Henry Farrell
Department of Political Science
George Washington University
Washington DC 20052
Office: 414H Old Main
Street Address: 1922 F Street NW
(202) 994-7933
Birthdate: June 30, 1970
Nationality: Irish
Permanent Resident of the US
Education
Ph.D.
(2000) Department of Government, Georgetown University. Dissertation
Title, “The Political Economy of Trust: Cooperation between Firms in
Industrial Districts in Baden-Württemberg and Emilia-Romagna.” Awarded with
Distinction. Committee - Dr. Samuel H. Barnes (Georgetown University, Chair),
Dr. Colin Crouch (European University Institute), Dr. Margaret Levi (University
of Washington), Dr. Mark Warren (Georgetown University). Comprehensive
Examinations in Political Theory, German and European Studies, and Comparative
Politics, all passed with Distinction.
M.A.
(2000) In German and European Studies, School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University (completed jointly with Ph.D).
M.A.
(1993) In Politics, University College Dublin. Awarded with First Class
Honours. Thesis title, “The Parliamentary Party in Cumann na nGaedheal and
Fine Gael, 1922-1967.”
B.A. (1991) In Politics (First Class Honours) and Economics (Second Class Honours Grade One), University College Dublin.
Employment
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science/Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, September 2004 -.
Assistant Professor for International Political Economy, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. July 2002 – August 2004.
Research Fellow, Max-Planck Project Group on the Law of
Common Goods,
Research Associate, "Governance of Local Economies Project", directed by Colin Crouch, 1998-1999.
Research Assistant, Department of Government/Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, 1994-1996.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Government, Georgetown University, 1994
Rapporteur, Team
Teaching
George Washington University
Spring 2008 Courses: “Privacy, Security and Technology: The New Agenda,” and “Advanced International Relations Theory.”
Fall 2007 Courses: “The Politics of the Internet” and “The Internet and International Politics”
Spring 2007 Courses: “Security, Privacy and Technology: The New Agenda,” and “The Politics of Institutions.”
Fall 2006 Courses: “The Internet and International Politics,” and “The Politics of the Internet.”
Spring 2006 courses: “The Internet and International Politics,” and “The Politics of the Internet.”
Spring 2005 courses: “Privacy, Security and Technology: The New Agenda,” and “The Politics of the Internet.”
Fall 2004 courses: “The Internet and International Politics,” “Game Theory.”
University of Toronto
Spring 2004 Courses: International Relations Ph.D. Core Course (co-taught with Thomas Homer Dixon).
Fall 2003 Courses: International Relations Ph.D. Core Course (co-taught with Thomas Homer-Dixon), “The Politics of the Internet,” “The New International Agenda.”
Spring 2003 Courses: “The Comparative Political Economy of Europe,” “The New International Agenda”
Fall 2002 courses, University of Toronto: “The Politics of the Internet” and “The New International Agenda.”
Georgetown University
Summer 2001, “The Political Economy of European Integration."
Fellowships etc
Affiliated Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2002-…
Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg
Center for European Studies,
European Union Social Science Information Resource Fellowship, May 2000
Researcher's Stipend, European University Institute, 1996-1999.
Graduate Fellowship, Government Department/Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, 1994-1996.
Fulbright Fellowship, 1993-1994.
21st Century Trust Fellow, 1996, 1997.
Postgraduate Scholarship, University College Dublin, 1991-1992.
Publications
Book Manuscripts
The Political Economy of Trust: Institutions, Interests and Inter-Firm Cooperation in Italy and Germany. Under contract, Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
Daniel W. Drezner and Henry Farrell, Co-Edited Special Issue of Public Choice on Blogs, Politics and Power 134,1-2 (Jan 2008). Including inter alia:
1. Daniel W. Drezner and Henry Farrell, “Introduction: Blogs, Politics and Power,” Public Choice, 134, 1-2:1-13.
2. Henry Farrell and Daniel W. Drezner, “The Power and Politics of Blogs,” Public Choice. 134,1-2, 15-30.
Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier Co-edited Special Issue of West European Politics on “Contested Competences in the European Union.” Including inter alia:
3. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier, “Introduction: Contested Competences in the European Union,” West European Politics 38,2, 227-243 (2007).
4. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier, “Codecision and Institutional Change,” West European Politics 38,2, 285-300 (2007).
5. Carl-Fredrik Bergström, Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier, “Legislate or Delegate? – Bargaining over Implementation and Legislative Authority in the European Union,” West European Politics 38,2, 338-366 (2007).
6. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier, Conclusions, West European Politics 38,2, 405-415.
7. Henry Farrell, “Governing Information Flows: States,
Private Actors and E-Commerce,” Annual Review of Political Science 6,
353-374 (2006).
8. Henry Farrell, “Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation,” Comparative Political Studies, 38,5, 459-483 (2005). Available here.
9. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier, “A Rationalist-Institutionalist Explanation of Endogenous Regional Integration,” Journal of European Public Policy 12, 2, 273-290 (2005). Available here.
10. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier,
“Interorganizational Cooperation and Intraorganizational Power:
Early Agreements under Codecision and Their Impact on the Parliament and the
Council,” Comparative Political Studies 37,10, 1184-1212 (2004).
11. Colin Crouch and Henry Farrell, “Breaking the Path of Institutional Development: Alternatives to the New Determinism in Political Economy,” Rationality and Society, 16, 1:5-43 (2004). Earlier version available as a Max-Planck Discussion Paper, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Society, Cologne, Germany. Available here.
12.
Henry Farrell, “Constructing the International Foundations of E-Commerce: The
EU-US Safe Harbor Arrangement,” International Organization, 57, 2:
277-306 (2003). Available here.
13.
Henry Farrell and Jack Knight, “Trust, Institutions and Institutional
Evolution: Industrial Districts and the Social Capital Hypothesis,” Politics
and Society, 31,4: 537-556 (2003). Available here.
14.
Henry
Farrell and Adrienne Héritier, “Continuous Constitution-Building in Europe:
Co-Decision and Informal and Formal Institutions,” Governance, 16, 4:
577-600 (2003). Available here.
15.
Henry Farrell, “Hybrid Institutions and the Law: Interface Solutions or Outlaw
Arrangements?,” Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 23, 1:25-40 (2002). Available here.
16. Gregory Flynn and Henry Farrell, “Piecing Together the Democratic Peace: The CSCE, Norms and the ‘Construction’ of Security in Post-Cold War Europe,” International Organization, 53, 3:505-35 (1999). Available here.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
1. Henry Farrell, “Privacy in the Digital Age: States, Private Actors and Hybrid Arrangements,” To be published in Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Power and Policy, eds. William Drake and Ernest Wilson (The MIT Press: forthcoming). Next-to-final draft available here.
2. Henry Farrell, “Transnational Actors and the Transatlantic Relationship in E-Commerce - The Negotiation of the Safe Harbor Arrangement.” Creating a Transatlantic Marketplace, ed. Michelle Egan (Manchester University Press: 2005). Available here.
3. Henry Farrell, “The Political Economy of the Internet and E-Commerce,” in Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (third edition), eds. Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (Oxford: 2005). Available here.
4. Henry Farrell and Ann-Louise Holten, “Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna,” Local Production Systems in Europe: Reconstruction and Innovation, ed. Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Galès, Carlo Trigilia and Helmut Voelzkow (Oxford University Press, 2004). Available here.
5. Henry Farrell, “Trust, Distrust, and Power” in Distrust, ed. Russell Hardin (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004). Available here.
6. Henry Farrell, “Negotiating Privacy across Arenas - The EU-US
"Safe Harbor" Discussions,” in Common
Goods: Reinventing European and International Governance, ed. Adrienne
Héritier (Rowman and Littlefield: 2002). Available
here.
7. Colin Crouch and Henry Farrell, “Great Britain: Falling Through the Holes
in the Network Concept,” in Local
Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise?, ed. Colin Crouch et al.
(Oxford University Press), 2001. Translated into Italian and published in I
sistemi di produzione locale in Europa (Il Mulino 2004).
Non-Academic
Publications
1. Henry Farrell, “Bloggers and Parties: Can the Netroots Reshape American Democracy?,” The Boston Review (September/October 2006).
