John Bowman’s principal area of research is comparative political economy, with a focus on advanced industrial societies. In 1996 he was a guest researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway. He returned to Norway in 2014 as a professor in the University of Oslo’s Summer School in Comparative Social Analysis. His current research concerns the politics of labor markets and social policy in Europe and the US.
He is the author of Capitalisms Compared: Work, Welfare, and Business(Sage/CQ Press, 2014) and Capitalist Collective Action: Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Coal Industry (Cambridge University Press 1989, paperback edition 2006); as well as articles in several journals, including Politics & Society, Comparative Political Studies, and (with Alyson Cole) Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Professor Bowman is a member of the Editorial Board of Politics & Societyand has also served on the Editorial Committee of the journal Comparative Politics.
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