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Jacob S. Hacker

Academic

RankDistinguished

As of2022 · CV

DepartmentYale Political Science

UniversityYale

FieldPolitical Science

ORCID0000-0002-3686-2513

Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications201

Citations17,525

h-index43 · Scholar

Citations per year in post730.2

Years in post24 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count98 of 201

Share49%

Positions

Co-Director, Carol and Gene Ludwig Program in…2022–

Co-Chair, APE Section, American Political Sci…2022–

Visiting Fellow, Max Planck-Sciences Po (MaxP…2022–2022

Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance, U…2022–2022

Co-Leader, Consortium on APE (CAPE), American…2020–

Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fel…2018–2018

Visiting Professor, Department of Political S…2018–2018

Co-Leader, Connecticut Chapter, Scholars Stra…2012–

and 13 more

Top venues 58 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 50 more hold at least one.

Perspectives on Politics14

The New Republic14

The American Prospect13

The New York Times13

Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law12

The Washington Post9

New England Journal of Medicine7

American Political Science Review5

Publications per year

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Publications 201 works

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Year	Title	Venue	Kind	Citations
2010	Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class	—	book	4,035
2004	Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States	American Political Science Review	article	2,224
2002	The Divided Welfare State	Cambridge University Press eBooks	book	2,096
2019	The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream	OUP Catalogue	book	1,276
2002	Business Power and Social Policy: Employers and the Formation of the American Welfare State	Politics & Society	article	749
2005	Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy	Yale University Press eBooks	book	724
1998	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	article	521
2012	Insecure Alliances: Risk, Inequality, and Support for the Welfare State	American Political Science Review	article	518
2014	After the ‘Master Theory’: Downs, Schattschneider, and the Rebirth of Policy-Focused Analysis	Perspectives on Politics	article	415
2020	Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality	Medical Entomology and Zoology	book	400
2014	The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis	Review of Income and Wealth	article	381
1997	The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton’s Plan for Health Security	Princeton University Press eBooks	book	375
2013	The Insecure American: Economic Experiences, Financial Worries, and Policy Attitudes	Perspectives on Politics	article	339
2011	The institutional foundations of middle-class democracy	—	article	335
2016	American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper	—	book	328
2004	Dismantling the Health Care State? Political Institutions, Public Policies, and the Comparative Politics of Health Reform	British Journal of Political Science	article	320
2004	Ideas, Private Institutions, and American Welfare State ‘Exceptionalism’	International Journal of Social Welfare	article	224
2005	Abandoning the Middle: The Bush Tax Cuts and the Limits of Democratic Control	Perspectives on Politics	article	210
2006	The Policy Scientist of Democracy: The Discipline of Harold D. Lasswell	American Political Science Review	article	202
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	article	133
2019	Policy Feedback in an Age of Polarization	The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…	article	125
2007	Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality	Russell Sage Foundation eBooks	edited volume	121
2022	The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power	Cambridge University Press eBooks	edited volume	102
1997	The New Politics of U.S. Health Policy	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	93
2020	The Political Effects of Policy Drift: Policy Stalemate and American Political Development	Studies in American Political Development	article	87
2022	The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	Annual Review of Political Science	article	73
2018	The Dog that Almost Barked: What the ACA Repeal Fight Says about the Resilience of the American Welfare State	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	70
1999	HOW NOT TO THINK ABOUT “MANAGED CARE” Ψ	University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform	article	54
2001	Learning From Defeat? Political Analysis and the Failure of Health Care Reform in the United States	British Journal of Political Science	article	48
1996	National Health Care Reform: An Idea Whose Time Came and Went	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	48
2020	Reducing Risk as Well as Inequality: Assessing the Welfare State’s Insurance Effects	British Journal of Political Science	article	46
2005	Bringing the Welfare State Back In: The Promise (and Perils) of the New Social Welfare History	Journal of Policy History	article	45
