Matthew W. Maguire
C ONTACT
I NFORMATION
Department of Political Science
Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215 USA
E DUCATION
Boston University, Boston, MA USA
Ph.D., Political Science, September 2016 (Expected)
Phone: (617) 955-3477
E-mail: mwm@bu.edu
Homepage: matthewmaguire.org
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
M.Sc., Comparative Politics (Politics and Markets), October 2008
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA
B.A., History, May 2003
D ISSERTATION
Governance Beyond Governments: Revisiting the Potential and Limits of Corporate Social
Responsibility
• Committee: Graham K. Wilson (Chair), Dino P. Christenson, Vivien Ann Schmidt,
John Gerring.
• Summary: My dissertation examines the rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
and its impact on public policy in Europe. Looking at the case of corporate nonfinancial (i.e. social and environmental) reporting, I show how private actors have
used voluntary standards, not to replace government, but to drag it into policy
areas that have been neglected or ignored.
• Fieldwork: Austria (ten months), Belgium (one month), France (two months), Germany (three months), Sweden (two months), United Kingdom (four months).
R ESEARCH
I NTERESTS
Comparative political economy and public policy, political methodology, regulation
and governance, corporate social responsibility.
P EER -R EVIEWED
P UBLICATIONS
“Assessing Health System Performance: A Model-based Approach” (with John Gerring, Strom C. Thacker, Ruben Enikolopov, and Julián Arévalo). Social Science &
Medicine 93 (September 2013): 21-28.
O THER
P UBLICATIONS
“From Private Regulation to Public Policy: The Case of Corporate Non-Financial Reporting.” Perspectives on Europe 43 (Autumn 2013): 67-71.
• Presented at the UNPRI-CBERN Academic Conference: Evolution of Responsible Investment, Schulich School of Business, York University (Toronto, Canada),
2012.
• Presented at the Graduate Student Conference: Institutional Investor and Corporate Governance for Sustainability, School of Geography and the Environment,
University of Oxford (Oxford, UK), 2012.
• Presented at the 19th International Conference of Europeanists (Boston, MA),
2012.
Business and Government (edited with Graham K. Wilson). 2013. London: Routledge.
Part of the Routledge series, Critical Perspectives on Business and Management.
“The Future of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting,” Issues in Brief, No. 19 (January 2011). The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future,
Boston University.
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W ORKING PAPERS “Governing Countries: A Theory of Subnational Regime Variation” (with Kelly McMann, John Gerring, Michael Coppedge, and Staffan Lindberg). The Varieties of
Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 28 (March 2016). Under review
• Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
(Washington, DC), 2014.
“Economic Development and Democracy: An Electoral Connection” (with John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell, Michael Coppedge,
and Staffan Lindberg). The Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 16
(November 2015). Under review.
• Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
(San Francisco, CA), 2015.
“Electoral Democracy and Human Development” (with John Gerring, Carl Henrik
Knutsen, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell, Michael Coppedge, and Staffan Lindberg). The Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 9 (August 2015).
Under review
“Regulating Corporate Social Responsibility through Non-Financial Reporting.”
• Presented at the 5th Biennial International Symposium on Cross-Sector Social
Interactions, Schulich School of Business (Toronto, Canada), 2016.
• Presented at the 10th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations, and Public Policy, Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel), 2014.
“Private Business Regulation and Public Policy: A Network Approach.”
• Presented at the 8th Annual Political Networks Conference, Reed College/Portland
State University (Portland, OR), 2015.
• Presented at the Fifth Biennial Conference: Regulatory Governance between Global
and Local, ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Institut Barcelona
d’Estudis Internacionals (Barcelona, Spain), 2014.
• Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
(Chicago, IL), 2013.
F ELLOWSHIPS ,
G RANTS , AND
AWARDS
Visiting Research Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2015.
Travel Grant, POLNET, National Science Foundation, 2015.
Graduate Research Fellowship in Democracy & Markets, The Tobin Project, 2014-2015.
Graduate Fellowship, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), 2014-2016.
Junior Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), 2013-2014.
Travel Grant, American Political Science Association, 2013.
Prestage-Cook Travel Award, Southern Political Science Association, 2013.
