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    Prof. John Ahlquist


Title: Assistant Professor & Lyons Family Faculty Scholar
Website: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jahlquist/web/
Affiliated With: La Follette School, Institute for Research on Poverty, Center for Financial Security, United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney
Office: 210C North Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 2:30-4pm & by appt.
E-Mail: jahlquist AT wisc DOT edu
Keywords: Democratization, Development, Globalization, Industrial Relations, International Trade, Labor Studies, Methodology, Political Economy, Political Institutions, Social Movements
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Professor Ahlquist maintains active research interests in political economy and applied statistics. Current research projects include an investigation of how electoral institutions shape policy responses to growing economic inequality and the role of risk in the development of social insurance policies. His book, In the Interests of Others (joint with Margaret Levi), will be published by Princeton University Press in 2013.  His journal articles have or will appear in the American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; International Organization; Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization; Journal of Politics; Network Science; and Political Analysis, among others.  Prof. Ahlquist received a bachelor's degree in political economy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and a PhD in political science from the University of Washington in 2008. Prior to joining the Wisconsin faculty Prof. Ahlquist taught at Florida State University and held a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor & Employment.
 


Recent Publications

John Ahlquist, Michael D. Ward, and Arturas Rozenas, “Gravity's Rainbow: A Dynamic Latent Space Model for the World Trade Network,” Network Science 1, 1 (2013): 95-118   
John Ahlquist, Michael D. Ward and Arturas Rozenas 2013. Gravity's Rainbow: A dynamic latent space model for the world trade network. Network Science, 1, pp 95-118. doi:10.1017/nws.2013.1.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8888783&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S2050124213000015  
John Ahlquist, "Public Sector Unions Need the Private Sector (or why the Wisconsin protests are not labor's Lazarus moment)." The Forum. 10(1).
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/for.2012.10.issue-1/1540-8884.1499/1540-8884.1499.xml?format=INT  
John Ahlquist, and Erik Wibbels, "Riding the Wave: World Trade and Factor-Based Models of Democratization." American Journal of Political Science 56, 2 (2012): 447-64
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00572.x/abstract  
John Ahlquist, 2012. "Who Sits at the Table in the House of Labor? rank-and-file citizenship and unravelling in confederal organizations." Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization.
http://jleo.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/25/jleo.ewr027.abstract?keytype=ref&ijkey=2EpvZvRAwh1zzHY  
John Ahlquist, Christian Breunig. 2011. "Model-Based Clustering and Typologies in the Social Sciences."  Political Analysis

http://pan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/10/18/pan.mpr039.abstract?keytype=ref&ijkey=QcNt4A39Gd7Nfik  
John Ahlquist, and Erik Wibbels 2011. "Development, Trade, and Social Insurance". International Studies Quarterly. 55(1): 125–149.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2010.00638.x/abstract  
John Ahlquist 2011. "Navigating Institutional Change: The Accord, Rogernomics, and the Politics of Adjustment in Australia and New Zealand." Comparative Political Studies.  44(2):127-55
  
John Ahlquist, and Margaret Levi 2011. "Leadership:What it Means, What it Does, and What We Want to Know About It."  Annual Review of Political Science. 14: 1-24

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-polisci-042409-152654  
John Ahlquist 2010. "Policy by Contract: electoral cycles, parties, and social pacts 1974-2000." Journal of Politics. 72(2):572-87
  
John Ahlquist 2010. "Building Strategic Capacity: the political underpinnings of coordinated wage bargaining."  American Political Science Review. 104(1):171-88

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7449436  
 

Current Courses taught for Spring 2012-2013

401 - Select Topics: Methods of Political Inquiry

Instructors: John Ahlquist      Field: Political Methodology
Section Number: 002