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45
Citations
25825
World Ranking
3715
National Ranking
1774

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1991 - Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association

Overview

Andrew Abbott is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within economics, econometrics, and social sciences, with a particular focus on fiscal policy, economic growth, healthcare policy, and environmental economics.

Their recent papers illustrate a strong interest in the cyclical nature of government expenditures and the political economy shaping public finance. Notable publications include:

  • Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD, 2020, European Journal of Political Economy
  • The cyclicality of government environmental expenditure: political pressure in economic upturns and in recessions, 2022, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy
  • Are government expenditures more cyclical the more they finance the provision of public goods?, 2024, Kyklos
  • Can Politics Explain Contracting Out?, 2025, Economics and Politics

Andrew Abbott has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Philip Jones, Shasikanta Nandeibam, and Lucy O'Shea. Their work appears regularly in journals such as the European Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, Kyklos, and Economics and Politics.

Their research topics include:

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization

Andrew Abbott's subfields reflect an interdisciplinary approach bridging economics and political science, including:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology

The researcher's scholarly contributions have been recognized by several honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2002. Earlier in their career, they received the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association in 1991.

Best Publications

  • The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

    Andrew Delano Abbott

  • Sequence analysis: new methods for old ideas

    Andrew Abbott

  • Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology Review and Prospect

    Andrew Abbott;Angela Tsay

  • Time Matters: On Theory and Method

    Andrew Delano Abbott

  • Chaos of disciplines

    Andrew Delano Abbott

  • Measuring Resemblance in Sequence Data: An Optimal Matching Analysis of Musicians' Careers

    Andrew Abbott;Alexandra Hrycak

  • Transcending General Linear Reality

    Andrew Abbott

  • From Causes to Events Notes on Narrative Positivism

    Andrew Abbott

  • Linked Ecologies: States and Universities as Environments for Professions*

    Andrew Abbott

  • Things of Boundaries

    Andrew Abbott

  • Methods of discovery : heuristics for the social sciences

    Andrew Delano Abbott

  • Status and Status Strain in the Professions

    Andrew Abbott

  • Optimal Matching Methods for Historical Sequences

    Andrew Abbott;John Forrest

  • A Primer on Sequence Methods

    Andrew Abbott

  • Of Time and Space: The Contemporary Relevance of the Chicago School

    Andrew Abbott

  • The Causal Devolution

    Andrew Abbott

  • Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred

    Andrew Delano Abbott

  • Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Techniques for Social Science Data

    Heather Macindoe;Andrew Abbott

  • The Order of Professionalization An Empirical Analysis

    Andrew Abbott

  • Sequences of Social Events: Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Order in Social Processes

    Andrew Abbott

  • The Formation of Professions: Knowledge, State and Strategy.@@@Professions in Theory and History: Rethinking the Study of the Professions.

    Andrew Abbott;Rolf Torstendahl;Michael Burrage

Frequent Co-Authors

Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont Harvard University
Paul Dimaggio
Paul Dimaggio New York University

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