Spilker, Gabriele, Dr.

Gabriele Spilker is postdoctoral researcher in the “International Political Economy” group of Thomas Bernauer at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) and the Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED). She is currently at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University as a Fritz Thyssen Fellow.

Gabi joined CIS as a member of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) “Democracy” in the research project on “Democratic Structures and Processes and the Provision of Public Goods” in October 2005. In the context of this research project she completed her PhD at ETH Zurich in September 2009.

Since October 2009 Gabi has been a member of the NCCR “Trade Regulation” research project on “Compliance with WTO Dispute Rulings”. Her main research interest is in international relations and international political economy.

I. Work in Progress

• Gabriele Spilker. Autocratic Pollution Havens: Joint Effects of Globalization and Democracy on Environmental Performance in Developing Countries.
• Gabriele Spilker. Compliance with WTO Dispute Rulings. NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2011/25.
• Gabriele Ruoff and Lena Schaffer. Adding another Level: Individual Responses to Globalization and Government Welfare Policies.
• Gabriele Spilker, Lena Schaffer and Thomas Bernauer. Does Social Capital Increase Public Support for Economic Globalization?
• Thomas Sattler, Gabriele Spilker and Thomas Bernauer. Dispute Settlement as Rule Clarification or Enforcement? Evidence from the World Trade Organization.
• Thomas Bernauer, Anna Kalbhenn, Vally Koubi and Gabriele Spilker. Is There a “Depth versus Participation” Dilemma in International Cooperation?
• Gabriele Spilker and Vally Koubi. Why Do Countries Participate in Global Environmental Agreements?
• Vally Koubi, Thomas Bernauer, Lena Schaffer and Gabriele Spilker. Climate Change and Migration.

II. Publications

• Gabriele Ruoff and Gerald Schneider. 2006. Segregation in the Classroom: An Empirical Test of the Schelling Model. Rationality and Society 18(1): 95-117.
• Gabriele Ruoff. 2009. Die Rhetorik der Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion. In Gerald Schneider, Michael Bechtel und Christian Fahrholz (Hrsg.): Krieg, Kooperation und Kursverlauf: Die Internationale Politische Ökonomie von Finanzmärkten. Wiesbaden: Verlag der Sozialwissenschaften.
• Gabriele Ruoff. 2009. Grow Rich and Clean Up Later? Joint Effects of International Integration and Democracy on Environmental Quality in Developing Countries. ETH Zurich Doctoral Dissertation No. 18600.
• Gerald Schneider und Gabriele Ruoff. 2010. Quantitative Methoden der Internationalen Politik. In Andreas Wilhelm und Carlo Masala (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Internationalen Politik. Wiesbaden: Verlag der Sozialwissenschaften.
• Thomas Bernauer, Anna Kalbhenn, Vally Koubi and Gabriele Spilker. 2010. A Comparison of International and Domestic Sources of Global Governance Dynamics. British Journal of Political Science 40(3): 509 -538.
• Gabriele Spilker. Helpful Organizations: IGO Membership and Environmental Quality in Developing Countries. Forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science.
• Gabriele Spilker, Lena Schaffer and Thomas Bernauer. Does Social Capital Increase Public Support for Economic
  Globalization? Forthcoming in European Journal of Political Research.
• Vally Koubi, Thomas Bernauer, Anna Kalbhenn and Gabriele Spilker. Climate Change, Economic Growth, and Conflict. Forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research.