ABSTRACT
Uwe was Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of
Amsterdam, and belonged to the Research Group on Political Economy and Transnational
Governance. He worked mainly in the fields of comparative politics and political
economy, with particular reference to Europe and to the study of varieties of capitalism;
recently he had extended his research also to the ‘BRICS’ economies. During his career he
worked as a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute in Florence, the
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, the Center for European Studies at Harvard University,
Uppsala University, the University of New South Wales and the State University of Rio de
Janeiro. His recent works include Open Varieties of Capitalism: Continuity, Change and
Performance (Palgrave 2009) and (as editor) The Changing Political Economies of Small
West European Countries (Amsterdam University Press 2011).
