Brian Highsmith Graduate Student, American Politics This forthcoming law journal article explores how the development of American antitrust law was shaped by popular concerns about the consequences of unregulated inter-jurisdictional competition for mobile corporate capital—focusing on (1) the lavish local subsidies demanded by private railroad companies during the late 19th century, and (2) tax competition…
Autocracy-favoring Globalization?
George Yean Graduate Student, Comparative Politics & International Relations A working paper: What is the role of globalization for the rise of autocracies worldwide? We show that autocracies are better at exploiting the integrated global economic system. Compared to the pre-1990 period, on average, autocracies performed substantially better than democracies on all major economic indicators…
Why Do Misperceptions Worsen as Relevant Information Increases?
David Beavers Graduate Student, American Politics With Jennifer L. Hochschild Overview: Research generally finds that exposure to corrective information attenuates misperceptions, and that as the cost of acquiring information diminishes and the stakes for possessing accurate information increase, factual accuracy increases. In an ongoing project, Jennifer Hochschild and I examine a puzzling counterexample. Despite ample…
Support for the Global Economic Order
George Yean Graduate Student, International Relations Overview: Post-Cold War global economic order is in trouble. As a result of rising protectionism, mercantilism, security concerns, tensions between geopolitical rivals, and the current account and currency crisis, the order has been fundamentally undermined. There are losers and winners in the international order, as there are in the…
Rethinking Peripherality and Politics
Noah Dasanaike, Graduate Student, Comparative Politics Overview: In my research article, I deconstruct the concept of peripherality into several dimensions and estimates the effect of these dimensions on support for the radical right. More specifically, I propose physical, social, and economic dimensions of peripherality, drawing heavily from Bourdieu’s types of capital, and outline measures through…