Daniel “Zach” Sloman is a PhD in the department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. His research is within the Political Economy and Transnational Governance research group as is his promotor Annette Freyberg-Inan. In addition, he is affiliated with the Governance, Law, and Social Justice research group at the International Institute of Social Studies at the Erasmus University where he receives the bulk of his supervision from Karim Knio.

Expertise and research fields

In his research and teaching, Daniel Zach Sloman focuses on:

• Inclusive governance with a specialty in the history of multi-lateral inclusive governance.
• Policy analysis
• The adverse impacts of inclusive governance.
• The Critical Realist paradigm of social science and the Immanent Causality Morphogenetic Approach to social change.
• Ontology-based, (meta)theoretical comparison.

Expertise & research fields

• Institutional analysis
• Policy analysis
• Inclusivity/Inclusivness/adverse inclusion
• Good Governance
• Capitalism
• Neoliberalism

Research methods

• Immanent Causality Morphogenetic Approach (ICMA)
• Surveys
• Participant observation
• Interviews

Current research project

• PhD project: Adverse impacts of inclusive governance

Daniel Zach Sloman investigates the circumstances of adversely inclusive governance for the UN, EU, IMF, and WB. This means he asks ‘what is inclusive governance such that it could be adverse?’. In turn,  this research  traces the history of inclusivity as a normative benchmark for these multi-lateral institutions. This fleshes out what were the institutional pressupositions in terms of policy and the pressupositions therein such that inclusivity came to be a new norm of good governance. It follows that through the ICMA, Daniel Zach Sloman specifies key corporate agents, policies, and multi-lateral structures at play synchronically and diachronically motivating the emergence of the norm known as inclusivity.

Relevant links

• Political Economy and Transnational Governance research group (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam)
• Governance Law and Social Justice research group (Institute for Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam)