Peter Nedergaard

Peter Petersen Nedergaard (born 1957), is a Danish Professor of Political Science who has been employed at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen since 2008.

In 1985 Peter Nedergaard obtained the title of Master of Science in Political Science. He later earned a PhD from the Institut for Statskundskab, Århus, Denmark and an Exam.Art. in Philosophy. In 1983-84, Peter Nedergaard was a Robert Schuman research fellow in the research department of the European Parliament in Luxembourg and a stagiaire in the cabinet of agricultural commissioner, Poul Dalsager, in Brussels.

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 number of years he left the academic world, instead working as head of unit in the Danish Consumer Council and the Danish Ministry of Employment respectively. 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.

Peter Nedergaard has received several major research grants. In 2004, he received DKK 1.8 million from the Danish National Research Council for a project on the OMC in the EU, and in 2011 he received DKK 400,000 for a project on the Danish EU Presidency in 2012.

Peter Nedergaard's research has been published in international scientific journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Public Choice, Journal of European Integration, Scandinavian Political Studies, Cooperation and Conflict and Policy Studies. In addition, he has published a number of textbooks for high schools and universities on inter alia theory of science, European policy and the economics and politics of China, the USA, Germany and the EU.

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.

Books

• Nedergaard, Peter (2007). European Union administration legitimacy and efficiency. Leiden Boston: Nijhoff. ISBN 9789004155732. 
• Nedergaard, Peter; Campbell, John L. (2008). Institutions and politics: festschrift in honour of Ove K. Pedersen. Copenhagen: DJØF Pub. ISBN 9788757418149. 
• Nedergaard, Peter (2009). Business and politics in the European Union: cases in services, agriculture, and textiles. Copenhagen: DJØF Pub. ISBN 9788757420838. 
• Nedergaard, Peter; Grøn, Caroline Howard; Wivel, Anders (2015). The nordic countries and the European Union: still the other European community. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138024243. 

Book chapters

• Nedergaard, Peter (1993), "A regionalised world trade?", in Stetting, Lauge; Svendsen, Knud Erik; Yndgaard, Ebbe, Global change and transformation: economic essays in honor of Karsten Laursen, Copenhagen: Handelshøjskolens Forlag Distribution by Munksgaard International Publishers Ltd, pp. 229–238, ISBN 9788716132154. 
• Nedergaard, Peter (1995), "The political economy of CAP reform", in Laursen, Finn, The political economy of European integration, The Hague Boston: Kluwer Law International, pp. 111–144, ISBN 9789041100863. 
• Nedergaard, Peter (1995), "Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy: a case of regime change", in Kreinin, Mordechai E., Contemporary issues in commercial policy, New York: Pergamon, pp. 63–72, ISBN 9780080425757. 

Journal articles

• Nedergaard, Peter (June 2006). "Market failures and government failures: a theoretical model of the Common Agricultural Policy". Public Choice. Springer. 127 (3–4): 393–413. doi:10.1007/s11127-005-9000-1. JSTOR 30026596. 
• Nedergaard, Peter (July 2006). "The 2003 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: against all odds or rational explanations?". Journal of European Integration. Taylor and Francis. 28 (3): 203–223. doi:10.1080/07036330600785749. 
• 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. Sage. 41 (4): 422–442. doi:10.1177/0010836706069870. 
• Nedergaard, Peter (September 2007). "Blocking minorities: networks and meaning in the opposition against the proposal for a directive on temporary work in the Council of Ministers of the European Union". Journal of Common Market Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. 45 (3): 695–717. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00729.x. 
• Nedergaard, Peter (December 2007). "Maximizing policy learning in international committees: an analysis of the European Open Method of Coordination (OMC) committees". Scandinavian Political Studies. Wiley. 30 (4): 521–546. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00191.x. 
• Nedergaard, Peter (June 2008). "The reform of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy: an advocacy coalition explanation". Policy Studies. Taylor and Francis. 29 (2): 179–195. doi:10.1080/01442870802033464. 
• Nedergaard, Peter (July 2008). "Coordination processes in international organisations: the EU at the International Labour Conference in 2005". European Integration Online Papers (EIOP). 12. doi:10.1695/2008003.  Pdf.
• Nedergaard, Peter (2009). "The political economy of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) governance system". IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 6: 222013. doi:10.1088/1755-1307/6/2/222013.  Pdf.
• Nedergaard, Peter (January 2009). "Policy learning processes in international committees". Public Management Review. Taylor and Francis. 11 (1): 23–37. doi:10.1080/14719030802490011. 
• 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. Springer. 9 (1): 17–47. doi:10.1007/s10842-008-0031-4. 
• Nedergaard, Peter; Lynggaard, Kennet (May 2009). "The logic of policy development: lessons learned from reform and routine within the CAP 1980–2003". Journal of European Integration, special issue: The Common Agricultural Policy: Policy Dynamics in a Changing Context. Taylor and Francis. 31 (3): 291–309. doi:10.1080/07036330902782147. 
• Nedergaard, Peter (December 2009). "There are coalitions everywhere". European Societies. Taylor and Francis. 11 (5): 649–671. doi:10.1080/14616690802326418. 
• Nedergaard, Peter; Duina, Francesco (August 2010). "Learning in international governmental organizations: the case of social protection". Global Social Policy. Sage. 10 (2): 193–217. doi:10.1177/1468018110366617. 
• Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, Mads Dagnis (August 2012). "From 'Frankenstein' to 'toothless vampire'? Explaining the watering down of the Services Directive". Journal of European Public Policy. Taylor and Francis. 19 (6): 844–862. doi:10.1080/13501763.2011.610692.  Pdf.
• Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, Mads Dagnis (March 2014). "The anatomy of Intergroups – network governance in the political engine room of the European Parliament". Policy Studies. Taylor and Francis. 35 (2): 195–209. doi:10.1080/01442872.2013.875146. 
• Nedergaard, Peter; Nørgaard, Rikke Wetendorff; Blom-Hansen, Jens (July 2014). "Lobbying in the EU comitology system". Journal of European Integration. Taylor and Francis. 36 (5): 491–507. doi:10.1080/07036337.2014.889128. 
• Nedergaard, Peter; Jensen, Mads Dagnis (September 2014). "Uno, duo, trio? Varieties of trio presidencies in the Council of Ministers". Journal of Common Market Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. 52 (5): 1035–1052. doi:10.1111/jcms.12130. 
• Nedergaard, Peter; Bang, Henrik; Jensen, Mads Dagnis (March 2015). "'We the People' versus 'We the Heads of States': the debate on the democratic deficit of the European Union". Policy Studies. Taylor and Francis. 36 (2): 196–216. doi:10.1080/01442872.2014.1000846. 
• Nedergaard, Peter; Snaith, Holly (September 2015). "'As I drifted on a river I could not control': the unintended ordoliberal consequences of the Eurozone crisis". Journal of Common Market Studies. Wiley. 53 (5): 1094–1109. doi:10.1111/jcms.12249.