Professor Kelly Kollman

  • Professor of Politics (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 3910
email: Kelly.Kollman@glasgow.ac.uk

R1212 Level 12, Politics, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow in 2005 as a Lecturer in Politics and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011. 

My research interests focus on the ways in which norms and policy ideas form within international policy communities and have (fail to have) effects in individual countries.  Substantively my research focuses on policy change in western democracies in two distinct areas: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & inter-sex rights and corporate social responsibility.

I have published extensively in both areas in high-profile journals such as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Contemporary Politics and Regulation & Governance as well as a monograph entitled The Same-sex Unions Revolution (Manchester University Press, 2013).  My work has been supported by leading funding bodies including by the Carnegie Trust for Scottish Universities (Same-sex Unions in Western Democracies, 2009), the Economic and Social Research Council (Borderless Politics, 2012-2015) and the Leverhulme Trust (Responsible Lobbyists? 2019-2021). 

In the current Leverhulme project I examine the ways in which large firms’ corporate social responsibility credentials and practices influence their access to policymakers in the UK as well as how these firms engage in the policy process. 

I hold a PhD from the George Washington University in Washington DC (USA).  Before coming to the Glasgow, I was an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at Carleton College in Minnesota, USA.

Research interests

  • Comparative European Politics
  • Policy diffusion / cross border policy learning
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & intersex+ (LGBTI+) politics
  • Business & Politics

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2025) Corporate responsibility and the state: business lobbying on climate change in the UK. Interest Groups and Advocacy, (doi: 10.1057/s41309-025-00230-4) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and McMillan, Fraser ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4843-2449 (2023) Responsible lobbyists? In: Lyon, Thomas P. (ed.) Corporate Political Responsibility. Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-187. (doi: 10.1017/9781009420815.010)

2022

Bernhagen, Patrick, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Patsiurko, Natalka (2022) Beyond lobbying: the political determinants of adopting corporate social responsibility frameworks in the European Union and the USA. Interest Groups and Advocacy, 11(3), pp. 373-398. (doi: 10.1057/s41309-022-00155-2)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2022) When rights enter the CSR Field: British firms’ engagement with human rights and the UN Guiding Principles. Human Rights Review, 23(1), pp. 21-40. (doi: 10.1007/s12142-020-00614-w)

2021

Ayoub, Phillip M. and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2021) (Same)-sex in the City: urbanisation and LGBTI rights expansion. European Journal of Political Research, 60(3), pp. 603-624. (doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12418)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2021) Mixing business with politics: does corporate social responsibility end where lobbying transparency begins? Regulation and Governance, 15(2), pp. 262-279. (doi: 10.1111/rego.12275)

2020

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2020) An expanding conception of social responsibility? Of global norms and changing corporate perceptions. In: Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes and Vetterlein, Antje (eds.) The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 188-212. ISBN 9781108490948 (doi: 10.1017/9781108867047.013)

2017

Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2017) Pioneering marriage for same-sex couples in the Netherlands. Journal of European Public Policy, 24(1), pp. 100-118. (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2016.1147057)

2016

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Bernhagen, Patrick (2016) Engaging firms: The global organisational field for corporate social responsibility and national varieties of capitalism. Policy and Society, 35(1), pp. 13-27. (doi: 10.1016/j.polsoc.2015.12.003)

2015

Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2015) Same-sex partnership and marriage: the success and costs of transnational activism. In: Paternotte, David and Tremblay, Manon (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism. Series: Ashgate research companion. Ashgate Publishing Limited: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 307-321. ISBN 9781409457091

2014

Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2014) Deploying Europe: the creation of discursive imperatives for same-sex unions. In: Ayoub, Philip and Paternotte, David (eds.) LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe. Series: Gender and politics series. Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 97-118. ISBN 9781137391759

2013

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2013) The Same-Sex Unions Revolution in Western Democracies: International Norms and Domestic Policy Change. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719084539

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Patermotte, D. (2013) Regulating intimate relationships in the European polity: same-sex unions and policy convergence. Social Politics, 20(4), pp. 510-533. (doi: 10.1093/sp/jxs024)

