Academic Career and Research Areas
In his research, Timo Seidl (*1992) examines the interplay between politics and the economy, with a particular focus on the causes and consequences of technological change. He is interested, for example, in how political and economic power, geopolitical and distributional conflicts, or institutional structures and influential ideas shape technological change—and how this, in turn, shapes economies and societies. You can find out more about Timo at www.timoseidl.com.
Timo Seidl studied political science, sociology, and economics at the Universities of Augsburg, Oslo, Frankfurt am Main, and Toronto. After completing his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence in 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Since 2025, Timo Seidl has been an Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Political Economy at the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich.
Nachgefragt [Interviews]
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Key Publications
All Publications
Nachtwey, O., & Seidl, T. (2024). The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism. Theory, Culture & Society, 41(2), 91–112.
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Seidl, T., & Schmitz, L. (2023). Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy. Journal of European Public Policy 31 (8): 2147–74.
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Falkner, G., Heidebrecht, S., Obendiek, A., & Seidl, T. (2024). Digital sovereignty—Rhetoric and reality. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(8), 2099–2120.
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Seidl, T. (2023). Investing in the knowledge economy: The comparative political economy of public investments in knowledge‐based capital. European Journal of Political Research, 62(3), 924–944.
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Seidl, T. (2022). The politics of platform capitalism: A case study on the regulation of Uber in New York. Regulation & Governance, 16(2), 357–374.
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