Shifting States: Subnational Economic Policy in a Globalized World
Based on my dissertation work (abstract), this project examines the industrial policies of subnational governments in comparative perspective. The particular empirical focus of the work centers on the experience of the Brazilian states and the Spanish regions. The project asks which political factors explain the success of subnational adjustment strategies in some subnational regions and the abject failure of policy changes in others. The attempt is to construct a more universal understanding of subnational economic adjustment strategies in a world buffeted by global fluctuations in capital and monetary instability.
The primary work in this research program is my book, Shifting States in Global Markets, which is presently on sale through Penn State University Press.
Working Paper #1 in this research program was included in the "Efficiency v. Inequality"
paper series of the Institute of Latin American & Iberian Studies at
Columbia University.
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