Research

Select Publications and Research

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 SeriesOxford, 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

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. 

Public Scholarship