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'''Paul Pierson''' (born 1959) is a professor of [[political science]] and holder of the [[John Gross]] Endowed Chair of Political Science (and he holds/held the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy) at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. From 2007-2010 he served at UC Berkeley as Chair of the Department of Political Science. He is noted for his research on [[comparative politics|comparative]] [[public policy]] and [[political economy]], the [[welfare state]], and American political development. |
'''Paul Pierson''' (born 1959) is a professor of [[political science]] and holder of the [[John Gross]] Endowed Chair of Political Science (and he holds/held the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy) at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. From 2007-2010 he served at UC Berkeley as Chair of the Department of Political Science. He is noted for his research on [[comparative politics|comparative]] [[public policy]] and [[political economy]], the [[welfare state]], and American political development. His works on the welfare state have been characterized as influential.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Timonen|first=Virpi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hcdk0Chk8TgC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=%22Paul+pierson%22+%22influential%22&source=bl&ots=lOXP48uRho&sig=ACfU3U3aHSQ6RTJsH1Uuq0LFfnZJ8UV1mg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTxb-Er6noAhXRlXIEHc5ZAUA4ChDoATAEegQICxAB#v=onepage&q=%22Paul%20pierson%22%20%22influential%22&f=false|title=Restructuring the Welfare State: Globalization and Social Policy Reform in Finland and Sweden|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing|isbn=978-1-78195-730-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Torp|first=C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1EMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22Paul+pierson%22+%22influential%22&source=bl&ots=dKWrEWHgvs&sig=ACfU3U2Vr2afvoNKF8usGb0u2lOOmNCP3A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTxb-Er6noAhXRlXIEHc5ZAUA4ChDoATAGegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=%22Paul%20pierson%22%20%22influential%22&f=false|title=Challenges of Aging: Pensions, Retirement and Generational Justice|date=2015-06-15|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-137-28317-7|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Castles|first=Francis G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RZBoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=%22Paul+pierson%22+%22influential%22&source=bl&ots=upHZomEDm0&sig=ACfU3U1ty5UACx3ZayDRb2856idBIZzBrA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTxb-Er6noAhXRlXIEHc5ZAUA4ChDoATAHegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=%22Paul%20pierson%22%20%22influential%22&f=false|title=The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State|last2=Leibfried|first2=Stephan|last3=Lewis|first3=Jane|last4=Obinger|first4=Herbert|last5=Pierson|first5=Christopher|date=2012-09-06|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-162828-3|language=en}}</ref> |
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== Biography == |
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Pierson is a native of [[Eugene, Oregon]], where both of his parents taught at the [[University of Oregon]]. He graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[government]] from [[Oberlin College]] in 1981 and then attended [[graduate school]] at [[Yale University]], completing an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] and [[M.Phil]] in 1986 and a [[PhD]] degree in [[political science]] in 1989. |
Pierson is a native of [[Eugene, Oregon]], where both of his parents taught at the [[University of Oregon]]. He graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[government]] from [[Oberlin College]] in 1981 and then attended [[graduate school]] at [[Yale University]], completing an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] and [[M.Phil]] in 1986 and a [[PhD]] degree in [[political science]] in 1989. |
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Pierson taught at [[Harvard University]] from 1989 to 2004, when he moved to the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-03-29/opinion/17416161_1_uc-berkeley-budget-crisis-harvard-colleagues|title=Star power at Berkeley|date=March 29, 2004|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|accessdate=December 30, 2010}}</ref> He was a [[visiting professor]] at the [[European University Institute]] in 1999. |
Pierson taught at [[Harvard University]] from 1989 to 2004, when he moved to the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-03-29/opinion/17416161_1_uc-berkeley-budget-crisis-harvard-colleagues|title=Star power at Berkeley|date=March 29, 2004|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|accessdate=December 30, 2010}}</ref> He was a [[visiting professor]] at the [[European University Institute]] in 1999. |
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Pierson's first book, ''Dismantling the Welfare State?'', was a revision of his doctoral [[dissertation]] and won the [[American Political Science Association]]'s Kammerer Prize for the best work on [[Federal Government of the United States|American national politics]] published in 1994. Jacob Hacker described the book as "pathbreaking" and as the start of a substantial scholarly literature on welfare state retrenchment.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hacker|first=Jacob|title=Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=|location=|pages=|chapter=Policy Drift: The Hidden Politics of US Welfare State Retrenchment}}</ref> |
Pierson's first book, ''Dismantling the Welfare State?'', was a revision of his doctoral [[dissertation]] and won the [[American Political Science Association]]'s Kammerer Prize for the best work on [[Federal Government of the United States|American national politics]] published in 1994. Jacob Hacker described the book as "pathbreaking" and as the start of a substantial scholarly literature on welfare state retrenchment.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Hacker|first=Jacob|title=Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=|location=|pages=|chapter=Policy Drift: The Hidden Politics of US Welfare State Retrenchment}}</ref> The book finds that social policy programs in the United States are resilient to fundamental change. The book argues that drastic changes are hard to implement because cuts to social programs entail concentrated costs but diffuse gains, which makes it easier for constituencies that benefit from the social programs to mobilize and impose costs on politicians that seek fundamental changes to social policy programs.<ref name=":0" /> He argues that once social policy programs are created, it is hard to repeal them, because powerful constituencies form that depend the social policy programs.<ref name=":0" /> |
