Columbia Center for Political Economy Postdoctoral Research Scholars Program 2025 (up to $82,000)

Deadline: December 2, 2024

Applications are open for the Columbia Center for Political Economy Postdoctoral Research Scholars Program 2025. Under the course of the Center’s college Co-directors and Idea Lab leads, the Scholar could have the OPPORTUNITY to pursue their very own analysis whereas supporting the work of the Center.

The Center invitations purposes on subjects of relevance to the Center’s broad priorities. This contains the foci of the Center’s Idea Labs – Work and Labor, Firms and Industrial Policy, Money and Finance, and Political Economy of Climate. They encourage you to apply for the Idea Lab that most accurately fits your background and analysis pursuits.

Description of Labs

• Work and Labor examines the forces that affect labor and labor markets, specializing in modes of collective employee motion, the interaction between authorities insurance policies and employee energy, how employee organizations intersect with the political course of and authorities, and the way forward for home and worldwide labor actions, with an emphasis on empirical analysis. This cycle the Work and Labor Idea Lab is particularly fascinated about candidates whose work speaks to politics and coverage, together with, however not restricted to, the politics of enacting labor reform at completely different ranges of presidency; employee views on illustration via labor organizations and collective motion; the design of labor insurance policies and the consequences of these insurance policies on alternatives for constructing employee energy and fostering collective motion; coalition administration between employee organizations and different actions and arranged pursuits; and the connection between employee organizations, together with unions, and politics and authorities.
• Firms and Industrial Policy goals to achieve new insights into how corporations behave, to present a grounding for coverage interventions to promote innovation and shared prosperity. Industrial coverage – authorities interventions to stimulate innovation, speed up technological change, and promote chosen industries – is again on mainstream coverage agendas within the U.S., Europe, and lots of creating international locations. But even because the coverage pendulum swings again towards authorities intervention, the information base to information industrial coverage stays underdeveloped. Topics might give attention to elements that form corporations’ choices know-how adoption, product innovation, high quality upgrading, R&D investments, patenting, and different types of modern habits; on how such choices are influenced by market circumstances, community relationships, and provide chain architectures; on novel methods to measure such choices and influences; and on what works and doesn’t work in industrial coverage.
• Money and Finance explores the relation of cash and finance each in theoretical phrases and in institutional configurations, together with the design of economic devices in addition to the coverage devices employed by central banks, but additionally the design of economic intermediaries and their relation to central banks and monetary market regulators. The deeply imbricated institutional relation of cash and finance has essential implications for political financial system. Topics might embody the way forward for central banking, the rise of digital cash techniques, the position of cash and finance in local weather change as accelerator or mitigator, the impression of enormous asset managers on monetary techniques, in addition to the search for various kinds for financing R&D, land preservation, and social safety.
• Political Economy of Climate explores how political and financial forces form coverage and societal responses to local weather change. The Lab is most fascinated about fostering synergies across the following thematic areas: local weather equity and environmental justice, worldwide collaboration or lack thereof, pursuits shaping the effectiveness of vitality transition, and political constraints on environmental (particularly local weather) insurance policies. The Lab is presently targeted on the political financial system of forests and the way communities depending on fossil gas extraction regulate to shifts in demand.

Salary

• The wage vary for this place is $71,050 – $82,000.

Eligibility

• Applicants should have a PhD, JsD, or equal from throughout the social sciences, historical past, and legislation.
• Applications ought to be on subjects of relevance to the Center’s broad priorities.

Application

Interested candidates ought to submit the next supplies through Submittable:

• Cover Letter describing your curiosity and related expertise;
• Curriculum Vitae;
• Documentation of PhD or JSD conferment, or timeline for acquiring diploma;
• Writing pattern consisting of a single journal article, essay, or guide chapter (revealed or unpublished);
• A abstract of the analysis plan for which the place is sought (restricted to 350 phrases);
• An in depth analysis plan (up to 5 pages, single-spaced) for the place stating particular objectives to be achieved in the course of the interval it is going to be held; and
• Three letters of advice offered by references acquainted with your work (together with your doctoral supervisor, if relevant). Letters of advice ought to be submitted to [email protected].

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