Justin Vassallo is a writer and researcher with a specialization in party systems and ideology, political economy, American political development, and modern Europe.

June 3, 2023

Reviews

Supply-Side Coalitions

On Brent Cebul’s “Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century”

The Biden administration’s multifaceted industrial strategy of the past two years has ushered in an ill-defined transition away from neoliberalism. In response to the lingering supply chain constraints created by the pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine, as well as…

January 7, 2023

Interviews

Sectional Industrialization

An interview with Richard Bensel

Few scholars have done more to elucidate the relationship between democracy and economic development in the United States and its corresponding regional—or “sectional”—antagonisms than Richard Franklin Bensel, the Gary S. Davis professor of government at Cornell University. Among Bensel’s published…

June 16, 2022

Reviews

Developmental Realism

A review of Eric Helleiner’s The Neomercantilists

Since Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 US presidential election, defenders of the postwar liberal international order have panicked over the return of their bête noire: neomercantilism. For them, neomercantilism signals a revival of nationalistic protectionism, a surge in…