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

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Forthcoming. “” (with Ádám Reiff and Krisztina Szabó). Perspectives on Politics.
2024. “” (with Sebastian Dettman). Democratization 31, no. 1 (January), 1–22.
2024. “” (with Sara Wallace Goodman and Conrad Ziller). American Political Science Review 118, no. 1 (January), 519–528.
2022. “” (with Alexandra Cirone). Annual Review of Political Science 25, 241–259.
2022.&�Բ��;“.” Language 98, no. 1 (January), e44–e79.
2021. “” (with Sara Wallace Goodman). International Organization 75, no. 2 (Spring), 411–439.
2021. “” (with Andrew T. Little). Journal of Politics 83, no. 2 (April), 602–616.
2020. “.” Pacific Affairs 93, no. 3 (September), 593–610.

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Thomas Pepinsky

Walter F. LaFeber Professor

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