2011

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2011) Same-sex unions legislation and policy paradigms: something borrowed, yet something new. In: Skogstad, G. (ed.) Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics. Series: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, ON, pp. 119-146. ISBN 9781442643697

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Waites, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5018-1880 (2011) United Kingdom: changing political opportunity structures, policy success and continuing challenges for lesbian, gay and bisexual movements. In: Tremblay, M., Paternotte, D. and Johnson, C. (eds.) The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 181-196. ISBN 9781409410669

2010

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2010) LGBT human rights: from queers to humans. In: Denemark, R.A. (ed.) International Studies Encyclopedia. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, pp. 4875-4897. ISBN 9781405152389

2009

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Waites, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5018-1880 (Eds.) (2009) The Global Politics of LGBT Human Rights, Special Issue. Taylor & Francis: Abingdon.

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2009) European institutions, transnational networks and national same-sex union policy: when soft law hits harder. Contemporary Politics, 15(1), pp. 37-53. (doi: 10.1080/13569770802674204)

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Waites, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5018-1880 (2009) The global politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights: an introduction. Contemporary Politics, 15(1), pp. 1-17. (doi: 10.1080/13569770802674188)

2008

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2008) The regulatory power of business norms: a call for a new research agenda. International Studies Review, 10(3), pp. 397-419. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2008.00798.x)

2007

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2007) Same-sex unions: the globalization of an idea. International Studies Quarterly, 51(2), pp. 329-357. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2007.00454.x)

2004

Prakash, A. and Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2004) Policy modes, firms and the natural environment. Business Strategy and the Environment, 13(2), pp. 107-128. (doi: 10.1002/bse.394)

2003

Prakash, A. and Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2003) Biopolitics in the EU and the U.S.: a race to the bottom or convergence to the top? International Studies Quarterly, 47(4), pp. 617-641. (doi: 10.1046/j.0020-8833.2003.00281.x)

2002

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Prakash, A. (2002) EMS-based environmental regimes as club goods: examining variations in firm-level adoption of ISO 14001 and EMAS in U.K., U.S. and Germany. Policy Sciences, 35(1), pp. 43-67. (doi: 10.1023/A:1016071810725)

2001

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Prakash, A. (2001) Green by choice?: cross-national variations in firms' responses to EMS-based environmental regimes. World Politics, 53(3), pp. 399-430. (doi: 10.1353/wp.2001.0010)

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Articles

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2025) Corporate responsibility and the state: business lobbying on climate change in the UK. Interest Groups and Advocacy, (doi: 10.1057/s41309-025-00230-4) (Early Online Publication)

Bernhagen, Patrick, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Patsiurko, Natalka (2022) Beyond lobbying: the political determinants of adopting corporate social responsibility frameworks in the European Union and the USA. Interest Groups and Advocacy, 11(3), pp. 373-398. (doi: 10.1057/s41309-022-00155-2)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2022) When rights enter the CSR Field: British firms’ engagement with human rights and the UN Guiding Principles. Human Rights Review, 23(1), pp. 21-40. (doi: 10.1007/s12142-020-00614-w)

Ayoub, Phillip M. and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2021) (Same)-sex in the City: urbanisation and LGBTI rights expansion. European Journal of Political Research, 60(3), pp. 603-624. (doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12418)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2021) Mixing business with politics: does corporate social responsibility end where lobbying transparency begins? Regulation and Governance, 15(2), pp. 262-279. (doi: 10.1111/rego.12275)

Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2017) Pioneering marriage for same-sex couples in the Netherlands. Journal of European Public Policy, 24(1), pp. 100-118. (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2016.1147057)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Bernhagen, Patrick (2016) Engaging firms: The global organisational field for corporate social responsibility and national varieties of capitalism. Policy and Society, 35(1), pp. 13-27. (doi: 10.1016/j.polsoc.2015.12.003)

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Patermotte, D. (2013) Regulating intimate relationships in the European polity: same-sex unions and policy convergence. Social Politics, 20(4), pp. 510-533. (doi: 10.1093/sp/jxs024)

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2009) European institutions, transnational networks and national same-sex union policy: when soft law hits harder. Contemporary Politics, 15(1), pp. 37-53. (doi: 10.1080/13569770802674204)

