Ryan R. Saylor

I am Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tulsa. I also serve as the Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development. My new book manuscript is Creditor Coalitions and State Formation in Europe (currently being revised for resubmission). It links the growing power of creditors to key institutional transformations in early modern Europe. My first book is State Building in Boom Times: Commodities and Coalitions in Latin America and Africa (Oxford University Press, 2014), which examines how the politics surrounding exporting affects state formation. My most recent publication describes how researchers can use Weberian ideal types to craft explanations (in Advancing Comparative Area Studies, ed. Ariel Ahram, Patrick Köllner, and Rudra Sil; Oxford University Press, 2025).