Long-Term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship, Boston University, 2012-2013.
Visiting Research Fellowship, GR:EEN Project, University of Warwick, 2012.
Mellon-CES Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Council for European Studies, 2011.
Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Boston University, 2010-2011.
Summer Graduate Fellowship, Frederick S. Pardee Center, Boston University, 2010.
Teaching Fellowship, Department of Political Science, Boston University, 2009-2012.
Undergraduate Research Grant, Department of History, Cornell University, 2002.
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T EACHING
E XPERIENCE
Introduction to Comparative Politics, Boston University, Teaching Fellow for Graham K.
Wilson (Fall 2009). Instructor (Summer 2016).
Introduction to American Politics, Boston University, Teaching Fellow for Andrew Reeves
(Fall 2010, Spring 2011) and Graham K. Wilson (Fall 2011, Fall 2012). Instructor (Summer 2011, Summer 2012, Summer 2015).
Quantitative Reasoning in the Social Sciences, Boston University, Teaching Fellow for
Doug Kriner (Spring 2012).
The Secret Lives of Corporations, Boston University, Guest Lecturer for Stephanie Watts
(Spring 2011).
Campaigns and Elections, Boston University, Teaching Fellow for Andrew Reeves (Spring
2010).
North-South Relations, Boston University, Guest Lecturer/Grader for Julián Arévalo (Spring
2010).
R ESEARCH
E XPERIENCE
Research Assistant for John Gerring, Boston University, 2010-Present. Collected data
for the Global Leadership Project, a worldwide study of political elites; data collection and analysis for the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project.
Research Assistant for Sofia A. Perez, Boston University, 2013-2014. Analyzed European Social Survey (ESS) data for a project on immigration attitudes, occupational
groups, and welfare regimes.
Research Assistant for Graham K. Wilson, Boston University, 2011. Conducted interviews with mayors in Massachusetts for The Warwick Commission on Elected Mayors
and City Leadership.
C OMPUTING
Stata, R, Python, LATEX
O THER
T RAINING
Competing for Trade, Growth & Influence, GR:EEN-GEM Ph.D. Summer School, Université Libre de Bruxelles, September 2014.
Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan, July-August
2013.
Squaring Multilateralism and Multipolarity, GR:EEN-GEM Ph.D. Summer School, Fudan University, August 2012.
Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR), Consortium on Qualitative Methods, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, June 2012.
Building Research from Qualitative Data, Ph.D. Workshop, International Centre for
Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School, April 2012.
Research Frontiers in Corporate Social Responsibility, Ph.D. Workshop, Copenhagen
Business School, June 2011.
Institutions in Context: The Welfare State, Ph.D. Workshop, University of Tampere,
June 2011.
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S ERVICE
Discussant, Panel: “Business Policy,” International Conference on Public Policy (Milan,
Italy), 2015.
Discussant, Panel: “Evaluating Alternatives to Regulation,” 23rd World Congress of
Political Science (Montreal, Canada), 2014.
Co-Organizer, Junior Fellows’ Conference, “Reflections on the Role of Ideas and Agency
in Europe,” Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), 2013.
Participant and Discussant, Research in American and Comparative Politics Workshop, Boston University, 2010-Present.
Graduate Student Mentor, Department of Political Science, Boston University, 20112012.
Department Representative, Graduate Student Organization, Boston University, 20102012.
Volunteer Instructor, “Making Music” Program, Community Service Center, Boston
University, 2009-2011.
O THER
E XPERIENCE
Online Contributor, CSR International, London, UK, 2010-2011.
Intern, Tomorrow’s Company, London, UK, 2008.
Paralegal, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC, 2004-2007.
Volunteer Organic Farmer, Willing Workers on Organic Farms, Italy, 2003.
R EFERENCES
Graham K. Wilson (Chair)
Department of Political Science
Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 353-2540
gkwilson@bu.edu
Dino P. Christenson
Department of Political Science
Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 358-6279
dinopc@bu.edu
Vivien Ann Schmidt
Department of International Relations
Boston University
154 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 358-0192
vschmidt@bu.edu
John Gerring
Department of Political Science
Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 353-2756
jgerring@bu.edu
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