Mary Anne Madeira

Most broadly, my research concerns the impacts of global and regional economic integration on people’s day to day lives. Trade, foreign direct investment, and global supply chains create both winners and losers, and I am motivated by understanding how the gains and losses from the global economy cut across social categories, particularly class and gender. My work advances the global political economy literature on the domestic politics of economic globalization, and it sheds light on how different forms of globalization may have more or less equitable effects on individuals. My current book project investigates the rise of corporate lobbying power at the expense of labor power in the US and European Union and how it is related to shifting trade patterns (specifically, the rise of intra-industry trade among developed economies).  Another project explores the effects of economic integration on female labor force participation in developed versus developing countries. Recently, I have begun two research projects on regional integration in Latin America. I am interested in Latin America because it provides insights into where we might locate sites of global resistance to industrialized country insistence on trade discipline above human rights, development and environmental concerns.