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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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Chapter 1 from Winner-Take-All Politics
Dec 30, 2010
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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...
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)...
Florida Times-Union, May 1, 2013
...Patrick Turner), Middleburg (Karl Smeltzer), Orange Park (Craig Nosse), Paxon (Steve Brown), St. Joseph (Matt Olesnevich) and White (Paul Pierson). Baldwin has not filled its vacancy. Justin Barney: (904) 359-4248...
Hendersonville Times News, April 30, 2013
...Lessig’s “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress — and a Plan to Stop It,” Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s “Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington made the Rich Richer — and Turned its Back on the Middle Class,” Donald Barlett and...
Salt Lake Tribune, April 24, 2013
...One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Winner-Take-All Politics by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson; and The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel. And he learned a lot about the justice system from fellow inmates, particularly one...
Salt Lake Tribune, April 23, 2013
...One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Winner-Take-All Politics by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson; and The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel. And he learned a lot about the justice system from fellow inmates, particularly one...
Salt Lake Tribune, April 23, 2013
...in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Winner Take All Politics by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson; and The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel. And he learned a lot about the justice system from fellow inmates, particularly one with a...