The Political Economy Working Group comprises an interdisciplinary team forged on common research interests related to state- and economy-building, international trade, global inequality, environmental policy and governance, and migration. A major aim of the working group is to push the frontier in methodological approaches to answering questions on these topics, such as quasi-experimental and experimental techniques, large-n ethnographic data, as well as big-data analysis to test leading hypotheses in the literature. The geographical focus ranges from the macro (or global) level to a more micro (case-study) approach, with regional emphases in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Affiliated faculty include: