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Research and Teaching Interests

Interest Groups and Business Lobbying * International Political Economy * Elite Networks * Financial Regulation

Academic Posts

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Associate Professor, Department of Economics July 2020—Present

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science September 2016–July 2020

Associate Director, Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) September 2018-August 2019

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science September 2012–August 2016

Princeton University September 2011–June 2012

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance

London School of Economics September 2008–August 2011

Fellow in Global Politics

Department of Government

Education

PhD, London School of Economics, UK October 2006 – August 2010

Department of Government

Dissertation: “Private Sector Influence and the International Political Economy of Banking Regulation: The Formation of the Basel II Accord 1998-2004”

Examiners: Benjamin J. Cohen and Andrew Walter

Supervisors: Mark Thatcher and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

Master of Research, London School of Economics, UK October 2005 – September 2006

Department of Government, Passed ‘With Distinction’

Master of Arts, Carleton University, Canada September 2003- September 2005

Institute of Political Economy, Passed ‘With Distinction’

Honours Bachelor of Arts, Trent University, Canada September 1999 – May 2003 International Political Economy and Political Studies

Visiting Fellowships

Sciences Po Fall 2021

Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, Paris, France

Columbia University June 2008-August 2008

Visiting Scholar, Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Harvard University January 2008 – May 2008

GSAS Visiting Fellow, Department of Government

Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies August 2007 – November 2007

Visiting Researcher, Cologne, Germany

Publications

Book

Hale, Thomas, Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2013. Gridlock: Why Multilateral Cooperation is Failing When It is Needed Most (Cambridge: Polity).

Reviewed in Political Science Quarterly, Global Policy, Perspectives on Politics, Welt Sichten, Foreign Policy, Il Sole, Post-Western World, The Global Journal, Brazilian Journal of International Relations, Global Discourse, and the Japanese Journal of Political Science.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Young, Kevin and Pagliari, Stefano. 2021. “Lobbying to the Rhythm of Wall Street? Explaining the Political Advocacy of Non-Financial Corporations over Financial Regulatory Policy”, Conditional Acceptance at Socio- Economic Review.

James, Scott, Pagliari, Stefano and Young, Kevin. 2021. “The Internationalization of European Financial Networks: Evidence from the Quantitative Text Analysis of Interest Group Responses to EU Policy Consultations”, Review of International Political Economy 28(4): 898-925.

Young, Kevin, Goldman, Seth, O’Connor, Brendan and Chuluun, Tuugi. 2021. “How White is the Global Elite? An Analysis of Race, Gender and Network Structure”, Global Networks 21(2): 365-392.

Young, Kevin. 2020. “Progress, Pluralism and Science: Moving from Alienated to Engaged Pluralism”, Review of International Political Economy 28(2): 406-420.

Pagliari, Stefano and Young, Kevin. 2020. “Exploring Informal Coordination among Interest Groups: A Text- Reuse Approach”, Journal of European Public Policy, 27(11): 1698-1717.

Chalmers, Adam and Young, Kevin. 2020. “Network Effects in the Formation of the Financial Industry’s Regulatory Preferences in the European Union”, Business and Politics 22(1): 52-84.

Pagliari, Stefano Phillips, Lauren and Young, Kevin. 2020. “The Financialization of Policy Preferences: Financial Asset Ownership Regulation and Crisis Management”, Socio-Economic Review 18(3): 655-680.

  • Winner of the Best Paper Award 2021 from the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)

Young, Kevin and Yagci, Alper. 2019. “Status Quo Conservatism, Placation, or Partisan Division? Analyzing Citizen Attitudes Toward Financial Reform in the United States”, New Political Economy, 24(3): 313-333.

Young, Kevin, and Carpenter, Charli. 2018. “Does Science Fiction Affect Political Fact? Yes and No: A Survey Experiment on ‘Killer Robot Sentiment’”, International Studies Quarterly 62(3): 562-576.

Maxfield, Sylvia, Winecoff, W. Kindred, and Young, Kevin. 2017. “An Empirical Investigation of the Financialization Convergence Hypothesis”, Review of International Political Economy 24(6): 1004-1029.

Heemskerk, Eelke, Young, Kevin, Takes, Frank, Cronin, Bruce, Garcia-Bernardo, Javier, Popov, Vladimir Henriksen, Lasse Folke and Winecoff, W. Kindred. 2017. “The Promises and Perils of Using Big Data in the Study of Corporate Networks”, Global Networks, 18(1): 3-32.

Young, Kevin, Marple, Tim and Heilman, James. 2017. “Beyond the Revolving Door: Advocacy Behaviour and Social Distance to Financial Regulators”, Business and Politics 19(2): 327-364. 

Seabrooke, Leonard and Young, Kevin. 2017. “The Networks and Niches of International Political Economy”, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 24, Issue 2, pp. 288-331.

Young, Kevin and Pagliari, Stefano. 2017. “Capital United? Business Unity in Regulatory Politics and the Special Place of Finance”, Regulation and Governance, Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp. 3-23.

Hale, Thomas, Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2016. “Response to Critics”, Philosophy and Public Issues, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 55-76.

Pagliari, Stefano and Young, Kevin. 2016. “The Interest Ecology of Financial Regulation: An Empirical Analysis”, Socio-Economic Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 309-337.

Young, Kevin. 2015. “Not by Structure Alone: Power, Prominence and Agency in American Finance”, Business and Politics, Vol. 17, Issue 3, pp. 443-472.

Young, Kevin. 2014. “The Complex and Covert Web of Financial Protectionism”, Business and Politics, Vol. 16, Issue 4, pp. 579-613.

Park, Sung Ho and Young, Kevin. 2015. “Wage Moderation in the Public Sector: The Experience of 11 EMU Countries in the Recent Economic Crisis, 2008-2010”, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 36(4), pp. 575- 609.

Young, Kevin. 2014. “Losing Abroad but Winning at Home: European Financial Industry Groups in Global Financial Governance Since the Crisis”, Journal of European Public Policy Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 367-388.

Pagliari, Stefano and Young, Kevin. 2014. “Leveraged Interests: The Role of Corporate-Financial Coalitions in the Regulation of Finance”, Review of International Political Economy. Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 575-610.

Young, Kevin. 2014. “Financial Industry Groups’ Adaptation to the Post-Crisis Regulatory Environment: Changing Approaches to the Policy Cycle”, Regulation and Governance, Vol. 7, Issue 4, pp. 460-480.

Hale, Thomas, Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2013. “Gridlock: From Self-Reinforcing Interdependence to Second Order Cooperation Problems”. Global Policy, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 223-235.

Young, Kevin and Park, Sung Ho. 2013. “Regulatory Opportunism: Cross-National Patterns in National Banking Regulatory Responses Following the Global Financial Crisis”, Public Administration, Vol. 91, Issue 3, pp. 561- 581.

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2013. “Global Governance in Crisis? Fragmentation, Risk and World Order”,

International Politics, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 309-332.

Young, Kevin. 2012. “Transnational Regulatory Capture? An Empirical Examination of Transnational Lobbying of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision”, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 663-688.

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2012. “Conceptualiser les faiblesses de la gouvernance mondiale: au-delà de la crise financière”, Sociologie et Société, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 167-192.

Young, Kevin. 2011. “China’s Ascendance in International Finance: External versus Internal Sources of its Changing Policy Stance”, 21st Century International Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 21-26.

Young, Kevin. 2006. “Private Generosity and Public Regulation: Understanding the Canadian Chartered Banks’ Philanthropic Efforts in Historical Context”, Innovations: A Journal of Politics, Vol. 6, pp. 33-52.

Young, Kevin. 2005. “How Neoliberalism Reproduces Itself”, Philosophy of Management, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 79- 88.

Young, Kevin. 2005. “Reflections on the Empire of Capital”, Oeconomicus, Vol. 7, pp. 111-116.
Young, Kevin. 2004. “The Other Side of the Market: Social Governance in Neoliberal World Order and the Economy of Passive Mitigation”, Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, Vol. 20, pp. 149-177.

Book Chapters

Wolfschwenger, Johann and Young, Kevin. 2021. “Multi-Causality and Equifinality” in Jean-Frederic Morin, Christian Olsson and Ece Özlem Atikcan (Eds), Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A-Z of Key Concepts (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 174-176.

Pagliari, Stefano and Young, Kevin. 2019. “How is Financialization Reproduced Politically? Approaches and Evidence from Recent Scholarship”, in Phil Mader, Daniel Mertons, and Natascha van der Zwan (Eds.) International Handbook of Financialization (London: Routledge).

Young, Kevin. 2018. “The Modern Financial Corporation and Global Policy” in Andreas Nölke and Christian May (Eds), Handbook of the International Political Economy of the Corporation (Northampton: Edward Elgar), pp. 384-399.

Young, Kevin. 2017. “Finance: Risk and Progress” in Thomas Hale and David Held (Eds.), Beyond Gridlock (Cambridge: Polity), pp. 28-47.

Young, Kevin. 2015. “Losing Abroad but Winning at Home: European Financial Industry Groups in Global Financial Governance Since the Crisis”, in Daniel Mügge (Ed), Europe's Place in Global Financial Governance After the Crisis" (London: Routledge, 2015). Originally published in Journal of European Public Policy (see above).

Young, Kevin. 2014. “The Politics of Global Financial Regulation”, in Thomas Oatley and William Winecoff (Eds.), Handbook of the International Political Economy of International Monetary Relations (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).

Pagliari, Stefano and Young, Kevin. 2013. “The Wall Street-Main Street Complex? The Role of Financial and Corporate Coalitions in Post-Crisis Financial Regulatory Change”, in Manuela Moschella and Eleni Tsingou (Eds.), Great Expectations, Slow Transformations: Incremental Change in Financial Governance (Colchester: ECPR Press).

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2013. “Transforming Global Governance? Structural Deficits and Recent Developments in Security and Finance”, in Joseph Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor (Eds.) The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism (New York: Columbia University Press).

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2013. “Conceptualizing the Weaknesses of Global Governance: Beyond the Financial Crisis”, in David Held and Charles Roger (Eds.), Global Governance in Crisis: New Powers and the Restructuring of World Order (Cambridge: Polity Press), pp. 170-201.

Pagliari, Stefano and Young, Kevin. 2012. “Who Mobilizes? An Analysis of Stakeholder Responses to Financial Regulatory Policy Consultations”, in Stefano Pagliari (Ed), The Making of Good Regulation: Financial Industry, Regulators, and the Problem of Capture (London: International Center for Financial Regulation), pp. 48-56.

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2012. “Capacidad y responsabilidad en la gobernanza mundial de las finanzas y la seguridad [Capacity and Responsibility in the Global Governance of Finance and Security]”, in Gabriel Pérez (Ed.), Temas Selectos de la Teoría Política Contemporánea [Selected Topics on Contemporary Political Theory] (Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa Unity), pp. 119-164.

Young, Kevin. 2011. “The Rise of Regulatory Standards in Banking and Their Limits” in Peter Gibbon, Stefano Ponte and Jakob Vestergaard (Eds.), Governing Through Standards: Origins, Drivers and Limitations (London: Palgrave), pp. 25-48.

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2011. “Crisis in Parallel Worlds: The Governance of Global Risks in Finance, Security, and the Environment”, in Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian (Eds.), The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges After Neoliberalism (New York: New York University Press), pp. 19-42.

Young, Kevin. 2011. “The Joint Forum on Financial Conglomerates”, in Thomas Hale and David Held (Eds.)

Handbook on Transnational Governance: New Institutions and Innovations (Cambridge: Polity), pp. 101-105.

Young, Kevin. 2011. “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision”, in Thomas Hale and David Held (Eds.)

Handbook on Transnational Governance: New Institutions and Innovations (Cambridge: Polity), pp. 39-44.

Young, Kevin. 2009. “Zayif Aktörlerin Simsiki Sarilmasi” [“The Strong Embrace of Weak Actors”] translated into Turkish in Ayşe Buğra and Kaan Ağartan (Derleyenler), 21. Yüzyilda Karl Polanyi’yi Okumak: Bir Siyasi Proje Olarak Piyasa Ekonomisi (Istanbul: Iletişim, 2009), pp. 297-315.

Young, Kevin. 2007. “The Strong Embrace of Weak Actors: Explaining Social Support for Economic Liberalization Through the Case Study of Small Business Associations in the European Union” in Ayşe Buğra and Kaan Ağartan (Eds.) The Market Economy as a Political Project: Reading Karl Polanyi for the 21st Century (London: Palgrave), pp. 219-234.

Currently Under Review

Seabrooke, Leonard and Young, Kevin. “How to Study IPE”, Unpublished Manuscript in preparation for the new textbook Global Political Economy, Edited by Nicola Phillips (Oxford: Oxford University Press). [Invited/Accepted, at the pre-proofing phase].

Winecoff, W. Kindred and Young, Kevin. 2021. “Networks”, Unpublished Manuscript in preparation for the Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy, Edited by Jon Pevehouse and Leonard Seabrooke, Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press). [Invited/Accepted, at the pre- proofing phase].

McLamore, Quinnehtukqut, Siropoulos, Stylianos, Leidner, Bernhard, Hirschberger, Gilad, Young, Kevin, Zein, Rizqy Amelia, Baumert, Anna, Bilewicz, Michal, Bilgen, Arda, van Bezouw, Maarten J., Chatard, Armand, Chekroun, Peggy, Chinchilla, Juana, Choi, Hoon-Seok, Euh, Hyun, Gomez, Angel, Kardos, Peter, Khoo, Ying Hooi, Li, Mengyao, Légal, Jean-Baptiste, Loughnan, Steve, Mari, Silvia, Tan-Mansukhani, Roseann, Muldoon, Orla, Noor, Masi, Paladino, Maria Paola, Petrović, Nebojša, Selvanathan, Hema Preya, Uluğ, Özden Melis, Wohl, Michael J., Yeung, Wai Lan Victoria. “How (Dis)trust in Scientific Information Links Political Ideology and Reactions Toward the Coronavirus Pandemic: Associations in the U.S. and Globally”, Manuscript submitted to Nature: Human Behavior, August 2021 (desk reject); Scientific Reports, August 2021.

McLamore, Quinnehtukqut; Syropoulos, Stylianos; Leidner, Bernhard; Selvanathan, Hema Preya; Young, Kevin; Noor, Masi; Uluğ, Özden Melis; Hirschberger, Gilad; Baumert, Anna; Bilewicz, Michal; Bilgen, Arda; van Bezouw, Maarten; Chatard, Armand; Chekroun, Peggy; Chinchilla, Juana; Choi, Hoon-Seok; Euh, Hyun; Gomez, Angel; Kardos, Peter; Khoo, Ying Hooi; Li, Mengyao; Jean Baptiste, Legal; Loughnan, Steve; Mari, Silvia; Tan- Mansukhani, Roseann; Muldoon, Orla; Paladino, Maria-Paola; Petrović, Nebojša; Wohl, Michael; Yeung, Victoria; Zein, Rizqy Amelia. “A Multi-National Analysis of Individual and Nation-Level Cultural Tightness- Looseness in the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Manuscript submitted to Social Psychological and Personality Science, August 2021.

Syropoulos, Stylianos; McLamore, Quinnehtukqut; Leidner, Bernhard ; Hirschberger, Gilad; Uluğ, Melis; Baumert, Anna; Bilewicz, Michał; Bilgen, Arda; van Bezouw, Maarten; Chatard, Armand; Chekroun, Peggy; Chinchilla, Juana; Choi, Hoon-Seok ; Euh, Hyun; Gómez Jiménez, Ángel ; Kardos, Peter; Khoo, Ying Hooi; Li, Mengyao; Légal, Jean-Baptiste; Selvanathan, Hema Preya; Loughnan, Steve; Mari, Silvia; Tan-Mansukhani, Roseann; Muldoon, Orla; Noor, Masi; Paladino, Maria; Petrović, Nebojša; Wohl, Michael; Yeung, Victoria;

Young, Kevin; Zein, Rizqy. 2021. “The Influence of Horizontal-Vertical Individualism-Collectivism on Individual and Country-Level Constructive Responses to the Coronavirus: Evidence from 21 Regions”, Manuscript submitted to Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, August 2021.

Henriksen, Lasse Folke, Seabrooke, Leonard, and Young, Kevin. “Epistemic Rivals in the Economics Profession”, Currently under review at Socio-Economic Review (Submitted January 2021; Revise and Resubmit March 2021).

Young, Kevin, Heilman, James, Marple, Tim and Desmarais, Bruce. “Elite Ties and Advocacy Success”, Currently under review at Regulation & Governance (Submitted February 2020; Minor Revisions June 2020; Resubmission planned Sept 2021).

Young, Kevin, Desmarais, Bruce, Heilman, James and Marple, Tim. 2019. “The Vices and Virtues of Closeness to Regulators: The Conditional Properties of Elite Network Ties in the Financial Sector”, Currently under consideration at Geography and Planning A: Economy and Space [submitted to special issue February 2019; Revise and Resubmit April 2021].

Predmore, Signe, and Young, Kevin. “Governing Finance”, chapter prepared for the Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations, Edited by Chris Reus-Smit, Mlada Bukovansky, Eddie Keene and Maja Spanu (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Submitted September 2019; Revisions requested October 2019; Resubmitted June 2020].

Currently in Preparation

Young, Kevin. Fragile Power: Private Sector Lobbying and Global Banking Regulation. Book manuscript in preparation to submit to a major university press.

Syropoulos, Stylianos, Leidner, Bernhard and Young, Kevin. 2021. “When Science is (perceived as) partisan: Negative effects on trust in and adherence to scientific recommendations”. Manuscript in preparation for a peer- reviewed journal.

Heilman, James, Young, Kevin, and Desmarais, Bruce. “Cutting Through the Clutter: Interest Group Coalitions and the Logic of Legislative Interventions in Regulatory Policymaking”, Unpublished Manuscript in preparation for a peer-reviewed journal [Previous submission at Public Administration].

Young, Kevin and Gandrud, Christopher. “Speaking Under Scrutiny: An Analysis of Federal Reserve Speeches”, Unpublished Manuscript in preparation for a peer-reviewed journal [Previous Submissions at American Review of Public Administration, Political Science Research Methods, and Public Administration].

Henriksen, Lasse, Seabrooke, Leonard and Young, Kevin. How Neoliberalism Won: Rivalry Networks in the Economics Profession. Book in preparation for major university press.

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

Seabrooke, Leonard, Henriksen, Lasse Folke and Young, Kevin. 2017. “Fathers of Neoliberalism: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Professional Networks”, Institute for New Economic Thinking Research Paper, October. Available at: https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/research-papers/fathers-of-neoliberalism

Young, Kevin. 2017. Review of John Lybeck, The Future of Financial Regulation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 132, Issue 2, pp. 375-376.

Young, Kevin. 2016. “Tying Hands and Cutting Ties: Comparing the EU and the US in Global Banking Reform Since the Crisis”, Journal of Banking Regulation, Vol 17, Issue 1, pp. 46-59.

Young, Kevin. 2013. “Policy Takers or Policy Makers? The Lobbying of Global Banking Regulators” Business Horizons, Vol. 56, Issue 6, pp. 691-701.

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2012. “The Principles of Effective Global Governance”, Nankai Journal, No. 5, pp. 1-11.

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2011. “Más allá de la crisis financiera: conceptualización de las debilidades de la gobernanza mundial” [“Conceptualizing the Weaknesses of Global Governance: Beyond the Financial Crisis”], Foro Internacional, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 605-635.

Young, Kevin. 2011. Review of Colin Crouch, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism (Cambridge: Polity), in Times Higher Education, September, pp. 61-62.

Young, Kevin. 2010. Review of Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods, The Politics of Global Regulation (Princeton: Princeton University Press) in Global Policy, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 234-235.

Young, Kevin. 2009. “Financial Governance and the Limits to Transnational Risk Regulation” Risk and Regulation Magazine (London: ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, Summer), p. 12.

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2009. “Finance, Failure, and Fairness” LSE Magazine (London: London School of Economics, Summer), Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 14-15.

Young, Kevin. 2009. Review of Lucia Quaglia, Central Banking Governance in the European Union: A Comparative Analysis (New York: Routledge) in Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 3, pp. 518-520.

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2009. “Rèformer la gouvernance financière globale” [The Reform of Global Financial Governance], Politique: revue de débats, No. 39 (June), pp. 42-45. *Author order reflects alphabetization among equals.

Young, Kevin. 2009. Review of Andreas Busch, Banking Regulation and Globalization (Oxford: Oxford University Press) in West European Politics, Vol. 32, Issue 5, pp. 1063-1064.

Stephany Griffith-Jones and Young, Kevin. 2009. “Reforming Governance of International Financial Regulation: Have the G20 Done Enough?” Hewlett Foundation IPD Policy Brief (New York: Columbia University Initiative for Policy Dialogue, June).

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2009. “Global Financial Governance: Principles for Reform” LSE Ideas: Special Report on the Financial Crisis, March, pp. 13-18. *Author order reflects alphabetization among equals.

Republished in Held, David. 2016. Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political Fragmentation and the Rise of Authoritarianism (London: Global Policy e-Book series).

Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2009. “The Equivalence Principal” in Responses to the Global Crisis: Charting a Progressive Path (London: Policy Network), pp. 37-39.

Public Engagement

Leidner, Bernhard, Young, Kevin and Syropoulos, Stylianos. 2020. “The Scientific Establishment Crosses the Rubicon. What’s the Risk?”, Character and Context (official blog of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), 22 December. Available at: http://eww.spsp.org/news-center/blog/young-syropoulos- science-public-trust Chuluun, Tuugi and Young, Kevin. 2020. “Women at the top of the world, still not at the center: A new network analysis discovery”, Brookings, Gender Equality Series 19A, December. Available at: https://www.brookings.edu/essay/women-at-the-top-of-the-world-still-not-at-the-center-a-new-network-analysis- discovery/

Pagliari, Stefano and Young, Kevin. 2020. “Seeing the Unseen: Uncovering Networks of Informal Coordination Among Interest Groups”, LSE EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, 15 December, Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2020/12/15/seeing-the-unseen-uncovering-networks-of-informal-coordination- among-interest-groups/

Young, Kevin and Chuluun, Tuugi. 2020. “Janet Yellen and Kamala Harris keep shattering glass ceilings but global elite boys club remains”, The Conversation, 30 November. Available at: https://theconversation.com/janet-yellen-and-kamala-harris-keep-shattering-glass-ceilings-but-global-elite-boys- club-remains-150799

Leidner, Bernhard, Syropoulos, Stylianos and Young, Kevin. 2020. “Findings”, The Boston Globe [Sunday print edition], Ideas F2, 22 November.

Young, Kevin, Leidner, Bernhard, and Syropoulos, Stylianos. 2020. “When scientific journals take sides during an election, the public's trust in science takes a hit”, The Conversation, 12 November. Available at: https://theconversation.com/when-scientific-journals-take-sides-during-an-election-the-publics-trust- in-science-takes-a-hit-149351

Carpenter, Charli and Young, Kevin. 2018. “The New York Times says movies about killer robots are bad for us. It’s wrong.” Washington Post, 16 November. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey- cage/wp/2018/11/16/the-new-york-times-says-movies-about-killer-robots-are-bad-for-us-its-wrong/

Pagliari, Stefano and Young, Kevin. 2016. “Who is Challenging Finance? Examining the Diversity of Voices in the Design of Financial Regulation”, Finance Watch, 16 February.

Young, Kevin. 2016. “The Structural Power of Business as a Causal Hypothesis”, Duck of Minerva, 2 February.

Young, Kevin and Pagliari, Stefano. 2015. “The Unity of Business in the Context of Regulation”, LSE Business Forum, November.

Hale, Thomas, Held, David and Young, Kevin. 2013. “Is the WTO Deal Good News for Multilateralism?”, Open Democracy, 18 December 2013.

  • Reprinted in Social Europe Journal, 19 December 2013.
  • Reprinted in Global Policy, 23 December 2013.

Young, Kevin, Hale, Thomas, Held, David. “Global Cooperation Buckling Under Past Successes”, The Globalist, 4 Sept 2013.

Hale, Thomas, Held, David, McNally, Kyle, and Young, Kevin. 2013. “The Syrian Crisis and Gridlock Of Global Security Governance”, Social Europe Journal, 28 June 2013.

  • Republished in Held, David. 2016. Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political Fragmentation and the Rise of Authoritarianism (London: Global Policy e-Book series).

Hale, Thomas, Held, David and Young, Kevin. “Gridlock: the growing breakdown of global cooperation”, OpenDemocracy, 24 May 2013. Republished in Held, David. 2016. Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political Fragmentation and the Rise of Authoritarianism (London: Global Policy e-Book series) Hale, Thomas, Held, David and Young, Kevin. “Gridlock: The Growing Breakdown Of Global Cooperation”, Social Europe Journal, 6 June 2013.

