Relatively
current CV (click here)
Relatively
current bio (click here)
New Book:
The Evolution of Modern States:
Sweden, Japan and the United States
Cambridge University Press, 2010.
NOW available at Amazon.com and Cambridge University Press
| Teaching American Politics Comparative Politics Political Economy Class Web Pages: American Politics in Comparative Perspective The Co-Evolution of Markets, Society and Politics (with Laszlo Bruszt) Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences Neo-Liberalism and Its Discontents (workshop with J. Campbell and S. Mudge) Taking Ideas Seriously - a workshop with Fritz Kratokwil |
Research Interests: Political Economy American Political Development Institutional Theory Public Policy Sustainable Development |
Here are some papers I am currently working on or have recently finished:
History and Contingency and Political Science
Europe and America in a Time of Crisis
Taking Evolution Seriously (with Orion Lewis)
The End of the Strong State? The Evolution of Japanese Tax Policy (with Eisaku Ide)
EU - USA, Fin de la Democratie?
What is Historical Institutionalism?
Do Libraries Matter? On the Creation of Social Capital (with Andreas Varheim and Eisaku Ide)
The Wealth of A Nation: Political Institutions and American Economic Wealth
In the Land of Milk and Honey (Building a New Nation)
Your comments and criticisms on any of these
papers would be much appreciated.
A book proposal:
In the Land
of Milk and Honey: A Short History of America and the People it Created.
The following are some essays that I have written that have subsequently been published. If you would like to download a draft, please feel free (but cite the final published version if you are so inclined).
Consumption Taxes and the Welfare State in Sweden and Japan (with Takatsugu Akaishi)
The
New Redistribution in Japan, (with Alison Chopel and Nozumu Kuno)
Restructuring the Welfare State: Institutions, Evolution and Political
Change (with Bo Rothstei)
Globalization and Taxation: Challenges to the Swedish Welfare
State
Policy vs.
Rhetoric: The Political Economy of Taxation and Redistribution in
Japan (with Andrew DeWit)
Bucking the
Trend? Social Democracy in a Global Economy: The Swedish
Case Up Close
The Evolution
of Economic Ideas: Tax Policy in the 20th Century
Correcting the Record: Understanding the History of Federal
Intervention and the Failure in Securing US Educational Reform (with
Mathew Hirschland)
Why Tax
Reform?
The New
Political Economy of Taxation (with Duane Swank)
(American Journal of Political Science, 2002)
The New
Insitutionalism, in Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought,
Barry Clark and Joe Foweracker (eds.), 2001
Institutionalism,in International Encyclopedia of Social and
Behavioral Sciences, Nelson Polsby (ed.), 2001
Taxation,
Redistribution and Regulation, 2001
Rethinking
American Exceptionalism: Culture or Institutions?
Why is
Government So Small in America?
It's
the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive Health Care Reform Always
Fails in America.
Do
Institutions Really Matter? (with Caroline Tolbert)
Structuring
Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics
(with Kathleen Thelen)
Political
Insitutions and Tax Policy, World
Politics, (1989)
