Academic Positions Daniel Berliner Assistant Professor School of Politics and Global Studies Arizona State University www.danielberliner.com danberliner@gmail.com 2015-Present: Assistant Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University 2013-2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota 2014-2015: Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University 2012-2013: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Research College The Transformative Power of Europe, Freie Universität Berlin Education Ph.D., Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle (2008-2012) Dissertation: Institutionalizing Transparency: The Global Spread of Freedom of Information in Law and Practice. Committee: Aseem Prakash (Chair), Margaret Levi, James Caporaso, Christopher Adolph Master of Arts, Political Science, received Spring 2010 B.A., International Relations, University of California, Davis (2003-2007) Journal Articles Sunlight or Window Dressing?: Local Government Compliance with South Africa s Promotion of Access to Information Act. Forthcoming. Governance. Transnational Advocacy and Domestic Law: International NGOs and the Design of Freedom of Information Laws. 2016. Review of International Organizations. 11(1): 121-144. Competing for Transparency: Political Competition and Institutional Reform in Mexican States. 2015. American Political Science Review. 109(1): 110-128. With Aaron Erlich. Governing Global Supply Chains: What We Know (and Don t) About Improving Labor Rights and Working Conditions. 2015. Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 11: 193-209. With Margaret Levi, Anne Greenleaf, Milli Lake, and Jennifer Noveck. Building Capacity, Building Rights?: State Capacity and Labor Rights in Developing Countries. 2015. World Development. 72:127-139. With Anne Greenleaf, Milli Lake, and Jennifer Noveck. Bluewashing the Firm?: Voluntary Regulations, Program Design and Member Compliance with the United Nations Global Compact. 2015. Policy Studies Journal. 43(1): 115-138. With Aseem Prakash. 1
The Political Origins of Transparency. 2014. The Journal of Politics. 76(2): 479-491. Public Authority and Private Rules: How Domestic Regulatory Institutions Shape the Adoption of Global Private Regimes. 2014. International Studies Quarterly. 58(4): 793-803. With Aseem Prakash. The United Nations Global Compact: An Institutionalist Perspective. 2014. Journal of Business Ethics. 122(2): 217-223. With Aseem Prakash. Signaling Environmental Stewardship in the Shadow of Weak Governance: The Global Diffusion of ISO 14001. 2013. Law & Society Review, 47(2): 345-373. With Aseem Prakash. From Norms to Programs: The United Nations Global Compact and Global Governance. 2012. Regulation & Governance, 6: 149-166. With Aseem Prakash. Book Labor Standards in International Supply Chains: Aligning Rights and Incentives. 2015. Edward Elgar Publishing. Co-authored with Margaret Levi, Anne Greenleaf, Milli Lake, and Jennifer Noveck. Other Publications Ambitions and Realities in OGP Commitments: Analysis of Commitment Completion Across Countries using Hierarchical Models. 2015. Open Government Partnership Research Paper. Follow your Neighbor?: Regional Emulation and the Design of Transparency Policies. 2013. KFG Working Papers Series, Kolleg-Forschergruppe The Transformative Power of Europe, Freie Universität Berlin. Aligning Rights and Interests: Why, When and How to Uphold Labor Standards. World Bank Background Paper for the World Development Report 2013. With Margaret Levi, Christopher Adolph, Aaron Erlich, Anne Greenleaf, Milli Lake, and Jennifer Noveck. Under Review The Politics of Scrutiny in Human Rights Monitoring: Evidence from Structural Topic Models of U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports. With Benjamin Bagozzi. Revise-and-resubmit. Stakeholder Scrutiny, Private Certification, and the Big City Advantage : Evidence from Global Firm- Level Surveys. With Elizabeth Chrun and Aseem Prakash. Work in Progress What Information Do Citizens Want? Evidence from 1 Million Public Information Requests in Mexico. With Benjamin Bagozzi and Brian Palmer-Rubin. The Distributive Politics of Government Information: Political Targeting and Information Disclosure in Mexico. With Benjamin Bagozzi. Audits and Accountability in South Africa. With Joachim Wehner. Ambitions and Realities in the Open Government Partnership. 2
