- Lecture for the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, 23 June 2026 that summarizes key points in my recent open-access Cambridge UP book: Developmental Dilemmas: The Role of Power and Agency.YouTube link: Developmental Dilemmas, Power, and Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Lens for Policy Analysis
Seminar at Oxford’s Institute for New Economic Thinking, “Developmental Dilemmas, Power, and Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Lens for Policy Analysis.” 5 June 2025 [video of presentation].
“Understanding Policy Failure: Power, Agency, and Collective Action.” For the World Bank, 12 November 2024.
- “Social Identity, Institutional Entrepreneurship, and Identity Politics.” Research seminar at the Oxford Institute for New Economic Thinking. 12 June 2024. In person and online. (Grinnell College announcement)
- “A Theory of Triadic Power with Applications to Leadership, Collective Action, and Institutional Evolution,” at UNU-WIDER (United Nation’s University). 7 June 2023. In person and online.
- “Subnational Drivers of Unequal Development: Resource Curses, Social Cleavages, and Political Settlements,” at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford. 22 June 2023. In person.
- “Stratification Economics and the Political Economy of Social Cleavages and Ethnic/Racial Identities” presented to the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Martin School, Oxford University, 8 June 202Lecture for the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, 23 June 2026 that summarizes key points in my recent open-access Cambridge UP book: Developmental Dilemmas: The Role of Power and Agency.YouTube link: Developmental Dilemmas, Power, and Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Lens for Policy AnalysisLecture for the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, 23 June 2026 that summarizes key points in my recent open-access Cambridge UP book: Developmental Dilemmas: The Role of Power and Agency.
- “How Context Influences Development: Political Settlements and Collective-Action Problems.” Prepared for the DSA 2020 Annual Conference: New Leadership for Global Challenges (University of Birmingham, 16-19 June 2020).
- “The Pandemic as Complex Collective-Action Problem: Contagion, Recession, Political Decay, and Inequality” (Grinnell College Alumni Lecture, July 2020)
- “Covid-19 as a Complex Collective-Action Problem: Contagion, Recession,
Inequality, and Political Decay” (Grinnell College Scholar’s Convocation … 1 Oct. 2020 … password: 3Ap9MU6d)