Nina Bandelj Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine 3:10 - 5:00 pm - Lecture by Nina Bandelj 5:00 - 6:00 pm - Year-end Celebration The U.S. Federal Reserve reports that total household debt in the U.S. has climbed to a staggering $12 trillion. Demographers document increasing expenditures for raising children over time. This project argues that trends in rising debt and raising kids are inextricably related in that households have increasingly taken on debt to engage in a moral economy of investment in children, [...]

Diverging Reform Pathways under Federalism Across much of the world, higher education has experienced rapid expansion and structural changes. Yet, countries’ patterns of institutional change have varied significantly, with far-reaching consequences for the distribution of life chances across societies. This article explores an important causal pathway shaping contrasting national outcomes by focusing on the influence of state structures on liberalization processes. As the analysis demonstrates for American and German higher education, policymakers in federally-fragmented welfare states have sought to increase and control competition among universities, [...]

David A. Steinberg is an assistant professor of international political economy. His research focuses on the politics of international money and finance. His book, Demanding Devaluation: Exchange Rate Politics in the Developing World (Cornell University Press, 2015), was awarded the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize and received an Honorable Mention for the American Political Science Association’s William H. Riker Book Award.

Political Economy Seminar with In Song Kim (MIT)

Political Economy Seminar with Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

“Why does the Mass Public Not Believe in Free Trade?” David H. Bearce Professor of Political Science/International Affairs University of Colorado at Boulder David H. Bearce is a Professor of Political Science with a Joint Appointment in International Affairs. His topical coverage includes International Political Economy (focusing on the politics of exchange rate regimes, foreign aid, and international labor mobility) and International Organization (focusing on how inter-governmental organizations may help reduce conflict among member-states). His research on these subjects has been published in various Political [...]

Legislative Capture? Career Concerns, Revolving Doors, and Policy Biases Hye Young You Assistant Professor, the Wilf Family Department of Politics New York University Abstract While the majority of research on revolving-door lobbyists centers on the disproportionate amount of influence they exhibit during their post-government careers, relatively little attention is given to questions of whether future career concerns affect the behaviors of revolving-door lobbyists while they are still working in the government. Using comprehensive data on congressional staffers, we find that hiring staffers who later become [...]