Cao Xun       

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007

Post Doctoral Fellow, Niehaus Center, Princeton University, 2007-2008

Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex, 2007-present

 

 

Research Activities, Papers, and Data

 

 

Teaching

 

 

Publications

 

l              Xun Cao. “Networks as Channels of Policy Diffusion: Explaining Worldwide Changes in Capital Taxation, 1998-2006.” Forthcoming (September 2010), International Studies Quarterly.

l              Xun Cao and Aseem Prakash: “Trade Competition and Domestic Pollution: A Panel Study, 1980-2003." Forthcoming (summer 2010), International Organization.

l              Xun Cao. “Networks of Intergovernmental Organizations and Convergence in Domestic Economic Policies.” International Studies Quarterly: 53(4), December 2009. pdf. Data and R code for replication.  

l              Xun Cao. “Domestic Economic Policies, Political Institutions, and Transnational Portfolio Investments.” Business and Politics: 11(1), April 2009. pdf.

l              Kristin Bakke, Xun Cao, John O'Loughlin, and Michael Ward. “Social Distance in Bosnia and the North Caucasus Region of Russia.” Nations and Nationalism: 15(2), April 2009. pdf.

l              Michael Ward, Randolph Siverson, and Xun Cao: “Disputes, Democracies, and Dependencies.” American Journal of Political Science, July 2007. pdf. A replication page.

l              Xun Cao, Aseem Prakash, and Michael Ward: “Protecting Jobs in the Age of Globalization.” International Studies Quarterly, June 2007. pdf. Data. R code.

 

Recent Papers

 

l              Trade Competition, Veto Players, and Domestic Water and Air Pollution (with Aseem Prakash). pdf.

l              International Migration and its Political Sources: A Network Analysis (with Christian Breunig and Adam Luedtke). pdf.

l              Signaling Quality: Trade Competition and the Cross-Country Diffusion of ISO 9000 Quality Management Systems (with Aseem Prakash). pdf.

l              Networks as Channels of Policy Diffusion: Explaining Worldwide Changes in Capital Taxation, 1998-2006. pdf.

 

Invited Talks

 

l              The CIS-Colloquium, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland: “Trade Competition, National Political Institutions, and Domestic Water and Air Pollution,” April 2 2009. slides.

l              NCCR Democracy, Aarau, Switzerland, Conference on Diffusion in the International Realm: “Convergence, Divergence, and Networks in the Age of Globalization,” June 6, 2008.

l              Princeton University, Political Methodology Colloquium: “Networks of Interdependencies and the Specification of Weight Matrices,” December 14, 2007. slides.

l              Princeton University, Faculty Colloquium in International Relations: “Convergence, Divergence, and Networks in the Age of Globalization,” November 26, 2007. slides.

 

Links

 

My cv and contact me at: caox at essex.ac.uk.