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Jacob S. Hacker

Jacob S. Hacker

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Political Science

D-Index
33
Citations
12287
World Ranking
873
National Ranking
462

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Jacob S. Hacker is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields including political science and international relations, economics and econometrics, general health professions, finance, and sociology and political science.

The topics of their work focus heavily on social policy and reform studies, political and economic history of the UK and US, electoral systems and political participation, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, employment and welfare studies, healthcare policy and management, and policy transfer and learning.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jacob S. Hacker include:

  • The Political Effects of Policy Drift: Policy Stalemate and American Political Development (2020), published in Studies in American Political Development
  • The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance (2021), published in Annual Review of Political Science
  • Reducing Risk as well as Inequality: Assessing the Welfare State's Insurance Effects (2020), published in British Journal of Political Science
  • Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats' New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution (2023), published in Perspectives on Politics
  • Between the Waves: Building Power for a Public Option (2021), published in Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law

Frequent co-authors with whom Hacker has collaborated include Philipp Rehm, Paul Pierson, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Kathleen Thelen, and Sam Zacher.

Publication venues where Hacker's work has frequently appeared are:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Studies in American Political Development
  • Annual Review of Political Science
  • British Journal of Political Science

In addition to papers, Jacob S. Hacker has contributed to books published by notable academic presses. Their books include "The American Political Economy," published by Cambridge University Press in 2021, and "Unequal Democracies," published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. Another book, "The Road to Nowhere," was published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

Recognitions received by Hacker include election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and the Heinz I. Eulau Award from the American Political Science Association in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream

    Jacob S. Hacker

  • Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States

    Jacob S. Hacker

  • The great risk shift : the assault on American jobs, families, health care, and retirement and how you can fight back

    Jacob S. Hacker

  • The Divided Welfare State

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  • Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States:

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • Business Power and Social Policy: Employers and the Formation of the American Welfare State

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • Insecure Alliances: Risk, Inequality, and Support for the Welfare State

    Philipp Rehm;Jacob S. Hacker;Mark Schlesinger

  • Winner-Take-All Politics and Political Science: A Response:

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • The Historical Logic of National Health Insurance: Structure and Sequence in the Development of British, Canadian, and U.S. Medical Policy

    Jacob S. Hacker

  • After the “Master Theory”: Downs, Schattschneider, and the Rebirth of Policy-Focused Analysis

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security

    Jacob S. Hacker

  • Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America’s Largest Service Industry

    Jacob S. Hacker

  • American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis

    Jacob S. Hacker;Gregory Alain Huber;Austin Nichols;Philipp Rehm

  • Policy Drift: The Hidden Politics of US Welfare State Retrenchment

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  • Drift and Conversion: Hidden Faces of Institutional Change

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson;Kathleen Ann Thelen;Kathleen Ann Thelen

  • Ideas, private institutions and American welfare state ‘exceptionalism’: the case of health and old‐age insurance, 1915–1965

    Daniel Béland;Jacob S Hacker

  • Review Article: Dismantling the Health Care State? Political Institutions, Public Policies and the Comparative Politics of Health Reform

    Jacob S. Hacker

  • Abandoning the Middle: The Bush Tax Cuts and the Limits of Democratic Control

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • The Policy Scientist of Democracy: The Discipline of Harold D. Lasswell

    James Farr;Jacob S. Hacker;Nicole Kazee

  • The Road to Somewhere: Why Health Reform Happened: Or Why Political Scientists Who Write about Public Policy Shouldn't Assume They Know How to Shape It

    Jacob S. Hacker

  • Solutions to Political Polarization in America: Confronting Asymmetric Polarization

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • The resistance : the dawn of the anti-Trump opposition movement

    David S. Meyer;Sidney G. Tarrow;Jacob S. Hacker

  • Off center : the Republican revolution and the erosion of American democracy : with a new afterword

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Pierson
Paul Pierson University of California, Berkeley
Mark Schlesinger
Mark Schlesinger Yale University
Jonathan Oberlander
Jonathan Oberlander University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gregory A. Huber
Gregory A. Huber Yale University
Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol Harvard University
Robert G. Valletta
Robert G. Valletta Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Henry J. Aaron
Henry J. Aaron Brookings Institution
Arnold M. Epstein
Arnold M. Epstein Harvard University
Christopher Wildeman
Christopher Wildeman Duke University

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