2020
“The Peculiar Politics of American Insecurity,” Who Gets What?: The New Politics of Insecurity (2021): 259.
2019
“The political effects of policy drift: Policy stalemate and American political development,” Studies in American Political Development 34(2) (2020): 216-238.
“Reducing Risk as well as Inequality: Assessing the Welfare State's Insurance Effects,” British Journal of Political Science (Jan. 11, 2020).
2018
“Medicare Expansion as a Path as well as Destination,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 685(1) (2019): 135-53.
“Policy Feedback in an Age of Polarization,” (with P. Pierson) Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 685(1) (2019): 8-28.
2017
“The Dog that Almost Barked: What the ACA Repeal Fight Says about the Resilience of the American Welfare State,” (with P. Pierson) Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 43(4) (2018): 551-77.
2015
“America’s Welfare Parastate,” Perspectives on Politics 14(3) (September 2016): 777-783
2014
“Insecurity, Austerity, and the American Social Contract,” in David Woolner, ed., Progressivism in America: Past, Present, Future (New York: Oxford, 2015
“Insecurity, Austerity, and the American Social Contract,” in David Woolner, ed., Progressivism in America: Past, Present, Future (New York: Oxford, 2015)
“From Servant to Master? Medicare, Cost Control, and the Future of American Health Care,” in Alan Cohen et al., eds., Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America’s Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care (New York: Oxford 2015)
“Confronting Asymmetric Polarization,” in Nathaniel Persily, ed., Solutions to Polarization (New York: Cambridge Press, 2015)
“Drift and Conversion: Hidden Faces of Institutional Change” (with K. Thelen and P. Pierson), in K. Thelen and J. Mahoney, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (New York: Cambridge Press, 2015)
2013
“Detaining Democracy? Criminal Justice and American Civic Life,” (with V. Weaver and C. Wildeman). American Academy of Political and Social Science 651, no. 1 (Jan. 2014): 6-21
“After the ‘Master Theory’: Downs, Schattschneider, and the Rebirth of Policy-Focused Analysis,” (with P. Pierson) Perspectives on Politics 12 (3) (Nov. 2014): 642-662
2012
“The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis,” (with G. Huber, A. Nichols, P. Rehm, M. Schlesinger, R. Valletta, S. Craig). Review of Income and Wealth 4 Jul 2013 doi: 10.1111/roiw.12053
“The Insecure American: Economic Experiences, Financial Worries, and Policy Attitudes,” (with P. Rehm, M. Schlesinger). Perspectives on Politics 11, no. 1 (2013): 23-49
2011
“Insecure Alliances: Risk, Inequality, and Support for the Welfare State,” (with P. Rehm and M. Schlesinger). American Political Science Review 106, no. 2 (2012): 386-406
“How American Politics is Undermining the American Dream—and What It Means for the UK,” in Sophia Parker, ed., The Shape of Things to Come? America’s Cautionary Tale (London: Resolution Foundation, 2012)
“Presidents and the Political Economy: The Coalitional Foundations of Presidential Power” (with Paul Pierson), Presidential Studies Quarterly 42, no.1 (2012):101-131
2010
“Sharing Risk and Responsibility in a New Economic Era,” “Health Care Reform 2.0,” and “America’s Next Social Contract” (with Ann O’Leary) in Hacker and O’Leary, Shared Risk, Shared Responsibility (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
2009
"Working Families at Risk: Understanding — and Confronting — the New Economic Insecurity" in Old Assumptions, New Realities: Ensuring Economic Security for Working Families in the 21st Century.” Russell Sage Foundation, October, 2010
“The Road to Somewhere: Why Health Care Reform Happened, or Why Political Scientists Who Study Public Policy Shouldn’t Assume They Know How to Shape It,” Perspectives on Politics 8, no. 3 (2010): 861-876
“Winner-Take-All Politics: Inequality, Political Organization and the Rise of Top Incomes in the United States” (with P. Pierson). Politics & Society 38, no.2 (2010): 152-204
“Healing the Rift between Political Science and Practical Politics,” The Forum 8, no. 3 (2010)
2008
“Yes We Can? The New Push for American Health Security,” Politics & Society 37 (2009): 3
“Measuring the Quality of Life in the U.S.: Political Reflections,” Perspectives on Politics 7, no. 4 (2009): 911-912
“Poor Substitutes—Why Cooperatives and Triggers Can’t Achieve the Goals of a Public Option,” New England Journal of Medicine (Oct. 22, 2009): 361:1617
2007
“Perspective: Putting Politics First,” Health Affairs 27 (2008): 718-723
“Introduction” and “The New Push for American Health Security,” in Hacker, ed., Health At Risk (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)
“Revisiting Laswell,” (with J. Farr and N. Kazee) Policy Studies, March 2008, Volume 41, Issue 1, pp 21–32
