Summer Academy

The annual CAPE Summer Academy is designed to introduce the APE framework to interested graduate students and junior faculty, facilitate in-depth discussions around several key areas within APE, and create opportunities for participants to share work in progress and get feedback on research designs or proposals.

The 7th annual CAPE Summer Academy will take place on May 31 through June 4, 2026 at UC Berkeley.

We invite advanced graduate students (ABD), postdocs, and junior faculty members to join this annual summer academy. During the event, you will have an opportunity to present your work and receive feedback from senior scholars. In addition, most of the academy will be devoted to a workshop with several “core” sessions on the fundamentals of the study of the American political economy, led by senior scholars in the field.

More details about the upcoming academy and application process will be available in early 2026.

SUMMER ACADEMY Archives

Browse our highlights from past events.

The 6th Summer Academy was held in Berkeley California from May 28 to 31, and featured roundtable discussions of participants’ works in progress, a panel and methods and APE, and a series of lectures and discussions led by invited speakers:

Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia

American Political Economy: An Introduction

Jake Grumbach, UC Berkeley

Money and American Democracy

Lisa Miller, Rutgers

Rethinking National Political Institutions through a Political Economy Lens

Chloe Thurston, Northwestern

Race and the American Political Economy

Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

Long Party Coalitions and the American Political Economy

Kathleen Thelen, MIT

Business and the Courts in the American Political Economy

Andreas Wiedemann, Princeton

Space, Place, and Housing

Kathy Cramer, Wisconsin–Madison

Understanding Individuals' Political Responses to Economic Experience

Sarah Anzia, UC Berkeley

How Local and State Politics Shape the National Political Economy

Jacob Hacker, Yale

Center-Left Parties in the Knowledge Economy

Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia

Understanding the Resurgence of Laborism Without Labor

Abe Newman, Georgetown

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Peter Hall, Harvard

Rightwing Populism: Where has it come from? Where is it going?

The 5th Summer Academy was held in Berkeley California from May 20 to 23, and featured roundtable discussions of participants’ works in progress, a panel and methods and APE, and a series of lectures and discussions led by invited speakers:

Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

American Political Economy: An Introduction

Jake Grumbach, UC Berkeley

Money and American Democracy

Nathan Kelly, University of Tennessee

Piecing Together a Political Economy of U.S. Political Institutions

Chase Foster;
Kathleen Thelen, MIT

American Anti-Trust in Comparative Perspective

Chloe Thurston, Northwestern

Racial Capitalism and the Study of APE

Brian Ligober, Northwestern

The Politics of Regulation in the United States

Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia

Understanding the Resurgence of Laborism Without Labor

Sarah Anzia, UC Berkeley

Local Political Economy

Jacob Hacker, Yale;
Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

Long Party Coalitions and the American Political Economy

Kathy Cramer, Wisconsin–Madison

Understanding Individuals' Political Responses to Economic Experience

Jane Gingrich, University of Oxford

Industrial Policy Revisited

The 4th Summer Academy was held in Berkeley California from June 12 to 14, and featured roundtable discussions of participants’ works in progress as well as a series of lectures and discussions led by invited speakers:

Jacob Hacker, Yale;
Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

American Political Economy: An Introduction

Margaret Weir, University of Chicago

Politics, Markets, and Places

Nathan Kelly, University of Tennessee

Democratic Institutions & APE

Jonas Meckling, UC Berkeley

The Politics of Climate Policy

Chloe Thurston, Northwestern

Race and American Political Economy

Jamila Michener, Cornell

APE from the Margins

Neil Fligstein, UC Berkeley

An Introduction to Economic Sociology

Peter Hall, Harvard

Populism and the Political Economy

Jake Grumbach, UC Berkeley

Labor and Multiracial Democracy

Kathleen Thelen, MIT

The Origins of the Amazon Economy

Jacob Hacker, Yale;
Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

The Shifting Democratic Party

The 3rd Summer Academy was held in Cambridge Massachusetts from June 20 to 23, and featured roundtable discussions of participants’ works in progress as well as a series of lectures and discussions led by invited speakers:

Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

The Local Political Economy of Housing

Chloe Thurston, Northwestern

Race and Housing Policy

Margaret Weir, University of Chicago

Local Governance and Federalism

Nathan Kelly, University of Tennessee

American Political Institutions

Herman Mark Schwartz, UVA

APE in an International Perspective

The 2nd Summer Academy was held virtually from June 28 to July 1, 2021 and featured roundtable discussions of participants’ works in progress as well as a series of lectures and discussions led by invited speakers:

What is American Political Economy

Margaret Weir, University of Chicago

Local Governance and Housing Policy

Dan Galvin, Northwestern

Labor and the Party System

Peter Hall, Harvard

Populism

Jamila Michener, Cornell

Race and Social Policy

The inaugural Summer Academy was held virtually from August 10 to 13, 2020 and featured roundtable discussions of participants’ works in progress as well as a series of lectures and discussions led by invited speakers:

Summer Academy

Deborah Chan

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SUMMER ACADEMY Archives

Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia

American Political Economy: An Introduction

Jake Grumbach, UC Berkeley

Money and American Democracy

Lisa Miller, Rutgers

Rethinking National Political Institutions through a Political Economy Lens

Chloe Thurston, Northwestern

Race and the American Political Economy

Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

Long Party Coalitions and the American Political Economy

Kathleen Thelen, MIT

Business and the Courts in the American Political Economy

Andreas Wiedemann, Princeton

Space, Place, and Housing

Kathy Cramer, Wisconsin–Madison

Understanding Individuals' Political Responses to Economic Experience

Sarah Anzia, UC Berkeley

How Local and State Politics Shape the National Political Economy

Jacob Hacker, Yale

Center-Left Parties in the Knowledge Economy

Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia

Understanding the Resurgence of Laborism Without Labor

Abe Newman, Georgetown

IPE

Peter Hall, Harvard

Rightwing Populism: Where has it come from? Where is it going?

Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

American Political Economy: An Introduction

Jake Grumbach, UC Berkeley

Money and American Democracy

Nathan Kelly, University of Tennessee

Piecing Together a Political Economy of U.S. Political Institutions

Chase Foster;Kathleen Thelen, MIT

American Anti-Trust in Comparative Perspective

Chloe Thurston, Northwestern

Racial Capitalism and the Study of APE

Brian Ligober, Northwestern

The Politics of Regulation in the United States

Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia

Understanding the Resurgence of Laborism Without Labor

Sarah Anzia, UC Berkeley

Local Political Economy

Jacob Hacker, Yale;Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

Long Party Coalitions and the American Political Economy

Kathy Cramer, Wisconsin–Madison

Understanding Individuals' Political Responses to Economic Experience

Jane Gingrich, University of Oxford

Industrial Policy Revisited

Jacob Hacker, Yale;Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

American Political Economy: An Introduction

Margaret Weir, University of Chicago

Politics, Markets, and Places

Nathan Kelly, University of Tennessee

Democratic Institutions & APE

Jonas Meckling, UC Berkeley

The Politics of Climate Policy

Chloe Thurston, Northwestern

Race and American Political Economy

Jamila Michener, Cornell

APE from the Margins

Neil Fligstein, UC Berkeley

An Introduction to Economic Sociology

Peter Hall, Harvard

Populism and the Political Economy

Jake Grumbach, UC Berkeley

Labor and Multiracial Democracy

Kathleen Thelen, MIT

The Origins of the Amazon Economy

Jacob Hacker, Yale;Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

The Shifting Democratic Party

Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

The Local Political Economy of Housing

Chloe Thurston, Northwestern

Race and Housing Policy

Margaret Weir, University of Chicago

Chase Foster;
Kathleen Thelen, MIT

Jacob Hacker, Yale;
Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

Jacob Hacker, Yale;
Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

Jacob Hacker, Yale;
Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley

Paul Pierson, Berkeley;
Kathleen Thelen, MIT