, European University Institute, Florence
1993-99 Full Professor (catedra in Sistemi Sociali Comparati), Università di Trento
2000- Full Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ICREA Professor 2009-2013)
2018- Professor Emeritus, Pompeu Fabra University
2018- Research Professor, Bocconi University
GUEST TEACHING
1981 ———— University of Stockholm
1987-88 ———— University of Bergen, Dept. of Sociology and Department of Political Science
1990 ———— University of California, Los Angeles
1989-93 ———— External Professor, University of Bergen
1994 ———— University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1995-2007 ———— Instituto Juan March –Madrid
1995 ———— New York University
1997 ———— University of Maastricht
1998-2000 ———— Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2003-2011 ———— Universite Louvain
2005 ———— University of Maastrich
2008-2009 ———— University of Copenhagen
2012-2013 ———— Guest professor, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
2013 ———— Guest researcher, Copenhagen University
2016 ———— Guest professor, University of Copenhagen
2017 ———— Guest professor, European University Institute
2018 ———— Bocconi University
Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests
Ph.D. Sociology (with Ph.D. minor in Labor Economics) University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978
His scientific work centers on life course dynamics, comparative social policy, social inequality and stratification, family demography, and social science research methods
Honors, Awards and Other Membership
- Premio de Pensamiento ‘Primero de Mayo’, Fundacion Campalans (1999)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Roskilde University. September (2001)
-American Political Science Association Annual Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Prize – for Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (2005)
-Honorary professor. Aalborg University (2006-2011)
- Annual ‘trois lectures’ speaker, College de France (2006)
- Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought (Volume 2). Cited as one of the important political theorists of the 20th Century
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (as of 2007)
- Annual HC Andersen Lecture, Odense, Denmark(2007)
- Annual Drees Lecture, The Hague (2007)
- ICREA Academia Award (2009)
- Member of the British Academy (2010)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Copenhagen University (2012)
- Inaugural Academic Year Address, University of Geneva (25.09.2014)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Oslo Metropolitan University (2020)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Academic
Member of Social Science Research Council (US), 1991-1997
Member of Scientific Council, Juan March Institute, Madrid (1996-)
Member of Strategic Advisory Research Board, Danish Institute for Social Research (since 2003-2017)
Member of Scientific Council, European School of Economics, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (2005-2006)
Member of Scientific Council, European Master in Labour Studies, Università di Milano. (2006)
Member of Scientific Council, Instituo Madrileño de Estudios Avancados (2007-2012)
Centro Investigaciones Sociales, Madrid (2009-2011)
Ministry of Education, Denmark. Member of Strategic Research Council (2008-2016)
Member of Scientific Advisory Board, UNICE Gender and Generations Programme (2010-)
Member of Council of Advisors, Population Europe (2011-)
Member of Advisory Board, Trygdfondens Boerneforskningscenter, Aarhus University (2013-)
Member of the nomination committee for the Nobel Prize in Economics (2015-)
2. Non-Academic
Project director for UNRISD, 1995. Prepared a report on global social policy reform for the UN World Summit in 1995.
The Vatican, 1996. Invited non-members to the 1996 Academy Session on social policy and global inequality.
Prepared United Nations seminars on Social Progress and Social Indicators, 1999
German Government Council, 2004. Advising Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on family policy.
OECD, Social Affairs Unit. Consultancy work on social protection and social indicators: 1995-1996, 1997, 1999, and 2005
Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, 2000. Prepared a policy report for the European Summit.
Danish Ministry for Social Affairs. Member of ‘Think Tank’ on Social Security Reform (1995-98)
Belgian Presidency of the European Union, Autumn, 2001. Prepared a report for EU social ministries on life course-based social policy reform.
OECD. Member of OECD Mission to Evaluate the Swedish Education System (2005)
Netherlands government Council for Scientific Research (2005)
ISSA (International Social Security Association), Geneva. Member of the scientific committee (2005)
European Union Presidency. Social policy advisory to President Barroso (2005-2006)
Member of CHILD, the North American Association to promote the welfare of Children (2005-)
Member of the advisory board for German Ministry of Employment, IAB, Nurnberg (2006)
Generalitat of Catalunya. Helped prepare legislation for early child care system for Catalunya (2006-07)
Government of Chile. Consultant on the implementation of early childhood care for Chile. 2007.
