Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876

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Nicolas Jabko

Nicolas Jabko

Professor

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Research Interests: Comparative politics, political economy, European politics

Education: PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Nicolas Jabko is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.  His scholarly contributions have been mostly in the fields of comparative politics, political economy, and European politics.  His latest book is Technocrats in Turmoil: The Fed, the ECB, and the Changing Politics of Money (Cambridge University Press, 2026).  His current research interests include money and central banks, neoliberalism and political-economic regimes, sovereignty and the state.  After receiving his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2001, he joined the faculty at Sciences Po-Paris and then Johns Hopkins in 2011.

Recent Book:

Technocrats in Turmoil: The Fed, the ECB, and the Changing Politics of Money (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

Recent Journal Articles:

The Crossover Between Climate Politics and Central Banking: How Green Central Banking Emerged in the US, the EU, and the UK” (with Nils Kupzok), Politics & Society, vol. 52, no. 4 (December 2024): 662-690

“Indirect Political Responsiveness and Green Central Banking” (with Nils Kupzok), Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 31, no. 4 (2024): 1026-1050

“The Long Twilight of Gold: How a Pivotal Practice Persisted in the Assemblage of Money” (with Sebastian Schmidt),International Organization, vol. 76, no. 3 (Summer 2022): 625-655

“Making Sense of Gold and Governance: The Importance of Practices and Repertoires” (with Sebastian Schmidt), West European Politics, vol. 45, no. 4 (2022): 863-883

“Paradigms and Practice” (with Sebastian Schmidt), International Studies Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 3 (September 2021): 565-572

“Sovereignty Matters: The Mainstreaming of Populist Politics in the European Union,” Research in Political Sociology, vol. 27 (October 2020): 149-173

“Contested Governance: The New Repertoire of the Eurozone Crisis,” Governance, vol. 32, no. 3 (July 2019): 493-509.

“Reconfiguring Sovereignty: Crisis, Politicization, and European Integration” (with Meghan Luhman), Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 26, no. 7 (May 2019): 1037-1055

“Practices of Dynamic Order” (with Adam Sheingate), Perspectives on Politics, vol. 16, no. 2 (June 2018): 312-327