Erik Peinert is an assistant professor of Political Science at Boston University. His research focuses on the political economy of advanced industrial states and the politics of economic policymaking. Prior to Boston University, he was a research manager at the American Economic Liberties Project, and he has had had research affiliations with the Rhodes Center for International Finance at Brown University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, the Center for European Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Peinert earned his PhD in political science at Brown University.