Daniel Kinderman
Daniel Kinderman
Comparative Politics and International Relations
Interim Director, Global Studies Program
Office:聽304 Smith Hall
Biography
Daniel Kinderman, PhD (Cornell University, 2011) joined the Department in 2011. He specializes in comparative and international political economy and corporate social responsibility (CSR), with a geographical focus on Europe. He teaches courses on European politics, the European Union (EU), corporate social responsibility, comparative political economy and international political economy. His current research focuses on business responses to right-wing populism, the impact of responsible business associations on the CSR performance of their member companies and the relationship between CSR and political-economic institutions. Professor Kinderman has been a visiting scholar at the Social Science Research Center (WZB) in Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.
Publications
"Centimanes v. Titans: right-wing populist governments鈥 treatment of foreign multinationals in East Central Europe" (with Andreas N枚lke,Gerhard Schnyder, and Dorottya Sallai), New Political Economy,聽
鈥淏usiness and Right-wing Populism鈥 in Matthew Maguire and Graham Wilson (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2026, pp. 23-30.聽
鈥淕reen Subsidies and the Promotion of Eco-social Policy in Germany and the United States鈥 (with Benedikt Bender) Regulation & Governance, 2025,
"Donald Trump, anti-establishment populism and the revolving door between business and politics in the United States" Zeitschrift f眉r Unternehmensgeschichte / Journal of Business History Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 289-314聽
"The US chamber and chambers of commerce respond to Black Lives Matter: Cheap talk, progressive neoliberalism, or transformative change?" Business and Politics 24 (4), 491-516
"The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia鈥揢kraine War" (with V Bamiatzi, SA Brieger, 脰 Karakulak, and S Manning) Journal of Business Ethics, 1-29