EMILY VANMETER
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At the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, my research interests are connected by the threads of political leadership and policy-making and migration. I have written works on coups d'état, state formation, as well as forced and voluntary migration.

My dissertation provides a new look at the unintended consequences of principal-agent problems in regimes that have a small selectorate. I collected a new data set, accumulating the most intensive collection to date, of town charters. Making use of these archival materials, I look at the influence of political agents on urban economic openness and the emergence of a national market. I then use this historical data to motivate a study on the success of current-day movements for increased autonomy. I look along these historical economic boundaries to see if they continue to see themselves as separate from the larger state in the present-day. This project is undertaken in the context of long-established European states: the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Ireland/Northern Ireland) and France. 

By Topic

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Historical Political Economy

  • Founding Cities, Finding Identity: The Legacy of Migration and Other Protectionist Policies on Nation-State Projects. Book-length dissertation project. Working. 
  • ​"Elite Capture and State Formation: Municipal Economic Policy in France and the British Isles, 1000-1776." Working.​​
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Leadership Transitions

  • "Even Generals Need Friends: How Domestic and International Reactions to Coups Influence Regime Survival." With Clayton Thyne, Jonathan Powell, and Sarah Parrott. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2018. pdf | data
  • "Constitutional Constraints on Extra-Constitutional Matters: A Structural Model of Coup-Proofing." With Xiaoyan Qiu. Working. 
  • "Draining the Swamp? Partisan Bias in the Prosecution of Former Latin American Leaders." With Gretchen Helmke, YeonKyung Jeong, Ezgi Siir Kibris, Jae Eun Kim, and Adriana Tobar. Working.​
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Migrants, Refugees, and International Treaty Compliance

  • "Shared Territory, Regime Alignment, and Forced Migration." With Bethany Lacina and Karen Albert. Working.​ ​pdf
  • "Empty Promises: Text Analysis of National Legislation Submitted to the UNHCR, 1959-2018." With Anna Oltman. Working. 
  • '"Are American Immigrant Processing Institutions Surviving or Thriving? Large-Scale Immigration as a Shock to Institutional Robustness." Requested book chapter. The Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, 2020. pdf
  • "Are All Human Rights Equal? Proxy Wars as Deterrents for International Treaty Compliance." With Rachel Schoner. ​Working. 
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Autonomous Movements

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