Contributors
- Contributors
Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875–1975 (1990), Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830–1930 (1999), and Democracy and Disease: The State Faces AIDS in the West (2005).
Eileen Boris is the Hull Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of the Center for Research on Women and Social Justice at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is working on a book, tentatively titled, Citizens at Work, Bodies on the Job: Gender, Race, and Rights in Modern America, and beginning a project on the politics of home care.
Jacob S. Hacker is Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review; British Journal of Political Science; Politics and Society; Studies in American Political Development; and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He is also the author of two books: The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States (2002) and The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton’s Plan for Health Security (1997). He is currently writing a book, with Paul Pierson, on the Bush tax cuts, as well as a book on the politics of economic insecurity in the United States.
Robert J. Mcmahon is Professor of History at the University of Florida and past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His most recent books are Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II (1999) and the Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (2003).
Paul Pierson is former Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. He now teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. His main teaching and research interests are American politics, comparative public policy, and social theory. He is the author of Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment and Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis.
Jill Quadagno is Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, where she holds the Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar Chair in Social Gerontology. She is past-president of the American Sociological Association and is the author of twelve books and more than fifty [End Page iii] articles on aging and social policy issues. Her most recent book, One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance, will be published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. She is also conducting research on long-term care in Florida.
Reuel Schiller teaches legal history and administrative law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He is currently completing a book-length study of the legal history of the administrative state in twentieth-century America.
Debra Street is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her published work focuses on the politics of health and pension policies, including a book she co-edited with Jay Ginn and Sara Arber, Women, Work, and Pensions: International Issues and Prospects. Her current research focuses on long-term care policies and the intersection of private and public social welfare.
Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History at Boston University. Zelizer’s works include Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 (1998; winner of the 1998 D. B. Hardeman Prize and the 2000 Ellis Hawley Prize), and On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences (2004). He is the co-editor of The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003) and The American Congress: The Building of Democracy (2004). Zelizer has also published pieces in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Albany Times Union.
