| Starting in 10/2010 | Professor of Comparative Political Economy, University of Bremen, Germany | |
| 2009 - 2010 | Professor of Political Science (Political Theory), University of Heidelberg, Germany | |
| 2007 - 2009 | Professor of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Germany | |
| 2006 | Visiting Scholar, Science Po, Paris, France | |
| 2002 - 2007 | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2000 - 2002 | Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Management, Konstanz, Germany | |
| 1999 - 2000 | Visiting Researcher, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), USA | |
| 1993 - 2000 | Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany | |
| 1990 - 1993 | Stipend of the Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany | |
| 1990 | Researcher, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany |
| 2002 | Habilitation (venia legendi) in Political Science, University of Konstanz, Germany | |
| 1994 | Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | |
| 1990 | Diploma in Political Science, Free University, Berlin, Germany | |
| 1985 - 1990 | Studies of Political Science, Economics and History in Marburg and Berlin, Germany |
| 2009 | “Geisteswissenschaften International – Preis zur Förderung der Übersetzung geisteswissenschaftlicher Literatur”, prize of the Thyssen-Foundation, the Foreign Office and the German Publishers and Booksellers Association for the book Im Schatten des Königs, Suhrkamp 2008 | |
| 2004 | Paper award: Fritz Thyssen Foundation, best article in the social sciences in 2004 | |
| 1995 | Stipend of the German American Academic Council, Center for Social Policy Research, Bremen, Germany | |
| 1994 | Stipend of the German American Academic Council, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), USA | |
| 1990 - 1993 | Stipend of the Max Planck Gesellschaft, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany |
| 1. | van Kersbergen, Kees & Philip Manow, Eds. (2009) Religion, Class Coalitions and Welfare States, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (series: Social Theory, Religion and Politics) | |
| 2. | Manow, Philip (2009) Electoral Rules, Class Coalitions and Welfare State Regimes – or how to explain Esping-Andersen with Stein Rokkan, in: Socio-Economic Review 7, 101-121 | |
| 3. | Manow, Philip (2008) Religion und Wohlfahrtsstaat. Die konfessionellen Grundlagen des europäischen Sozialstaats, Frankfurt/Main: Campus (series: Theorie und Gesellschaft) | |
| 4. | Manow, Philip (2008) Im Schatten des Königs. Die politische Anatomie demokratischer Repräsentation, Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp | |
| 5. | Manow, Philip & Holger Döring (2008) Electoral and Mechanical Causes of Divided Government in the European Union, in: Comparative Political Studies 41: 1349-1370 | |
| 6. | van Kersbergen, Kees & Philip Manow (2010) The Welfare State, in: Daniele Caramani (Ed.), Comparative Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 520-545 | |
| 7. | Manow, Philip, Armin Schäfer & Hendrik Zorn (2008) Europe’s Party Political Center of Gravity, 1957-2003, in: Journal for European Public Policy 15: 20-39 | |
| 8. | Manow, Philip & Simone Burkhart (2007) Government’s Legislative Self-Restraint under Divided Government: Evidence from the German Case, 1976-2002, in: Legislative Studies Quarterly 32: 167-191 | |
| 9. | Plümper, Thomas, Vera Tröger & Philip Manow (2005) Panel data analysis in comparative politics: Linking method to theory, in: European Journal of Political Research 44, 327-354 | |
| 10. | Manow, Philip (2005) Germany – cooperative federalism and the overgrazing of the fiscal commons, in: Herbert Obinger, Stephan Leibfried & Francis G. Castles (Eds.), Federalism and the Welfare State, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 222-262 |