Parliament of Chile. Consultant on social policy options for Chile’s Constitutional Reform, 2020-21
Rand Corporation Europe (2004->)
3. Editorial membership:
- Sociological Theory (1984-85)
- Political Power and Social Theory (1989 - )
- Comparative Political Studies
- Stato e Mercato (1990 - )
- American Journal of Sociology (1989 -91)
- European Journal of Industrial Relations (1994-)
- European Sociological Review (1994-)
- South European Society and Politics
- New Political Economy
- Work, Employment & Society
- Journal of European Social Policy
- American Sociological Review (2005-08)
- Social Forces (2019-)
3. Refereeing
- National Science Foundation
- German Marshall Foundation
- Social Science Research Council
- Swedish Research Council
- World Bank
- Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology
- Evaluator for ERC
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4. Professional Associations
- American Sociological Association
- Council for European Studies
- International Sociological Association
- European Society for Population Economics
- European Association of Population Studies
5. Research Funding
1978 and 1984 Milton Foundation Grant(s), Harvard University
1985-87 Nordic Council Research Grant (with J. E. Kolberg)
1986-88 Volkswagen Stiftung Research grant (DM 486.000) for Project: Welfare Policy Regimes and Permanent Disemployment
1987 EUI Research grant (Lit. 50 Million) for project on labor market effects of welfare states
1989-90 EEC (DG-5) Research grant (Lit. 91 Million) for project on labor market effects of welfare states
1993 Danish Social Science Research Council (Dkr. 120.000)
2000-04 Spanish National Research Council (MCYT: SEC2000-1697-C02-01; Pts 11,5 million)
2001 Research grant, BBVA (60.000 Euros), 2003-2005
2003-06 Spanish National Research Council (MCYT) (SEC2003-02699: 65.000 euros
2006-08 Research Grant, Fundacion BBVA (75.000 euros)
2006-09 EU 6th Framework Project (Equalsoc). Total financing is 4.5 million Euros
2007-2010 Spanish Nacional Research Council (MCYT, financing 125.000 Euros)
2010-2013 Spanish Nacional Research Council (MCYT, financing 138.000 Euros)
2011-2016 European Research Council Advanced Research Grant (total financing 2.100.000 Euros)
2012-2013 Fundacion La Caixa Research Grant for project on fertility (50.000 Euros)
2014-2017 Spanish National Research Council, financing 80.000 Euros
2018-2022 Spanish National Research Council, Excellence Research Program financing 120.000 Euros
Selected Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wKNoabEAAAAJ
1980 Social Democracy and State Policy. Copenhagen: New Social Science Monographs
1982 Political Power and Social Theory, vol, 3. (with Roger Friedland, edited). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press
1985 Politics against Marketss. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1987 Stagnation and Renewal. The Rise and Fall of Social Policy Regimes. (Lee Rainwater and Martin Rein as co-editors). Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe
1990 The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press & Princeton: Princeton University Press (this book was awarded the APSA’s Aaron Wildavsky Award in 2005)
Translations in: Chinese, French, Greek, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
1993 Changing Classes: Social Stratification in Postindustrial Europe and North America. (Editor, contributor) London: Sage.
1996 Welfare States in Transition (Editor,contributor).London: Sage.
1999 The Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(translations in Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Spanish)
2000 Why De-Regulate Labour Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press (contributor and co-editor with Marino Regini)
2002 A Welfare State for the 21st Century (English translation of Japanese). Tokio: Sakurai-Shoten Publishers
2002 Why We Need a New Welfare State (with Duncan Gallie, Anton Hemerijck and John Myles). Oxford: oxford University Press
2006 Family Formation and Low Fertility. Madrid: BBVA
2008 Trois Lecons sur L’Etat Providence. Paris: Le Seuil (translated into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish)
2009 The Incomplete Revolution. Adapting to Women’s New Roles. Cambridge: Polity Press (translations: Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish)
2013 The Fertility Gap in Europe. La Caixa Social Studies Collection, 36(translation in Spanish)
2016 Families in the 21st Century. Stockholm: SNS