Senior Researcher, DOC Research Institute, Berlin.

Jürgen R. Grote has been a senior researcher at DOC Research Institute, responsible for politics, governance, and civil society. Previously he has been working at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. His last academic position was the EU-sponsored Marie Curie Chair of Excellence at Charles University in Prague. He has taught and done research as assistant professor, associate professor, and guest professor at universities both in Germany and abroad. Grote holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Among his main fields of expertise are organized collective action by business, labor, and civil society, social network analysis, governance and crisis of governance arrangements, structural and regional policies. He has widely published and (co-)edited volumes on these topics with Routledge, Sage, and Palgrave Macmillan.