Partisanship and Representation in a Semi-Authoritarian Chamber: Evidence from a Decade of Ugandan Parliamentary Debates. With Amanda Clayton. The Information-Theoretic Structure of Institutional Change in New Democracies. Dedeo. With Simon Political Competition and the Implementation of Transparency Reforms: Evidence from India s Right to Information Act. With Krishna Vadlamannati. Press During Wartime: Conflict and Press Freedom in Democracies and Autocracies. With Thorin Wright. The Open Government Gamble: New Solutions and Old Problems in the Quest to Transform Government. With Suzanne Piotrowski and Alex Ingrams. Conferences and Presentations The Distributive Politics of Government Information: Political Targeting and Information Disclosure in Mexico. Presented April 2016, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. Press During Wartime: Conflict and Press Freedom in Democracies and Autocracies. April 2016, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. Presented The Politics of Scrutiny in Human Rights Monitoring: Evidence from Structural Topic Models of U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports. Presented March 2016, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA. Press During Wartime: Conflict and Press Freedom in Democracies and Autocracies. March 2016, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA. Presented The Politics of Government Responsiveness: Political Targeting of Information Disclosures in Mexico. Presented November 2015, Vanderbilt University Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Nashville, TN. Ambitions and Realities in OGP Commitments: Analysis of Commitment Completion Across Countries using Hierarchical Models. Presented October 2015, Open Government Partnership Global Summit, Mexico City. What Information Do Citizens Want? Evidence from 1 Million Public Information Requests in Mexico. Presented September 2015, Conference on Complex Systems, Tempe, AZ. The Politics of Government Responsiveness: Evidence from 1 Million Public Information Requests in Mexico. Presented August 2015, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Stakeholder Scrutiny, Private Certification, and the Big City Advantage : Evidence from Global Firm- Level Surveys. Presented August 2015, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Sunlight or Window Dressing?: The Politics of Compliance with Transparency Reforms. Presented 19 June 2015 at Government Secrecy in the Era of Openness: An ACARM Symposium, held by 3
the Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Sunlight or Window Dressing?: Local Government Compliance with South Africa s Promotion of Access to Information Act. Presented June 2015, 4th Global Conference on Transparency Research, Lugano, Switzerland. Domestic Politics and the Transparency Norm. Discussion memo for Workshop on Secrecy, Surveillance, Privacy, and International Relations, MIT Center for International Studies, April 2015. Power and Change in the Open Government Partnership. Discussion memo for Research Workshop Power and Interactions in the Politics of Transnational Public-Private Governance, February 2015, International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. Competition and Compliance: Local Government Compliance with South Africa s Promotion of Access to Information Act. Presented February 2015, International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. Voluntary Regulations, Program Design and Member Compliance: The Case of the UN Global Compact. Presented March 2014, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada. Competing for Transparency: Political Competition and Administrative Reform in Mexican States. Presented August 2013, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Institutional Isomorphism and Regional Models of Governance Reform: The Case of Freedom of Information Laws. Presented April 2013, International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. Building Capacity, Building Rights?: State Capacity and Labor Rights in Developing Countries. Presented April 2013, International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. Bluewashing the Firm?: The UN Global Compact and Firms Environmental and Human Rights Performance. Presented July 2012, International Political Science Association World Congress, Madrid, Spain. Transnational Advocacy and Domestic Law: International NGOs and the Design of Freedom of Information Laws. Presented April 2012, International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. Private Regulation and Public Institutions: Voluntary Certifications in the Transitional Economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Presented April 2012, International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. The Political Origins of Transparency. Presented September 2011, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. The Strength of Freedom of Information Laws After Passage: The Role of Transnational Advocacy Networks. Presented May 2011, 1st Global Conference on Transparency Research, Rutgers-Newark, NJ. Freedom of Information Laws and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries. Presented March 2011, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal. Presented April 2010, 4
