Penn State Department of Political Science

Professor Wright received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, 2007. Before coming to Penn State, Dr. Wright was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame (Kellog Institute) and a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University. His research interests include comparative political economy in the developing world, with a focus on how international flows such as foreign aid, trade, and migration affect domestic politics in dictatorships and democracies. His work has been published in many journals including  the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies. He is currently working on a book manuscript called Exit During Crisis.