Way, Christopher Robert

research

research and scholarship focus

international/comparative political economy
international relations
political economy of OECD democracies. These focus on the triad of organized labor, partisanship of government, and central bank independence
political business cycle, focusing on the effects of electoral cycles -- and the desire to stay in power more generally -- on policy making in a number of issue areas in international political economy; effects of political insecurity on policymaking -exchange rates, trade negotiations, and financial market liberalization
testing theories of WMD proliferation, initially by brining quantitative methods to bear on this almost exclusively qualitative research agenda, and eventually by integrating quantitative and qualitative methods in a more comprehensive study.
assessing the relationship between the economic interdependence and conflict -military conflict, economic disputes

international geographic focus

Germany | country
Japan | country
United Kingdom | country

affiliations

faculty appointment in

Government (GOVT) | Cornell department

member of graduate field

Government | graduate field
Peace Studies and Peace Science | minor graduate field
Public Affairs | graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) | research institute

teaching

teaching focus

teaches

GOVT 4999 - Undergraduate Independent Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
GOVT 7999 - Independent Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
GOVT 4999 - Undergraduate Independent Study (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
GOVT 7999 - Independent Study (TBA -) | spring 2009 class

background

educational background

Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University (1998). Dissertation: "Manchester Revisited: A Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation of Commercial Liberalism"
M.A., Political Science, Stanford University (1993).
B.A., Political Science, University of California-Berkeley, Summa Cum Laude (1990.

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publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

"The Sectoral Composition of Trade Unions, Corporatism, and Economic Performance.? 1995. In Monetary and Fiscal Policy in An Integrated Europe. Barry Eichengreen, Jeffry Frieden, and Jurgen von Hagen (eds.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Co-authored with Geoffrey Garrett.
"Central Banks, Partisan Politics, and Macroeconomic Outcomes." 2000. Comparative Political Studies 33:196-224.
"Public Sector Unions, Corporatism, and Macroeconomic Performance." 1999. Comparative Political Studies 32:411-434. Co-authored with Geoffrey Garrett.
"Comparative Political Economy of Wage Distribution: The Role of Partisanship and Labor Market Institutions." 2002. British Journal of Political Science 32:281-308. Co-authored Jonas Pontusson and Francisco David Rueda.
"Political Cycles and Exchange Rate Based Stabilization." 2003. World Politics (October) 56:43-78. Co-authored with Hector Schamis.
"Public Sector Unions, Corporatism, and Wage Determination.? 2000. In Unions, Employers, and Central Banks. Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson, and David Soskice (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Co-authored with Geoffrey Garrett.
"Paths to Non-Proliferation: The Need For a Quantitative Test of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Theory." 2004. Journal of Conflict Resolution 48:859-885 (December). Co-authored with Sonali Singh.
"Why Do Independent Central Banks Require So Much 'Sacrifice'? The Effects of Organized Labor." Forthcoming, 2005 Comparative Political Studies. Co-authored with Geoffrey Garrett.
"Manchester Revisited: Economic Interdependence and Conflict" Book under contract with Cornell University Press.
"The Role of Political Institutional Variables in the Making of Gendered Patterns of Wage Inequality: A Comparative Analysis of OECD Countries." San Giacomo Working Paper 99.4, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University. Co-authored with Jonas Pontusson and Francisco David Rueda.
"Of Rose Gardens and Goldfish Bowls: Electoral Incentives and U.S.-Japan Bargaining, 1966-1998." 2003. Revised and resubmitted to American Political Science Review. Co-authored with Amy Searight. Award Winning Paper!
"Fear Factor: How Political Insecurity Shapes the Diffusion of Financial Market Deregulation." In The Internationalization of Regulatory Reforms: The Interaction of Policy Learning and Emulation in the Diffusion of Reforms, edited by Jacint Jordan and David Levi-Faur.
"What Drives the Ebb and Flow of U.S.-Japan Economic Relations? Introducing a New Dataset on U.S.-Japan Economic Disputes, 1966-1998." Under review at International Studies Quarterly. Co-authored with Amy Searight.
"Does John Bull Rally 'Round the Union Jack? The Nature of the 'Rally 'Round the Flag Effect in the United Kingdom, 1950-2001." Invited resubmission at the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Co-authored with Michael Bronski.