Department of Political Science
University of Washington
Gowen 39, Box 353530
Seattle, Washington 98195-3530

206-543-2399
206-685-2146 (fax)
aseem@u.washington.edu

Aseem Prakash is Professor of Political Science and the Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences. He is the founding, General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Business and Public Policy (see below), and the co-editor of Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Professor Prakash's research examines core issues in the study of governance: how do institutions emerge, how they diffuse and get adopted, and how they impact outcomes. In doing so, he studies the complex relationship of businesses with governments and non-governmental organizations. His work focuses on the emergence, recruitment/diffusion, and efficacy of voluntary programs in the for-profit sector (voluntary environmental programs in particular) and the non-profit sector. He is also examining issues pertaining to (1) drivers of domestic pollution, (2) NGO advocacy, (3) corporate responsibility, and (4) the influence of trade and FDI networks on the cross-country diffusion of rules, standards, and norms in areas such as the human rights, labor rights, property rights, and women's rights.

Aseem Prakash is the author of Greening the Firm: The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism (Cambridge, 2000), the co-author of The Voluntary Environmentalists: Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental Regulations (Cambridge, 2006), and the co-editor of Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action (Cambridge, 2010), Voluntary Regulations of NGOs and Nonprofits: An Accountability Club Framework (Cambridge, 2010),Voluntary Programs: A Club Theory Perspective (The MIT Press, 2009), Coping with Globalization (Routledge, 2000), Responding to Globalization (Routledge, 2000), and Globalization and Governance (Routledge, 1999). He has published in leading journals of political science, international relations, public policy, nonprofit studies, and business. As per Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 2,700 times.

Professor Prakash received a Joint Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington. His dissertation won the Academy of Management's 1998 Organization and the Natural Environment best dissertation award. Prior to his Ph.D., he completed his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and then worked as a manager in the marketing department of Procter and Gamble, India. From 1997 to 2002, he served as Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the School of Business, The George Washington University.

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Princeton Conference on Environmental Politics: Research Frontiers in Comparative and International Environmental Politics, 2011, organized by Xun Cao, Bob Keohane, Helen Milner, Aseem Prakash and Hugh Ward.

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management's Symposium on Research Frontiers in Comparative Public Policy, 2011, guest edited by Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski.

Corporate Responsibility: Initiatives and Mechanisms, Special issue of Business & Society, 2012, guest edited by Jennifer Griffin and Aseem Prakash.

Corporate Responsibility, Multinational Corporations, and Nation States, Special issue of Business and Politics, 2012, guest edited by Aseem Prakash and Jennifer Griffin.