Thomas Pepinsky

Walter F. LaFeber Professor

Overview

I am the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Public Policy, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brooking Institution. I study comparative politics and political economy, with a special focus on Southeast Asia. I received my Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in May 2007, and joined the Cornell faculty in 2008.

Research Focus

I study the interaction of political and economic systems around the world. Recently, I have been thinking about how social categories interact with these systems. I am also interested in how we construct explanations and make inferences in the social sciences. My current research interests involve the politics and political economy of democratic backsliding in Southeast Asia and Europe, and the evolution of ethnicity and other social categories in the Malay world.

Publications

Recent selected publications. See my list of published work for more. 

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