Jacob Hacker
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Jacob Hacker, Professor of Political Science
and Resident Fellow of the Institution for Social and
Policy Studies. He is also a Fellow at the New America
Foundation and a former Junior Fellow of the Harvard
Society of Fellows. His most recent books are The
Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families,
Health Care, and Retirement--And How You Can Fight Back
(publication date: October 2006) and Off Center:
The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American
Democracy (with Paul Pierson), which is newly in
paperback (publication date: September 2006). Currently,
he is heading a Social Science Research Council project
on the "privatization of risk," co-chairing
the National Academy of Social Insurance's 2007 conference,
and completing two books: Inequality and American
Politics: Participation, Power, and Policy (Norton,
2007) and an edited volume on the politics of inequality
and insecurity in the United States (with Joe Soss and
Suzanne Mettler). He is also the author of The Road
to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan
for Health Security (Princeton University Press,
1997), which was co-winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow
Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration;
and The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public
and Private Social Benefits in the United States
(Cambridge University Press, 2002), which, as a dissertation,
received prizes from the American Political Science
Association, the Association of Public Policy Analysis
and Management, and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
His articles and opinion pieces have appeared in the
American Political Science Review; the American
Prospect; the Boston Globe; the Boston
Review; the British Journal of Political Science;
Perspectives on Politics; Politics and
Society; Studies in American Political Development;
the International Journal of Social Welfare;
the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law;
the New Republic; the New York Times;
the Nation; the Los Angeles Times;
the Boston Globe; and the Washington Post.
Campus Office: 8 Prospect Place, Room 106
Phone: 203.432.5554
Email: jacob.hacker@yale.edu.
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