Academic Activities :

(a) Czech Sociological Review

Pieter Vanhuysse has been a member of the Editorial Board of The Czech Sociological Review since June 2007 and has been appointed to the office of Reviews Editor at the journal in January 2008. The Czech Sociological Review is one of the very few Eastern European social science journals that are ISI-listed and impact-factored. Quality submissions to The Czech Sociological Review are
welcomed: please send research articles to Editor-in-Chief Professor Jiri Vecernik (jiri.vecernik@soc.cas.cz) and book review copies and ideas for 1500-word book reviews or 6000-word review articles to Reviews Editor Dr Pieter Vanhuysse (pieterv@construct.haifa.ac.il).

For Pieter's new mission statement for the CSR Book Reviews, see the "Letter from the CSR Editors"

For the Reviews Section of CSR's Summer 2008 issue, Vol 44, No 3

The Reviews Section of the CSR's Winter 2008 issue features 12 reviews by the Zygmunt Bauman, Herbert Gintis, Clara Sabbagh and others on books by Claus Offe, Frances Rosenbluth, Nina Bandelj and others, as well as a special section entitled "Behavioral Economics for Sociological Purposes," reviewing groundbreaking work by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, Samuel Gintis/Bowles/Boyd, Henrich/Boyd/Bowles/Camerer/Ernst Fehr, and George Loewenstein.
See: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1329586

Recent Highlights:

1. Zymunt Bauman's review of Claus Offe (2005), Reflection on America (link to PDF)

2. Kristin Nickel's review of Pieter Vanhuysse (2006), "Divide and Pacify (link to PDF)

3. Herbert Gintis's review of Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler (2008), "Nudge". (link to PDF)

(b) European Consortium for Political Research, Joint Sessions

At the Joint Sessions of the European Consortium for Political Research
(ECPR) in Lisbon on 14-19 April 2009, Pieter Vanhuysse will be directing a special six-day panel on "Generational Politics: The Political-Sociological and Policy Consequences Population Ageing" (with Achim Goerres, University of Cologne).
For the Joint Sessions Academic Programme, see:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/lisbon/academic_programme.html Paper proposals are
invited: please send mail to Pieter Vanhuysse
Pieter Vanhuysse and Achim Goerres will also be directing a Special Panel on "Generational Politics from a Comparative Perspective" at the ECPR 4th General Conference, in Potsdam (Germany), next September 2009.

(c) Forthcoming book, Cerami and Vanhuysse (eds) (2009) "Post-Communist Welfare Pathways"

Pieter Vanhuysse is currently editing, with Alfio Cerami from
Science-Po Paris, a major volume for Palgrave MacMillan. The book is
entitled "Post-Communist Welfare Pathways: Theorizing Social Policy
Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe". It is slated for
publication in October 2009, to coincide with the twentieth
anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. "Post-Communist Welfare
Pathways" adopts a novel theoretical approach to study the systemic
transformations of CEE welfare states after 1989; an approach which
acknowledges the merits of path-dependency and new-institutionalist
explanations, but goes beyond simple historical or
institutions-centred descriptions. The book discusses not only the
specific social security culture of the CEE countries, but also new
and competing social security ideas and discourses, as well as the
endogenous and exogenous factors that influence postcommunist social policy reform processes.

Contributors to the Cerami/Vanhuysse (2009) volume include:
Professor Claus Offe (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin)
Professor Mitchell Orenstein (Johns Hopkins University)
Professor Tomasz Inglot (Minnesota State University)
Professor Robert Kaufman (Rutgers University)
Professor Stephan Haggard (University of California at San Diego).

For a full synopsis of the book and list of contributors and chapters