Publications

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Steven Samford. 2022. “Decentralization and Local Industrial Policy in Mexico.” World Development.

Steven Samford. 2022. “Strength in Numbers or Collective Frailty? The Organizational Capacity of Microenterprises.” Sociology of Development 8(1): 85-110.

Steven Samford and Dan Breznitz. 2021. “Mending the Net: Public Strategies for the Remediation of Network Failures.” Social Forces.

Dan Breznitz, Darius Ornston, and Steven Samford. 2018. “Mission Critical: The Ends, Means, and Design of Innovation Agencies.” Industrial and Corporate Change 27(5): 883-896.

Steven Samford. 2017. “Networks, Brokerage, and State-Led Technology Diffusion in Small Industry.” American Journal of Sociology 122(5): 1339-1370.

Steven Samford, Peter Warrian, and Elena Goracinova. 2017. “Public and Private Goods in the Development of Additive Manufacturing Capacity.” Business and Politics 19(3): 482-509.

Steven Samford. 2016. “Small Enterprises and the Low-Innovation Trap: Evidence from Environmental Regulation of Industry in Mexico.” Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Paper Series #409.

Steven Samford. 2015. “Innovation and Public Space: The Developmental Possibilities of Regulation in the Global South.” Regulation and Governance 9(3): 294-308.

Steven Samford and Priscila Ortega Gómez. 2014 “Subnational Politics and Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico.” Review of International Political Economy 21(2): 467-496.

Prakash Adhikari and Steven Samford. 2012. “The Nepali State and the Dynamics of Maoist Insurgency.” Studies in Comparative International Development 48(4): 457-481.

Steven Samford. 2010. “‘Averting Disruption and Reversal’: The Logic of Rapid Trade Reform in Latin America.” Politics and Society 38 (3): 373-407.

Reports, Working Papers, and Other Writing