Brian Burgoon
Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy at the Dept. of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Brian Burgoon is Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He received his PhD from MIT in 1998, and between 1998 to 2000 was Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He joined the UvA faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2000, was appointed Professor in 2012, and served as Academic Director of the UvA's Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) from 2014 till December 2020.
Burgoon's research focuses on global economic integration; social policy and welfare state development; and democratic political representation. The key goal of that research is to understand how the politics of these realms relate to each other, and in particular whether and how global connectedness, social protection, and democracy can be rendered compatible or even mutually reinforcing.
Burgoon's teaching focuses on general political science, political economy, international relations, and quantitative and qualitative research methods. The key goal of that teaching is to help students want and know how to use the theoretical and empirical tools of social science to explore political life, and to do so in the service of human purposes.
Featured work
How sensitive are Europeans to income losses related to climate policies?
A unique dataset gives an insight into what Europeans might tolerate in terms of the income effects of climate policies
Globalisation and automation as sources of labour-market competition, and support for European Union unemployment insurance
What would Europeans want a European defence union to look like?
This working paper explores public support for European defence union, revealing preferred policy features and the impact of political feasibility.