Section: Staff Profiles
Stephan Köppe
- Name
- Mr Stephan Köppe
- Title
- Visiting Fellow
- Organisation
- Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - stephan.koeppe@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Social Policy,discourse analysis,Insurance markets,privatisation,marketisation,Welfare Regimes,pension policy,Germany,Sweden,USA,Welfare Markets,comparative social policy,Mixed methods research in social sciences,Education
- URL
- http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/staff/stephan_koeppe
Biographical Statement
My research focuses on the privatisation and marketisation of social policy, but my research interest is generally in comparative social policy. I have worked on concepts and normative foundations of social policy, pension policy, education policy, Nordic welfare states, and to some extent on gender and the welfare state. In my comparative work I try to combine different methods, ranging from qualitative policy analysis, interviews, discourse analysis, network analysis to quantitative measures.
I am currently (2009-2011) a research fellow on the ESRC research grant "Welfare Markets and Personal Risk Management in England and Scotland", with my colleagues Jochen Clasen (PI), Alison Koslowski (CI), and Traute Meyer (CI, Southampton). From 2007 to 2009 I worked at the Centre of Social Policy Research (CeS, University of Bremen) as a research assistant and taught in social policy. I am still finishing my PhD at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). In my thesis I compare the development of welfare markets in Germany, Sweden, and the US. I studied political science, biology, and education at the University of Bremen (2001-2006) and at the University of Växjö (Sweden 2005).
My CV contains a full record of publications and other academic activities.
Recent Activities
I presented my conceptual work on welfare markets at two conferences. The papers are available at the websites of the SASE annual meeting and the SPA conference.
I recently contributed to the Rethinking Retirement Seminar Series:
Please see also the related social policy news.Selected Publications
Köppe, Stephan; Starke, Peter, Leibfried, Stephan (2011): Sozialpolitik [Social Policy]. in: Otto, Hans-Uwe; Thiersch, Hans (eds): Handbuch Soziale Arbeit. Grundlagen der Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik. München: Reinhardt, 1458-1497.
Nullmeier, Frank; Köppe, Stephan; Friedrich, Jonas (2009): Legitimationen der Sozialpolitik [Legitimations of Social Policy]. in: Herbert Obinger, Elmar Rieger (eds): Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit in entwickelten Demokratien. Herausforderungen, Reformen und Perspektiven. Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 151-189.
Köppe, Stephan (2009): Herausforderungen der Rentenpolitik [The Challenges of German Pension Policy]. in: Andrea Gawrich, Wilhelm Knelagen, Jana Windwehr (eds): Sozialer Staat – soziale Gesellschaft? Stand und Perspektiven deutscher und europäischer Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit. Opladen: Barbara Budrich, 117-136.
Köppe, Stephan; Starke, Peter; Leibfried, Stephan (2008): Sozialpolitik – Konzepte Theorien und Wirkungen [Social Policy – Concepts, Theories, and Effects]. ZeS Working Paper 06/2008. Bremen: Zentrum für Sozialpolitik.
Köppe, Stephan (2008): Pioniere und Nachzügler der Sozialpolitik: Die komplementäre Entstehung von Wohlfahrtsstaat und Wohlfahrtsmarkt.[Pioneers and Late-Comers of Social Policy: The Complementary Development of Welfare State and Welfare Market] ZeS report 13 (1), 13-16.
Köppe, Stephan; Nullmeier, Frank; Wiesner, Achim (2007): Legitimationswandel des bundesdeutschen Sozialstaats [The Normative Vocabulary of the German Welfare State]. In: Sozialer Fortschritt 56 (9-10), 227-236.
Köppe, Stephan (2007): Mainstreamkonvergenz und Geschlechterdifferenz. Die deutsche und schwedische Rentenreform im Vergleich [Mainstream Convergence and Gender Difference. Comparing German and Swedish Pension Reforms]. In: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 53 (2), 165-190.
This page was published on 8 February 2012