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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2006 - Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Suzanne Mettler is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of social sciences. Their work spans several subfields including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, gender studies, and general health professions.

Their research focuses on core topics such as electoral systems and political participation, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, healthcare policy and management, policy transfer and learning, social capital and networks, migration, refugees, and integration, as well as gender, labor, and family dynamics.

Recent publications by Suzanne Mettler include:

  • The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability (2022) in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Participation (2021) in Policy Studies Journal
  • Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976-2020 (2023) in Perspectives on Politics
  • When Rural and Urban Become "Us" versus "Them": How a Growing Divide is Reshaping American Politics (2021) in The Forum
  • Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act (2022) in American Political Science Review

Suzanne Mettler frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors including Trevor Brown, Lawrence R. Jacobs, Robert C. Lieberman, Ling Zhu, and Kenneth M. Roberts.

Publications by Mettler have appeared most notably in:

  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Policy Studies Journal
  • The Forum

In addition to articles, Suzanne Mettler has contributed to book publications, with works released by Princeton University Press. The titles include "Rural Versus Urban," scheduled for publication in 2025.

Awards received by Suzanne Mettler include:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2019)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
  • Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association (APSA) (2006)

Best Publications

  • The Consequences of Public Policy for Democratic Citizenship: Bridging Policy Studies and Mass Politics

    Suzanne Mettler;Joe Soss

  • The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy

    Suzanne Mettler

  • Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation

    Suzanne Mettler

  • Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy

    Suzanne Mettler

  • Bringing the State Back In to Civic Engagement: Policy Feedback Effects of the G.I. Bill for World War II Veterans

    Suzanne Mettler

  • Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

    Suzanne Mettler

  • Policy Feedback Theory

    Suzanne Mettler;Mallory Sorelle

  • Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era

    Suzanne Mettler

  • Civic Generation: Policy Feedback Effects of the GI Bill on Political Involvement over the Life Course

    Suzanne Mettler;Eric Welch

  • The Trump Presidency and American Democracy: A Historical and Comparative Analysis

    Robert C. Lieberman;Suzanne Mettler;Thomas B. Pepinsky;Kenneth M. Roberts

  • Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in and Age of Inequality

    Joe Soss;Jacob S. Hacker;Suzanne Mettler

  • Government Program Usage and Political Voice

    Suzanne Mettler;Jeffrey M. Stonecash

  • The Policyscape and the Challenges of Contemporary Politics to Policy Maintenance

    Suzanne Mettler

  • When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Suzanne Mettler

  • Why public opinion changes: the implications for health and health policy.

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Suzanne Mettler

  • The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability

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  • The Government-Citizen Disconnect

    Suzanne Mettler

  • States Rights, Women's Obligations

    Suzanne Mettler

  • Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976–2020

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  • The Creation of the G.I. Bill of Rights of 1944: Melding Social and Participatory Citizenship Ideals

    Suzanne Mettler

  • The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Participation

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Suzanne Mettler;Ling Zhu

  • How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State

    Suzanne Mettler

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence R. Jacobs
Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Kenneth M. Roberts
Kenneth M. Roberts Cornell University
Joe Soss
Joe Soss University of Minnesota
Thomas B. Pepinsky
Thomas B. Pepinsky Cornell University
Jeff Manza
Jeff Manza New York University
Ira Katznelson
Ira Katznelson Columbia University
Eric W. Welch
Eric W. Welch Arizona State University

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