• History, Institutions and Political Analysis
• Comparative Welfare States, Public Policy and Political Economy
• American Political Development and Contemporary American Politics

History, Institutions and Political Analysis

Project Summary of Current Manuscript in Progress:
"Politics in Time: History, Institutions and Political Analysis"

Recent Publications:

• "The Limits of Design: Explaining Institutional Origins and Change," Governance, Vol. 13, No. 4, October, 2000.
• "Path Dependence, Increasing Returns, and the Study of Politics," American Political Science Review, Vol. 94, No. 2, June, 2000, pp. 251-67.
• "Dr. Seuss and Dr. Stinchcombe: A Reply to the Commentaries," Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 114-20.
• "Not Just What, but When: Timing and Sequence in Political Processes," Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring, 2000, pp.73-93.

• "Big, Slow-Moving, and... Invisible: Macro-Social Processes and Contemporary Political Science" in James Mahoney and Dietrich Reuschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming.
• "Historical Institutionalism in Contemporary Political Science,"
  in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds., The State of the Discipline (New York: Norton), forthcoming. Co-authored by Theda Skocpol.
• Chapter 4 "Explaining Institutional Origins and Change" [this is a draft chapter from a manuscript in progress, Politics in Time: History, Institutions and Social Analysis]

Comparative Welfare States, Public Policy and Political Economy

Recent Publications:

• The New Politics of the Welfare State (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2001.
  "Introduction: Investigating the Welfare State at Century's End," in Paul Pierson, ed., The New Politics of the Welfare State (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 1-15.
• "Post-Industrial Pressures on Mature Welfare States," in The New Politics of the Welfare State, pp. 80-105.
• "The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform," in The New Politics of the Welfare State, pp. 305-333. Co-authored by John Myles.
• "Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies," in The New Politics of the Welfare State, pp. 410-55.
• "Three Worlds of Welfare State Research," Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 33, No. 6/7, August/September, 2000, pp. 791-821.
• "Irresistible Forces, Immovable Objects: Post-Industrial Welfare States Confronting Permanent Austerity," Journal of European Public Policy, Volume 5, No. 4, December, 1998, pp. 539-60.

American Political Development and Contemporary American Politics

Recent Publications:

• "From Expansion to Austerity: The New Politics of Taxing and Spending" in Martin A. Levin, Marc K. Landy, and Martin Shapiro, eds., Seeking the Center: Politics and Policymaking at the New Century (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press), 2001, pp. 54-80.
• "The Problem of Democratic Control in an Age of Big Government," in Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Politics at the Turn of the Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), 2001, pp. 140-61.

• "Business Power and Social Policy: Employers and the Formation of the American Welfare State,"
  Politics and Society, forthcoming (June 2002). Co-authored by Jacob Hacker. [link to manuscript version]