Matthew DiGiuseppe

Associate Professor of International Relations

Institute of Political Science, Leiden University

Dr. Matthew DiGiuseppe

My research and teaching interests include international and comparative political economy, armed conflict, interstate alliances and the domestic roots of foreign policy. I am currently the PI on the Microfoundations of Debt Crisis (MIDEBT) project that is funded by an ERC Starting Grant.

Research

Current Project

Microfoundations of Debt Crisis (MIDEBT)

Funded by an ERC Starting Grant

This project investigates how the public thinks about public debt and how that influences the accumulation of public debt and the reluctance to reduce it.

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Published Articles

Political Economy & Sovereign Debt

  • Information, Uncertainty, & Public Support for Brinkmanship during the 2023 Debt Limit Negotiations

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Shea, P.E. (Forthcoming)

    British Journal of Political Science

  • Ethnic Politics and Sovereign Credit

    DiGiuseppe, M., Brown, K.J., & Shea, P.E. (Forthcoming)

    Review of International Political Economy

  • How to Finance Green Investments? The Role of Public Debt

    Kantorowicz, J., Collewet, M., DiGiuseppe, M., & Vrijburg, H. (2024)

    Energy Policy

  • Age and Support for Public Debt Reduction

    Aspide, A., Brown, K.J., DiGiuseppe, M., & Slaski, A. (2023)

    European Journal of Political Research

  • Culture & European Attitudes on Public Debt

    Aspide, A., Brown, K.J., DiGiuseppe, M., & Slaski, A. (2023)

    New Political Economy

  • The Devil's Haircut: Investor–State Disputes over Debt Restructuring

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Shea, P.E. (2019)

    Journal of Conflict Resolution

  • Sovereign Credit and Political Survival in Democracies

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Shea, P.E. (2018)

    Business and Politics

  • The Physical Consequences of Fiscal Flexibility: Sovereign Credit and Physical Integrity Rights

    Clay, K.C., & DiGiuseppe, M. (2017)

    British Journal of Political Science

  • Borrowed Time: Sovereign Finance, Regime Type, and Leader Survival

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Shea, P.E. (2016)

    Economics & Politics

  • Sovereign Credit and the Fate of Leaders: Reassessing the Democratic Advantage

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Shea, P.E. (2015)

    International Studies Quarterly

  • Guns, Butter, and Debt: Sovereign Creditworthiness and Military Expenditure

    DiGiuseppe, M. (2015)

    Journal of Peace Research

  • Tightening the Belt: Sovereign Debt and Alliance Formation

    Allen, M.A., & DiGiuseppe, M. (2013)

    International Studies Quarterly

Conflict & Security

  • Farming then Fighting: the relationship between idle time and social conflict

    DiGiuseppe, M., van der Haer, R., & Rezaee, B. (Forthcoming)

    Political Science Research and Methods

  • Threats and the Public Constraint on Military Spending

    DiGiuseppe, M., Aspide, A., & Becker, J. (2024)

    British Journal of Political Science

  • The Wedding Bells of War: The Influence of Armed Conflict on Child Marriages in West Africa

    DiGiuseppe, M., & van der Haer, R. (2023)

    Journal of Peace Research

  • U.S. Patronage, State Capacity, and Civil Conflict

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Shea, P.E. (2022)

    Journal of Politics

  • The Fiscal Autonomy of Deciders: Creditworthiness and Conflict Initiation

    DiGiuseppe, M. (2015)

    Foreign Policy Analysis

  • Good for the Money? International Finance, State Capacity and Internal Armed Conflict

    DiGiuseppe, M., Barry, C.M., & Frank, R.W. (2012)

    Journal of Peace Research

Alliance Politics

  • Alliances, Signals of Support, and Military Effort

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Shea, P.E. (2021)

    European Journal of International Relations

  • Arms versus Democratic Allies

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Poast, P. (2018)

    British Journal of Political Science

  • Tightening the Belt: Sovereign Debt and Alliance Formation

    Allen, M.A., & DiGiuseppe, M. (2013)

    International Studies Quarterly

Political Behavior & Policy Preferences

  • Do Consumers Follow the Flag? Perceptions of Hostility and Consumer Preferences

    Barry, C.M., & DiGiuseppe, M. (2019)

    International Interactions

  • Economics, Security, and Individual-Level Preferences for Trade Agreements

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Kleinberg, K.B. (2019)

    International Interactions

Institutional Development

  • International Development NGOs and Bureaucratic Capacity: Facilitator or Destroyer?

    Campbell, S., DiGiuseppe, M., & Murdie, A. (2019)

    Political Research Quarterly

  • Transparency, Risk, and FDI

    Barry, C.M., & DiGiuseppe, M. (2019)

    Political Research Quarterly

Working Papers

Revise & Resubmit

  • The New Fiscal Trillema

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Aspide, A.

Under Review

  • Information, Party Politics, and Public Support for Central Bank Independence

    DiGiuseppe, M., Garriga, A.C., & Kern, A.

  • Bottom-Up Preferences for Public Debt Reduction and Repayment

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Del Ponte, A.

  • External Threats and Support for International Cooperation

    DiGiuseppe, M., Becker, J., Jee, H., & Kim, T.

  • Putting the Public in Public Debt

    DiGiuseppe, M., Kantorowicz, J., González-Bustamante, B., & Aspide, A.

  • Scaling Open-ended Survey Responses Using LLM-Paired Comparisons

    DiGiuseppe, M., & Flynn, M.E.

  • Is the IMF a Scapegoat? A survey experiment in Kenya & Ghana

    DiGiuseppe, M., Brown, K., Abouharb, R., & Resinsberg, B.

Teaching

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on international relations, political economy, and security studies. I have previously taught at Leiden University, University of Mississippi, and Binghamton University.

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Leiden University

  • Economics for Political Science

    2018-2022

  • International Political Economy

    2018-2022

  • Foreign Policy in the Trump Era

    2019

University of Mississippi

  • Foreign Policy in the Trump Era (Senior Seminar)

    2017

  • Introduction to International Relations

    2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

  • Politics of the World Economy

    2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

  • Ethnic Conflict and International Terrorism

    2013, 2014

  • Political Economy of Armed Conflict (Senior Seminar)

    2014

  • International Conflict

    2015

  • War in World Politics

    2016

  • Graduate Seminar in International Political Economy

    2014

  • Graduate Seminar in International Relations

    2016

Binghamton University

  • The Political Economy of International Economic Crises

    2011

  • Domestic Forces in International Relations

    2011

  • Political Economy of Armed Conflict

    2010

  • Introduction to World Politics

    2010

  • International Political Economy

    2009

Contact

mdigiuseppe at gmail dot com

Institute of Political Science
Leiden University