Professor; Associate Chair; Director of Program in International and Comparative Studies
About
Professor Franzese's research interests center on the comparative and international political economy (C&IPE) of developed democracies and related aspects of empirical methodology. In C&IPE, his work has focused on how political and economic (a) institutions (e.g., electoral & governmental systems, central bank independence, labor-market organization, etc.), (b) structure (e.g., income distribution, party-system polarization and fractionalization), and (c) circumstances/events (e.g., elections, terms-of-trade shocks, etc.) affect macroeconomic policymaking: its character and its efficacy. His approach to this substantive area is interdisciplinary (with economics), positive (i.e., as opposed to normative), and empirically minded. This research agenda has produced numerous journal articles, chapters, and a book on the economic-policy effects of, for example, participation, representation, veto actors, delegation, central bank independence, wage bargaining institutions, and international context and institutions.
Professor Franzese’s research and pedagogical agendas in empirical methodology, which arise from this substantive agenda in C&IPE, have produced several books and articles and chapters on (a) interactions and modeling strategies for complex context-conditionality more generally, (b) on empirical methodology for comparative politics broadly, (c) on multilevel modeling, (d) on model-based estimation for positive social-science theorists (EITM), and, currently most extensively, (e) on spatial-econometric models of interdependence, that is of contexts where the outcomes in some observational units influence those in others.
Courses Taught
- Comparative Politics of Developed Democracies (undergraduate)
- Comparative Developed-Democratic Political Economy (undergraduate)
- Quantitative Empirical Methods of Political Science (undergraduate)
- Statistical Methods for Political Science Research I and II (graduate)
- Seminar in Comparative & International Political Economy (graduate)
- Seminar in Comparative Politics (graduate)
Affiliation(s)
- Program in International & Comparative Studies
- Center for Political Studies
Field(s) of Study
- Comparative Politics
- Political Economy
- Research Methods
- World Politics
