New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development

I co-convene the annual conference "New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development" with Zuheir Desai. This conference focuses on the latest research in the Political Economy of Development (broadly defined). Our goal is to bring together prominent political economy scholars specializing in the study of development and the developing world.

2026

The third edition of our conference concluded successfully on May 15, 2026, in Columbus Ohio. We extend our sincere gratitude to the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University, the Center for International Studies and the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California for their invaluable support. We also thank our esteemed presenters, discussants, and keynote speaker: Avidit Acharya (Stanford), Caterina Chiopris (Columbia), Irfan Nooruddin (Georgetown), Jan Pierskalla (OSU), Jessica Gottlieb (University of Houston), Kosuke Imai (Harvard), and Soeren Henn (UW-Madison).

Additionally, we would like to acknowledge the active participation of members of the faculty and graduate students at the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University: Ben Falcon, Chandler L'Hommedieu, Connor Tragesser, Erin Lin, Gabriel Gorre, John Tengatenga, Katie Gouge, Marco Castradori, Paul Atwell, Shao-Yun Lin, Sinan Anbarcioglu, Thomas Wood, Timothy Yin, and William Minozzi.

Thanks,
Zuheir Desai and Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra

2025

The second edition of our conference took place on February 7–8, 2025, in Los Angeles. We extend our sincere gratitude to the Center for International Studies and the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California, and the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University for their invaluable support. We also thank our esteemed presenters, discussants, and keynote speaker: Arthur Spirling (Princeton University), Cecilia Mo (UC Berkeley), Christian Grose, (University of Southern California), Daniel Hidalgo (Massachussetts Institute of Technology), Feyaad Allie (Harvard University), Horacio Larreguy (ITAM, Mexco), Lucia Motolinia (Washington University in St. Louis), Olga Gasparyan (Florida State University), Pia Raffler (Harvard University), Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Salma Mousa (UCLA), Thad Dunning (UC Berkeley).

Additionally, we would like to acknowledge the active participation of Amna Salam (UCSD), Brian Palmer-Rubin (University of Southern California), Carol Wise (University of Southern California) Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (Caltech), Julia Payson (UCLA), Kamya Yadav (UC Berkeley), Kyuwon Lee (University of Southern California), Jeff Jenkins (USC Price School of Public Policy), Jefferey Sellers (University of Southern California), Saori Katada (University of Southern California) and Syeda ShahBano Ijaz (Occidental College).

Thanks,
Zuheir Desai and Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra

2024

We concluded the first edition of our conference on March 8, 2024. We extend our sincere gratitude to the Center for International Studies and the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California, and the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University for their invaluable support. We also thank our esteemed presenters and discussants: Amanda Clayton (UC Berkeley), Cesi Cruz (UCLA), Darin Christensen (UCLA), Dorothy Kronick (UC Berkeley), John Marshall (Columbia University), Karen Ferree (UC San Diego), Saad Gulzar (Princeton University), Simeon Nichter (UC San Diego). Additionally, we would like to acknowledge the active participation of Maria Silfa (Stanford GSB/Ohio State), Mike Gibilisco (Caltech), Jeff Jenkins (USC Price), and Tanu Kumar (Claremont Graduate University).

Thanks,
Zuheir Desai and Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra

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