<p>My main research interests are political economy, institutional economics, and entrepreneurship. My papers, books and conference presentations currently fall mainly in two larger research projects: 1) The political economy and institutional theory of polycentric governance. 2) The performance of alternative capitalist systems and the problem of economic disequilibrium. In the first category, I am the co-author of one of the most widely cited papers on the a href=https:onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2011.01550.x" target=blank" rel=noopener"history and definition of ldquo;polycentricity&rdquo;a> and I have several other papers that apply the concept to specific topics: and federalism under a href=https:ooks.google.comooks?hl=en&lr=id=eVHYDgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA290&dq=tarko+mcphail+polycentricity+ots=l_PxOTHjTx&sig=tiuc0ftu_LC0K6icPhorCgChQYk#v=onepage&q&f=false" target=blank" rel=noopener"highly imperfect Tiebout competition<a> In the second category, I have authored and co-authored several papers and a book on applying the rent-seeking model to understand a href=https:scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21&q=tarko+aligica+rent-seeking&btnG= target=blank" rel=noopener"different types of capitalism<a> methodology papers on how to use statistical methods to a href=https:ooks.google.comooks?id=o0SLBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&ots=OdtR1iO3gL&dq=tarko%20aligica%20capitalist%20alternatives%20typologies%20and%20taxonomies%20in%20comparative%20economic%20systems&lr&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q&f=false" target=blank" rel=noopener"build taxonomies of economic systems<a> and evaluate the in driving institutional changes. <p>I have published papers in em>American Political Science Review< em>Governance< em>Business and Politics< em>Comparative Economic Studies< em>Kyklos< em>Public Choice< em>Constitutional Political Economy< em>Journal of Institutional Economics< em>Review of Austrian Economics< and others. Im the author of em> Rowman Littlefield International, 2017) co-author with Paul Dragos Aligica of em> Oxford University Press, 2019) and co-editor with Jayme Lemke of em>Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School: Building a New Approach to Policy and the Social Sciences< Agenda Publishing Columbia University Press, under contract)