Stephen Silvia

Stephen Silvia

Born	(1959-02-02) February 2, 1959 Buffalo, New York, United States
Nationality	United States
Fields	Comparative Industrial Relations, Comparative Politics, German Economy
Institutions	American University
Alma mater	Cornell University (B.S. ILR) Yale University (Ph.D.)

Stephen Silvia is a Professor at American University's School of International Service and an Affiliate Professor in American University's Economics Department. He teaches international economics, international trade relations, and comparative politics. He is a noted expert on the German economy, in particular, on German labor markets and industrial relations. He also has written about comparative industrial relations, European Union economic policy, and comparative economic policy, with an emphasis on Germany and the United States. Silvia serves as a Board Member on the American Consortium on European Union Studies (ACES), which is an EU Center of Excellence. He is a Non-Resident Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS). Silvia served as a Trustee on the American University Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2010. He was Chair of the American University Faculty Senate during the 2008-2009 academic year.

Education and Career

Stephen John Silvia was born in Buffalo, NY. He received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1981. In 1990, he obtained his PhD in Political Science from Yale University, where he also served as Acting Professor. Before coming to the School of International Service at AU in 1990, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. In 1991, Silvia was a Fulbright Guest Scholar at Freie Universität Berlin, and in 1994 and 1995 he was the James Bryant Conant Fellow in German and European Studies at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He served as Director of Doctoral Studies at American University's School of International Service from 1999 to 2012. He is currently Director of the Masters of International Relations program, which offers an online degree from the School of International Service.

Stephen J. Silvia has received several grants and awards including two Fulbright fellowships, a Robert Bosch Fellowship, a DaimlerChrysler Fellowship and a Volkswagen Foundation Grant. Silvia was a Guest Professor at Universität Kassel in Germany in January 2009 and l'université Montpellier I in France in October 2010.

Notable Publications

Holding the Shop Together: German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2013.
"Why do German and US Reactions to the Financial Crisis differ?" German Politics and Society 29, no. 4 (Winter 2011), pp. 68–71.
"Things Fall Apart: Contemporary Analyses of German Economic and Political Developments," Comparative European Politics, (October 2010).
"The Elusive Quest for Normalcy: The German Economy since Unification," German Politics and Society 28, no. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 82–101.
"Why Germany reformed Public Pensions, but the United States did not," German Studies Review 32, no. 1 (February 2009): 23-50.
"Mitglieder Entwicklung und Organisationsstärke der Arbeitgeberverbände, Wirtschaftsverbände und Industrie- und Handelskammer," in Wolfgang Schroeder and Berhard Wessels, eds., Handbuch Arbeitgeber- und Wirtschaftsverbände in Deutschland. Wiesbaden: VS, 2010.
"German Trade Unionism in the Postwar Years: The Third and Fourth Movements," in Craig L. Phelan, ed., Trade Unions since 1945: Towards a Global History. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009.
"Why are German Employers Associations Declining? Arguments and Evidence," Comparative Political Studies 40, no. 12 (Dec. 2007): 1433-59 [lead author, with Wolfgang Schroeder].
The German Locomotive: Can It Drive the European Economy? Transatlantic Council of the United States, 2007 (with Fran Burwell et al.).
"Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labor Markets," Journal of Public Policy 24, no. 2 (August 2004): 147-168.
"Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeberverbände," in Wolfgang Schroeder and Berhard Wessels, eds., Gewerkschaften in Politik und Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2003, [with Wolfgang Schroeder].
Reinventing the German Economy. AICGS, The Johns Hopkins University, 2003.
"Every Which Way but Loose: German Industrial Relations since 1980," in Andrew Martin, George Ross, Lucio Baccaro, Anthony Daley, Lydia Fraile, Chris Howell, Richard M. Locke, Rianne Mahon, and Stephen J. Silvia, eds., The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium. New York: Berghahn, 1999, chap. 3, pp. 75–174.
"Reform Gridlock and the Role of the Bundesrat in German Politics," West European Politics 22, no. 2 (April 1999): 167-181.
"German Unification and Emerging Divisions within German Employers’ Associations: Cause or Catalyst?" Comparative Politics 29, no. 2 (January 1997), pp. 187-208.
"The Social Charter of the European Community: A Defeat for European Labor." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 44, no. 4 (July 1991): 626-43.

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