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Publications

Selected Publications

  • Albert, M. (2024). Dynamics of Global Change and the Concept(s) of World Society. In C. Suter & P. Ziltener (Eds.), After Globalization: The Future of World Society (pp. 43-62). Zürich: Lit.
  • Albert, M. (2024). Introduction: world statehood despite, and beyond, times of crises. Cooperation & Conflict. 
  • Albert, M. (2024). Jung ist alt: Shell Jugendstudie wird 71. FORUM Sexualaufklärung und Familienplanung, 1, 94-95.
  • Albert, M. (2025). Jugendliche in Deutschland im Spiegel der Gesellschaft. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 36-37, 9-15.
  • Albert, M. (In Press). The 'international' as a barrier for its theorizing. In R. Floyd & L. Schouenborg (Eds.), The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International Relations: Thinking with and Beyond Barry Buzan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Albert, M., Crawford, I., Zellermann, E.-M., Kessler, O., Bartelson, J., Sienknecht, M., & Patomäki, H. (2024). Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics. Cooperation and Conflict.
  • Albert, M., Koch, M. (2024). Comparing power in the G7 and the G20. Making yourself ‘matter’ in world politics. European Review of International Studies, 11(1), 67-94.
  • Albert, M., Müller, T. (2024). World political change. Three storytelling practices. In A. Flüchter, K. Kramer, R. Mertens, & S. Schwandt (Eds.), Comparing & Change: Orders, Models, Perceptions (pp. 147-165). Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag.
  • Albert, M., Quenzel, G., & de Moll, F. (2024). Jugend 2024. 19. Shell Jugendstudie. Weinheim: Beltz.
  • Albert, M., Quenzel, G., & Schneekloth, U. (2024). Jugend 2024: Pragmatisch im Spannungsfeld zwischen Verdrossenheit und gelebter Vielfalt. In Jugend 2024. 19. Shell Jugendstudie (pp. 269-275). Weinheim: Beltz. 
  • Albert, M., Quenzel, G., & Schneekloth, U. (2025). Die 19. Shell Jugendstudie – Pragmatisch zwischen Verdrossenheit und gelebter Vielfalt. Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung, 20(1), 125-131. 
  • Albert, M., Quenzel, G., & Schneekloth, U. (In Press). Pragmatisch zwischen Verdrossenheit und gelebter Vielfalt. Die 19. Shell Jugendstudie. punktum, 3-4, 4-9. 
  • Albert, M., Quenzel, G. (2024). Jugend 2024: Vielfalt zwischen einigendem Pragmatismus und Polarisierung? In Jugend 2024. 19. Shell Jugendstudie (pp. 33-42). Weinheim: Beltz. 
  • Albert, M., Schneekloth, U. (2024). Jugend und Politik. In Jugend 2024. 19. Shell Jugendstudie (pp. 43-100). Weinheim: Beltz. 
  • Albert, M., Schneekloth, U. (In Press). Jugend, Politik und Demokratie: Polarisierung oder Differenzierung? Theorie und Praxis der sozialen Arbeit (Sonderheft). 
  • Albert, M., Sienknecht, M. (In Press). Typologizing change in the evolution of world politics. European Journal of International Relations, 31(Special Issue). 
  • Albert, M., Simon, H. (2024). Die Suche nach dem Frieden. Einleitung zum Forum. Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 31(1), 55-66.
  • Albert, M., Sika, N. (2025). Politics and mobilization. In J. Gertel, D. Kreuer, & F. Stolleis (Eds.), The Dispossessed Generation. Youth in the Middle East and North Africa (pp. 333-358). London: Saqi Books. 
  • Albert, M., Müller, T., & Langer, K. (2024). Introduction: Practices All the Way Down? Comparisons in Global Security Politics. In T. Müller, M. Albert, & K. Langer (Eds.), Comparisons in Global Security Politics. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • Müller, T., Albert, M., & Langer, K. (Eds.). (2024). Comparisons in Global Security Politics. Representing and Ordering the World. Bristol: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529241846
  • Berten, J., & Kaasch, A. (2025). Social protection floors as a knowledge object: Examining their place within the Decent Work and Sustainable Development Agenda. In M. Moore, C. Scherrer, & M. van der Linden (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 604-614). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Blum, S. (2014). No need to reinvent the wheel: Family policy transfers in Germany and Austria. Policy Studies, 35(4), 357-376.
