Herman Schwartz

hms2f@virginia.edu Phone: 434-924-7818

My research focuses on the political and economic causes for the relocation of production on a global scale, and the political and economic consequences of such shifts. This obviously is an enormous subject, and my published work therefore has dealt with discrete aspects of this. My work also necessarily strays from analyzing the international economy as a whole -- why these changes or continuities? -- into comparative political economy -- why did these specific policies arise or have these effects? With respect to comparative political economy I have broad research interests in the political economy of economic development, and the politics of social protection and welfare in advanced industrial countries. With respect to the international economy I have broad research interests in why we have the specific geographic distribution of economic activity that we can observe, the global flow of capital, and the construction and maintenance of US hegemony in the contemporary era. The unity of these interests is expressed in specific projects, which have examined, for example, welfare state restructuring as an outcome driven by the changing nature of US hegemony.