Margaret Kenney

Margaret Kenney is a PhD Candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on how countries reach cooperation on technical economic issues and the downstream domestic effects of international agreements. Her dissertation book project investigates the political causes and consequences of the new international tax regime, especially the effects of these international tax rules on international investment and industrial policy. Her work draws on diverse methodological approaches including quantitative causal inference, audit and survey experiments, natural language processing, qualitative interviews, and field work. In addition to the IGCC fellowship, her research has received funding from American Political Science Association (APSA) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Time-sharing Experiments for Social Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Berkeley Center for Korean Studies, Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative, and the Institute of Humane Studies. Before joining UC Berkeley, Margaret received a BA in political science at Saint Louis University. More information about her work can be found here.