  • Blum, S. (2018). The multiple-streams framework and knowledge utilization: Argumentative couplings of problem, policy, and politics issues. European Policy Analysis, 4(1), 94-117.
  • Blum, S., & Kuhlmann, J. (2025). What defines deservingness? Specifying the criteria for target groups constructions in public policy. Policy & Politics, 1-22.
  • Blum, S., & Straßheim, H. (2024). Experts and Expertise in Public Policy. In M. van Gerven, C. Rothmayr Allison, & K. Schubert (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Public Policy (pp. 1-18). Springer.
  • Boatcă, M., Go, J., & Werron, T. (Eds.). (2025). Nach den Imperien? Soziologie und Postkolonialität. Mittelweg 36.
  • Brankovic, J., Ringel, L., & Werron, T. (2018). How rankings produce competition. The case of global university rankings. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 47(4), 270-288.
  • Franke, U., & Koch, M. (Eds.). (2023). Inter-Organizational Relations and World Order: Re-Pluralizing the Debate. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • Franke, U., & Koch, M. (2023). World Sports and Russia’s War Against Ukraine. In U. Franke & M. Koch (Eds.), Inter-Organizational Relations and World Order (pp. 171-193).
  • Kaasch, A. (2013). Contesting contestation: Global social policy prescriptions on pensions and health systems. Global Social Policy, 13(1), 45-65.
  • Kaasch, A. (2016). Conceptualising Transnational Social Rights: Developments and Forms. In A. Fischer-Lescano & K. Möller (Eds.), Transnationalisation of Social Rights (pp. 67-84). Intersentia.
  • Kaasch, A., Koch, M., & Martens, K. (2019). Exploring theoretical approaches to global social policy research: Learning from international relations and inter-organisational theory. Global Social Policy, 19(1-2), 87-104.
  • Kuhlmann, J., & Blum, S. (2021). Narrative plots for regulatory, distributive, and redistributive policies. European Policy Analysis, 7, 276-302.
  • Lutz, M. (2020). Religionsgemeinschaftliches Wirtschaften mennonitischer Unternehmer im 20. Jahrhundert. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 61(1), 161-186. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2020-000.
  • Lutz, M. (2024). Utopia and Moral Economy. In C. Shrank & P. Withington (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia (pp. 596-613). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Lutz, M. (2017). Explaining Amish Persistence in the Modern Economy: Evidence from the 1940s and Institutional Theory. Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 5(2), 239-257.
  • Lutz, M., Freudenberg, M., & Hinsch, M. (Eds.). (2025). Handbuch Wirtschaft und Religion: Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
  • Mense-Petermann, U. (2020). Theorizing Transnational Labour Markets – A Research Heuristic Based on the New Economic Sociology. Global Networks, 20(3), 410-433.
  • Mense-Petermann, U., Welskopp, T., & Zaharieva, A. (Eds.). (2022). In Search of the Global Labor Market. Leiden/NL: Brill.
  • Nguyen, T.N.M., & Endres, K. (Eds.). (2025). Reconfiguring Vietnam: Global Encounters, Translocal Lifeworlds. New Haven: Yale University’s Southeast Asian Monograph Series (Open Access).
  • Nguyen, T.N.M., Wilcox, P., & Lin, J. (2024). Special issue “The Good Life in Late Socialism: Aspirations, Politics, Possibilities”. positions: asia critique, 32(1).
  • Nguyen, T.N.M., Rydstrom, H., & Mao, J. (2024). Special issue “Reconfiguring Labour and Welfare in the Global South: The Social Question as Market Participation”. Global Social Policy, 24(2).
  • Nguyen, T.N.M. (2023). The Entrepreneurial Self of Market Socialism: Life Insurance Agents in Rural Central Vietnam. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 32(1), 394-407.
  • Nguyen, T.N.M., & Zavoretti, R. (2017). Special issue “Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions and Ethics of Care”. Ethics and Social Welfare, 11(3).