2014	Detaining Democracy? Criminal Justice and American Civic Life	The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…	article	43
2004	Varieties of Capitalist Interest and Capitalist Power: A Response to Swenson	Studies in American Political Development	article	43
1999	The Misleading Language of Managed Care	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	42
2009	Yes We Can? The New Push for American Health Security	Politics & Society	article	36
2007	Secret Weapon: The “New” Medicare as a Route to Health Security	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	33
2011	Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk: Government, Markets, and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century	—	edited volume	32
2007	The New Economic Insecurity-An What Can Be Done about It	—	article	31
2023	Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats’ New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution	Perspectives on Politics	article	30
2011	Restoring retirement security: the market crisis, the great risk shift, and the challenge for our nation	SSRN Electronic Journal	article	26
2008	Health At Risk	Columbia University Press eBooks	edited volume	25
2008	Putting Politics First	Health Affairs	article	23
2012	Presidents and the Political Economy: The Coalitional Foundations of Presidential Power	Presidential Studies Quarterly	article	22
2010	Winner-Take-All Politics and Political Science: A Response	Politics & Society	article	22
2006	The privatization of risk and the growing economic insecurity of Americans	—	article	21
2016	Making America Great Again	Foreign Affairs	article	19
2013	How to Reinvigorate the Centre-Left? Predistribution	The Guardian	article	19
2013	The politics of predistribution: Jacob Hacker interviewed by Ben Jackson and Martin O'Neill	—	article	19
1997	Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America’s Largest Service Industry	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	18
2019	The Republican Devolution: Partisanship and the Decline of American Governance	Foreign Affairs	article	17
2005	Medicare reform and social insurance: the clashes of 2003 and their potential fallout.	PubMed	article	17
2004	Privatizing risk without privatizing benefits: Path dependence, policy drift, and welfare-state reform in the United States	American Political Science Review	article	17
2007	Healing Our Sicko Health Care System	New England Journal of Medicine	article	16
2002	The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States	—	book	16
2005	Abandoning the Middle: The Revealing Case of the Bush Tax Cuts	Perspectives on Politics	article	15
2016	America’s Welfare Parastate	Perspectives on Politics	article	12
2006	Inequality, American Democracy, and American Political Science: The Need for Cumulative Research	PS Political Science & Politics	article	12
2019	Medicare Expansion as a Path as well as Destination	The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…	article	11
2021	Between the Waves: Building Power for a Public Option	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	10
2017	The Road to Medicare for Everyone	The American Prospect	article	10
2014	The free market fantasy	—	article	10
2003	Medicare Reform: Fact, Fiction and Foolishness	Public Policy & Aging Report	article	10
2004	Call It the Family Risk Factor	The New York Times	article	9
1999	Faith Healers.	The New Republic	article	9
2009	Health Care Reform in Perspective	New England Journal of Medicine	article	8
2001	Boundary wars : the political struggle over public and private social benefits in the United States	Medical Entomology and Zoology	book	8
2018	Social Security Plus	—	article	6
2015	Out of Balance: Medicare, Interest Groups, and American Politics	Generations	article	6
2013	How Big Money Corrupts the Economy	Democracy	article	6
2007	"The Great Risk Shift": Issues for Aging and Public Policy	Public Policy & Aging Report	article	6
2010	Health-Care Reform, 2015	Democracy	article	5
2008	Speaking Truth to Power — The Need for, and Perils of, Health Policy Expertise in the White House	New England Journal of Medicine	article	5
2007	The Real Dangers to the American Middle Class	Challenge	article	5
1997	Health Care Reform Is Dead—Long Live Health Care Reform	Annals of Emergency Medicine	article	5
2015	No Cost for Extremism: Why the GOP Hasn’t (Yet) Paid for Its March to the Right	The American Prospect	article	4
2011	Our Unbalanced Democracy	The New York Times	article	4
2010	Healing the Rift between Political Science and Practical Politics	The Forum	article	4
2025	Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking	American Political Science Review	article	3
2025	How the Economic and Political Geography of the United States Fuels Right-wing Populism—and What the Democratic Party can Do About It	—	article	3
2021	Medicare for More—Why We Still Need a Public Option and How to Get There	New England Journal of Medicine	article	3
2010	“You Might Be a Public Intellectual If…”: A Checklist for Political Scientists, a Challenge for Political Science	PS Political Science & Politics	article	3
2006	It Wasn’t Just Iraq	The American Prospect	article	3
2005	Reviving the social safety net. Insurance policy	The New Republic	article	3
