Bernhard Ebbinghaus (born 2 June 1961) is a German
sociologist and comparative social policy expert at the
University of Mannheim
The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...
.
Biography
Ebbinghaus was born in 1961 in
Stuttgart. He studied sociology at the
University of Mannheim
The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...
(1981–88) and was a Fulbright student at the
New School for Social Research in 1984/85. Following a year at the ''Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Européennes'' in
Geneva
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, he was a doctoral student at the
European University Institute
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(EUI) in Florence, Italy (1989–92), where he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on ''Labour Unity in Union Diversity: Trade Unions and Social Cleavages in Western Europe, 1890-1989'' (1993). Returning to Mannheim, Ebbinghaus taught sociology and coordinated an international research project on trade unions in Europe at the
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). From 1997 until 2004, he was Senior Fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne and completed his Habilitation thesis in sociology at the
University of Cologne
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in 2003. He was John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the ''Center for European Studies'' at
Harvard University
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(1999/2000), Visiting Professor at the
University of Wisconsin
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in Madison (fall 2001), and Interim Professor at the
University of Jena
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The un ...
, Germany (2003–04). Ebbinghaus was Professor of Sociology (Chair of Macrosociology) at the
University of Mannheim
The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...
from 2004 until 2016, where he was founding director of the Doctoral Center for the Social and Behavioral Studies of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) (2006–09). Most recently, he was Director of the
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) (2008–11), one of the largest university-based social science research institutes in Germany. From 2017 until 2021 Ebbinghaus was Professor of Social Policy, Head of the
Department of Social Policy and Intervention
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and Fellow of
Green Templeton College
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at the
University of Oxford
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. Ebbingaus returned to the Chair of Macrosociology at
University of Mannheim
The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...
in 2022. He is a specialist of comparative social policy, analyzing the reform processes of welfare states in Europe and other OECD countries. Since November 2021 Professor Ebbinghaus is member of the European Commission’s High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU.
Book publications
* with J. Timo Weishaupt, ed
''The Role of Social Partners in Managing Europe’s Great Recession: Crisis Corporatism or Corporatism in Crisis?'' Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021
* with Elias Naumann, ed
''Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below. Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany'' London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan / Cham, Switzerland: Springer Online, 2018.
* ed
''The Varieties of Pension Governance. Pension Privatization in Europe'' Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006.
* with Philip Manow, eds., ''Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA''. London, UK: Routledge, 2001.
* with Jelle Visser: ''Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945''. London, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2000.
References
External links
* http://ebbinghaus.blog
* https://www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/ebbinghaus/
* http://www.spi.ox.ac.uk
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110820081324/http://lssoz3.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/english/startpage/index.html
* https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=3ppVQCMAAAAJ&hl=en
* http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/homepage_e.html
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Writers from Stuttgart
German sociologists
Living people
1961 births
German male writers
Academic staff of the University of Mannheim
Fellows of Green Templeton College, Oxford