Margaret Weir
Professor
Profile
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information:
Department of Sociology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: None Given
mweir@berkeley.edu
Selected Publications and Papers
Margaret Weir
Work in Progress
- The Long Shadow of the Past: Risk Pooling and the Political Development of State Health Care Reform, (with Anthony S. Chen) (manuscript under review)
- All Safety Nets are Local: Access to Health Care in the New Metropolis (Manuscript in progress)
- "Collaboration is Not Enough: Virtuous Cycles of Reform in Transportation Policy," (with Jane Rongerude and Christopher K. Ansell) Urban Affairs Review
forthcoming)
- "Property Rights, Taxpayer Rights, and the Multiscalar Attack on the State:
Consequences for Regionalism in the United States" (with Christopher Niedt) Regional Studies (forthcoming)
Books
- 2007 We the People W.W. Norton. (with Benjamin Ginsberg and Theodore
Lowi) (sixth edition)
- 1998 The Social Divide: Party Politics and the Future of Activist Government Brookings Institution and Russell Sage Press. (Editor)
- 1992 Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States Princeton University Press
- 1988 The Politics of Social Policy in the United States Princeton
University Press (co-edited with Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol)
- 1985 Schooling for All: Class, Race and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (New York: Basic Books (with Ira Katznelson)
Published Articles and Chapters
- 2006. "When Does Politics Create Policy? The Organizational Politics of Change," in Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State ed. Ian Shapiro, Stephen Skowronek, and Daniel Galvin, New York University Press, pp. 171-186
- 2005. "States, Race, and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism," Studies in American Political Development Vol. 19, no.2 (October): 157-72
- 2005 "The Calculus of Coalitions: Cities, Suburbs, and the Metropolitan Agenda," Urban Affairs Review 40, no.6 (July): 730-760. (with Harold Wolman and Todd Swanstrom)
- 2002 "Income Polarization and California's Social Contract," The State of California Labor ed. Ruth Milkman, (University of California Press, 2002), pp.97-131
- 2002 "The American Middle Class and the Politics of Education,"in Social Contracts Under Stress ed. Olivier Zunz, Leonard Schoppa, and Nobuhiro Hiwatari (Russell Sage Foundation, 2002), pp. 178-203
- 2001 "The Political Collapse of Bill Clinton's Third Way," in New Labour and the Future of Progressive Politics edited by Stuart White and Susan Giaimo, Macmillan
- 2000 "Coalition-building for Regionalism," in Reflections on Regionalism Bruce J. Katz, (ed.) (Brookings Institution Press), pp.127-53
- 2000 "Planning, Environmentalism, and Urban Poverty: The Political Failure of National Land Use Planning Legislation, 1970-1975" in The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy Robert Fishman (ed.) (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, pp.193-215
- 1999 "Politics, Money, and Power in Community Development," in Urban Problems and Community Development Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens (eds.) Brookings Institution Press, pp.139-92
- 1997 "Reconnecting People and Politics," The New Majority edited by Stanley Greenberg and Theda Skocpol Yale University Press (with Marshall Ganz)
- 1995. "The Politics of Urban Racial Isolation in Europe and America," in Classifying By Race Paul E. Peterson (ed.) Princeton University Press
For a complete list of publications please see the Curriculum Vitae