Hale, Thomas, Held, David and Young, Kevin. “European and Global Gridlock: Parallel Barriers to Effective Governance”, ESharp the Big Debates, July 2013.

  • Republished in Held, David. 2016. Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political Fragmentation and the Rise of Authoritarianism (London: Global Policy e-Book series)

Hale, Thomas, Held, David and Young, Kevin. “Gridlock: The Contemporary Breakdown of Global Governance”, in Global Policy blog, 28 May 2013.

Young, Kevin. 2009. “Encouraging signs of reform among world firefighters” Financial Times, 19 March, p. 12 (p. 8 of the US edition).

Young, Kevin. 2008. “The bubble is a splendid example of markets working too well”, Financial Times 23 October, p. 14.

Grant Activity (excluding Letters of Interest)

  • Velux Foundation Awarded $71,000
    “Expert Niches: How Local Networks Leverage Markets”, I am a co-PI on this project, which involves collaborators at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark as the PIs: Leonard Seabrooke and Eleni Tsingou. The 3-year project has already been awarded to CBS; the UMass Amherst portion (reported above) is a subcontract for my participation. The full grant awarded by Velux is approximately $700,000
     
  • Institute for New Economic Thinking Awarded $99,999
    “Embedding GroupThink: Assessing the Spread of Neoliberal Ideas and Influence” One-year proposal, small grants section. The PI was (Leonard Seabrooke, Copenhagen Business School); I was a co-investigator on this grant, along with Cornel Ban (Boston University), Oddný Helgadóttir (Brown University) and Lasse Folke Henriksen (Copenhagen Business School). Copenhagen Business School housed the grant in its entirety.
     
  • Russell Sage Foundation Awarded $108,039
    Program on Social Inequality “The Revolving Door in Financial Regulation: Elite Networks and the Consequences of Unequal Access on Policymaking”. I was the PI on this grant, with co-investigator Bruce Desmarais (Pennsylvania State University). Awarded: November 2014 - $77,658. Supplemental Funds Awarded: March 2016 - $30,381

 

Selected Awards and Honours

Diversity Science Institute, Internal Grant 2019

Faculty Research Grant, Internal Grant 2019

SBS Research Award, Internal Grant 2018

Spotlight Scholar Award, Internal Prize 2017

Manning Teaching Prize, Nomination 2016-2017

Distinguished Teaching Award, Nomination 2016-2017

Flex Grant for Teaching and Faculty Development, Internal Grant 2015

Manning Teaching Prize, Nomination 2015-2016


Flex Grant for Teaching and Faculty Development, Internal Grant 2015

Distinguished Teaching Award, Nomination 2014-2015

Exceptional Merit Award, UMass Amherst Office of the Provost 2014

SBS Online Fellows Program, Fellowship 2014

Faculty Research Grant, Internal Grant 2013-2014

Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) Scholar, Fellowship 2013-2014

Massachusetts Society of Professors Research Support Fund Grant, Internal Grant 2012-2013

Flex Grant for Teaching and Faculty Development, Internal Grant 2012-2013

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Support Grant, Internal Grant 2012-2013

Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2011-2012

Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Post-Doctoral 2011-2013 Fellowship (declined offer)

LSE Center for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, Research Grant 2007-2009

Max Planck Stiftung for Visiting Scholars, Visiting Researcher Stipend 2007

Deutscher-Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Research Grant 2007

LSE George Jones Teaching Studentship, Teaching Award 2006-2007

Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Doctoral Fellowship 2005-2008

Fulbright Award Canada-US (declined offer) 2005-2006

Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council Graduate Scholarship 2004-2005

Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement 2005

Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council Graduate Scholarship 2004-2005

Kalmen Kaplansky Award for Economic and Social Rights 2004

Lady Eaton College Fellows Prize for the Highest Average in the Arts 2003

Recent Presentations

“Elite Elite Social Stratification: Using Networks to Assess the Relative Roles of Race, Gender, Education and Skin Color”, Political Networks, Virtual Conference due to Covid-19 pandemic, 14 July 2021.

“Where Did the Global Elite Go To School? Evidence from Billionaires and Global Board Members”, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference. Virtual Conference due to Covid-19 pandemic, 2 July 2021.

“The Color of Power: Evaluating Diversity and Compensation Dynamics within a Sample of the Global Elite”, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference. Virtual Conference due to Covid- 19 pandemic, 5 July 2021.

“Attitudes Toward Finance and Elites: Recent Perceptions of Financial Regulation from Survey Experiments”, Conference of Europeanists (CES) annual conference. Virtual Conference due to Covid-19 pandemic, 21 June 2021.

“The Color of Power: Evaluating Diversity and Compensation Dynamics within a Sample of the Global Elite”, Mid-West Political Science Association (MPDSA) annual conference. Virtual Conference due to Covid-19 pandemic, 16 April 2021.

“What are the Demographics of the Global Elite? Testing the Core-Periphery and Compensation Hypotheses”, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference, Amsterdam, July 2020 [Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic]

“Diversity at the Commanding Heights: Race, Gender and Color Dynamics Amon the Global”, Department of Political Science, University of St. Gallen, 22 April 2020 [Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic]

“Elite Ties in Finance: Challenges of Measurement and Inference”, Department of Political Science, University of St. Gallen, 22 April 2020 [Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic]

“Challenges of Measuring Diversity Among Global Elites”, Presentation to the Approaches and Methods workshop, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 3 March 2020.

“Addressing the Challenge of Measuring Business Social Ties to Policymakers”, Paper presented to the Workshop Business Influence on Policy Formation in Historical Research, University of Helsinki, Finland, 16 January 2020.

“Rivalry Networks in the Economics Profession: A Genealogy of Epistemic Allegiance and Transgression”, Paper presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference, New School for Social Research, New York City, 28 June 2019.

“Rivalry Networks in the Economics Profession: A Genealogy of Epistemic Allegiance and Transgression”, Paper presented at the Economic Sociology Summer Workshop, Columbia University, New York City, 25 June 2019.

