Hello! I am a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at Florida State University.

My research investigates the effects of international agreements on domestic outcomes, focusing on how globalization shapes labor markets across diverse economic contexts, how international cooperation addresses the institutional constraints that disadvantage workers, and how variation across these agreements affects the more than two billion individuals employed in the informal economy. To address these questions, I employ a range of quantitative methods to examine women’s economic development, the effects of trade agreements in pushing individuals to—or pulling individuals from—the informal workforce, and the promotion or suppression of labor rights across a variety of institutional contexts.

In addition to my primary research agenda, a second strand of my research helps explain the rise of populist opposition to trade and its implications for the embedded liberalism compromise and future trade agreements.

My work has been published in Politics and Governance as well as conditionally accepted at the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS).

Please feel free to email me directly at cgahagan[at]fsu.edu.