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The MIT Center for International Studies magazine, features essays by our scholars, covers the wide range of Center activities, and tracks the accomplishments of our research community.

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Doner, Richard, and Ben Ross Schneider. “Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation.” The Journal of Development Studies 56, no. 4 (2020): 680–97.

Huang, Yasheng, Zhiyong Niu, and Clair Yang. “Testing Firm-Level Data Quality in China against Benford’s Law.” Economics Letters 192 (2020).

Lieberman, Evan. “Research Cycles.” Chapter. In The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, edited by Colin Elman, John Gerring, and James Mahoney, 42–70. Strategies for Social Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Cambridge University Press

Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya

Cambridge University Press

Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya

Freemark, Yonah, Justin Steil, and Kathleen Thelen. “Varieties of Urbanism: A Comparative View of Inequality and the Dual Dimensions of Metropolitan Fragmentation.” Politics & Society 48, no. 2 (2020): 235–74.

Puente, Ignacio, and Ben Ross Schneider. 2020. “Business and Development: How Organization, Ownership and Networks Matter.” Review of International Political Economy 27 (6): 1354–77.

Banks on the Brink: Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises

Cambridge University Press

Banks on the Brink: Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises

Culpepper, Pepper D., and Kathleen Thelen. "Are we all Amazon primed? Consumers and the politics of platform power." Comparative Political Studies 53, no. 2 (2020): 288-318.

Nielsen, Richard A. “Women’s Authority in Patriarchal Social Movements: The Case of Female Salafi Preachers.” American Journal of Political Science 64, no. 1 (2020): 52–66.

Thelen, Kathleen. “Employer Organization and the Law: American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective.” Law and Contemporary Problems 83, no. 2 (2020): 23.