Angela Wigger


Angela Wigger is a political economist at the Political Science department at the Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Her current research focuses on analyzing the global economic crisis, crisis responses and political challenges to these responses from a historical materialist perspective. Focal points are the geopolitics of industrial and antitrust policy, industrial reshoring attempts, the "competitiveness" fetish, internal devaluation and debt-led accumulation in the age of rentier capitalism.
Angela Wigger has conducted extensive research on capitalist restructuring of postwar Europe, industrial relations and the neoliberalisation of EU competition regulation, and financialisation processes. She is the co-author of, with H. Buch-Hansen, and she has published amongst others in journals such as New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, New Political Sciences, Capital & Class, Journal of European Integration, Comparative European Politics, Economy & Society and the Journal of International Relations and Development, Geoforum and Globalizations.
She has worked at the Political Science Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2003 to 2007, where she obtained her PhD. Her dissertation was titled 'Competition for Competitiveness. The Politics of Transformation of the EU Competition Regime' – with Prof. dr. Henk Overbeek and Prof. dr. Andreas Nölke as supervisors. She received a master's degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
She appears in Dutch and international media regularly.

Early life

Wigger was born 2 January 1975 in Dierikon, Lucerne.

Affiliations

  • Former chair of the Critical Political Economy Research Network @ European Sociological Association
  • Founding member of the Amsterdam Research Centre for International Political Economy
  • Chair of the supervisory board of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
  • Member of the editorial board of Capital & Class
  • Co-editor of the book series ''''

Publications

Books

, with H. Buch-Hansen. New York and London: Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy.

Book chapters

  • In A. Bieler & V. Maccarone, Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • In C. Barrow Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science. Edward Elgar.
  • In Pevehouse, J.C.W. and Seabrooke, L. The Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy. Oxford: OUP.
  • In M. Moschella, L. Quaglia, and A. Spendzharova European Political Economy. Theoretical Approaches, Issue Areas, and Policy Challenges. OUP. With L. Horn.
  • Competition Laws and Their Enforcement in the Project of European Integration: An artefact of ordoliberal influence? Chapter 27 in: T. Biebricher, P. Nedergaard and W. Bonefeld Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.: 405-415.
  • In A. Cozzolino, and D. Giannone EUrope. Fratture nell'Unione. L'Europa dentro le crisi del XXI secolo. MIMESIS: Milan.
  • In A. Dür and H. Zimmerman Key Controversies in European Integration. Palgrave McMillan. With L. Horn.
  • Competition Laws and their Enforcement in the US and Europe: Origins, Evolution and Contestation. In A. Kellow, T. Porter and K. Ronit. Handbook of Business and Public Policy. Edward Elgar.
  • In I. Bruff and C.B. Tansel Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Philosophies, Practices, Contestations. New York: Routledge, Rethinking Globalization Series.
  • In L. Bieling and S. Guntrum Transformation der Economic Governance in der EU. Globale Politische Ökonomie/Springer VS. With N. Huke.
  • In D.J. Bailey and C. Hay, Diverging Capitalisms. Britain, the City of London and Europe. Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research and Policy. Chapter 8. London: Palgrave McMillan. With L. Horn.
  • In B. Jessop and K. Knio Crises, Construals, and Lessons. Crisis Dynamics and the Pedagogy of Crisis. New York: Routledge.
  • In B. Jessop and H. Overbeek Transnational Capital and Class Fractions. The Amsterdam School Perspective Reconsidered. New York: Routledge RIPE Series. With L. Horn.
  • In N. Zahariadis and L. Buonanno Routledge Handbook on European Public Policy. New York: Routledge. With H. Buch-Hansen.
  • In C. Joerges and J. Hien Ordoliberalism, Law and the Rule of Economics. London: Hart Publishing.
  • Chapter threein: H. Keman and J. Woldendorp Handbook of research methods and applications in political science, Edward Elgar. With L. Horn.
  • Chapter 7 in: A. Dür and H. Zimmerman Key Controversies in European Integration. Palgrave McMillan. With L. Horn.
  • In C. Reuter, R. Bazillier, G. Cozzi, A. Crespy, F. De Ville, A. Wigger, M. Claassens, B. Saenen and E.M. Schneider Progressive Structural Reforms. Proposals for European Reforms to Reduce Inequality.Poland: Aspra-JR. With Bazillier, R. Cozzi, G. Crespy, A., and F. De Ville.
  • , in: J. Jaeger and E. Springer Asymmetric Crisis in Europe and Possible Futures. Critical Political Economy and Post-Keynesian Perspectives. New York: Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy.
  • in E. Hartmann and P.F. Kjaer The Evolution of Intermediary Institutions in Europe. From Corporatism to Governance. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan. With H. Buch-Hansen.
  • Eşitsiz Gelişim ve AB'nin Tasarruf Politikalarına Karşı Siyasal Direniş. In L. Pradella and T. Marois Kutuplaştiran Kalkinma. Neoliberalizme Karşı Alternatifler ve Kriz. Ankara: NotaBene Yayınevi. With L. Horn.
  • Reply: Breaking the Heartland. Creating the Precariat in the U.S. Lower Rust Belt.In: M. Johnson Precariat: Labour, Work and Politics. New York: Routledge.
  • . In L. Pradella and T. Marois Polarizing Development. Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis. London: Pluto Press. With L. Horn.
  • . Chapter 6 in U. Aydin and K.P. Thomas Globalization and EU Competition Policy. New York and London: Routledge. 93-11.
  • in P. Nousios, H. Overbeek and A. Tsokalis Globalisation and European Integration. Critical Approaches to Regional Order and International Relations. London and New York: Routledge. With Hubert Buch-Hansen.
  • Chapter 1 in H. Overbeek and B. van Apeldoorn 'Neoliberalism in Crisis, Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.
  • Chapter 7 in B. Reinalda The Ashgate Research Companion to Non-State Actors. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • '. In: J. Orbie, Europe's Global Role: External Policies of the European Union. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.
  • Chapter 6. In: B. van Apeldoorn, A. Nölke and H. Overbeek 'The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation', New York and London: Routledge.

