Stephen B. Kaplan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2009 and was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship at Princeton University's Niehaus Globalization and Governance Center during the 2009¿10 academic year. His dissertation won the American Political Science Association's Mancur Olson Prize for the best dissertation in the field of political economy. Prior to his doctoral studies, Professor Kaplan worked as a senior economic analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1998 to 2003, writing extensively on developing country economics, global financial market developments, and emerging market crises. His current work focuses on the political economy of global development, the politics of international finance and Latin American politics.
1. Introduction
2. Globalization and austerity politics
3. The political economy of elections
4. The electoral boom-bust cycle
5. From gunboat to trading-floor diplomacy
6. When Latin American grasshoppers become ants
7. The political austerity cycle
8. Conclusion
Appendix: field research interviews.
