Politics of the global south

Key Publications: 

• Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State, Oxford University Press, 2021. Riker Prize for the Best Book in Political Economy.
• “COVID-19 in Bolivia: the intersection of poverty and unprotected work”, The Lancet Global Health, 2021.
• “Emprendedores reticientes, informalidad, y microemprendimiento en la población transgénero y transexual de Bolivia (Reticent entrepreneurs, informality, and micro businesses in Bolivian transgender communities),” Latin American Journal of Economic Development, Forthcoming.

See Calla Hummel's full profile here   

  Key Publications: 

• "Voting behaviour under doubts of ballot secrecy: reinforcing dominant party rule," Democratization, 2023.
• “Language Politics, Education, and Ethnic Integration: The pluralist dilemma and its consequences in Singapore” Politics, Groups, and Identities, 7(1): 89-108, 2019.
• “Ethnic Segregation and Public Goods: Evidence from Indonesia” American Political Science Review, 2018

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See Kai Ostwald's full profile here   

  Key Publications: 

• Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis editor, 2022
• “Making Sense of Competitive Authoritarianism: Lessons from the Andes,” Latin American Politics and Society, 2018.
• Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change, edited with Eric Hershberg, 2010.
• “The Return of Oligarchy: Threats to Representative Democracy in Latin America,” Third World Quarterly, forthcoming.
• “Pathways to Inclusion in Latin America,” in The Inclusionary Turn in Contemporary Latin American Democracies,  2021.

Current courses: POLI 511 - Comparative Politics

Current research projects: Resilience of Defective Democracies in the Andes

See Maxwell Cameron's full profile here   

Key Publications:

• “The Slow Violence of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of Mining in Peru” w Jonathan Kishen Gamu, Third World Quarterly, 2018.
• Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment, 2005.
• The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment, 2008.

Teaching 2023: POLI 562A - Topics in IR: Global Environmental Politics

Current Research Projects: Corporations and the Politics of Environmental Activism in the Global South

See Peter Dauvergne's full profile here. 

  Key Publications: 

• “The Surprise Return of Development Policy Space in the Multilateral Trading System: What the WTO Appellate Body Blockage Means for the Developmental State.” Review of International Political Economy, 2024.
• “Global Power Shifts and the Cotton Subsidy Problem: How Emerging Powers Became the New Kings of Cotton Subsidies.” Global Studies Quarterly, 2024.
• “How China Lost its Wolf Pack: The Fracturing of the Emerging Power Alliance at the WTO.” International Affairs, 2022.
• “Emerging Powers, Leadership and South-South Solidarity: The Conflict over Special and Differential Treatment at the WTO.” Global Policy, 2022.
• “The Untold Victims of China’s Trade Policies.” The Washington Quarterly, 2022.
• “Different Paths to Power: The Rise of Brazil, India and China at the WTO.” Review of International Political Economy, 2015.

Current Research Project: Trade in Turmoil – The Crisis in the Multilateral Trading System (SSHRC Insight Grant).

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