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Selected Research
- Kiser, Edgar and Steven M. Karceski. 2017. “Political Economy of Taxation.” Annual Review of Political Science 20(1).
- Kiser, Edgar. 2014. “Sociological Approaches to Coercion and the State” Pp. 136-140 in Jorge Martinez-Vasquez and Stanley Winer (ed) Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance: Economic and Political Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Levi, Margaret and Edgar Kiser. Forthcoming. “The History of Fiscal Regimes” in Walter Scheidel and Andrew Monson (eds) Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Research Advised
- Jabbarli, Ramin. 2021. "Making and Transcending Boundaries: The Effect of Ritual on the Nationalism among Dominant and Subordinate Ethnicities in the Near East." M.A. Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Stephens, André. 2020. "Confidence Game: Fiscal Crisis, Market Confidence, and the Remaking of Jamaica’s Post-Recession Political Economy." Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Guler, Selen. 2019. "The Good, The Bad, and The Taxed: How Taxes Shape Morals in Markets." M.A. Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Mondesir, Raphael. 2018. "Civic Participation in Indonesia: Islam, Community, and Rural Development." Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Wurpts, Bernd. 2018. "Networks into Institutions or Institutions into Networks? Evidence from the Medieval Hansa." Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Karceski, Steven M. 2017. "Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation." M.A. Thesis. Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Underwood, Patrick. 2016. "Conflict and Stability in the Neoliberal Era: Explaining Urban Unrest in Latin America." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Shaw, Lynette. 2016. "The Meanings of New Money: Social Constructions of Value in the Rise of Digital Currencies." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Koski-Karell, Daniel. 2014. "'This Project We Call Spain': Nationality, Autochthony, and Politics in Spain's North African Exclaves." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Powers, Erin. 2014. "Individual-Group Dynamics in a 12-Step Fellowship: Identification, Service, and Recovery in Overeaters Anonymous." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Robbins, Blaine. 2014. "On the Origins of Trust." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Corcoran, Katie E. 2012. "Religious Capital as Human, Cultural, Social, and Emotional: Toward a Sociological Theory of Membership Dynamics in Religious Voluntary Associations." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Pettinicchio, David. 2012. "From the Government to the Streets: Why the U.S. is a Policy Innovator in Disability Rights." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Sacks, Audrey. 2011. "Credit or Blame: Non-State Provision of Services and Political Support in Africa." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Valdez, Sarah. 2011. "Neonationalism in Scandinavia: Immigration, Segregation, and Anti-Immigrant Voting in Denmark and Sweden." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- Eger, Maureen A. 2010. "Ethnic Heterogeneity and the Limits of Altruism." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
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