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Aseem Prakash (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997) is a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. He serves as the General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Business and Public Policy. Prakash works on three issues: voluntary regulation and corporate social responsibility, globalization, and NGOs. He has written extensively on voluntary environmental regulations of the business sector and is examining the voluntary regulation of the non-profit sector. He studies NGO politics by employing a collective action approach. Finally, Prakash examines how trade and foreign direct investment flows affect pollution levels, social welfare policies, human rights, labor rights, and women's rights.
Aseem Prakash is the author of Greening the Firm: The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism (Cambridge, 2000) and the co-author of The Voluntary Environmentalists (Cambridge, 2006). His recent co-edited books include Voluntary Regulations of NGOs and Nonprofits: An Accountability Club Framework(Cambridge, 2010), Rethinking Advocacy Organizations: A Collective Action Perspective (Cambridge, 2010), and Voluntary Programs: A Club Theory Perspective (The MIT Press, 2009). He has published in The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, International Organization, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and Business & Society. As per Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 1500 times.
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