“History of the Economics Profession: Some Lessons for Today”, Presentation at the Institute for New Economic Thinking Young Scholars Initiative meeting, “Alternative Futures for Capitalism”, New York City, 25 June 2019.

“Dynamics of Diversity in Global Elite Networks: Race, Gender and Color”, Paper presented to the Political Networks Association Annual Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC, 31 May 2019.

“Appraising our Foundations and Improving our Future: Structure, Complexity and Science”, Presentation at the Political Economy on Trial: Reflections After a Decade of Unforeseen Developments Workshop, 18-19 March 2019, Sheffield, UK.

“Diversity at the Commanding Heights: Race, Gender and Color of Global Elites”, Paper presented to the Five College International Relations (FCIR) Colloquia, Amherst, MA, 21 February 2019.

“What do Elite Social Ties do Within Regulatory Governance?”, Presentation to the Risk Regulation and Society Workshop, held at the Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 16 January 2019.

“Allegiant Lobbying: How Non-Financial Corporates Become Allies of Finance”, Presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, 1 September 2018, Boston MA

“With Friends Like These: Explaining the Lobbying of Non-Financial Corporates over Financial Regulatory Policy”, Presented at the Financialization and Market Governance workshop, Northwestern University, 15 March 2018, Evanston, IL.

“The Analysis of Complexity: Strategies of Reduction, Description, Inference and Emergence”, Presented at the GEM-STONES Autumn Methods Workshop on Research Methodologies, Université Laval, 1 November 2017, Québec City, Canada.

“Fathers of Neoliberalism: The Academic and Professional Performance of the Chicago School, 1960-1985”, Presented at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Conference ‘Reawakening’, 22 October 2017, Edinburgh, Scotland.

“Neoliberal Grandfathers: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Professional Networks”, Presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, 14 August 2017, Montreal, Canada.

“Neoliberal Grandfathers: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Professional Networks”, Presented at the Carleton University Research Seminar in Political Science and Political Economy, 10 March 2017, Ottawa, Canada.

“Evolution in International Political Economy: What are the Mechanisms, Limitations and Prospects?’, Presented at the workshop Darwin and Emporium: An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of Trade Negotiations and Trade Agreements, 18 May 2017, Québec City, Canada.

“Neoliberal Grandfathers: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Professional Networks”, Presented at the Seminar on Shadow Economy in the Global Crisis: Finance and Beyond, 10 March 2017, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

“Data on Interactions”, Presented at the GEM-STONES Winter Methods Workshop on Data Collection Strategy, Copenhagen Business School, 24 January 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.

“Data on People”, Presented at the GEM-STONES Winter Methods Workshop on Data Collection Strategy, Copenhagen Business School, 25 January 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.

“Neoliberal Grandfathers: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Professional Networks”, Presented at the Seminar on Shadow Economy in the Global Crisis: Finance and Beyond, 30 June 2016, Convento da Arrabida, Portugal.

“Between Jobs: Advocacy Behavior and Social Distance to Financial Regulators”, Presented at the Seminar on Shadow Economy in the Global Crisis: Finance and Beyond, 30 June 2016, Convento da Arrabida, Portugal.

“Neoliberal Grandfathers: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Professional Networks”, Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference, University of California Berkeley, 26 June 2016, Berkeley, California.

“Between Jobs: Advocacy Behavior and Social Distance to Financial Regulators”, Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference, University of California Berkeley, 26 June 2016, Berkeley, California.

“Neoliberal Grandfathers: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Professional Networks”, Presented at the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR), Stanford University, 22 June 2016, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

“Neoliberal Grandfathers: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Professional Networks”, Presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Economics Association, 3 June 2016, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

“The Niches and Networks of International Political Economy”, Presented at the International Political Economy Society (IPES) online live webinar, 3 May 2016, Online e-conference platform organized by James Morrison, London School of Economics, London, UK.

“The Changing Ecology of Global Financial Governance”, Presented at the conference Beyond Gridlock, 12 April 2016, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

“Is There Still Room for Patience? An Empirical Investigation of the Financialization Convergence Hypothesis”, Presented at the workshop “What is Patient Capital, and Where Does it Exist?”, 19 February 2016, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

“Dealing with Firm-Level Entity Resolution Issues with Big Corporate Network Data”, Presented at the workshop Big Data and Large Corporate Networks: Enhancing Data Quality Through Standards for the Research Community, 15 December 2015, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

“Finding Tribes in the Field of International Political Economy”, Presented at the Network and Sequence Methods Workshop, Copenhagen Business School, 21 October 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark.

“Informal Social Relationships and Policy Design in Finance”, Presented at the International Workshop on Institutional and Policy Design in Financial Sector Reform, Koç University, 25 September 2015, Istanbul Turkey.

“Structural Power’s Empirical Footprint: Evidence and Inference from Finance”, Presented at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association, 4 September 2015, San Francisco CA.

“Is There Still Room for Patience? An Empirical Investigation of the Financialization Convergence Hypothesis”, Presented at the workshop What is Patient Capital, and Where Does it Exist?, University of Edinburgh, 3 June 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland.

“Regulation under the Influence: An Analysis of Rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission”, Presented at the Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting, 29 May 2015, Toronto, Canada.

“With Friends Like These: Explaining the Mobilization of Non-financial Corporates over Financial Regulatory Policy”, Presented at the Shadow Banking Workshop, Boston University, 3 April 2015, Boston MA.

“Tying Hands and Cutting Ties: Lobbying Strategies in EU and US Banking Reform Since the Crisis”, presented to the workshop National versus Supranational Banking Regulation after the Crisis: Dilemmas for the States, at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, 28 February 2015, Denver CO.

“How Does the Financialization of the Economy Affect Lobbying? Firm-Level Evidence from the Involvement of Non-Financial Corporates in Financial Regulatory Policymaking”. Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference, 18 February 2015, New Orleans LA.

“Good and Bad Capital: A Framework for Differentiating Key Qualities” Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference, 19 February 2015, New Orleans LA.

“How Does the Financialization of the Economy Affect Lobbying? Firm-Level Evidence from the Involvement of Non-Financial Corporates in Financial Regulatory Policymaking”. Presented at the CAFCA/PERI Workshop on Financialization, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 13 December 2014, Amherst MA.

