Welcome to my webpage! I am an associate professor in business and public policy at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University in Denmark, where I am part of the research groups Changing Societies: Welfare and Diversity and Economic Policy, Institutions and Change. I hold a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute (Florence) . Previously, I was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Southern Denmark and held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne), the Central European University (Budapest), and the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin).
My research and teaching interests are in the fields of comparative politics and political economy, with a focus on business-politics relations, the politics of the welfare state, and industrial relations. My current research focuses on three topics: (a) the transnational regulation of corporate tax avoidance through profit shifting (project video); (b) the abolition of inheritance taxes in some countries (working paper, co-authored with Michael Baggesen Klitgaard); and (c) state support for collective bargaining, specifically through statutory coverage extension (British Journal of Industrial Relations, co-authored with Dennie Oude Nijhuis and Max Kiecker).
My previous work investigated the role of employer interests in welfare state politics and in industrial relations and focused, in particular, on Germany and Austria. The results are available, inter alia, as articles in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Business and Politics, Scandinavian Political Studies, New Political Economy, and as a book.
I co-chair the research network Business in Politics and Society at the Council for European Studies, and am a member of the steering group of the National Network for Welfare Studies (VELNET) in Denmark and of the board of the Danish Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association.
On this website you can find more information about my research, teaching, and publications. If you find some of my work relevant to your own interests, I would be happy to hear from you.
Here you can download my CV (PDF, October 2023).
Thomas Paster 