Select Publications and Research
Multidimensionality of Sectors in the New Political Economy
2025. “Bringing the Sector Back In and the New Political Economy: The Contextualized Comparative Sector Approach,” Perspectives on Politics, accepted and forthcoming.
Comparative Capitalism of Developing Nations in the 21st Century
2022. Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
2016. “State Capitalism, Chinese-Style: Strategic Value of Sectors, Sectoral Characteristics, and Globalization,” Governance 29:1 (January), pp. 85-102.
2013. “Institutional Development and the Regulatory State in the South,” The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South: Infrastructure and Development in Emerging Economies, edited by Navroz K. Dubash and Bronwen Morgan. Law and Global Governance Series. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
China and the Politics of Market Reform in Comparative Perspective
2024. “Researching China’s Development and Globalization in an Era of U.S.-China Tensions,” PS: Political Science and Politics 57:1 (January 2024).
2011. China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 320 pp.
2012. “China and India in the Age of Globalization: Sectoral Variation in Post-Liberalization Reregulation,” Comparative Political Studies 45:1 (January), pp. 32-62.
2016. “Strategic and Nonstrategic Sectors,” in State and Market in Contemporary China: Toward the 13th 5-Year Plan, edited by Scott Kennedy. A Report of CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies and Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Sectoral Reregulation, Industrial Policy, and Geopolitics
2015. “Nations or Sectors in the Age of Globalization: China’s Policy Toward Foreign Direct Investment in Telecommunications,” Review of Policy Research 32:6 (November), pp. 627-648.
2014. “Nanotechnology in a Globalized World: Strategic Assessments of Emerging Technology,” with Anne Clunan, Kirsten Rodine Hardy, Margaret Kosal, and Ian McManus. PASCC Report Number 2014-006.
2006. “Who Rules the International Economy? Taiwan’s Daunting Attempts at Bilateralism,” Bilateral Trade Arrangements in the Asia Pacific: Origins, Evolution and Implication, edited by Vinod Aggarwal and Shujiro Urata. New York, NY: Routledge.
Research-in-Progress
China’s Global Reach: Trade, Investment, and Development
Varieties of Nationalist Movements: The Political Economy of Identities, Their Roots, and Why They Matter
Methodological Pluralism and Attention to Context Specificity
2025. “The Contextualized Comparative Sector Approach (CCSA): Comparative Area Studies at the Sectoral Level of Analysis,” Advancing Comparative Area Studies, edited by Ariel Ahram, Patrick Koellner, and Rudra Sil. Oxford University Press.
2020. “Synergies of Comparative Area Studies: Theory Development, New Inquires, and Community,” in symposium, “Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications, in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Newsletter 17-18:1 (Spring).
2014. “Fieldwork in Political Science: Encountering Challenges and Crafting Solutions,” co-authored and co-edited symposium (with Francesca Refsum Jensenius and Akasemi Newsome), PS: Political Science and Politics 47:2(April), pp. 391-417.
- 2016. Selected as the only complete symposium published in “Virtual Issue: Navigating the Profession: Sage Advice from the Pages of PS,” PS: Political Science and Politics 49 S1 (February).
- 2018. Full symposium published in the book Navigating Political Science. Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association.