Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests lie in the fields of international and comparative political economy with particular focus on the domestic politics of foreign economic policy making. Her dissertation examined the effects of partisan and electoral incentives of representative policymakers on the allocation of protectionist rents across domestic constituencies in the United States, including a cross-national study on the structure of trade protection in 52 countries. Her current research projects include comparative studies examining how global economic integration and institutions interactively affect trade politics and policy outcomes, (re)distributive politics, and political parties/party systems across countries.