Peter Nedergaard has previously been affiliated with the Copenhagen Business School as associate professor, assistant professor and finally as professor with special responsibilities. For a few years he left the academic world, instead working as head of unit in the Danish Ministry of Employment during the Danish EU Presidency in 2002. Peter Nedergaard's research covers European policy and European integration with special attention to business policy, internal market policy, climate policy, agricultural policy and employment policy. In 2007, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Alongside his work as a researcher, Peter Nedergaard has been a member of several boards, councils and commissions, including the Mortgage Credit Complaint Board, the Complaint Board of Banking Services, the Suffrage Commission and the committee on liability of financial advisers. In 1992-2009 he was the executive editor of the Danish scientific journal Økonomi & Politik.
Peter Nedergaard is a reviewer for several international research foundations and journals. He is also a prolific columnist and often appears in the media as a political expert and commentator. In 2018, he was ranked as the second-most cited scientist at the University of Copenhagen by Uniavisen.
Peter Nedergaard is initiator to the so-called Erik Rasmussen Prize, which is given to a researcher in Political Science by the Danish Society of Political Science. The Prize is the highest prize within Political Science in Denmark, and it is named after the “founding father” of Political Science in Denmark, Professor Erik Rasmussen, who established the Department of Political Science at University of Aarhus in the beginning of the 1960s.
Peter Nedergaard is also the initiator to the publication of the "Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Brexit", published in 2018 with Professor Ben Rosamond and Associate Professor Patrick Diamond as co-editors. In addition, Peter Nedergaard is the initiator of the preparation of the "Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics", published at Oxford University Press in 2020, which is the most comprehensive international work on Danish politics so far. Professor Peter Munk Christiansen and Professor Jørgen Elklit are co-editors on this publication. In 2022, Peter Nedergaard also published the "Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism" at Oxford University Press together with professor Werner Bonefeld and Professor Thomas Biebricher.
Selected bibliography
Books
Nedergaard, Peter (2007). European Union administration legitimacy and efficiency. Leiden Boston: Nijhoff. ISBN9789004155732.
Nedergaard, Peter; Campbell, John L. (2008). Institutions and politics: festschrift in honour of Ove K. Pedersen. Copenhagen: DJØF Pub. ISBN9788757418149.
Nedergaard, Peter (2009). Business and politics in the European Union: cases in services, agriculture, and textiles. Copenhagen: DJØF Pub. ISBN9788757420838.
Nedergaard, Peter; Grøn, Caroline Howard; Wivel, Anders (2015). The nordic countries and the European Union: still the other European community. London New York: Routledge. ISBN9781138024243.
Nedergaard, Peter (2009). Business and politics in the European Union: cases in services, agriculture, and textiles. Copenhagen: DJØF Pub. ISBN9788757420838.
Nedergaard, Peter; Grøn, Caroline Howard; Wivel, Anders (2015). The nordic countries and the European Union: still the other European community. London New York: Routledge. ISBN9781138024243.
Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, Mads Dagnis (2017). EU Presidencies between Politics and Administration: The Governmentality of the Polish, Danish and Cypriot Trio Presidency. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN9781138914995.
Nedergaard, Peter; Wivel, Anders (2017). The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN9781138905856.
Diamond, Patrick; Nedergaard, Peter; Rosamond, Ben (2018). The Routledge Handbook of the politics of Brexit. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN9781138049369.
Book chapters
Nedergaard, Peter (2005), "Mutual Learning Processes of the European Employment Strategy: Theoretical Approaches and Methodologies", in Bredgaard, Thomas; Larsen, Flemming (eds.), Employment Policy from Different Angles, København: Djøf Forlag, pp. 291–316, ISBN978-87-91690-20-4.
Nedergaard, Peter (2008), "The Political Economy of European Integration and Business: How to Explain Policy Developments", in Nedergaard, Peter; Campbell, John L. (eds.), Jurist og Økonomforbundet, København: Djøf Forlag, pp. 291–316, ISBN9788757418149.
Nedergaard, Peter (2008), "Introduction", in Nedergaard, Peter; Campbell, John L. (eds.), Jurist og Økonomforbundet, København: Djøf Forlag, pp. 17–22, ISBN9788757418149.
Lynggaard, Kennet; Nedergaard, Peter (2010), "The Logic of Policy Development: Lessons Learned from Reform and Routine within the CAP 1980-2003"", in Skogstad, Grace; Verdun, Amy (eds.), The Common Agricultural Policy: Policy Dynamics in a Changing Context, London: Routledge.
Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, M.C.D. (2011), "The OMC in Comparative Perspective: Learning and Community Building in the OECD and Nordic Council of Ministers", in Warleigh-Lack, Alex; Robinson, Nick; Rosamund, Ben (eds.), New Regionalism and the European Union. Dialogues, Comparisons and New Research Directions, New York: Routledge, ISBN9780415563727.
Nedergaard, Peter (2014), "EU coordination processes in Denmark: Change in order to preserve", in Wivel, A.; Miles, L. (eds.), Denmark and the European Union, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 30–46, ISBN9780415611343.
Nedergaard, Peter (2014), "The Internal Market Policy and the Common Agricultural Policy: the normalization of EU policy-making in Denmark", in Wivel, A.; Miles, L. (eds.), Denmark and the European Union, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 30–46, ISBN9780415611343.
Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, Mads Dagnis (2014), "Representation. Who is Sitting in the EU's Chair at the UN? Member States, Presidencies and the Commission", in Orsini, Amandine (ed.), The European Union with(in) International Organisations. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 55–71, ISBN9781472424143.
Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, M.C.D. (2015), "Still the 'Other' European Community? The Nordic Countries and the European Union", in Nedergaard, Peter; Grøn, Caroline; Wivel, Anders (eds.), The Nordic Countries and the European Union: Still the other European community?, New York: Routledge, ISBN9781138024243.
Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, M.C.D. (2015), "Mr. Svensson Goes to Brussels: Concluding on the Nordic Countries and the European Union", in Nedergaard, Peter; Grøn, Caroline; Wivel, Anders (eds.), The Nordic Countries and the European Union: Still the other European community?, New York: Routledge, ISBN9781138024243.
Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, M.C.D. (2015), "Market integration in Europe and the Nordic Countries: the ambivalent path dependency", in Nedergaard, Peter; Grøn, Caroline; Wivel, Anders (eds.), The Nordic Countries and the European Union: Still the other European community?, New York: Routledge, ISBN9781138024243.
Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, M.C.D. (2015), "The Common Agricultural Policy: Comparing Danish and Swedish governmental positions", in Nedergaard, Peter; Grøn, Caroline; Wivel, Anders (eds.), The Nordic Countries and the European Union: Still the other European community?, New York: Routledge, ISBN9781138024243.
Nedergaard, Peter; Wivel, Anders (2017), "Introduction: Scandinavian politics between myth and reality", in Nedergaard, Peter; Wivel, Anders (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics, Abingdon: Routledge, ISBN9781138905856.
Nedergaard, Peter; Wivel, Anders (2017), "Conclusions: Scandinavian polities, politics and policies", in Nedergaard, Peter; Wivel, Anders (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics, Abingdon: Routledge, ISBN9781138905856.
Diamond, Patrick; Nedergaard, Peter; Rosamond, Ben (2018), "Introduction", in Diamond, Patrick; Nedergaard, Peter; Rosamond, Ben (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the politics of Brexit, Abingdon: Routledge, ISBN9781138049369.
Nedergaard, Peter (2018), "The influence of ordoliberalism in the European integration processes, with the Eurozone crisis as a case", in Alcouffe, Alain; Baslé, Maurice; Poettinger, Monika (eds.), Macroeconomic Theory and the Eurozone Crisis, Abingdon: Routledge, ISBN9780815364047.
Nedergaard, Peter (December 2006). "Which countries learn from which? A comparative analysis of the direction of mutual learning processes within the open method of coordination committees of the European Union and among the Nordic countries". Cooperation and Conflict. 41 (4): 422–442. doi:10.1177/0010836706069870. S2CID55745756.
Nedergaard, Peter (June 2008). "The reform of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy: an advocacy coalition explanation". Policy Studies. 29 (2): 179–195. doi:10.1080/01442870802033464. S2CID154438310.
Nedergaard, Peter (March 2009). "European Union import quotas on Chinese textile and clothing exports in 2005: a panic-driven commission or rational explanations?". Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. 9 (1): 17–47. doi:10.1007/s10842-008-0031-4. S2CID153602227.
Nedergaard, Peter; Henriksen, Maja Friis (May 2018). "Britisk exceptionalisme: Hvordan Brexit kan forstås i et historisk lys". Økonomi & Politik. 91 (2): 66–78.
Nedergaard, Peter (September 2018). "An Ordoliberal Theory of the States". German Politics.
Nedergaard, Peter (October 2018). "Borders and the EU legitimacy problem: the 2015–16 European Refugee Crisis". Policy Studies.
Nedergaard, Peter (September 2018). "An Ordoliberal Theory of the States". German Politics.
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