Selected articles

  • Policy Studies, online first, 1-23.
  • S&D, 82, 39-47.
  • Amsterdam: SOMO/Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations.
  • Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
  • Luxemburg: Gesellschaftsanalyse und linke Praxis.
  • . SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Coporations, Amsterdam. 
  • Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin.  
  • Finanzialisierung - die Achillesferse des European Green Deal. Luxemburg. Gesellschaftsanalyse und linke Praxis. 
  • . Politics and Governance 12: 1-16.
  • . transform!Europe.
  • . Journal of Common Market Studies.
  • El que fan a les ombres: La creació de deute i les crisis capitalistes. Catarsi 7: 63-68. With R. Fernandez.
  • Blog in Journal of Common Market Studies, 29 August.
  • 61: 20-37.
  • . 1: 188–196.
  • . Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión.Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.10.007
  • . S&D. With R. Fernandez.Globalizations. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2018.1502496
  • Neoliberale Industriepolitik im sozialen Schafspelz. Ein Nachruf auf die Europäische Sozialdemokratie. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 49: 407-425. With L. Horn.
  • Studying Capitalist Dystopias and Avenues for Change. openDemocracy. With D. Bailey.
  • . Journal of International Relations and Development. With J. Maisenbacher.
  • . Corporate Europe Observatory, Brussels. With H. Buch-Hansen.
  • Understanding the Competition-Crisis Nexus. Revisiting US Capitalist Crises. Rethinking Marxism 29: 556-573.
  • Politiek van cijferfetisjisme en permanente concurrentie. Spanning 19: 23.
  • , with R. Fernandez. Economy and Society 45: 407-430
  • . DOI: 10.1057/s41295-016-0076-4.
  • , with H. Buch-Hansen. E-International Relations.
  • A ascensão da regulação concorrencial de caráter neoliberal na Comunidade Europeia. Direito & Práxis 7: 610-642.
  • . Capital & Class 40: 129–145.
  • Capitalism and Competition Regulation in Europe: A Synopsis. E-International Relations January. With H. Buch-Hansen.
  • . Ephemera. Theory and Politics in Organisation 14: 737-49.
  • , with H. Buch-Hansen. New Political Economy 19: 113–137.
  • De mythe van 'competitiveness' als uitweg uit de crisis. Volonté Générale. Debat. Visie. Toekomst, 2.
  • neoliberal capitalism. A critical engagement with anarchism, with H. Buch-Hansen. New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture 35: 604–26.
  • Breaking the Heartland: Creating the Precariat in the U.S. Lower Rust Belt: A Response to Joseph J. Varga. Global Discourse. An Interdisciplinary Journal of current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought 3: 447-9.
  • Ungleiche Entwicklung und politischer Widerstand - auf zu einem europäischen Frühling? Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, 301: 200-209. With L. Horn.
  • Reflections on competition, competition regulation and the current crises, Embedded in Business, Politics & Society, 3: 36-48. With H. Buch-Hansen.
  • 'Crisis in Europa! Maar waar zijn de politicologen? Een verkenning van de kritische politieke economie in de Lage Landen', 2012 Res Publica.Journal of European Integration 34: 623–41.
  • , with H. Buch-Hansen. Review of International Political Economy 17: 20–44.
  • De EU en de financieel-economische crisis. Business as usual of breekpunt? Klasse, 10: 1-3. With L. Horn.
  • Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy : IPE as a Global Conversation' by M. Blyth, Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 23:198-200.
  • . Legisprudence 3: 251–75.
  • , with A. Nölke. Journal of Common Market Studies 45: 487–513.
  • La crociata sulla convergenza: le politiche sulle leggi e pratiche della concorrenza globale. Il lavoro pubblico, No. 79, 15 June.
  • Review on the book by Indra de Soysa 'Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy and Development: Assessing the Contours, Correlates, and Concomitants of Globalization' in Political Studies Review, 2, September 2004.

Media Appearances

  • Podcast Weltunordnung, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung:
  • with Angela Wigger
  • . Nieuwe Narratieven | door Reinjan Prakke
  • Podcast Heilige Huisjes. | Hans de Geus en David van Overbeek
  • Podcast Wereldmachten:
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  • Radboud Reflects:
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