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Waites, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5018-1880 (2009) The global politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights: an introduction. Contemporary Politics, 15(1), pp. 1-17. (doi: 10.1080/13569770802674188)

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2008) The regulatory power of business norms: a call for a new research agenda. International Studies Review, 10(3), pp. 397-419. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2008.00798.x)

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2007) Same-sex unions: the globalization of an idea. International Studies Quarterly, 51(2), pp. 329-357. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2007.00454.x)

Prakash, A. and Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2004) Policy modes, firms and the natural environment. Business Strategy and the Environment, 13(2), pp. 107-128. (doi: 10.1002/bse.394)

Prakash, A. and Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2003) Biopolitics in the EU and the U.S.: a race to the bottom or convergence to the top? International Studies Quarterly, 47(4), pp. 617-641. (doi: 10.1046/j.0020-8833.2003.00281.x)

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Prakash, A. (2002) EMS-based environmental regimes as club goods: examining variations in firm-level adoption of ISO 14001 and EMAS in U.K., U.S. and Germany. Policy Sciences, 35(1), pp. 43-67. (doi: 10.1023/A:1016071810725)

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Prakash, A. (2001) Green by choice?: cross-national variations in firms' responses to EMS-based environmental regimes. World Politics, 53(3), pp. 399-430. (doi: 10.1353/wp.2001.0010)

Books

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2013) The Same-Sex Unions Revolution in Western Democracies: International Norms and Domestic Policy Change. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719084539

Book Sections

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and McMillan, Fraser ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4843-2449 (2023) Responsible lobbyists? In: Lyon, Thomas P. (ed.) Corporate Political Responsibility. Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-187. (doi: 10.1017/9781009420815.010)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2020) An expanding conception of social responsibility? Of global norms and changing corporate perceptions. In: Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes and Vetterlein, Antje (eds.) The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 188-212. ISBN 9781108490948 (doi: 10.1017/9781108867047.013)

Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2015) Same-sex partnership and marriage: the success and costs of transnational activism. In: Paternotte, David and Tremblay, Manon (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism. Series: Ashgate research companion. Ashgate Publishing Limited: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 307-321. ISBN 9781409457091

Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2014) Deploying Europe: the creation of discursive imperatives for same-sex unions. In: Ayoub, Philip and Paternotte, David (eds.) LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe. Series: Gender and politics series. Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 97-118. ISBN 9781137391759

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2011) Same-sex unions legislation and policy paradigms: something borrowed, yet something new. In: Skogstad, G. (ed.) Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics. Series: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, ON, pp. 119-146. ISBN 9781442643697

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Waites, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5018-1880 (2011) United Kingdom: changing political opportunity structures, policy success and continuing challenges for lesbian, gay and bisexual movements. In: Tremblay, M., Paternotte, D. and Johnson, C. (eds.) The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 181-196. ISBN 9781409410669

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2010) LGBT human rights: from queers to humans. In: Denemark, R.A. (ed.) International Studies Encyclopedia. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, pp. 4875-4897. ISBN 9781405152389

Edited Books

Kollman, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Waites, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5018-1880 (Eds.) (2009) The Global Politics of LGBT Human Rights, Special Issue. Taylor & Francis: Abingdon.

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Grants

  • Leverhulme Trust (2019-2021): Responsbile Lobbyists? 
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ES/I036974/1; 2012-2015): Borderless Politics
  • Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (2009) Same-sex Unions Policy in Western Democracies: Common Ideas and Diverse Models.

Supervision

Supervision Areas:

  • European politics / public policy
  • Policy diffusion
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender+ politics and activism
  • Social movements
  • Business & politics 
  • Rehm, Eva Sophia
    Analysis of recent developments towards the harmonisation of sustainability reporting and its impact on companies’ CSR practices and sustainability disclosures

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

  • Politics 2B Comparative Politics in a Globalising World (Coordinator / contributor)
  • Business & Politics (Honours)

Postgraduate Teaching

  • Qualitative Research Methods (contributor)
  • Human Rights & Global Politics

Kelly Kollman