2001	A Tale of Two Editions: Marmor'sThe Politics of Medicareand the Study of Health Politics after Thirty Years	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	3
2024	THE NEW BLUE DIVIDE.	Boston Review	article	2
2009	Take Off: What Barack Obama Can Learn from JetBlue	The New Republic	article	2
2009	Poor Substitutes — Why Cooperatives and Triggers Can't Achieve the Goals of a Public Option	New England Journal of Medicine	article	2
2006	Off Topic: A Reply to Our Critics	The Forum	article	2
2006	Enter center-GOP rip?	The New Republic	article	2
2005	The Center No Longer Holds	The New York Times	article	2
2005	American democracy and inequality	Dissent	article	2
2014	Introduction: Detaining Democracy? Criminal Justice and American Civic Life	The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…	article	1
2012	The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future	The New York Review of Books	article	1
2009	Measuring the Quality of Life in the U.S.: Political Reflections	Perspectives on Politics	article	1
2006	Still Off Topic: A Reply to Pitney's Rejoinder	The Forum	article	1
1999	Medicare Hmos: Making Them Work for the Chronically Ill	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	1
1999	Should churches take over social policy? Faith healers	The New Republic	article	1
2025	America’s New Racial Battle Lines. By Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 392p.	Perspectives on Politics	article	—
2024	Arnold, R. Douglas. Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age	Congress & the Presidency	article	—
2024	BUILDING A BETTER PARTY.	Boston Review	article	—
2023	For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America by Jonathan D. Cohen	The Journal of Interdisciplinary History	article	—
2022	The Great Disconnect: Why are Americans So Unhappy about the Economy?	The American Prospect	article	—
2022	Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. By Elizabeth Popp Berman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 344p…	Perspectives on Politics	article	—
2021	Enacting Lasting Policies in an Era of Gridlock	—	article	—
2021	Democrats Need a New Social Security — Paid Family and Medical Leave is It	The Boston Globe	article	—
2021	Why McConnell Gets Away With Filibustering	The Atlantic	article	—
2020	Republicans Think They Can Get Away With It. They Might Be Right	The New York Times	article	—
2020	Average Workers Can’t Bear Any More Risk: The GOP Push to Give Businesses Immunity from Coronavirus Liability is Part of a Long, Ugly Trend	The Atlantic	article	—
2020	GOP voters Want Medicaid Expansion. GOP Elites don’t. Something Has to Give	The Washington Post	article	—
2019	The Economy is Strong. So Why Do So Many Americans Still Feel at Risk?	The New York Times	article	—
2019	Elizabeth Warren is Asking the Most Important Question on Health Care	The New York Times	article	—
2019	401(k)s Will Be Considered Unthinkable 50 Years from Now	Vox	article	—
2018	The Great Risk Shift that Helped Deliver Donald Trump	—	article	—
2018	Trump’s Tax Cuts are Worse than Fiercest Critics Claim	The Washington Post	article	—
2018	The New Economic Populism: How States Respond to Economic Inequality. By William W. Franko and Christopher Witko. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 248p…	Perspectives on Politics	article	—
2018	How to Rescue Retirement	Politico	article	—
2017	The GOP is Trying to Pass a Super-Unpopular Agenda—and That’s a Bad Sign for Democracy	Vox	article	—
2017	How Republicans Obsession with Tax Cuts Drove their Health Care Plan Over a Cliff	Vox	article	—
2017	Robbing Blue States to Pay Red	The New York Times	article	—
2017	America’s Health Care War	Intereconomics	article	—
2016	The Real Cause of the Flint Crisis	The Atlantic	article	—
2016	Don’t Starve the IRS, Empower It	Los Angeles Times	article	—
2016	There's a simple fix for Obamacare's current woes: the public option	Vox	article	—
2016	Why Trump Can’t Break the GOP	The New York Times	article	—
2016	Why Technological Innovation Relies on Government Support	The Atlantic	article	—
2016	The Best Way to Save Obamacare	The New York Times	article	—
2016	Clinton’s Bold Vision: Hidden in Plain Sight	The New York Times	article	—
2016	How Clinton Can Put Health-Care Reform Back on Track	The American Prospect	article	—
2016	The Republican “Lock Her Up!” Chants Were Disturbing—And Inevitable	The Washington Post	article	—
2016	Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States	Perspectives on Politics	article	—
2016	The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America	Governance	article	—
2016	The Path to Prosperity is Blue	The New York Times	article	—
2015	The ACA Has Survived Yet Again. Now What?	The American Prospect	article	—
2014	A Tocqueville for Today	The American Prospect	article	—
2013	Beware an Unchecked President	Los Angeles Times	article	—
2013	Inequality is Hindering Growth	—	article	—
2012	Big Love: The GOP and the Super-Rich	—	article	—
2012	What Krugman and Stiglitz Can Tell Us	The New York Review of Books	article	—
2012	All Will Benefit If More Are Secure	The New York Times	article	—
2012	Romney’s Returns Show Progressive Taxes Are Dead for the Superrich	—	article	—
2012	What Obama Needs To Do Now	—	article	—
