Christian Martin
DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor
PhD,
University of Konstanz, Germany
Christian Martin is the DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and German Department. He received his doctorate in the year 2000 from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Since then, he has held positions at the University of Konstanz, the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Jena, Germany), the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), and, before joining Northwestern faculty, as an Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg (Germany).
Christian Martin’s research interests include international political economy, processes of policy diffusion, and agent based modeling of social phenomena. He is the author of the book “Die doppelte Transformation” (“Double Transformation”) that explains developing countries’ foreign economic policy choices as the effect of domestic institutional configurations and exogenous influences. He has published in, among other journals, Electoral Studies, Social Science Computer Review, and Public Choice.
christian-martin@northwestern.edu