Expertise

Political Economy of Development, Globalization, Regulation, Governance, States and Markets, Comparative Capitalism, Trade and Investment, Sectors and Industries, Political Economy of Identity

Biography

Roselyn Hsueh is a Professor of Political Science at Temple University, where she co-directs the Certificate in Political Economy. She is the author of the new book Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2022), China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2011), and scholarly articles and book chapters on states and markets, comparative regulation and governance, and development and globalization. She is a frequent commentator on international politics, finance and trade, and comparative economic development. BBC World News, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, and other media outlets have featured her research. She has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and consulted for The Center for Strategic and International Studies.

She has served as a Global Order Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, member of the Georgetown Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, and Residential Research Faculty Fellow at U.C. Berkeley. She also lectured as a Visiting Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico and served as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is the recipient of the Fulbright Global Scholar Award and other prestigious fellowships for international fieldwork. She held the Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Southern California. She earned her B.A. and PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Selected Publications

• Hsueh, Roselyn. 2022. Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathway to Globalization in China, India, and Russia. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 422 pp.
• Hsueh, Roselyn. 2011. China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 320 pp.
• Hsueh, Roselyn. 2016. “State Capitalism, Chinese-Style: Strategic Value of Sectors, Sectoral Characteristics, and Globalization,” Governance 29:1 (January), pp. 85-102.
• Hsueh, Roselyn. 2015. “Nations or Sectors in the Age of Globalization: China’s Policy Toward Foreign Direct Investment in Telecommunications,” Review of Policy Research 32:6 
• (November), pp. 627-648.
• Hsueh, Roselyn. 2014. “Fieldwork in Political Science: Encountering Challenges and Crafting Solutions,” co-authored and co-edited symposium (with Francesca Refsum Jensenius and Akasemi Newsome), PS: Political Science and Politics 47:2 (April), pp. 391-393.
• Hsueh, Roselyn. 2012. “China and India in the Age of Globalization: Sectoral Variation in Post-Liberalization Reregulation,” Comparative Political Studies 45:1 (January), pp. 32-62.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Lectures, Seminars, and Capstones

• Development and Globalization
• State, Markets, & International Economy: Globalization Today
• Political Economy of Identity in the Global Era
• Evidence and Knowledge
• Comparative Politics of Developing Nations
• China: Politics and Economy
• The State and Globalization Reexamined: China, Global Power or Political Decay?
• Political Economic Pathways to Globalization: China, India, and Russia 

PhD Seminars

• Political Economy of Development 
• Political Economy of Identity in the Global Era
• Comparative Politics: Developing Countries 
• The State and the Market: China in a Globalized World