PEGSC research foci include:

• globalization backlash
  
• political violence and coups in developing countries
  
• the economic consequences of immigration
  
• interlocking directorates and corporate mergers
  
• networks in the history of industries
  
• transnational social movements
  
• sociology of work and economic democracy
  
• welfare state development
  
• economic and political globalization
  
• global inequalities
  
• the evolution of world-systems