Peter Swenson
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Peter
Swenson, (Ph.D., Yale University,
1986), is Yale's Saden Professor of Political Science.
He specializes in the comparative political economy
of labor markets and social welfare in Europe and
the United States. He teaches graduate and undergraduate
courses on the economic, political and social foundations
of social policy and market regulation in developed
capitalist democracies. Among other things, Swenson
is the author of two books, Fair Shares: Unions,
Pay and Politics in Sweden and West Germany (1989)
and Capitalists against Markets: The Making of
Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States
and Sweden (2002). Recently he was awarded the
APSA's Follett Prize for best article in politics
and history for "Varieties of Capitalist Interests:
Power, Institutions, and the Regulatory Welfare State
in the United States and Sweden" (Studies
in American Political Development, 2004). His
current project, The Political Transformation
of Medicine, turns to the history and political
economy of health care insurance, organization, and
delivery. Focusing comparatively on Germany, the United
States, and other countries, it will analyze the shifting
interests and coalitions of organized provider, business,
and labor groups in the evolution of national health
care systems. The book analyzes, in particular, the
political obstacles that organized medicine, in shifting
alliances and conflicts with capital and labor, places
in the way of achieving greater quality, economy,
and equality -- the three often mutually conflictive
goals of health care policy.
Campus address: 8 Prospect Place, Room 108
Phone: 203.432.5677
Email: peter.swenson@yale.edu.
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