2. Henry Farrell, “Privacy in Europe Suffers in Terror War,” The Financial Times op-ed page, July 2 2006,
3. Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell, “Web of Influence,” Foreign Policy, November 2004. Available here (free reg. required).
4. Henry Farrell, “The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 7, 2005. Available here. Reprinted in The Australian Higher Education Supplement.
. Henry Farrell, “Fantasy Remade: China Miéville’s New Crobuzon Novels,” N+1 (online). Available here.
Manuscripts under Submission, Conferences and Papers
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “Domestic Institutions and International Political Economy,” draft introduction for a proposed special issue.
Henry Farrell, “Constructing Mid-Range Theories of Trust: The Role of Networks,” to be presented at the Russell Sage Foundation Trust Project Capstone Volume Meeting, May 2007.
Henry Farrell and Jack Knight, “Trust and Institutional Compliance.” Manuscript under preparation for journal submission.
Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell, “The Power and Politics
of Blogs.” Draft manuscript. Paper earlier presented at the 2004 meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1-4, 2004.
Available here.
Henry
Farrell and Adrienne Héritier, “Conflicts over Competences in the European
Union.” Paper presented at European Union Studies Association biennial
meeting, Austin, Texas, March 31-April 2, 2005.
Chair
and Discussant, panel on “New Modes of Private Transnational Governance,”
International Studies Association Convention, Honolulu, March 1-5 2005.
Chair and Discussant, panel on “Globalization: New Perspectives and Case Evidence,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 15-18, 2004.
Workshops and Online Seminars
Workshop on the New Institutionalisms and Change, co-organized with Alec Stone Sweet and Neil Fligstein, June 21-22, 2002.
Workshop on Historical Institutionalism and International Relations. Organized with Abraham Newman and Orfeo Fioretos, Temple University, October 27 2006.
Workshop on Historical Institutionalism and International Relations. Organized with Abraham Newman, April 14 2007.
Online seminars organized on Sheri Berman’s “The Primacy of Politics” (available here; republished in translation by the Monthly Review, Greek edition, March 2007) and Yochai Benkler’s “The Wealth of Networks” available here) as well as on a variety of non-academic texts.
Invited Presentations
“Trust and Institutional Compliance,” Washington University at St Louis Dept. of Political Science, November 17 2006.
Regulating Information Flows: Domestic Sources of State Power and the Role of State-Private Actor Relations,” presented in Georgetown University, Mortara Center for International Affairs Seminar Series in International Relations, March 3, 2005.
“The Invisible Transformation of the
Co-decision Procedure: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy,” with Adrienne Héritier.
Presented at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies,
“Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of
Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation.” Presented at the
Workshop on Political Theory,
“Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of
Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation.” Paper presented at the Center for the
Study of the New Institutional Social Science,
Grants
$15,000 CIBER grant, awarded for a project on institutions and private actors, April 2007.
$115,000 grant from the Swedish
Institute for European Policy Studies for a project examining conflicts over
competences in the European Union. Codirected with Adrienne Héritier
(European University Institute).
University Service
Member of Policy Research Scholar selection committee, 2007-2008 academic year.
Member of Gamow Prize Committee, 2007-2008 academic year.
Member of University Information Technology Committee, 2006-
Member of Gamow Prize Committee, 2006-2007 academic year.
Member of Gamow Prize Committee, 2005-2006 academic year.
Disciplinary representative for political science, Division of Social Sciences,
University of Toronto at Scarborough, Fall, 2003. Duties included curriculum
preparation, oversight of courses, allocation of
resources.
Undergraduate student advisor for
political science, and for public policy co-operative program, Division of
Social Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Fall, 2003.
Section Chair, International Political Economy, American Political Science Association Meeting 2005 (Washington DC).
Professional Affiliations
American Political Science Association.
European Union Studies Association
Reviewer (one or more articles reviewed) for American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Governance, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Imprints, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, International Organization, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Perspectives on Politics, Politics and Economics, Political Studies, Polity, Rationality and Society, Regional Studies, Socio-Economic Review, World Politics.
Reviewer (one or more manuscripts reviewed) for Cambridge University Press, Lynne Riener Publishers, the MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Stanford University Press.
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Languages
Italian, French, German.
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