“Convergence of Interests: The Effect of Individual Shareholding on the Interests of Labor in Advanced Economies”, International Political Economy Society Annual Conference, 14 November 2014, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

“Empirical Evidence on Interest Group Diversity in the Design of Financial Regulatory Policies”. Presented at the event “Global Financial Reform: How Might the 2015 International Conference on Financing for Development Strengthen Reform Momentum?”, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 20 September 2014, New York City.

“Measuring Elite Networks to Better Understand Industry Advocacy: Generating Data and Calibrating Comparisons”, Presented at Transnational Elites in Hybrid Networks, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, 12 September 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.

“How Does the Financialization of the Economy Affect Lobbying? Firm-Level Evidence from the Involvement of Non-Financial Corporates in Financial Regulatory Policymaking”. Presented at the panel ‘Financial Crisis and Credit Booms’, at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Conference, 29 August 2014, Washington, D.C.

“Private Power and Transmutation: Financial Regulation and the Creation of Private Regulatory Regimes”. Presented at the panel “Addressing the Complexities of Property Rights in Financial Markets”, held at the Workshop on the Ostrom’s Workshop (WOW5), Indiana University, 6 June 2014, Bloomington, IN.

“The Interest Ecology of Financial Regulation: Interest Group Diversity and Conflict in the Design of Financial Regulatory Policies”. Presented at the Workshop ‘Banks and Financial Regulation’, University of Denver, 17 May 2014, Denver, CO.

“Is Financial Sector Lobbying Unique? Analysing the Ecology of Professional Interests in Financial Regulatory Policymaking”. Presented at the panel “Professional Strategies in the International Political Economy”, at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference, 29 March 2014, Toronto.

“Assessing the Sources of Support for Different Forms of Finance”. Presented at the Workshop “Patient Capital Since the Crisis: Are There New Varieties of Capitalism?”, at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference, 25 March 2014, Toronto

“Interest Group Lobbying in Financial Regulation: An Analysis of Rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission”. Presentation at John Jay College Department of Economics, 24 April 2014, New York City.

“Business Conflict in International Policymaking: Evidence from the Financial Sector since the Global Financial Crisis”. Presented at the International Political Economy Society (IPES) Annual Conference, 26 October 2013, Claremont, CA, USA.

“Interest Group Lobbying in Financial Regulation: An Analysis of Rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission”. Presentation at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, 30 August 2013, Chicago, USA.

“How the Fed Manages its External Environment: An Analysis of Social Network and Topical Responses”. Presentation at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, 30 August 2013, Chicago, USA.

“Why Finance is Special: The Evolving Interest Ecology of Financial Regulation”, Presentation at the Koç University GLODEM Workshop, 15 July 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.

“Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it Most”, Book launch presentation at the London School of Economics, 11 July 2013, London, UK.

“European Interest Groups in Global Financial Governance: What Role for an Evolving Interest Ecology?” Paper presented at the Council for European Studies International Conference of Europeanists, 26 June 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

“The Fed as a Political Actor: Topic Modeling Analysis of Federal Reserve Speeches, 1996-2012”. Paper presented at the European Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 20 June 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

“Interest Group Lobbying in Financial Regulation: An Analysis of Rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission, 1996-2012”. Paper presented at the European Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 20 June 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

“Is Financial Sector Lobbying Unique? An Evolving Interest Ecology”. Paper presented at the panel “The Political Economy of Financial Markets in the Wake of Global Financial Crisis” at the Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting, 1 June 2013, Montreal, Canada.

“The Complex and Covert Web: Financial Protectionism Since the Financial Crisis” Paper presented at the University of California Berkeley-University of St. Gallen Policy Research Initiative, Industrial Policy in the Financial Crisis Era, 3 May 2013, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

“Interest Group Lobbying in Financial Regulation: An Analysis of Rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission, 1996-2012”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 14 April 2013, Chicago, Illinois.

“The Wall Street-Main Street Complex? The Role of Financial and Corporate Coalitions in Post-Crisis Financial Regulatory Change”. Presented at the panel “Explaining Change in Global Financial Governance: Incrementalism Revisited”, International Studies Association Annual Convention, 4 April 2013, San Francisco, California.

“The New Contested Politics of Global Finance: Interest Group Responses to the Shifting Regulatory Landscape”. Presented at the panel “The Political Economy of Norm Convergence, Divergence and Contestation in Global Finance” International Studies Association Annual Convention, 5 April 2013, San Francisco, California.

“European Interest Groups in Global Financial Governance: What Role for an Evolving Interest Ecology”. Paper Prepared for the EU-GR:EEN Workshop, The European Union in Global Financial Governance, 14 February 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

“Leveraged Interests: Financial Industry Power and the Role of Private Sector Coalitions”. Presented at the International Political Economy Society Annual Conference, 9 November 2012, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Teaching Experience

The International Economy August 2020 – present

ECON 121: Undergraduate-level class, University of Massachusetts Amherst

This class provides an introduction to the operation of the international economic system. It emphasizes both contemporary dynamics of global economic functioning as well as the historical development of the global economic system as it has unfolded over time, and in particular in the last 300 years. Students become familiar with concepts from international economics as well as the various institutions that enable and govern international economic activity. The class covers variety of important concepts in open-economy international macroeconomics, such as comparative advantage, protectionism, exchange rate regimes, intellectual property rights, industrialization, international taxation, financial crises, banking and capital market regulation. The class is not a thorough primer on these concepts but rather engages with them in context using contemporary and historical examples of how economic processes have functioned, broken down, or simply just changed over time. A particular focus of the class is on the institutions that enable and govern economic activity – meaning institutions of law and property rights, national governmental policies, and the international organizations that govern the global economic processes.

Foundations of International Political Economy August 2020 – present

ECON 397FP: Undergraduate-level class, University of Massachusetts Amherst

This class provides a thorough foundation to concepts and research in the field of international political economy (IPE): the study of the dynamic interplay between international economics and politics. The course first reviews different theoretical approaches to analyzing and explaining governance in the contemporary international system and the basis for world order. IPE is a fundamentally interdisciplinary field and thus a key part of this part of the course is the intellectual history of the discipline, as it emerged to tackle big global problems by borrowing concepts from other disciplines. It then covers a wide variety of contemporary issue areas in IPE, including the politics of international trade, global inequality, how global governance institutions are contested, and international financial regulation.

