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Thomas Blanchet

Portrait Thomas Blanchet (photo: david ausserhofer)
Research Fields
  • Organisation sociology
  • Economic sociology
  • Path dependence
  • Water management
Contact
fon: +49 30 25491 119
fax: +49 30 25491 118
mail: blanchet [at] wzb [dot] eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Visiting Researcher of the Project Group
CV

10 2010
Visiting researcher, Institute of local Government studies (Inlogov),
University of Birmingham

since 04 2009
Visiting researcher Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Department Internationalisation and Organisation

04 2008
PhD Student at the DFG- Graduate School „Research on Organisational Paths“, Freie Universität Berlin

11 2007 - 04 2008
Research assistant at the Centre Marc Bloch, project: “The Learn Paths of the Territorial Governance in the Eastern Europe”

09 2007
Master of Art, Sociology, University of Nantes

11 2006 - 07 2007
Master Thesis at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UfZ (Leipzig/Halle), project: “Water 2050 – Chances for the German Water Management”

06 - 08 2006
Practical experience at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UfZ (Leipzig/Halle), project: “The Evaluation of the Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index”


Selected Publications
  • Coeurdray, Murielle/Blanchet, Thomas (2010): "Légitimités asymétriques et hybridations organisationnelles face à l importation de pratiques étrangères. Le secteur de l eau en Allemagne". In: Critique internationale, No. 48, S. 53-75.

Mutations Est-Comparaison des dynamiques locales autour de la restructuration des services urbains en Allemagne orientale, Actes de la Recherche en sciences sociales, 2011, together with Murielle Coeurdray.

Projects

Path Breaking in the German Water Sector? Scopes and limits of public private partnerships in three  municipalities.