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Paul Pierson
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Paul Pierson

Paul Pierson is Professor of Political Science and holder of the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Politics in Time, Dismantling the Welfare State?, and (with Jacob S. Hacker) Off Center. His commentary has recently appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. He lives in Berkeley, CA.

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Winner-Take-All Politics is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 15, 2011
Winner-Take-All Politics will be released on March 15, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Mar 15, 2011
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Sep 22, 2010
Winner-Take-All Politics is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 14, 2010
Winner-Take-All Politics will be released on September 14, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
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ZNet, September 12, 2012
...rhetoric and a set of policy prescriptions that were largely unthreatening to the business community.” Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class (New York: Simon...
ZNet, September 12, 2012
...rhetoric and a set of policy prescriptions that were largely unthreatening to the business community.” Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class (New York: Simon...
Newsvine, September 7, 2012
...Five years after the onset of the financial crisis that badly damaged the US economy, the nation remains mired in chronic joblessness. The unemployment rate, stubbornly above 8 percent, actually makes the situation look better than it is. Many millions...
ZNet, September 7, 2012
...of the stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression. But, as political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson noted in their important 2010 book Winner Take All Politics: ‘the top 1 percent, while seemingly an exclusive group, is much...
Toronto Star Online, August 12, 2012
...growing band of intellectual heavyweights — Lawrence Lessig and Michael Sandel of Harvard University, Jacob Hacker at Yale, Paul Pierson at the University of California, Berkeley, Nouriel Roubini of New York University, to name a few — is echoing...
Boston IMC, August 3, 2012
...the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class" (2010), Professors Jacob Hacker (Yale) and Paul Pierson (U.C. Berkeley) argued that changing tax rates has been a major factor underlying growing inequality. Former New York Times columnist...
New York Times, August 3, 2012
...position in an intellectual insurgency challenging the dominant economic orthodoxy. Among his allies are Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson (the authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle...
Atlantic Monthly, May 23, 2013
...that I’ve seen of America’s growing wealth inequality is Winner-Take-All Politics, in which Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson start with a simple look at other industrialized countries to show that inequality isn’t an inexorable outcome trade and...
CommPro.biz, May 20, 2013
...in Social Media, Social Media Tools & Trends | 0 comments There is quite a big difference between web design and web development. Understanding this difference is a matter of asking yourself one question: Would you rather hang a picture of a...
Japan Focus, May 2, 2013
...Sphere." The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol.11, Iss.8, No.1, February 25, 2013, available here. 20 See Paul Pierson. Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004). 21 Gerald Curtis. “Can...
Florida Times-Union, May 1, 2013
...Jackson (Adam Ward), Menendez (Patrick Turner), Middleburg (Karl Smeltzer), Paxon (Steve Brown), St. Joseph (Matt Olesnevich) and White (Paul Pierson) all began spring with new head coaches. Baldwin has not filled its vacancy. Justin Barney: (904)...
Record Searchlight, January 18, 2013
...happened. The second and more recent book (2010) is titled "Winner-Take-All Politics," written by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. This book, a real barn-burner, should be read by everyone. Hacker and Pierson first provide the evidence to show, as have...
Fast Company, January 10, 2013
...plenty of individuals here who contribute to the quality of our design product. For example, our new partner Paul Pierson represents an exciting generational shift for us and there will be others like him in the future. A time might come when our name...
Daily Beast, January 4, 2013
...willingness to blink on taxes is neat, but all we're seeing again and again is confirmation of Paul Pierson's thesis from Dismantling the Welfare State?, namely that dismantling the welfare state is incredibly difficult...