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His [[academic journal|journal]] article “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics” won the Heinz Eulau Award for the best article published in the ''[[American Political Science Review]]'' in 2000. His 2010 book with [[Jacob Hacker]], ''[[Winner-Take-All Politics (book)|Winner-Take-All Politics]]'', was a New York Times bestseller. Their most recent book is ''[[American Amnesia]]'', which argues for the restoration and reinvigoration of the United States' [[mixed economy]]. |
His [[academic journal|journal]] article “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics” won the Heinz Eulau Award for the best article published in the ''[[American Political Science Review]]'' in 2000. His 2010 book with [[Jacob Hacker]], ''[[Winner-Take-All Politics (book)|Winner-Take-All Politics]]'', was a New York Times bestseller. Their most recent book is ''[[American Amnesia]]'', which argues for the restoration and reinvigoration of the United States' [[mixed economy]]. |
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Paul Pierson | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College (B.A.) Yale University (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Winner-Take-All Politics, • The Transformation of American Politics, • Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Political Science, comparative public policy |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Paul Pierson (born 1959) is a professor of political science and holder of the John Gross Endowed Chair of Political Science (and he holds/held the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy) at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2007-2010 he served at UC Berkeley as Chair of the Department of Political Science. He is noted for his research on comparative public policy and political economy, the welfare state, and American political development. His works on the welfare state have been characterized as influential.[1][2][3][4]
Biography
Pierson is a native of Eugene, Oregon, where both of his parents taught at the University of Oregon. He graduated with a B.A. in government from Oberlin College in 1981 and then attended graduate school at Yale University, completing an M.A. and M.Phil in 1986 and a PhD degree in political science in 1989.
Pierson taught at Harvard University from 1989 to 2004, when he moved to the University of California, Berkeley.[5] He was a visiting professor at the European University Institute in 1999.
Pierson's first book, Dismantling the Welfare State?, was a revision of his doctoral dissertation and won the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Prize for the best work on American national politics published in 1994. Jacob Hacker described the book as "pathbreaking" and as the start of a substantial scholarly literature on welfare state retrenchment.[1] The book finds that social policy programs in the United States are resilient to fundamental change. The book argues that drastic changes are hard to implement because cuts to social programs entail concentrated costs but diffuse gains, which makes it easier for constituencies that benefit from the social programs to mobilize and impose costs on politicians that seek fundamental changes to social policy programs.[1] He argues that once social policy programs are created, it is hard to repeal them, because powerful constituencies form that depend the social policy programs.[1]
His journal article “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics” won the Heinz Eulau Award for the best article published in the American Political Science Review in 2000. His 2010 book with Jacob Hacker, Winner-Take-All Politics, was a New York Times bestseller. Their most recent book is American Amnesia, which argues for the restoration and reinvigoration of the United States' mixed economy.
Pierson was president of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association for 2003-04.
Pierson is married to Tracey Goldberg, a landscape architect. They live in Berkeley, CA with their two children.
Selected publications
- American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper. with Jacob Hacker. Simon & Schuster. 2016. ISBN 978-1-4516-6782-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. with Jacob Hacker. Simon & Schuster. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4165-8869-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. 2007. Princeton University Press. (edited with Theda Skocpol).
- Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. 2005. Yale University Press. (with Jacob Hacker).
- Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis. 2004. Princeton University Press.
- "Imposing Losses in Pension Policy." 1993. In Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad. Brookings Institution Press. eds. R. Kent Weaver, and Bert A. Rockman. (written with R. Kent Weaver).
- "Historical Institutionalism in Contemporary Political Science." In Political Science: The State of the Discipline, eds. I. Katznelson and H. Milner. W.W. Norton. (written with Theda Skocpol).
- The New Politics of the Welfare State. 2001. Oxford University Press. (editor).
- "Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics." 2000. American Political Science Review 94(2): 251-267.
- "Not Just What, but When: Timing and Sequence in Political Processes." 2000. Studies in American Political Development 14(1): 73-93.
- European Social Policy: Between Fragmentation and Integration. 1995. Brookings Institution Press. (edited with Stephan Leibfried).
- Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment. 1994. Cambridge University Press.
References
- ^ a b c d Hacker, Jacob (2005). "Policy Drift: The Hidden Politics of US Welfare State Retrenchment". Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Timonen, Virpi (2003-01-01). Restructuring the Welfare State: Globalization and Social Policy Reform in Finland and Sweden. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78195-730-1.
- ^ Torp, C. (2015-06-15). Challenges of Aging: Pensions, Retirement and Generational Justice. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-28317-7.
- ^ Castles, Francis G.; Leibfried, Stephan; Lewis, Jane; Obinger, Herbert; Pierson, Christopher (2012-09-06). The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-162828-3.
- ^ "Star power at Berkeley". San Francisco Chronicle. March 29, 2004. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
