Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science and Class of 1960 Fellow. Professor Berger works in comparative politics and in political economy. Her books include Peasants Against Politics; The French Political System: Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies (with Michael Piore); Organizing Interests in Western Europe (editor); National Diversity and Global Capitalism (with Ronald Dore); Made by Hong Kong (with Richard Lester) and Global Taiwan (with Richard Lester. A 2003 book Notre Premiere Mondialisation[Our First Globalization] analyzes political responses to capital mobility and trade in France,1870-1914. Her most recent work, How We Compete, presents the findings of a five-year-long study by MIT social scientists and engineers on the impact of globalization. She is Director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative Program. Professor Berger is a Research Associate and member of the Committee of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association and as founding Chair of the Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Western Europe. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her current research concerns the impact of globalization on domestic institutions.
Office: E53-451
Phone: 617-253-6640
email: szberger@mit.edu
Director
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives
Affiliated Faculty
MIT Industrial Performance Center Globalization Project
Curriculum Vitae (1/08, pdf)