Selected Articles and Book Chapters

CULTURE AND POLITICS

Co-authored with Tom Chevalier. “What we talk about when we talk about poverty: Culture and welfare state development in Britain, Denmark and France.” British Journal of Political Science 52(2) (2022).
~Honorable Mention, European Cultural Research Network
Council for European Studies

Co-authored with Dennie Oude Nijhuis and Erik Olsson. “Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Cooperation: Literature and the Evolution of Industrial Relations Systems.” European Journal of Sociology (published online 2022).
~Winner of the Dorothy Day Award for Outstanding Labor Research
Labor Politics Organized Section, American Political Science Association

“Fiction Works: Cultural Ideas and the Design of Industrial Relations Systems in Britain and Denmark.” Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. 61(1) (2022), 50-67.

“Culture and coordinated industrial relations.” In Marco Hauptmeier and Leon Gooberman eds. Employer Organisations in the 21st Century. Routledge (2022).

“Imagine All the People: Literature, Society and Cross-national Variation in Education Systems.” World Politics 70 (3). (2018).
~Honorable mention, Research Network on Political Economy & Welfare State
Council for European Studies

THE ORIGINS OF ASSOCIATION AND COORDINATION

With Duane Swank, “The Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism: Business Organizations, Party Systems and State Structure in the Age of Innocence,” American Political Science Review 102 (2) (May 2008): 181-198.
~Winner of the Jack L. Walker, Jr. Outstanding Article Award
Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association

With Duane Swank, “Gonna Party Like It’s 1899: Party Systems and the Origins of Varieties of Coordination,” World Politics 63 (1) (January 2011).

“Sectional Parties, Divided Business,” Studies in American Political Development 20 (2) (Fall 2006).

“Party Politics and the Default Move from Coordination to Liberalism,” Business History Review (Autumn 2013).

“Business and the New Economic Activism: The Growth of Corporate Lobbies in the Sixties,” Polity (Fall 1994).

CORPORATISM AND SOCIAL POLICY

“Growth Strategies and Employers’ Coalitions: Renewing Welfare States.” In Anke Hassel and Bruno Palier eds. Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies: How Growth Regimes Evolve. Oxford University Press. (2021).

With Duane Swank.“Does the Organization of Capital Matter?” American Political Science Review 98 (4) (November 2004): 593-611.

“Reinventing Welfare Regimes.” World Politics 57 (1) (October 2004): 39-69.

With Duane Swank, “Employers and the Welfare State,” Comparative Political Studies, (October 2001).

“Corporatism from the Firm Perspective.” British Journal of Political Science 35 (1) (January 2005): 127-148.

“Business and Social Policy.” in David Coen, Wyn Grant and Graham Wilson eds. Handbook of Business and Government. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (2009).

INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS

With Kathleen Thelen, “The State and Coordinated Capitalism: Contributions of the Public Sector to Social Solidarity in Post-Industrial Societies,” World Politics (October 2007).

“Negotiation and the Micro-Foundations of Institutional Change.” 2015. In Engelstad and Hagelund eds. Cooperation and Conflict the Nordic Way. Berlin: De Gruyter.

“Getting Down to Business: Varieties of Capitalism and Employment Relations.” 2014. In Adrian Wilkinson, Geoffrey Wood and Richard Deeg eds., Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative Employment Systems. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

“Neo-liberalism and the working-class hero: From organized to flexible labour markets.” in V Schmidt and M Thatcher eds. Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy. Oxford University Press 2014.

“Twenty-First Century Breakdown: Negotiating New Regulatory Regimes in the Nordic Lands.” Capital and Class 37 (1) (February 2013).

“Consider the Source!” in David Coen and Wyn Grant eds. Business and Government: Methods and Practice. International Political Science Association, Developments in Political Science Series. Leske & Budrich (2006).

“Beyond Bone Structure: Historical Institutionalism and the Style of Economic Growth.” in David Coates ed. Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approach, New York: Palgrave (2005).

“Last Year’s Model? Reflections on the American Model of Employment Growth,” in Uwe Becker and Herman Schwartz eds. Employment ‘Miracles’ in Critical Comparison. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2005).

VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND SKILLS

Co-authored with Lukas Graf. “Industrial Coordination and Vocational Training in the Postindustrial Age.” in Dennie Nijhuis eds. Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State. New York: Routledge. (2019).

“Skill Builders: the Evolution of National Vocational Training Systems.” 2017. In Warhurst, C., Mayhew, K., Finegold, D. and Buchanan, J. (eds). Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

“Vocational Training and the Origins of Coordination: Specific Skills and the Politics of Collective Action.” in Marius R. Busemeyer & Christine Trampusch, eds. The Comparative Political Economy of Collective Skill Systems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

With Jette Steen Knudsen, “Scenes from a Mall: Retail Training and the Social Exclusion of Low-Skilled Workers.” Regulation & Governance 4(3) (September 2010).

EMPLOYERS AND HEALTH REFORM

“Employers: Passive Purchasers or Provocateurs.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (April 2003).

“Markets, Medicare, and Making Do: Business Strategies After National Health Reform,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 22 (2) (April 1997).

“Nature or Nurture? Sources of Firm Preference for National Health Reform,” American Political Science Review (December 1995).

“Mandating Social Change: the Business Struggle over National Health Reform,” Governance 10 (4) (October 1997): 397-428.

“Together Again: Business, Government, and the Quest for Cost Control,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 18 (2) (Summer 1993): 359-393, and reprinted in James Morone and Gary Blekin, ed., The Politics of Health Care Reform, Durham: Duke University Press, (1994).

“Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy,” Polity (Winter 1999).

“Inviting Business to the Party: the Corporate Response to Social Policy” in Margaret Weir ed. Social Divide, Russell Sage Foundation Press and the Brookings Institution (1998).

“Dead on Arrival: New Politics, Old Politics and the Case of National Health Reform,” in Martin Levin, Marc Landy and Martin Shapiro ed. Seeking the Center: Politics and Policy Making at the New Century, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press (2001).

EMPLOYERS AND TAX POLICY

Co-authored with Alex Hertel-Fernandez. “How Employers and Conservatives Shaped the Modern Tax State.” In Elliot Brownlee and Gisela Hürlimann eds. Worlds of Taxation Palgrave. (2018).

“Labor Market Coordination and the Evolution of Tax Regimes.” 2015. Socio-Economic Review 13 (1 January): 33–54.

“Business Influence and State Power: The Case of U.S. Corporate Tax Policy,” Politics and Society 17 (2) (June 1989).

“Growth Strategies and Corporate Taxation: Politics as Cause and Effect,” Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy 14, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1993).

“Corporate Taxation in Pursuit of Growth,” American Politics Quarterly 19 (4) (October 1991): 469-484.