Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California. He is the author of seven books including The Transformation of Corporate Control (Harvard University Press, 1993), The Architecture of Market (Princeton University Press 2001), Euroclash (Oxford University Press, 2008), and A Theory of Fields (with Doug McAdam, Oxford University Press, 2012). He has a new book The Banks Did It (Harvard University Press, forthcoming) expected to be published in 2021.
Co-chair
Steven K. Vogel
Steven K. Vogel is Chair of the Political Economy Program, the ll Han New Professor of Asian Studies, and a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work (2018), Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (2006), and Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries (1996).
Graduate Student Coordinator & Site Manager
Konrad Posch
Konrad Posch is a Ph.D. candidate in political science in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation examines the variety of ways regulators respond to disruptive technological innovation in advanced industrial democracies. His research interests include regulatory politics, comparative political economy, and law and political economy with a particular focus on the politics of technology and national models of welfare capitalism. With a background in physics and mathematics, he also works on the deeper insights we can gain from qualitative and multi-method research based on deep case knowledge as well as the potential for computational methods to bridge the qual-quant divide.
Executive Director
Eva Seto
Eva Seto is Executive Director of the Network for a New Political Economy and Associate Director of Social Science Matrix. She is the administrative contact for N2PE. She is an Economist by training with her M.A. and B.A degrees from UC Berkeley. Her academic training and her many years of experience working at various social science research institutions at Berkeley make her a valuable resource in bridging the gap between research and administration.
Project Coordinator
Richard T. Ashcroft
Richard T. Ashcroft is a Lecturer in the International and Area Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. His research centers on the relationship between citizenship, the nation-state and globalization, with a particular focus on postwar multiculturalism. He has edited two books, Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth: Comparative Perspectives on Theory and Practice (University of California Press, 2019) and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain: Policy, Law and Theory (Routledge, 2019), and published articles on Brexit and Scottish nationalism. His book manuscript, Rethinking Liberal Multiculturalism: Culture, Meaning and Pluralism, explores the consequences of post foundational philosophy for cultural diversity in liberal democratic
Faculty Advisory Board
Brad DeLong
Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
David Singh Grewal
Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Pierson
John Gross Endowed Chair,Professor, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Leslie Salzinger
Associate Professor & Vice Chair of Research in Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Marion Fourcade
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Rucker Johnson
Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Caitlin C. Rosenthal
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Brandi T. Summers
Assistant Professor of Geography & Global Metropolitan Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Designated Emphasis in Political Economy (DE in PE) Students
Alonzo Ackerman
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Timothy Ahn
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Diego Ayala
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Pavel Bacherikov
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Raj Bhargava
Jurisprudence and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley
Chi Man Cheung
Agricultural & Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley
Alex Chow Yong-Kang
Geography University of California, Berkeley
Eva Davoine
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Dimitri Diagne
History University of California, Berkeley
Sarah DiMagno
Jurisprudence and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley
Elizabeth Fajardo
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology University of California, Berkeley
Silvia Farina
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Emily Finkelstine
Environmental Science, Policy, & Management (ESPM) University of California, Berkeley
Annette Gailliot
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Gabriel Granato
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Greenbaum
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Haseloff
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Ming-yen Ho
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Irem Inal
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Simoni Jain
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Rebekah Jones
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Evelyn Kim
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Kingston
South & Southeast Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley
Igor Kolesnikov
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Aaditee Kudrimoti
Energy and Resources Group University of California, Berkeley
Flávia Leite
City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
Danyang Li
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Yue Lin
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Maxwell Lindquist
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Lobo
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Isabella Mariani
Jurisprudence and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Old
Economics University of California, Berkeley
Lucas Osborne
Jurisprudence and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley
Isabel Peñaranda Currie
City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
Khoi Quach
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Amol Singh Raswan
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Nina Russell
Jurisprudence and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley
Edgar Sanchez-Cuevas
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Laura Schmahmann
City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
Sarang Shah
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Nicholas Shatan
City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
Jesse Strecker
Energy and Resources Group University of California, Berkeley
Jun Woo Suh
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Michael Sun
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Lucio Wasserman
Economics University of California, Berkeley
Liubing Xie
City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
Anna Zaret
Jurisprudence and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley
Yuhan Zhang
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
N2PE Political Economy Network Scholars
Daniel Balke
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Noah Bender
History University of California, Berkeley
Qianmiao Chen
Agricultural & Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley
Kate Cullen
Energy and Resources Group University of California, Berkeley
Irene Farah
City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
Ritika Goel
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Jaeger
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Max Kagan
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Lukas Leucht
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Beki McElvain
City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
Miguel Ortiz
Haas Business School University of California, Berkeley
Konrad Posch
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Ishana Ratan
Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Mary Shi
Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Jay Varellas
Political Science University of California, Berkeley