Chair for Comparative Policy Analysis at the University of Munich (LMU) and Board Member of the Munich Center on Governance (MCG), Munich, Germany

Edgar Grande holds the Chair in Comparative Politics the University of Munich. His research interests are focused on problems of governance, globalization, European integration and the future of the nation-state. Since 2010 he is the director of the Department of Political Science at the University of Munich. His recent publications include Restructuring Political Conflict in Western Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (co-authored with H. Kriesi, M. Dolezal, M. Helbling, D. Höglinger, S. Hutter and B. Wüest); Varieties of Second Modernity: extra-European and European experiences and perspectives. Special Issue of British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 61, No. 3 (co-edited with Ulrich Beck); West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 (co-authored with H. Kriesi, R. Lachat, M. Dolezal, S. Bornschier and T. Frey); Cosmopolitan Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007 (co-authored with Ulrich Beck); and Complex Sovereignty. Reconstituting Political Authority in the 21st Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005 (co-edited with Louis W. Pauly).