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Associate Professor of Political Science and Resident Fellow in the Center in Political Economy
- Associate Professor, Political Science (http://news-info.wustl.edu/group/page/normal/46.html)
Expertise: international relations, international political economy, globalization, foreign investment
Bio:
Sobel specializes in the politics of international finance with a focus upon domestic explanations of international behavior. His books include Domestic Choices, International Markets (1994), which examines the politics underpinning the liberalization and globalization of national securities markets in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States; and State Institutions, Private Incentives, Global Capital (1999), which explores the extraordinary transformation and reawakening of global financial markets, systematic differences in access for borrowers in the global capital pool, and the effects of national political institutions in explaining the metamorphosis and the differential access.
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Education:
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Ph.D. in Political Science at University of Michigan
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B.A. in Government at Hamilton College
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Sobel's teaching interests courses on Introduction to World Politics, International Political Economy and Politics of Finance; and advanced seminars on the Politics of International Trade; Politics of International Finance and Globalization and National Politics. Current projects include a co-edited volume with Itai Sened called Visualizing Politics. The second work in progress, It's the National Political-Economy Stupid! Just Division and Local Disparities in an Era of Globalization, considers different notions of just and fair distribution in the global political economy to explore the contribution of national political institutions and policies to variations in outcomes, such as capital access, health care, gender equity, and education in a system characterized by increasing globalization.
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