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Overview

Linda Weiss is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within health professions, social sciences, and medicine. The focus areas include general health professions, political science and international relations, economics and econometrics, health, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work extensively covers topics such as community health and development, health policy implementation science, food security and health in diverse populations, primary care and health outcomes, opioid use disorder treatment, and health disparities and outcomes.

Selected recent publications by Linda Weiss include:

  • Developmental State or Economic Statecraft? Where, Why and How the Difference Matters, 2020, New Political Economy
  • Re-emergence of Great Power Conflict and US Economic Statecraft, 2021, World Trade Review
  • Explaining divergent National Responses to Covid-19: An Enhanced State Capacity Framework, 2021, New Political Economy
  • Evaluation of an Integrated Health Promotion Program for a low-income urban population: Findings and lessons learned, 2020, Public Health Nursing

Linda Weiss frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors including Maya Scherer, Alexandra Kamler, José A. Pagán, Elizabeth Thurbon, and Lindsey Realmuto, reflecting interdisciplinary cooperation in their research efforts.

Their research has been published across various venues, with multiple papers featured in New Political Economy and Progress in Community Health Partnerships. Other publication venues include World Trade Review, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and Public Health Nursing.

Best Publications

  • The myth of the powerless state

    Linda Weiss

  • Globalization and the myth of the powerless state

    Linda Weiss

  • States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis

    Linda Weiss;John M. Hobson

  • The Myth of the Powerless State: Governing the Economy in a Global Era

    Linda Weiss

  • States in the Global Economy: Bringing domestic institutions back in

    Linda Weiss

  • Developmental states in transition: adapting, dismantling, innovating, not ‘normalizing’

    Linda Weiss

  • Governed interdependence: Rethinking the government‐business relationship in East Asia

    Linda Weiss

  • Global governance, national strategies: how industrialized states make room to move under the WTO

    Linda Weiss

  • America Inc.?: Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State

    Linda Weiss

  • Introduction: bringing domestic institutions back in

    Linda Weiss

  • Globalization and national governance: antinomy or interdependence?

    Linda Weiss

  • The state-augmenting effects of globalisation

    Linda Weiss

  • The business of buying American: Public procurement as trade strategy in the USA

    Linda Weiss;Elizabeth Thurbon

  • State Power and the Asian Crisis

    Linda Weiss

  • Investing in openness: The evolution of FDI strategy in South Korea and Taiwan

    Elizabeth Thurbon;Linda Weiss

  • The State in the Economy: Neoliberal or Neoactivist?

    Linda Weiss

  • How to Kill a Country: Australia's Devastating Trade Deal with the United States

    Linda Weiss;Elizabeth Thurbon;John Mathews

  • Explaining the Underground Economy: State and Social Structure

    Linda Weiss

  • States and economic development

    Linda Weiss

  • States in the Global Economy: Guiding globalisation in East Asia: new roles for old developmental states

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  • Developmental State or Economic Statecraft? Where, Why and How the Difference Matters

    Linda Weiss;Elizabeth Thurbon

  • The Myth of the Powerless State

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Linda Weiss

  • Economic statecraft at the frontier: Korea’s drive for intelligent robotics

    Elizabeth Thurbon;Linda Weiss

  • Bigger Isn't Always Better: Challenging Corporate Giantism@@@The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy.@@@Monopoly Mail: Privatizing the United States Postal Service.@@@Creating Capitalism: The State and Small Business Since 1945.

    Arne L. Kalleberg;Walter Adams;James W. Brock;Douglas K. Adie

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Fine
Ben Fine School of Oriental and African Studies
Bruce G. Carruthers
Bruce G. Carruthers Northwestern University
Arne L. Kalleberg
Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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