  • Petzke, M. (2016). Taken In by the Numbers Game. The Globalization of a Religious ‘Illusio‘ and ‘Doxa‘ in Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Missions to India. Sociological Review, 64(S2), 124-145. https://doi.org/10.1002/2059-7932.12005.
  • Petzke, M. (2019). Performing the Religious Economy in Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Missions: A ‘Third Way‘ Approach to Studying Religious Markets. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 7, 321-349. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-018-0062-1.
  • Petzke, M. (2023a). The Culture of Official Statistics. Symbolic Domination and ‘Bourgeois‘ Assimilation in Quantitative Measurements of Immigrant Integration in Germany. Theory and Society, 52(2), 213-242. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-022-09503-2.
  • Petzke, M. (2023b). Constructing a ‘Staying‘ Problem. On the Role of Statistical Indicators in Consolidating an Enduring Bureaucratic Jurisdiction for Immigrant Integration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49, 5081-5098. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2044766.
  • Petzke, M. (2024). The Assemblage and Dismantling of Access Barriers in Administrative Bureaucracies: Constructing the Problem of Diversity in the German Welfare State. Qualitative Sociology, 47, 69-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-023-09555-5.
  • Skambraks, T., & Lutz, M. (Eds.). (2023). Reassessing the Moral Economy: Religion and Economic Ethics from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Spiegel, A., Mense-Petermann, U., & Bredenkoetter, B. (2018). Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Living and Working Abroad. New York; London: Routledge.
  • Straßheim, H. (2020). De-biasing Democracy. Behavioural public policy and the post-democratic turn. Democratization, 27(3), 461-476.
  • Straßheim, H. (2021). Who are behavioural public policy experts and how are they organised globally? Policy and Politics, 49(1), 69-86. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557320X15956825120821.
  • Straßheim, H. (2021). Paradoxien und Pendel: Umstrittene Expertise in der Weltgesellschaft. In S. Büttner & T. Laux (Eds.), Umstrittene Expertise. Zur Wissensproblematik der Politik (Leviathan Sonderband 38) (pp. 67-89). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
  • Straßheim, H. (2023). Expertise under uncertainty: Comparing policy expert platforms at the global climate-health nexus. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 83(2), 173-191. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12618.
  • Straßheim, H. (2024). A world of evidence: the global spread and silent politics of evidence cultures. Policy and Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae029 .
  • Vasilache, A. (2007). Der Staat und seine Grenzen: Zur Logik politischer Ordnung. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus.
  • Vasilache, A. (2011). Kultur zwischen Anerkennung und Verachtung: Theoretische Ambivalenzen des bedeutungsorientiert-konstruktivistischen Kulturbegriffs. In S. Bartmann & O. Immel (Eds.), Das Vertraute und das Fremde. Differenzerfahrung und Fremdverstehen im Interkulturalitätsdiskurs (pp. 55-78). Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Vasilache, A. (2019). Security in the sovereignty-governmentality continuum. Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA), 32(6), 681-711.
  • Vasilache, A. (2023). Sovereignty, Discipline, Governmentality, and Pastorate: The Ménage à Quatre of Contemporary Authoritarian and Right-Wing Populist Power. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 48(4), 242-267.
  • Vasilache, A. (2025). Culture Trouble in Right-Wing Populism. In D. Siter, A. Hellmuth Kramberger, & J. Toplak (Eds.), Cultural Formations in Context: Historical and Contemporary Analyses (pp. 127-148). Münster: LIT.
  • Werron, T. (2020). Global Publics as Catalysts of Global Competition: A Sociological View. In V. Huber & J. Osterhammel (Eds.), Global Publics. Their Power and Their Limits, 1870-1990. Studies of the German Historical Institute, London (pp. 343-366). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Werron, T. (2020). Nationalism as a global institution. A historical-sociological view. In M. Albert & T. Werron (Eds.), What in the World? Understanding global social change. Bristol Studies in International Theory (pp. 157-176). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • Werron, T. (2024). Review Essay: To Build a Future for Social Theory—What Do We Have to Know about Its Past? American Journal of Sociology, 130(2), 496-507.
  • Yi, I., Kaasch, A., & Stetter, K. (Eds.). (2024). Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South: Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies. Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy. Bristol: Policy Press.
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