John Campbell

John Campbell's research interests span economic and political sociology, comparative political economy, and institutional theory. He has written about energy and tax policy, the evolution of the U.S. economy, transformations of post-communist societies in Eastern Europe, corporate social responsibility, globalization, the role of ideas and experts in policymaking, and the 2008 financial crisis. The thread connecting all of this is his interest in how institutions affect national political economies and how they change. His recent books are The National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany and Denmark (Princeton University Press, 2014), which is about how policy research and advising is conducted in different countries; The World of States (Bloomsbury Press, 2015), which is about how nation-states in different parts of the world have responded to globalization and other changes in the international political economy; and The Paradox of Vulnerability: States, Nationalism and the Financial Crisis (Princeton University Press, 2017), which is about how small countries responded to the 2008 financial crisis. His newest book is about the rise of Donald Trump to the presidency entitled American Discontent: The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age (Oxford University Press, 2018).