Midwestern Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL. Signaling Environmental Stewardship in Corrupt Societies: The Case of ISO 14001. Presented March 2011, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada. Veto Players, Democracy, and the Diffusion of Freedom of Information Laws. Presented September 2010, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Good Norm, Weak Program: Cross-National Diffusion of the United Nations Global Compact. Presented September 2010, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Presented February 2010, International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. Corporate Social Responsibility and the United Nations: Cross-National Diffusion of the UN Global Compact. Presented November 2009, Meiji University Graduate School of Business Administration 50th Anniversary Symposium, Tokyo, Japan. Teaching Arizona State University: POS 160: Global Politics (Spring 2016, Fall 2016) SGS 350: Economic Development and Globalization (Fall 2016) POS 598: Comparative Political Economy Graduate Seminar (Spring 2017) POS 394: Information Technology and World Politics (Fall 2014) POS 300: Global Public Policy (Fall 2015) University of Minnesota: POL 1942: Global Politics of Information Technology POL 3835: International Relations POL 8405: International Political Economy Graduate Seminar University of Washington, Seattle: Instructor: POLS 203: Introduction to International Relations Teaching Assistant: POLS/CSSS 503: Advanced Quantitative Methods POLS 203: Introduction to International Relations POLS 204: Introduction to Comparative Politics POLS 270: Introduction to Political Economy POLS 342: Government and Politics of Latin America Awards Program for Transborder Communities Research Cluster grant, ASU School of Transborder Studies (2016) One of three researchers selected by IDRC to present to the Open Government Partnership s Global Summit, October 2015 in Mexico City (2015) UW Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship (2012) UW European Union Center of Excellence Graduate Research Grant (2012) 5
International Studies Association - International Political Economy Section Best Graduate Student Paper Award (2011) University of Washington Philo S. Bennett Prize for Best Paper on Free Government (2011) Department of Political Science Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan Graduate Research Grant in Comparative Political Economy (2010) Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Graduate Student Research and Training Grant (2010, 2011, 2012) UW Department of Political Science J. Allen Smith Fellowship (2008-09) UC Davis International Relations Academic Achievement Award (2007) UC Regents Scholarship (2003-2007) Professional Activities Invited Speaker, Open Government Partnership Global Summit, Mexico City, October 2015. Invited Speaker, Government Secrecy in the Era of Openness: An ACARM Symposium, held by the Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, June 2015. Invited Participant, Workshop on Secrecy, Surveillance, Privacy, and International Relations, MIT Center for International Studies, April 2015. Panel Organizer (with Lisa Vanhala). International Diffusion Meets Domestic Politics. 2015 International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. Panel Organizer. Multinational Corporations, Politics, and Governance. 2012 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Panel Organizer (with Matthias Hofferberth). Information, Crisis, and Adoption: Multinational Enterprise and Corporate Responsibility in the Global Information Age. 2012 International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. Panel Organizer. The Political Economy of Transparency and Information Disclosure. 2011 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Panel Organizer and Chair. A Panel on Voluntary Programs. 2010 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Reviewer for: Administration and Society American Journal of Political Science American Political Science Review Business and Politics Business and Society Comparative Political Studies Economics and Politics European Union Politics 6
Governance Industrial and Labor Relations Review International Interactions International Journal of Comparative Sociology International Organization International Studies Quarterly Journal of Environment and Development Journal of Management Studies Journal of Peace Research Latin American Politics and Society Law & Society Review New Media and Society Perspectives on Politics Policy Studies Journal Political Research Quarterly Public Administration Regulation & Governance Review of International Organizations Swiss Political Science Review The Journal of Politics World Development Last updated: June 29, 2016 7