Ryan R. Saylor

I am Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tulsa. My new book manuscript is Creditor Coalitions and State Formation in Europe (currently under review). It links the growing power of creditors to key institutional transformations in early modern Europe. My first book is State Building in Boom Times: Commodities and Coalitions in Latin America and Africa (Oxford University Press, 2014), which examines how the politics surrounding exporting affects state formation. My most recent journal article advances a new perspective on case selection in qualitative research (in Sociological Methods & Research).