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D-Index
48
Citations
60509
World Ranking
263
National Ranking
150

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1998 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Paul Pierson is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans across social sciences and economics, with a focus on political science, political economy, and related interdisciplinary fields.

The primary fields of study for Paul Pierson include Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a significant emphasis on Political Science and International Relations as a key subfield. Additional subfields include Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, and Strategy and Management.

Paul Pierson's work addresses several prominent topics, including Social Policy and Reform Studies, Political and Economic History of the United Kingdom and the United States, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Historical Economic and Social Studies, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Employment and Welfare Studies, and Social and Cultural Dynamics.

The scientist has published research articles in the following venues:

  • Annual Review of Political Science
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Recent notable publications include:

  • The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance (2021, Annual Review of Political Science)
  • Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats' New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution (2023, Perspectives on Politics)
  • Replication Data for: "Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats' New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution" (2023, Harvard Dataverse)
  • Redesigning cropping systems to encourage the spread of biosolutions Agronomic Innovations 91, 17-27 (2024, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe))

Paul Pierson frequently collaborates with several scholars including Jacob S. Hacker, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Kathleen Thelen, Sam Zacher, and Amelia Malpas.

The scientist received recognition as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics

    Paul Pierson

  • Politics in time

    Paul Pierson

  • Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    Paul Pierson

  • Dismantling the Welfare State?: Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment

    Paul Pierson

  • The New Politics of the Welfare State

    Paul Pierson

  • When Effect Becomes Cause: Policy Feedback and Political Change

    Paul Pierson

  • The Path to European Integration: A Historical Institutionalist Analysis

    Paul Pierson

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

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • The New Politics of the Welfare State

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  • Historical Institutionalism in Contemporary Political Science

    Ira Katznelson;Helen V. Milner;Theda Skocpol;Paul Pierson

  • Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies

    Paul Pierson

  • The Limits of Design: Explaining Institutional Origins and Change

    Paul Pierson

  • Irresistible forces, immovable objects: post-industrial welfare states confront permanent austerity

    Paul Pierson

  • Not Just What, but When: Timing and Sequence in Political Processes

    Paul Pierson

  • The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform

    John Myles;Paul Pierson

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

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • Dismantling the Welfare State

    Paul Pierson

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

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • Fragmented Welfare States: Federal Institutions and the Development of Social Policy

    Paul Pierson

  • Coping With Permanent Austerity Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies

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  • European Social Policy: Between Fragmentation and Integration

    Stephan Leibfried;Paul Pierson

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

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

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

    Jacob S. Hacker;Paul Pierson

  • Coping with permanent austerity: welfare state restructuring in affluent

    Paul Pierson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacob S. Hacker
Jacob S. Hacker Yale University
Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol Harvard University
Stephan Leibfried
Stephan Leibfried University of Bremen
Eric Schickler
Eric Schickler University of California, Berkeley
Ira Katznelson
Ira Katznelson Columbia University
Peter J. Katzenstein
Peter J. Katzenstein Cornell University
Helen V. Milner
Helen V. Milner Princeton University
Karl Marx
Karl Marx Independent Scientist / Consultant, UK
Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont Harvard University

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