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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Torben Iversen is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions to political science and international relations, finance, economics and econometrics, as well as sociology and political science. Their work intersects topics such as social policy and reform studies, housing, finance and neoliberalism, fiscal policies and political economy, and economic theory and policy.

Recent publications by Torben Iversen include:

  • Information and Financialization: Credit Markets as a New Source of Inequality, 2022, Comparative Political Studies
  • Replication Data for: Information and Financialization: Credit Markets as a New Source of Inequality, 2021, Harvard Dataverse

Collaborative efforts are a notable aspect of Iversen's career. Frequent co-authors include Mads Andreas Elkjær, Philipp Rehm, David Soskice, Rachel Z. Friedman, and Alice Xu.

The main publication venues for their research are:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • World Politics
  • Comparative Political Studies
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • American Political Science Review

In addition to articles, Iversen has contributed to book literature, including a publication with Cambridge University Press titled Big Data and the Welfare State (2022).

Their recent papers by title, year of publication, and venue are:

  • The Political Representation of Economic Interests, 2020, World Politics
  • The Democratic State and Redistribution: Whose Interests Are Served?, 2022, American Political Science Review

Research topics explored in Iversen's work cover:

  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Awards received include:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017
  • Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association (APSA), 2011
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2008

Best Publications

  • Social protection and the formation of skills: a reinterpretation of the welfare state

    David Soskice;Margarita Estevez-Abe;Torben Iversen

  • “Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More than Others”

    Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences

    Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • Equality, Employment, and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy

    Torben Iversen;Anne Wren

  • The Causes of Welfare State Expansion: Deindustrialization or Globalization?

    Torben Iversen;Thomas R. Cusack

  • Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare

    Torben Iversen

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

    Torben Iversen;John D. Stephens

  • Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies

    Torben Iversen

  • Risks at Work: The Demand and Supply Sides of Government Redistribution

    Thomas Cusack;Torben Iversen;Philipp Rehm

  • The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross‐National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap

    Torben Iversen;Frances Rosenbluth

  • Distribution and Redistribution: The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century

    Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • Economic interests and the origins of electoral systems

    Thomas R. Cusack;Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

    Torben Iversen;Frances McCall Rosenbluth

  • “Power, Flexibility, and the Breakdown of Centralized Wage Bargaining. Denmark and Sweden in Comparative Perspective”

    Torben Iversen

  • The Nonneutrality of Monetary Policy with Large Price or Wage Setters

    David Soskice;Torben Iversen

  • "Political Leadership and Representation in West European Democracies: A Test of Three Models of Voting"

    Torben Iversen

  • Wage Bargaining, Central Bank Independence, and the Real Effects of Money

    Torben Iversen

  • MULTIPLE WAGE-BARGAINING SYSTEMS IN THE SINGLE EUROPEAN CURRENCY AREA

    David Soskice;Torben Iversen

  • Work and Power: The Connection Between Female Labor Force Participation and Female Political Representation

    Torben Iversen;Frances Rosenbluth

  • The Logics of Electoral Politics Spatial, Directional, and Mobilizational Effects

    Torben Iversen

  • "The Dynamics of Welfare State Expansion: Trade Openness, Deindustrialization and Partisan Politics"

    Paul Pierson;Torben Iversen

  • Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century

    Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • Democratic Limits to Redistribution: Inclusionary versus Exclusionary Coalitions in the Knowledge Economy

    Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • Democracy and Capitalism

    Torben Iversen

  • Informal Social Networks and Rational Voting

    Samuel Abrams;Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • Unions, Employers and Central Banks: Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies

    Torben Iversen;Jonas Pontusson;David W. Soskice

  • Coevolution of capitalism and political representation: The choice of electoral systems

    Thomas Cusack;Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • Information, Inequality, and Mass Polarization Ideology in Advanced Democracies

    Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • Real Exchange Rates and Competitiveness: The Political Economy of Skill Formation, Wage Compression, and Electoral Systems

    Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • Electoral systems and the politics of coalitions : why some democracies redistribute more than others

    Torben Iversen;David Soskice

  • The nonneutrality of monetary policy with large price of wage setters

    David Soskice;Torben Iversen

Frequent Co-Authors

David Soskice
David Soskice London School of Economics and Political Science
Marius R. Busemeyer
Marius R. Busemeyer University of Konstanz
Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley
James E. Alt
James E. Alt Harvard University
Jonas Pontusson
Jonas Pontusson University of Geneva
Christopher J. Anderson
Christopher J. Anderson London School of Economics and Political Science
Mark Thatcher
Mark Thatcher Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

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