“Health Perspectives: “Dr. President: the Need For—and Perils of—Health Policy Expertise in the White House,” New England Journal of Medicine (Sept. 11, 2008)
2006
“The Politics of Risk Privatization in U.S. Social Policy,” for Martin Landy and Martin Levin, eds., Creating Competitive Markets (Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 2007)
“Secret Weapon: The ‘New' Medicare as a Route to Health Security,” (with Mark Schlesinger) Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 32, No. 2, April 2007, 247-91
“Tax Politics and the Struggle over Activist Government” (with Paul Pierson), for Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol, eds., Transformations in American Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
“The New Economic Insecurity—And What Can Be Done About It,” Harvard Law and Policy Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2007
“The Risky Outlook for Middle-Class America,” for John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne Kalleberg, eds., Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream (New York: New Press, 2007)
2005
“The Welfare State,” for Sarah Binder, Rod Rhodes, and Bert Rockman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
"Inequality, American Democracy, and American Political Science: The Need for Cumulative Research,” PS: Political Science & Politics, January 2006, 47-49
“The Policy Scientist of Democracy: The Discipline of Harold D. Lasswell,” American Political Science Review, (with J. Farr and N. Kazee), Special Centennial Volume (November 2006).
2004
“Abandoning the Middle: The Revealing Case of the Bush Tax Cuts,” Perspectives on Politics 3 (March 2005): 33-53 (with P. Pierson)
“Medicare Reform and Social Insurance,” Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, (with T. Marmor)
“Bringing the Welfare State Back In: The Promise (and Perils) of the New Social Welfare History,” Journal of Policy History 17 (2005): 125-154
“Policy Drift: The Hidden Politics of U.S. Welfare State Retrenchment.” In Streeck and Thelen, eds., Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)
2003
“Inequality and Public Policy.” In Jacobs and Skocpol, eds., American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality: Report of the APSA Task Force on Inequality & American Democracy with Suzanne Mettler and Dianne Pinderhughes (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.)
“Reform without Change, Change without Reform: The Politics of U.S. Health Policy Reform in Cross-National Perspective,” In Levin and Shapiro, eds., Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity: Diversity and Drift (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004
“Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States,” American Political Science Review 98, no. 2 (2004): 243-60
“Inequality and Public Policy,” In Jacobs and Skocpol, eds., American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality: Report of the APSA Task Force on Inequality & American Democracy with Suzanne Mettler and Dianne Pinderhughes (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.)
“Varieties of Capitalist Interest and Capitalist Power: A Response to Swenson,” Studies in American Political Development 18 (2004): 186-195 (with P. Pierson)
“Dismantling the Health Care State? Political Institutions, Public Policies, and theComparative Politics of Health Reform,” British Journal of Political Science 34 (October 2004): 693-724
2001
“Business Power and Social Policy: Employers and the Formation of the American Welfare State,” Politics & Society 30, no. 2 (2002): 277-325 (with Paul Pierson)
“Ideas, Private Institutions, and American Welfare State ‘Exceptionalism,’” International Journal of Social Welfare 13, no.1 (2004): 42-54 (with D. Beland)
2000
“Learning From Defeat? Political Analysis and the Failure of Health Care Reform in the United States,” British Journal of Political Science 31, no. 1 (2001):61-94.
“A Tale of Two Editions: Marmor’s The Politics of Medicare and the Study of Health Politics after Thirty Years,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 26 no.1 (2001): 120-38
1998
“The Misleading Language of Managed Care,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24, no. 5 (1999): 1033-43 (with T. Marmor)
“How Not to Think About Managed Care,” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 32, no. 4 (1999): 661-82 (with T. Marmor)
1997
“The Historical Logic of National Health Insurance: Structure and Sequence in the Development of British, Canadian, and U.S. Medical Policy,” Studies in American Political Development 12, no.1 (1998): 57-130
1996
“The New Politics of U.S. Health Policy,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 22, no.2 (1997): 315-38 (with T. Skocpol)
1995
“National Health Care Reform: An Idea Whose Time Came and Went,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2, no.4 (1996): 47-96