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Mark Dincecco is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research examines the process of political and economic development both historically and today, with a focus on the drivers of effective governance and its implications for economic prosperity. Dincecco has published numerous articles in leading journals across both political science and economics. He is the author or coauthor of three books: Political Transformations and Public Finances: Europe, 1650–1913 (Cambridge University Press, 2011), State Capacity and Economic Development: Present and Past (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and, with Massimiliano Onorato, From Warfare to Wealth: The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017), winner of the William Riker Best Book Award. His current book manuscript, with Gary Cox and Yuhua Wang, The Power of Limits: Executive Constraints and State Evolution in China and the West, is under contract with Princeton University Press for publication in 2027. Dincecco serves as Editor of the Elements in Political Economy series at Cambridge University Press. In 2016–17, he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dincecco received his PhD in Economics from UCLA.