Jacob Hacker

Jacob Hacker, 2018

Jacob Stewart Hacker (born January 3, 1971 in Eugene , OR ) is an American professor of political science at Yale University . He works on social policy , health policy and social inequality .

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In his book Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class , published together with Paul Pierson in 2010 , he argues that since the late 1970s the American middle class and working class have always been economically viable were further disadvantaged because the American government made policies for the rich and super-rich.

In 2017 Hacker was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

literature

• The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security , Princeton University Press 1997/1999, ISBN 978-0-691-00528-7
• The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States , Cambridge University Press 2001/2002, ISBN 978-0-521-01328-4
• Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy , with Paul Pierson, Yale University Press 2005, ISBN 978-0-300-10870-5
• The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream , Oxford University Press 2006/2008, ISBN 978-0-19-533534-7
• Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class , with Paul Pierson , Simon & Schuster 2010, ISBN 978-1-4165-8869-6
• with Paul Pierson: American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper . Simon & Schuster, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4516-6782-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jacob Hacker on his new book Winner-Take-All Politics , Interview with Democracy Now! , December 2, 2010
2. ^ Winner-Take-All Politics review , Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 11, 2011
3. ↑ 2017 Fellows , amacad.org

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