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48
Citations
20604
World Ranking
270
National Ranking
154

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

John D. Stephens is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their academic work spans several fields within the social sciences, with a particular focus on political science, sociology, education, and finance.

The primary areas of research include social policy and reform studies, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, employment and welfare studies, income, poverty, and inequality, South Asian cinema and culture, as well as topics in rings, modules, algebras, and computability, logic, and AI algorithms.

John D. Stephens has contributed to multiple publications, with recent papers including:

  • Financialization, labor market institutions and inequality (2020, Review of International Political Economy)
  • Poverty and Social Rights Among the Working Age Population in Post-Industrial Democracies (2020, Social Forces)
  • Assessing trends and density of bird species in bottomland hardwood forests and riparian forests using simulation and sample size optimization for surveys (2025, Scientific Reports)
  • Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ed.) (2018), Reducing Inequalities in Europe: How Industrial Relations and Labour Policies Can Close the Gap (2020, Journal of Social Policy)
  • Children as Filmmakers: Well-Being, Social Ecology, and Cognitive Mapping in Delhi at Eleven (2022, International Research in Children's Literature)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John D. Stephens include:

  • Évelyne Huber
  • Daniel Herden
  • Jonathan Meddaugh
  • Mark R. Sepanski
  • William C. Clark

The researcher has published primarily through venues such as UNC Libraries, Perspectives on Politics, arXiv (Cornell University), Review of International Political Economy, and Social Forces.

Among distinctions, John D. Stephens was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets

    Evelyne Huber;John D. Stephens

  • Capitalist Development and Democracy.

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  • Development and Crisis of the Welfare State

    Unknown

  • The transition from capitalism to socialism

    John D. Stephens

  • Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State

    Evelyne Huber;Charles Ragin;John D. Stephens

  • Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism

    Herbert Kitschelt;Peter Lange;Gary Marks;John D. Stephens

  • Distribution and Redistribution in Postindustrial Democracies

    David Bradley;Evelyne Huber;Stephanie Moller;Francois Nielsen

  • Capitalist Development and Democracy.

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  • Partisan politics, the welfare state, and three worlds of human capital formation

    Torben Iversen;John D. Stephens

  • Democracy and the Left

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  • Determinants of relative poverty in advanced capitalist democracies

    Stephanie Moller;David Bradley;Evelyne Huber;Francois Nielsen

  • Comparative Welfare States Data Set

    Evelyne Huber;Charles Ragin;John D. Stephens;David Brady

  • Partisan governance, women's employment, and the social democratic service state

    Evelyne Huber;John D. Stephens

  • The Impact of Economic Development on Democracy

    Evelyne Huber;Dietrich Rueschemeyer;John D. Stephens

  • The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social Dimensions

    Evelyne Huber;Dietrich Rueschemeyer;John D. Stephens

  • Politics and Social Spending in Latin America

    Evelyne Huber;Thomas Mustillo;John D. Stephens

  • Politics and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Evelyne Huber;François Nielsen;Jenny Pribble;John D. Stephens

  • Welfare State and Production Regimes in the Era of Retrenchment

    Evelyne Huber;John D. Stephens

  • Internationalization and the Social Democratic Model: Crisis and Future Prospects

    Evelyne Huber;John D. Stephens

  • Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism: The Welfare State in Hard Times

    John D. Stephens;Evelyne Huber;Leonard Ray

  • Decommodification and activation in social democratic policy: resolving the paradox

    Jingjing Huo;Moira Nelson;John D. Stephens

  • Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism: Convergence and Divergence in Advanced Capitalist Democracies

    Herbert Kitschelt;Peter Lange;Gary Marks;John D. Stephens

  • Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies: demographic, economic and political determinants

    Evelyne Huber;John D. Stephens

  • THE SCANDINAVIAN WELFARE STATES ACHIEVEMENTS, CRISIS AND PROSPECTS

    John D. Stephens

  • Democratic Transition and Breakdown in Western Europe, 1870-1939: A Test of the Moore Thesis

    John D. Stephens

  • The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

    Richard Scase;John D. Stephens

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Evans
Peter Evans University of California, Berkeley
Herbert Kitschelt
Herbert Kitschelt Duke University
Gary Marks
Gary Marks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mayer N. Zald
Mayer N. Zald University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
John D. Kasarda
John D. Kasarda University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John D. McCarthy
John D. McCarthy Pennsylvania State University
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Dietrich Rueschemeyer Brown University
Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin Georgetown University
Charles C. Ragin
Charles C. Ragin University of California, Irvine

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