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I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Global Governance, and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. I do question-driven research at the intersection of comparative party politics and political economy, with a substantive focus on supply-side theories of populism in wealthy capitalist democracies.
My research agenda is focused on three questions. First, how do challenger parties innovate? Second, how do political parties professionalize? Third, under what conditions do economic elites pursue high-visibility politics? My book project, Reinventing Mass Politics, answers the first question through a mixed-method comparative analysis of far-right challenger parties in interwar Germany. My other work is under review at World Politics. I am also completing a multi-year research project on the erosion of intergenerational employment mobility in the United States, which reflects my interest in the structural conditions that fuel populist politics. Our book, The African American Experience in the Era of Shareholder Primacy: Why US Socio-Economic Mobility Declined, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. | ||
