Publications

2025 America's New Racial Battle Lines Jacob S. Hacker · PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS · Scholar only — 2025 America’s New Racial Battle Lines. By Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 392p. Jacob S. Hacker · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2025 How the Economic and Political Geography of the United States Fuels Right-wing Populism—and What the Democratic Party can Do About It Jacob S. Hacker · Washington Center for Equitable Growth, May · Scholar only 3 2025 Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking Jacob S. Hacker · American Political Science Review · Scholar only 3 2024 Arnold, R. Douglas. Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age Jacob S. Hacker · Congress & the Presidency · Scholar only — 2024 BUILDING A BETTER PARTY. Jacob S. Hacker · Boston Review · Scholar only — 2024 THE NEW BLUE DIVIDE. Jacob S. Hacker · Boston Review · Scholar only 2 2023 Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats’ New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution Jacob S. Hacker · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 30 2023 For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America by Jonathan D. Cohen Jacob S. Hacker · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · Scholar only — 2023 Why So Little Economic Sectionalism in the Contemporary United States? The Underrepresentation of Place-Based Economic Interests Jacob S. Hacker · Unequal Democracies 1 2022 Hurdles to shared prosperity: Congress, parties, and the national policy process in an era of inequality Jacob S. Hacker · The American political economy. Politics, markets, and power · Scholar only 12 2022 The American Political Economy: A Framework and Agenda for Research Jacob S. Hacker · The American Political Economy 45 2022 The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance Jacob S. Hacker · Annual Review of Political Science 73 2022 The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power Jacob S. Hacker · Cambridge University Press 102 2022 The Biased Politics of “Working Longer” Jacob S. Hacker · Overtime: America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer · Scholar only 2 2022 The Great Disconnect: Why are Americans So Unhappy about the Economy? Jacob S. Hacker · American Prospect — 2022 The Political Economies of Red States Jacob S. Hacker · The American Political Economy 31 2022 Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. By Elizabeth Popp Berman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 344p. $35.00 cloth. Jacob S. Hacker · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2022 What does Jan. 6 say about American democracy? Jacob S. Hacker · Washington Post — 2021 A Modern-Day Historian Writes the Timeline of American Decline Jacob S. Hacker · Washington Post — 2021 Between the Waves: Building Power for a Public Option Jacob S. Hacker · Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 10 2021 Concentration and commodification: the political economy of postindustrialism in America and beyond Jacob S. Hacker · The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power · Scholar only 18 2021 Democrats Need a New Social Security — Paid Family and Medical Leave is It Jacob S. Hacker · Boston Globe — 2021 Enacting Lasting Policies in an Era of Gridlock Jacob S. Hacker · Econofact — 2021 Medicare for More—Why We Still Need a Public Option and How to Get There Jacob S. Hacker · New England Journal of Medicine 3 2021 Mo’patents, Mo’problems: Corporate strategy, structure, and profitability in America’s political economy Jacob S. Hacker · The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power · Scholar only 25 2021 The American Political Economy Confronts COVID-19 Jacob S. Hacker · Cambridge University Press eBooks · Scholar only 1 2021 The Peculiar Politics of American Insecurity Jacob S. Hacker · Who Gets What? 3 2021 The role of the law in the American political economy Jacob S. Hacker · The American political economy: Politics, markets, and power · Scholar only 26 2021 Why McConnell Gets Away With Filibustering Jacob S. Hacker · The Atlantic — 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 Jacob S. Hacker · The Atlantic — 2020 From the Affordable Care Act to Medicare for All? Jacob S. Hacker · The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America — 2020 GOP voters Want Medicaid Expansion. GOP Elites don’t. Something Has to Give Jacob S. Hacker · Washington Post — 2020 Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality Jacob S. Hacker · Norton 400 2020 Reducing Risk as Well as Inequality: Assessing the Welfare State’s Insurance Effects Jacob S. Hacker · British Journal of Political Science · needs review 46 2020 Republicans Think They Can Get Away With It. They Might Be Right Jacob S. Hacker · New York Times — 2020 The Political Effects of Policy Drift: Policy Stalemate and American Political Development Jacob S. Hacker · Studies in American Political Development 87 2020 Voters Support a Public Option for Health Insurance Jacob S. Hacker · Data for Progress, October · Scholar only 2 2019 401(k)s Will Be Considered Unthinkable 50 Years from Now Jacob S. Hacker · Vox — 2019 Elizabeth Warren is Asking the Most Important Question on Health Care Jacob S. Hacker · New York Times — 2019 Medicare Expansion as a Path as well as Destination Jacob S. Hacker · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 11 2019 New Policies, New Politics?: Policy Feedback, Power-building, and American Governance Jacob S. Hacker · Sage · Scholar only 1 2019 Policy Feedback in an Age of Polarization Jacob S. Hacker · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 125 2019 The Economy is Strong. So Why Do So Many Americans Still Feel at Risk? Jacob S. Hacker · New York Times — 2019 The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream Jacob S. Hacker · Oxford University Press · needs review 1,276 2019 The Missteps and Misdeeds of Trump’s Cabinet Jacob S. Hacker · Washington Post — 2019 The Republican Devolution: Partisanship and the Decline of American Governance Jacob S. Hacker · Foreign Affairs 17 2018 Economic Insecurity; Jacob S. Hacker · For Good Measure: Advancing Research on Well-Being Metrics Beyond GDP 63 2018 How to Rescue Retirement Jacob S. Hacker · Politico — 2018 Social Security Plus Jacob S. Hacker · Elder LJ · Scholar only 6