Research Interests
International relations, international political
economy, international organizations, North-South
economic relations, Africa
kathryn.lavelle@case.edu
Mather House 220
Phone (216) 368-2691
Fax (216) 368-4681
Ph.D., Northwestern University, M.A.
University of Virginia, B.S.F.S. cum laude, Georgetown University.
Dr. Lavelle’s ongoing research concerns the intersection between
domestic and international politics in the issue-area of finance. Her
forthcoming book analyzes the relationship between the US Congress and the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank by focusing on the activities
of public and private sector interest groups on issues related to global capital
flows. In 2008-9, she completed the research and drafting of the project as a
residential fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in
Washington, DC. The framework builds on her experience in the 2006-7 academic
year as an American Political Science Association Congressional fellow, where
she worked on the staff of the House Committee on Financial Services for
Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA).
Given the extraordinary events in domestic and international financial markets
that have occurred since she began the project, Dr. Lavelle has begun work on
her next book, which will explain the process of financial politics in the US to
an international audience.
Her first book, The Politics of Equity Finance in Emerging Markets (Oxford
University Press, 2004) analyzes the historical and political processes that led
to the ownership structures of large firms in middle and low-income countries.
As a result of these processes, the book uses insights from international
relations to argue that corporate governance will fail to institutionalize along
the lines of either the Anglo-American or Continental models in emerging
markets. To conduct the initial research for this project, Dr. Lavelle was
awarded a 1999 West Africa Research Association Fellowship to travel to Abidjan,
Cote d'Ivoire.
Dr. Lavelle's interest in international political economy and international
organizations extends to her dissertation research that examined the ideological
and institutional restructuring of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD). To complete the dissertation, she conducted interviews and
archival research at the UNCTAD secretariat and its adjoining missions in
Geneva, Switzerland. She was subsequently selected as a participant in the 1997
Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) workshop on international
organizations held at Brown University. To update the work, she spent the summer
of 2003 as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Ralph Bunche Institute for
International Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY.
She has published articles, book reviews, and book chapters appearing in
Perspectives on Politics, International Organization, Review of
International Organizations, The Journal of Modern African Studies,
Third World Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy,
International Journal of Political Economy, International Studies
Review and The Columbia Journal of World Business.
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