Alexander Hertel-Fernandez Editor & Author

Jacob S. Hacker is Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author or co-author of six books, including, most recently, Let Them Eat Tweets and American Amnesia (with Paul Pierson) (2020). Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is Associate Professor at Columbia University. He studies the politics of US public policy with a focus on labor, business, and the workplace. He is the author of Politics at Work (2018), which won the 2019 Robert A. Dahl and Gladys Kammerer Awards from the American Political Science Association, and State Capture. Paul Pierson is John Gross Professor of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of six books on American and comparative politics, including Let Them Eat Tweets and American Amnesia (with Hacker) (2020). Kathleen Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research examines the origins and impact of political-economic institutions in the rich democracies. Her books include Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Cambridge, 2014) and How Institutions Evolve (Cambridge, 2008), which won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association.