Comparative Political Economy Research
2011
“Regionalism and the Drive Toward Liberalizing Trade,” by Arnav Durani
“Agro-food Dispute Participation: A Bleak Outlook for Agricultural Trade Liberalization?” by Courtney Morris
“Effective Corporate Governance? Sarbanes-Oxley in the Courts,” by Bridget Hansen
“The 'New Left' and Policy Uncertainty in Latin America: Patterns of Investments during Presidential Election Cycles in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile,” by Edward Bearnot
“The Role of Sanctions in Raising Public Awareness of Human Rights Catastrophes: A New Approach to the Sanctions Question,” by Nathan Kohlenberg
“Winning the War Against Guinea Worm Disease: Conflict and Disease Eradication in Sudan and Uganda,” by Eilidh Higgins
“China's Consumption Conundrum: The Application of the Washington Consensus in the East,” by Haisheng Yang
“Market Reforms and Rent-Seeking: An Analysis of Rent-Seeking in Trade Liberalization and Privatization,” by Pa Lor
“Rewarding Voters through Welfare Transfers in Mexico and Brazil,” by Zaira Gonzalez
“Institutional Design and Economic Growth: The Relationship Between Bureaucracy and Economic Performance in a Global Economy,” by Kelly Lovett
2010
“Taming the Dragon: An Explanation for Varied Complementarity Levels Found Between Latin American Countries and China,” by Judy Bao
“First Among the BRICs: Brazil's Necessary Challenging of TRIPs,” by Lyndon DeSalvo
“Unfulfilled Expectations: Brazilian Agrarian Reform (1994-2006)," by Kevin Draper
“Varieties of Neoliberalism in Latin America," by Geoff King
“Foreign Policy of the Andean Rentier State: Two-level Games and Nationalist Policies," by Mack Kolarich
“Reinvention Without Replacement: The Role of Inertial Statism and Brazil's Economic Bureaucracy in Maintaining an Active Developmental State," by Peter Ladner
2009
“Pathway to Change: A Model of the Evolution of the Federal Reserve System,” by Alex W. Sciuto
“An Embedded Market Approach to Chile’s Neoliberal Transition,” by Andrew BoddySpargo
“Assessing Theoretical Approaches to Economic Crisis Management,” by Brian TenHoor
“The Politics of Genetically Modified Food Labeling: The Regulatory Structure and Its Effects in the United States and the United Kingdom,” by Chelsea A. Jones
“Economic Growth and Success in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is Politico-Economic Realignment Enough?” by Chris D. Gardner
“Participatory Democracy and Social Welfare in Bolivia: A Challenge to the Good Left?” by Erko M. Abdullahi
“Dangerous Liaisons: Dual Transitions and Institutional Transfer in Eastern Germany,” by Michael H. Kern
“The Makings of a Paradox: Unionization of Subcontracted Labor in Chilean Copper Industry,” by Steven Rashin
2008
"Regulatory Frameworks, Weak Ties: Determining the Efficacy of Microfinance in Latin America," by Kathryn J. Paul
2007
"Source of Funding as a Determinate of Microfinance's Impact on the Informal Sector" by Colin McLain
"Industrial Transformation in the Apparel Industry: A Comparison of El Salvador and Hong Kong," by Avianne Boney
"Beyond Oil:Competitive Authoritarianism and Diversification of the Economy in the Middle East and North Africa," by Martha Thomsen (Codebook) (Dataset in Excel)
2006
"Corporate Tax Policy in the Global Economy: A Race to the Bottom or Limited Convergence?" by Alex Beauchamp (Dataset in SPSS)
"Political Corruption and Economic Growth: Explaining the East Asian Growth Paradox," by Alicia Mazzara (Dataset in SPSS)
"China's Oil Security and Energy Strategy," by Jipei Zhang
"Can the World Bank Learn? Factors Determining Success and Failure in India," by Mou Khan
"French and American Agricultural Policymaking: Domestic Preference, International Imperatives," by Dave Lyons
"Bridging the Gap: Social Capital and Subnational Regional Development," by Hannah Simpson (Europe Dataset in SPSS) (India Dataset in SPSS) (Russia Dataset in SPSS) (Mexico Dataset in SPSS) (Korea Dataset in SPSS) (Japan Dataset in SPSS) (China Dataset in SPSS) (Brazil Dataset in SPSS) (Codebook)
2005
"Efficient or Egregious Economics? A Theoretical Approach to Understanding Neoliberal Economic Reform in Argentina and Chile," by Dee Bansal
"Resisting Neoliberal Reform: Political Opportunities and Cultural Framing In the Uruguayan Labor Movement," by Kathryn Grover
2004
"Fiscal Federalism and Subnational Profligacy: The Case of Argentina," by Matt Kearney
NOTE: All papers linked to this section are senior-year integrative exercises ("comps"). These papers and all data and appendices are the copyright of the student authors.
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