2012	Romney is the Right Man for America. George Romney, That Is	The Washington Post	article	—
2012	End This Depression Now!	The New York Review of Books	article	—
2012	U.S. Growth in ‘Prosperity Economics	Politico	article	—
2012	The Wider Battle for Equality	Boston Review	article	—
2012	Powell’s Diagnosis—And Ours	The American Prospect	article	—
2011	The Wisconsin Union Fight Isn’t about Benefits. It’s about Labor’s Influence	The Washington Post	article	—
2010	After Massachusetts, Why the Democrats Should Still Pass Health-Care Reform	The Washington Post	article	—
2010	For the Good of Democracy, Tax Cuts for the Rich Must Expire	Los Angeles Times	article	—
2010	The Stalemate State	The American Prospect	article	—
2010	Health Care 2.0	The American Prospect	article	—
2010	Inside the Wealth Conspiracy	Bloomberg	article	—
2009	Road Map to Healthcare Reform	The Christian Science Monitor	article	—
2009	Health Care for the Blue Dogs	The Washington Post	article	—
2009	Senate Health Bill is Launch Pad	Politico	article	—
2009	A Strong Safety Net Encourages Healthy Risk-Taking	The American Prospect	article	—
2009	The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009	Perspectives on Politics	article	—
2009	Perspective Roundtable: Health Care Reform in Perspective	New England Journal of Medicine	article	—
2009	Jacob S. Hacker	—	article	—
2008	Putting Politics First; Health system reform can be successful this time if policymakers learn the lessons from the past.	Health Affairs	article	—
2008	A Mandate Isn’t Mandatory	Los Angeles Times	article	—
2008	A Healthy Economy	The New Republic	article	—
2007	THE HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICA PLAN	New Labor Forum	article	—
2007	Reform beyond access. A plan to extend Medicare model that would also limit costs, improve quality.	PubMed	article	—
2007	Journal commentary on movie Sicko	New England Journal of Medicine	article	—
2006	It’s Not the Economy Stupid	The Washington Post	article	—
2006	Fixing the Left’s Health-Care Prescription	Slate	article	—
2006	Pumped Up: The Tour de France’s Denouement	The New Republic	article	—
2006	There Goes the Rug	Los Angeles Times	article	—
2005	Response to Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, “What’s Hurting the Middle Class”	Boston Review	article	—
2005	The New Insecurity: Families are Slipping Off the Economic Ladder	The Boston Globe	article	—
2005	Insurance Policy: Democrats may have beaten back President Bush's attempts to weaken Social Security, but they won't recapture the majority until they address…	The New Republic	article	—
2005	Bigger and Better	The American Prospect	article	—
2005	Insurance Policy	The New Republic	article	—
2004	It’s Still the Economy, Stupid!	The Boston Globe	article	—
2004	False Positive: The So-Called Good Economy	The New Republic	article	—
2004	American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality: Report of the American Political Science Association Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy	Perspectives on Politics	article	—
2004	The Middle-Class Tightrope	The Washington Post	article	—
2004	Good Medicine	The American Prospect	article	—
2004	Popular Fiction	The New Republic	article	—
2003	How Not to Fix Medicare	The New York Times	article	—
2003	Covering the uninsured. Expanding Medicare to achieve universal coverage.	PubMed	article	—
2003	Dr. Strangelove-The GOP's new Medicare plan.	The New Republic	article	—
2003	The Perfect Prescription	The Boston Globe	article	—
2002	Defusing The Alarm	Health Affairs	article	—
2002	False Alarm: Why The Greatest Threat To Social Security And Medicare Is The Campaign To" Save" Them by Joseph White	—	article	—
2002	The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State	Journal of Social History	article	—
2001	Politics and Medicare	JAMA	article	—
2001	Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity Challenging the Two Americas: New Policies to Fight Poverty March 23 and 24, 2006 Panelist Biographical Information	—	article	—
2001	Trust-busting	The New Republic	article	—
1999	The Managed Care Backlash-Books-Medicare HMOs: Making Them Work for the Chronically III	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	—
1999	Keeping the faith-Reply	The New Republic	article	—
1997	Medicaid and the limits of state health reform; and governing health: The politics of health policy	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	article	—
1997	Health care into next century: markets, states, and communities. Part 1: Legacies and markets	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	—
1997	Governing health: the politics of health policy-Weissert, CS, Weissert, WG	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	article	—
1997	Medicine and books-The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security	—	article	—
1996	Réforme du système de santé: une idée selon laquelle le temps va et vient	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	—
1994	HEALTH-CARE REFORM	Commentary	article	—
1992	The tortuous trek: Constitutional democracy in Kuwait.	Harvard international review	article	—
—	economic intervention, xv–xvi, 41–43, 81–83, 87–89, 92–94, 113–115, 117–122 intervention as function of long-term control of Congress and presidency	—	article	—