Analytical history of political liberalism in political and social thought, institutions, lawmaking, public policy and behavior, especially in the United States. Emphasis on questions regarding membership, toleration, and national security
Elected 2019
Contemporary Chinese government and politics; Chinese health and social policy, poverty and inequality; comparative politics
Public policy, & sociology of the state in Europe; European cities & great global metropolis; Economic sociology/ political economy; Great Britain
Political regimes, democracy, autocracy and their intermediate forms, the conditions under which regimes survive and change, as well as their consequences for economic development and income equality