- Alan Jacobs
- Callan Hummel
- Gyung-Ho Jeong
- Kai Ostwald
- Kurt Huebner
- Peter Dauvergne
- Sophie Borwein
- Xiaojun Li
- Yves Tiberghien
- Kristen Hopewell
- Matias Margulis
Key Publications:
- “Inequality and Electoral Accountability: Class-Biased Economic Voting in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of Politics, 2016
- “Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States," Working Paper
- “Policymaking for the Long Term in Advanced Democracies,” Ann Rev of Polit Sci (2016)
Current Research Projects: Citizen Support for Policy Tradeoffs
See Alan Jacobs' full profile here.
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.
- “Do Political Finance Reforms Reduce Corruption?”, The British Journal of Political Science, 2019.
See Calla Hummel's full profile here
Key Publications
- “Constituent Influence on International Trade Policy in the United States, 1987 to 2006,” International Studies Quarterly, 2009
- “Congressional Politics of U.S. Immigration Reforms: Legislative Outcomes Under Multidimensional Negotiations,” Political Research Quarterly, 2013
See Gung-Ho Jeong's full profile here
Key Publications
- "Ethnic Segregation and Public Goods," American Political Science Review, 2018.
See Kai Ostwald's full profile here
Key Publications
- "Canada and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement," in M. Westlake (ed). Outside the EU, 2020
- National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Economies (2018)
- The Eurozone Crises. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (2016)
Current Research Project: Institutional settings and pathways to digital capitalisms
See Kurt Huebner's full profile here
Key Publications:
- AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 2020.
- “Is Artificial Intelligence Greening Supply Chains? Exposing the Political Economy of Environmental Costs,” Review of International Political Economy, 2021.
- Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment with Jennifer Clapp, 2011.
Current Courses: POLI 562A - Topics in IR: Global Environmental Politics
See Peter Dauvergne's full profile here
Key Publications:
- “The Gender Gap in Attitudes Toward Workplace Technological Change.” Socioeconomic Review, 2024.
- "Who Can Assert Ownership Over Automation?: Workplace technological change, populist and nationalist rhetoric, and candidate support." Political Behavior, 2024.
- "Perceived Technological Threat, Populism, and Vote Choice: Evidence from 15 European Democracies." West European Politics, 2024.
- “Attitudes toward Automation and the Demand for Policies Addressing Job Loss: The effects of information about trade-offs.” Political Science Research & Methods, 2023.
- “Women and the Politics of Technological Change in the Workplace.” SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2022-2024.
See Sophie Borwein's full profile here.
Key Publications
- Fragmenting Globalization: Global Value Chains and the Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements in China and the United States (2021)
- “Anticipatory Responses to PTA Exclusion: Chinese Manufacturing Firms and the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, Business and Politics, 2020
- To Join or Not to Join? State Ownership, Commercial Interests, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative”, Pacific Affairs, 2019
Current courses: POLI562 - International Political Economy
Research Project:Global supply chains and multinational corporations
See Xiaojun Li's full profile here
Key Publications:
- The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox. Cambridge University Press, 2021
- Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea. Cornell University Press. 2007
- Navigating the Age of Disruption: Understanding Canada’s Options in a Shifting Global Order (in progress)
Current courses: POLI562 - International Political Economy
Research Project: Up for Grabs: Disruption, Competition, and the Remaking of the Global Economic Order
See Yves Tiberghien's full profile here
Key Publications:
- “The World is Abandoning the WTO: And America and China are Leading the Way.” Foreign Affairs, 2024.
- “Clash of Powers: US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance.” Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- “Balancing, Threats & Wedges in International Political Economy: The Origins and Impact of the Sino-Indian Alliance at the WTO.” Journal of Contemporary China, 2023.
- “The BRICS – Merely a Fable? Emerging Power Alliances in Global Trade Governance.” International Affairs, 2017.
Current Research Project: Trade in Turmoil – The Crisis in the Multilateral Trading System (SSHRC Insight Grant).
See Kristen Hopewell's full profile here
Key Publications:
- “Rights Redux: The Return of Human Rights at the WTO.” Review of International Political Economy, 2024.
- “Shadow Negotiators: How the UN Shapes the Rules of World Trade for Food Security.” Stanford University Press, 2023.
Grad teaching: FRE 531 Global Food and Resource Governance
See Matias Margulis' full profile here
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