Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik

Contact Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Department für Agrarökonomie Fachgebiet Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik Philippstraße 13 - Haus 12 A D-10115 Berlin email: nicolai.goritz(at)hu-berlin.de phone: +49(0)30 2093 46850 fax   :  +49(0)30 2093 46321 Head of Junior Research Group (BIOPOLISTA)

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Education

• 10/2016 – 03/2020: PhD in International Development (London School of Economics and Political Science [LSE])
• 09/2015 – 09/2016: MRes in Development Studies (LSE)
• 10/2013 – 09/2014: MSc in Development Studies (LSE)
• 10/2009 – 03/2013: BA Politics and Administration (University of Konstanz)
• 02/2011 – 07/2011: Visiting Student (Faculty of Politics and Administration, Universidad de Granada)

Work Experience

• 07/2020 – 02/2023: Research Associate within the BMBF-funded research project PolDeRBio,  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Thaer-Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Agricultural and Food Policy Group
• 08/2018 – 07/2020: (Postdoctoral) Research Associate and Co-lead of the ‘Defining and Measuring Political Settlements’ project (Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre [ESID], University of Manchester)
• 01/2017 – 07/2018: Research Consultant (Global Development Institute, University of Manchester)
• 09/2016 – 01/2017: Research Assistant to Editor (Journal of Development Studies)
• 01/2015 – 03/2015: Visiting Researcher (German Development Institute [DIE])
• 2014 & 2017: Consultancy on Tanzanian Human Development Reports 2014 & 2017 (Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania)
• 05/2015 – 07/2015: Consultancy in project "CADESAN - Fortalecimiento de Capacidades para la Descentralización en los Países Andinos" GIZ, Peru)

Research Interests

• Comparative Politics of Development

• Development Economics

• Bioeconomy Policy

• Industrial Policy

• Agricultural Transformation

• African Politics

• Mixed Method Research

Current Research Project

BIOPOLISTA: Bioeconomy Policy Implementation in Bioeconomy States - The Junior Research Group addresses the lack of a comprehensive perspective on the implementation of bioeconomy policies by combining policy analysis approaches with the historical-institutionalist concept of the "bioeconomy state". On this basis, it examines divergent patterns and causes of bioeconomy policy implementation successes and failures within and across six countries with significant bioeconomies and emerging bioeconomy states (namely, Colombia, France, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa, and the United States of America). Duration: March 2023 – February 2028.

Publications

Book

• ‘Political Settlements and Development: Theory, Evidence, and Policy' (2022, lead author with T. Kelsall, W. Ferguson, M. v. Hau, S. Hickey, &B. Levy) Oxford University Press

Journal Articles

• ‘Prompting Peasant Power: Cashews, Coalitions, and Collective Action in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire’.(2024), Comparative Politics

• ‘Explaining Low Salience of Environmental Resilience Challenges in Bioeconomy Strategies: A Cross-Regional Comparative Analysis’ (2024, with G. Varanini, M. Proestou and P. Feindt), Earth System Governance, 21

• ‘The Political Settlements Dataset: Power Configurations and Political Blocs in the Global South, 1946-2018’. (2024, with T. Kelsall),  International Interactions. (Link to data) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2024.2352474
  

• 'A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies'. (2023). with M. Proestou and P.H. Feindt. Ambio, 53. 

• ‘Using Political Settlements Analysis to Explain Poverty Trends in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania'.  (2022,  with  B.  Chinsinga,  E.H.  Weldeghebrael,  T.  Kelsall,  and  T.P.  Williams),  World Development, 153.

• ‘The politics of export restrictions: A panel data analysis of African commodity processing industries’. (2020) World Development, 130. (related blog piece)

• 'Dangerous Demographics? The Effect of Urbanisation and Metropolisation on African Civil Wars, 1961–2010'. (2015) Civil Wars, 17:3, 291-317 

Book Chapter

• ‘Governing Clean Energy Transitions in China and India’. (2017, with K. Isoaho and A. Goritz) in Arent, D., Arndt, C., Miller, M., Tarp, F. and Zinaman, O. (eds) The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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