STEPHANIE J. RICKARD

RESEARCH
 

I. Peer Reviewed Publications

Strategic Targeting: The Effect of Institutions and Interests on Distributive Transfers (2009) Comparative Political Studies 42(5): 670-695.

Democratic Differences: Electoral Institutions and Compliance with GATT/WTO Agreements. (Forthcoming) European Journal of International Relations.

II. Other Publications

Book Review. From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas and Institutions in Historical Perspective by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (2007) Journal of British Studies 46: 970-972.

The Costs of Openness: Examining the Missing Link between Globalization and Spending (2006) Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper No.185.
         
III. Conference and Working Papers (unpublished only)

Compensating the Losers: Evidence of Policy Responses to Globalziation from Congressional Votes. Presented at:
            (1) the Second Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society, Stanford University, November 9-10, 2007.
            (2) the 2008 Annual Meeting of The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois

Globalization and Government Spending: Further Disentangling the Ties that Bind. Presented at:
            (1) the 2008 International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
            (2) the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 28-31, 2008
            (3) the Third Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society, University of Pennsylvania. November 14-15, 2008.
           
Examining the Influence of International Organizations on Domestic Politics: The Case of IMF Labor Market Conditionality (with Mark Anner and Teri Caraway). Scheduled for presentation at:
             (1) the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada.

Privileging Sectors: The Importance of Electoral Institutions for Sector Transfers. Presented at:
            (1) the 2008 Annual Meeting of The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois.

Economic Geography, Electoral Institutions and Targeted Transfers. Presented at:
            (1) the 2009 International Studies Association Annual Convention, New York, New York
            (2) the 2009 Annual Meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois. Nominated for the MPSA Award for Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar.
            (3) 2009 Workshop on Political Institutions and Economic Policies, ECPR Standing Group on Political Economy, Dublin, Ireland, April 17-18, 2009
 
International Trade: Nexus of Economics and Law (with Emilia Justyna Powell)

Broad vs. Narrow: Explaining the Form of Redistributive Policies. Presented at:
            (1) the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 30-Sept 3, 2005.

Birds of a Different Feather? Varieties of capitalism, factor specificity and interindustry labor movements (with Michael J. Hiscox) Presented at:
             (1) the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA.

III. PhD Dissertation 

Choosing Conflict: Explaining the form of distributive policies.       
       
Committee: Stephan Haggard, J. Lawrence Broz, David Lake, Neal Beck, and Gordon Hanson

IV. Research Interests

International and Comparative Political Economy; Redistribution; International trade; Globalization; GATT/WTO disputes; Electoral institutions; Industrial subsidies; Comparative welfare states; Labor market regulation; Asset specificity

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