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Henry Farrell
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
3018, Sidney Smith Hall
100, St. George Street
Toronto
Ontario
M5S 3G3
Email: farrell@utsc.utoronto.ca
Fax: 416.978.5566
 

Birthdate: June 30, 1970

Nationality: Irish

Education

Ph.D. Department of Government, Georgetown University (2000). 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 (1996), German and European Studies (1997), and Comparative Politics (1998), all passed with Distinction.

M.A. In German and European Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (completed jointly with Ph.D).

M.A. In Politics, University College Dublin, March 1993. Awarded with First Class Honours.

B.A. In Politics (First Class Honours) and Economics (Second Class Honours Grade One), University College Dublin, July 1991.

ICPSR Summer School 1996 (Courses taken in Categorical Data Analysis and Rational Choice).

Employment

From Summer 2004, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science/Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

Currently employed as Assistant Professor for International Political Economy, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

Research Fellow, Max-Planck Project Group on the Law of Common Goods, Bonn, Germany. Main research project - "Governing Privacy in the Age of the Internet: The EU-US Negotiations on the Implementation of the Data Protection Directive." Jan. 2000 - June 2002.

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 Europe Conferences 1996, 1997, 1998, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington DC.

Temporary Staff Writer, Press and Academic Affairs, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington DC, Summer 1994, Summer 1995.

Stagiaire, Legislative Programming Unit, Secretariat-General, European Commission, Brussels, February-June 1993.

Teaching

GOVT 445:"The Political Economy of European Integration," Georgetown University, Department of Government, Summer 2001.

Fall 2002 Courses at University of Toronto - "The Politics of the Internet," and "The New International Agenda"

Spring 2003 Courses: “The Comparative Political Economy of Europe,” “The New International Agenda”

 

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 2004 Courses: International Relations Ph.D. Core Course (co-taught with Thomas Homer Dixon).

 

Fellowships etc

Affiliated Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2002-…

Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March-May 2002.

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

Journal Articles

Henry Farrell, “Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation.” Forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies. Available here.

Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier, “Interorganizational Cooperation and Intraorganizational Power: Early Agreements under Codecision and Their Impact on the Parliament and the Council.” Forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies.

Colin Crouch and Henry Farrell, “Breaking the Path of Institutional Development: Alternatives to the New Determinism in Political Economy.” Forthcoming, Rationality and Society. Available here.

Henry Farrell, “Constructing the International Foundations of E-Commerce: The EU-US Safe Harbor Arrangement,” International Organization, 57, 2: 277-306 (2003). Available here.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Henry Farrell, “Hybrid Institutions and the Law: Interface Solutions or Outlaw Arrangements?,” Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 23, 1:25-40 (2002). Available here.

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, Summer 1999, pp. 505-35. Available here.
 

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Henry Farrell and Ann-Louise Lauridsen, "Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna." To be published in Local Production Systems in Europe: Reconstruction and Innovation, ed. Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Galès, Carlo Trigilia and Helmut Voelzkow (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Available here.

Henry Farrell, "Trust, Distrust, and Power." To be published in Distrust, ed. Russell Hardin (Russell Sage Foundation, forthcoming). Available here.

Henry Farrell, "Transnational Actors and the Transatlantic Relationship in E-Commerce - The Negotiation of the Safe Harbor Arrangement." To be published in Creating a Transatlantic Marketplace, ed. Michelle Egan (Manchester University Press: forthcoming).

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).  Available here.

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.

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.


 

Manuscripts under Submission, Conferences and Papers
 

Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell, “The Power and Politics of Blogs.” Manuscript under preparation for journal submission.

 

Chair and Discussant, panel on “Globalization: New Perspectives and Case Evidence,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 15-18, 2004.

 

Henry Farrell, “Regulating Information Flows: Domestic Sources of State Power and the Role of State-Private Actor Relations.” Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 27-30.

 

Henry Farrell, “From States to Private Actors and Back Again: Regulating Privacy in the Information Age.” Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 27-30.

 

Henry Farrell, “Parliament-Council Decision-making and Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union,” paper presented at Workshop on Democracy and the EU, organized by James Caporaso, University of Washington, May 30, 2003.

 

Panel Chair, Plenary Session on Traffic Data Retention in Europe and the US, annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, April 1-3, 2003.

 

Henry Farrell, “Private Actors and E-Commerce: The EU-US Safe Harbor Arrangement and Its Consequences.” Paper presented at ISA International Conference 2002, New Orleans, March 24-27.

 

Henry Farrell, “Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation.” Accepted for International Society for the New Institutional Economics Annual Conference, Berkeley September 13-15 2001 (paper not delivered due to force majeure).

 

Henry Farrell and Christoph Engel, “Law and Political Science: Different Perspectives on Governance on the Internet,” Max Planck Project Group Conference on Law and Political Science, February 1, 2001.

 

Henry Farrell, “New Forms of Public-Private Interaction in E-Commerce: The Effects of Safe Harbor on Privacy Protection.” Presented at Max-Planck 2000 Colloquium, Köln, Jan. 10, 2001.

 

Henry Farrell and Jack Knight, “Developing Trust, Developing Institutions: Lessons from Industrial Districts for Social Capital,” delivered at Russell Sage Foundation Conference on Trust and Development, December 15-16, 2000.

 

“Negotiating Privacy in the Age of the Internet: Analysing the EU-US ‘Safe Harbor’ Negotiations,” paper presented at Conference on Common Goods and Governance across Multiple Arenas, Max-Planck Project Group, Bonn, Germany, June 30-July 1, 2000.

 

Participant, Russell Sage Foundation Colloquium on Trust, organizers Karen Cook, Russell Hardin and Margaret Levi, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, September 1997.

 

Invited Presentations

 

 

“The Invisible Transformation of the Co-decision Procedure: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy,” with Adrienne Héritier. Presented at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, Stockholm, June 2, 2003.

“Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation.” Presented at the Workshop on Political Theory, University of Indiana at Bloomington, April 1, 2002.

 

“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, Washington University (St. Louis), Feb 15, 2001.

 

 

Grants

 

$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).

 

 

Departmental Service

 

Disciplinary representative for political science, Division of Social Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Fall, 2003. Duties include 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.

 

 

Professional Affiliations

 

American Political Science Association.
Midwest Political Science Association

International Society for the New Institutional Economics.

International Studies Association.

European Union Studies Association

 

Reviewer (one or more manuscripts reviewed) for American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Political Studies, Regional Studies, Cambridge University Press, Lynne Riener Publishers.

 

Languages

 

Good spoken Italian and French. Fair German.

 

Sundry

 

Co-founder of Crooked Timber, a popular academic weblog (http://www.crookedtimber.org). Average weekday readership, approx 10,000.