David Vogel
Professor of Political Science
Phone: (510) 642-5294
Office Location: 587 Haas
Office Hours: ON LEAVE/MEET BY APPT.
Fall 2008 Course: Not teaching in Political Science this term
View Professor Vogel's Curriculum Vitae.
Professor Vogel received his Ph.D from Princeton University, Department of Politics, in 1974. Vogel's research focuses on business-government relations with a particular emphasis on the comparative and international dimensions of environmental and consumer regulation. He also writes on corporate social responsibility, and religion and environmentalism. Vogel teaches classes on environmental policy, and business ethics and corporate responsibility. His books include The Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies (co-editor, Robert Kagan) (UC Press 2004), Barriers or Benefits? Regulation in Transatlantic Trade (Brookings 1998), Kindred Strangers: The Relationship Between Business and Politics in America (Princeton University Press 1996), Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 1995), Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in American (Basic Books 1989) and National Styles of Regulation: Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States (Cornell University Press, 1986).
Vogel is co-editor (with Chris Ansell) of Why the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety (MIT Press forthcoming). He is currently writing a monograph on corporate social responsibility and a book comparing trends in risk regulation in the EU and the US.
His newest book is The Market For Virtue: The Potential And Limits Of Corporate Social Responsibility, published in 2005 by Brookings Institution Press.
Also, visit Professor Vogel's webpage at the Haas School of Business.