politicaleconomy

While I did not plan on tailoring this thread towards my decision, I broadly want to look at economic growth, social welfare policies and public sector spending, potentially even some human capital work (my interests are broad, I know. But luckily the season went well, hence, the intent to make this thread quite general.) But aside from my interest, maybe people can give some general advice about the departments. After all, research proposals can change dramatically and the highly acclaimed "fit" should not induce one to attend, say, a department with weak financing or a lack of rigorous method training (not that that's the case with any of the above institutions). So, if possible, how would you rank places 4-12 if US news asked for your opinion. Alternatively, if that is easier, what would a SWOT analysis for these departments look like? Thanks again!

Yes, no IPE; CPE is probably the right term, which also implies an emphasis on stats over formal.

Dear all, The US News ranking allows one to differentiate between five subfields and that's very nice. But what do people do who want to move into political economy? Say someone (i.e. myself) wants to do political economy work, but not the econ type (formal), but the polsci type (i.e. comparativist approach with cutting-edge methodology and econ-related variables). It doesn't require a lot to make out the top 3: Harvard Stanford Michigan But thereafter it seems difficult to make out a significant difference. To give some scope, I would argue that the following departments would have to follow the top 3. But in what order? And why? NYU Duke MIT Columbia UCLA Yale Berkeley Princeton UCSD Thanks in advance for your time and input! Best,