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Identity Politics: Economic Incentives, Elite Capture, and Collective Memory

by Michele Rosenberg

Sep 30

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HPE candidates on the job market

Job market season is here.

Sep 22 • 

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August 2025

Stalin's Famine

by Natalya Naumenko (GMU)

Aug 4 • 

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June 2025

'Throwback Monday': The persistence of identity

Broadstreet is on summer break!

Jun 30 • 

Pavithra Suryanarayan

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The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison

by Erik Bengtsson and Felix Kersting

Jun 16 • 

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Where have all the workers gone? War and technological progress during the Industrial Revolution

by Bruno Caprettini

Jun 4

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May 2025

The Democratic Institutions of the Roman Republic

by John G. Matsusaka (USC)

May 27 • 

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The rise and reversal of bureaucratic capacity: lessons from Chinese history

In a previous post, I discussed ways in which recent historical political economy research has advanced the study of state capacity.

May 19 • 

Pavithra Suryanarayan

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The Future of Historical Political Economy in Europe

By Bastian Becker (Humboldt-University of Berlin), Lukas Haffert (University of Geneva), Cathrin Mohr (University of Bonn)

May 12 • 

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Industry and identity: How labor migration reshaped culture in 19th century Britain

In the 19th century, European states experienced profound transformations.

May 5 • 

Vicky Fouka

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April 2025

Intellectual Life in Early Modern Europe

by Valentin Figueroa

Apr 28

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Why are frontiers more conflict-prone—and what is the relevance of historical political economy for answering this?

By Adeel Malik (University of Oxford), Rinchan Ali Mirza (University of Kent, UK), and Faiz-ur-Rehman (IBA, University of Karachi)

Apr 21 • 

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