Dr. Roselyn Hsueh is Professor of Political Science at Temple University, where she co-directs the Certificate Program in Political Economy. She served as a Visiting Scholar at the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative in 2024-2025. She is the author of Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2022)(press and reviews), China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2011)(press and reviews), and scholarly articles and book chapters on states and markets, industrial policy, comparative regulation and governance, and development and globalization. Various peer-reviewed journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Governance, Perspectives on Politics, and Review of Policy Research, have published her work. Her 2025 Perspectives on Politics article (first view) advances the “contextualized comparative sector approach” and introduces the “bringing the sector back in” research agenda to study the new political economy.
Her research shows the leverage of taking a comparative and multilevel (country, sector, subsector, and time) approach in examining the multidimensional effects of sectors in interaction with state and non-state actors in the domestic and global political economy. In particular, she developed the Strategic Value Framework based on the multilevel examination of the structural, institutional, and value-laden dimensions of sectors in order to understand the role of the state in market coordination and property rights arrangements, and has applied it to examine market reform, industrial policy, and trade and investment across sectors and subsectors in China and East Asia (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), India, and Russia. Her work on China is the first to identify China’s strategic use of markets and levels of state control across industrial sectors to enhance the national technology base and global competitiveness and achieve political consolidation, with varying success and economic and political consequences.
Professor Hsueh is a frequent commentator on international politics, finance and trade, and comparative economic development. BBC World News, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Public Radio, Nikkei, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other media outlets have featured her expert analysis. She has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and consulted for The Center for Strategic and International Studies and The National Bureau of Asian Research. She has served as a Global Order Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, member of the Georgetown Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, and IEAS Residential Research Faculty Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law and Society. She has lectured as a Visiting Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico and held the Taiwan Fellowship as a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University. She served as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is a two-time recipient of the Fulbright fellowship, including the trans-regional and multi-country Fulbright Global Scholar Award, and held other prestigious fellowships for research and international fieldwork. She held the Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Southern California. She earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.