Political Economy

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Christopher Adolph
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Caitlin Ainsley
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Asli Cansunar
Associate Professor
Anthony Gill
Professor
James D. Long
Professor
Associate Chair
Victor Menaldo
Professor
Aseem Prakash
Professor of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the Arts and Sciences
Susan H. Whiting
Professor

Latest News

From Classroom to Countryside: The Research Path of Political Scientist Susan Whiting (November 4, 2025)
New Faculty: Brie McLemore (September 2, 2025)
Review of "The Biden Agenda: Promises and Prospects" (March 11, 2021)
Anthony Gill: How do The Principles of Economics Interact with Religion (February 21, 2018)
Prof. Victor Menaldo in the London School of Economics site, "Capitalism need not churn inexorably toward higher inequality; democracies can tame the disproportionate power of elites" (August 1, 2014)

Related Research

Magistro, Beatrice and Menaldo, Victor A., "How Populism Harms Prosperity: Unified Populist Rule Reduces Investment, Innovation, and Productivity", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4719671
Erickson, Megan & Lucas Owen. 2024. “Blood Avocados? Trade Liberalization and Cartel Violence in Mexico.” Comparative Political Studies, 58(9), 2049–2089. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241290198.
Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock. 2024 "U.S. Innovation Inequality and Trumpism: The Political Economy of Technology Deserts in a Knowledge Economy." Cambridge University Press.
Yan F, Xiao T. Making Local Histories: The Authenticity and Credibility of County Gazetteers in Communist China. The China Quarterly. 2023:1-17. doi:10.1017/S0305741023001327
Cansunar, Asli. "Distributional Consequences of Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: Self- Serving Philanthropy in Ottoman Istanbul", Journal of Politics, Vol. 84:2, 2022, pp. 889–907.
Prakash, Aseem and Inhwan Ko. "Signaling Climate Resilience to Municipal Bond Markets: Does Membership in Adaptation-Focused Voluntary Clubs Affect Bond Rating?" Climatic Change, 2022, 171(9).
Prakash, Aseem, Sijeong Lim, Seiki Tanka, and Nives Dolsak"Distributional Concerns and Public Opinion: EV Subsidies in the U.S. and Japan." Energy Policy. 2022. 164: 112883.
Prakash, Aseem and Christopher Adolph. "Does the Economic Decline of the West and the Rise of China Encourage NGO Crackdown?" Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Forthcoming.
Victor Menaldo & Nicolas Wittstock (2021) Does technology transfer from the US to China harm American firms, workers, and consumers? A historical and analytic investigation, Economic and Political Studies, 9:4, 417-446, DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1933768
Ansell, Ben, and Asli Cansunar, “The Political Consequences of Housing (Un)Affordability”, Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 31: 5, 9 December 2021, pp. 597-613