Power, Privilege and Inequality on a Global Scale January 2018 –May 2018

POLSCI 290: Undergraduate-level class, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Designed and taught undergraduate class focusing on the causes and consequences of global inequality, historical imperialism, and elite social stratification. The class is broken down into three sections. The first section, entitled ‘The State of the World’ deals with the empirical evidence on the distribution of global income and wealth. The second section, ‘The Major Forces that Shaped The World’ reviews a number of major historical forces such as the origin of the modern state, territorial empires, and the origin of capitalism. The third and final section of the class, ‘How Governance Operates’ explores some of the concepts related to how social hierarchy is maintained, with a particular emphasis on elites and elite power.

Political Inquiry September 2016 –December 2018

POLSCI 792: Graduate-level class, University of Massachusetts Amherst

This course provides an introduction to the logic of inquiry and research design in political science. This course centers on philosophy of science issues appropriate for the graduate training of social scientists and introduces graduate students to the wide range of approaches used by political scientists to study the world. This is a graduate level course that emphasizes group-based learning in addition to the development of guided but ultimately independent investigation. The course aims to generate foundational knowledge on perspectives and debates within the philosophy of science. Students sharpen their critical thinking about how knowledge about politics is pursued and developed, and develop their analytical reasoning, research and presentational skills associated with graduate-level training. Students become familiar with the diversity of approaches to the study of politics in terms of research design in particular.

Money and Power September 2014 –present

POLSCI Graduate-level class, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Designed and taught graduate level class on the role of money in contemporary society. The class first covers foundational theories of money and the creation of monetary institutions and then explores a variety of contemporary research topics in the field, such as governance of the International Monetary Fund, advocacy over US financial regulation, the creation of the US Federal Reserve, and the ‘financialization’ of contemporary politics.

Political Economy September 2013 –December 2013

Graduate-level class, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Designed and taught (with Regine Spector) graduate level class on foundations of political economy. The class first covers major 19th and 20th Century foundational thinkers. It then explores a variety of contemporary topics in political economy research, from the role of institutions in economic development, to national varieties of capitalism and the role of international markets in shaping contemporary policy.

Corporate Lobbying in the Global Economy September 2012 –present

POLSCI 388: Undergraduate-level class, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Designed and taught undergraduate class focusing on theories and empirical studies of the role of organized business in global public policies. Students engage with different theories of business power including instrumental lobbying, structural power approaches, and the role of intra-business conflict. The class then examines business power in a variety of issue areas, such as pharmaceuticals regulation and intellectual property rights, macroeconomic policies of international organizations, global financial regulation, and extractive industries.

International Political Economy September 2012 –present

POLSCI 359: Undergraduate-level class, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Designed and taught this lecture style class, which fulfills the Integrative Experience (IE) requirement for UMass Undergraduates. The class provides a thorough introduction to the field of international political economy (IPE) and is oriented around the question ‘how is the global economy governed?’. Topics include the politics of international trade, the role and influence of the International Monetary Fund, the politics of international trade, how global standards operate, who is in control of global banking regulation, and how global governance institutions are contested by non-state actors.

International Political Economy of Money and Finance September 2012 –December 2012 Graduate-level class, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Designed and taught this graduate-level seminar class. The class examined a range of literature on the international political economy (IPE) of financial markets in contemporary society. Students are introduced to the literature examining and debating the role of global financial markets in contemporary politics, research exploring the relationship between finance and war, the politics of banking regulation and the ‘financialization’ of the economy.

From Empire to Globalization September 2008 –June 2011

Graduate-level class, Department of Government, LSE

In-class teaching, occasional lectures, grading, and dissertation supervision on this core course for the LSE Global Politics Master’s program. This is a full year course covering a wide span of literature on globalization and global governance, from theoretical perspectives on the globalization debate, historical trajectories and contemporary issues ranging from international security to international political economy.

Global Political Economy of Development II October 2010 – December 2010

Robert Wade, Department of International Development, LSE

As a Teaching Assistant I was responsible for in-class seminars, delivering occasional lectures, holding office hours, grading assignments and final exams. The class covered the politics of global financial crisis, global poverty and inequality, the history of the Bretton Woods institutions, and the role of national and international institutions in national economic development.

Global Political Economy of Development October 2006 – January 2007

Dr. Ben Selwyn and Dr. Ken Shadlen, Department of International Development, LSE

As a Teaching Assistant for this graduate-level course I was responsible for in-class seminars, delivering occasional lectures, holding office hours, grading assignments and final exams.

The Politics of Economic Policy October 2006 – March 2007

Dr. Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Government Department, LSE

As a Teaching Assistant for this Undergraduate-level course I was responsible for leading seminars and grading all exams and final papers.

Micro and Macro Economics Intensive January 2005-April 2005

Professor Ana Yanes, Economics Department, Carleton University

As a Teaching Assistant for this Undergraduate-level course I was responsible solely for grading exams and delivering one lecture.

Micro and Macroeconomics September 2003-April 2004

Professors Douglas Smith and Archibald Ritter, Economics Department, Carleton University

Teaching Assistant for introductory Undergraduate classes on Micro and Macroeconomics. Responsibilities included grading, holding weekly seminars and office hours.

Professional Memberships and Service

Member, American Economic Association Member, Canadian Economics Association Member, International Political Economy Society

Steering Committee Member, Canadian Progressive Economics Forum Member, International Studies Association

Member, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)

External Reviewer for the following academic presses: University of Michigan Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge International Political Economy series, and University of Toronto Press.

External Reviewer for the following academic presses: University of Michigan Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge International Political Economy series, and University of Toronto Press. External Reviewer for the following grant funding bodies: British Academy, Israeli Science Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, European Science Foundation, and Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada)

Academic Referee for the following journals: Review of International Political Economy, International Organization, Political Studies, Public Administration, Business and Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, British Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Regulation and Governance, Globalizations, Journal of Common Market Studies, Financial Innovation, Œconomia, Journal of European Public Policy, Political Research Quarterly, Policy and Society, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, European Journal of Politics Research, Review of International Studies, West European Politics, International Studies Quarterly , Policy Sciences, Economy and Society, International Studies Review, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Development Studies, Political Science Research and Methods, Governance, American Political Science Review, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Public Policy, Asian Politics and Society, American Sociological Review, European Journal of Political Research, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Nature: Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Other Related Professional Experience

Deputy Editor November 2005 – July 2007

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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