Publications

2026 Democrats Must Rebuild in Rural America Suzanne Mettler · Boston Review — 2025 How the Transformation of the American Political Economy Spurred a Rural-Urban Political Divide Suzanne Mettler · Can Democracy and Capitalism Be Reconciled? 0 2025 Rural Politics in the United States Suzanne Mettler · Annual Review of Political Science 2 2025 Rural Revival Suzanne Mettler · Washington Monthly — 2025 Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy Suzanne Mettler · Princeton University Press 19 2024 A Rural-Urban Political Divide Among Whom? Race, Ethnicity, and Political Behavior Across Place Suzanne Mettler · Politics, Groups, and Identities 19 2024 Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976-2020 Suzanne Mettler · Perspectives on Politics 107 2023 Policy Feedback Theory Suzanne Mettler · Theories Of The Policy Process 1 2023 Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act Suzanne Mettler · American Political Science Review 47 2023 The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context Suzanne Mettler · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · Scholar only 10 2023 The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Participation (Mar, 10.1111/psj. 12424, 2021) Suzanne Mettler · POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL · Scholar only — 2022 Conservative extra-party coalitions and statehouse democracy Suzanne Mettler · Democratic Resilience · Scholar only 6 2022 Democratic Vulnerabilities Suzanne Mettler · SAGE · Scholar only · needs review — 2022 Democratic vulnerabilities and pathways for reform Suzanne Mettler · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 19 2022 The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability Suzanne Mettler · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 147 2022 The Polarization of Higher Education Suzanne Mettler · Federal Higher Education Policymaking in an Era of Racial and Political Polarization — 2022 The Social Roots, Risks, and Rewards of Mass Polarization Suzanne Mettler · Scholar only 6 2021 Citizen Organizing and Partisan Polarization from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance Suzanne Mettler · Democratic Resilience · Scholar only 6 2021 Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization? Suzanne Mettler · Cambridge University Press 44 2021 How Democracies Endure: The Challenges of Polarization and Sources of Resilience Suzanne Mettler · Democratic Resilience 1 2021 More Than Meets the Eye: Government’s Role in American Social Provision and Its Implications for Public Options Suzanne Mettler · Politics, Policy, and Public Options 0 2021 The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Political Participation Suzanne Mettler · Policy Studies Journal 70 2021 When Rural and Urban Become ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’: How a Growing Divide is Reshaping American Politics Suzanne Mettler · The Forum 55 2020 A Plot Against an Embattled Governor? Militias Disrupting Elections? It Happened in the 1850s – And Holds a Lesson for Today. Suzanne Mettler · TIME — 2020 Four Deadly Threats to American Democracy are Raging All At Once Suzanne Mettler · Los Angeles Times — 2020 Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy Suzanne Mettler · St. Martin’s Press 172 2020 Republicans Are Relying on the Affordable Care Act to Respond to the Pandemic Suzanne Mettler · Washington Post — 2020 Revealing the ‘Hidden Welfare State’: How Policy Information Influences Public Attitudes about Tax Expenditures Suzanne Mettler · Journal of Behavioral Public Administration 34 2020 The Fragile Republic: American Democracy Has Never Faced So Many Threats At Once Suzanne Mettler · Foreign Affairs 14 2020 What Health Reform Tells Us About American Politics Suzanne Mettler · Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 16 2020 Where Next, America? Suzanne Mettler · Radcliffe Magazine — 2019 Affordable Care Act Moving to New Stage of Public Acceptance Suzanne Mettler · Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law · Scholar only 15 2019 Making What Government Does Apparent to Citizens: Policy Feedback Effects, Their Limitations, and How They Might Be Facilitated Suzanne Mettler · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 35 2019 Public Policy and Political Dysfunction: The Policyscape, Policy Maintenance, and Oversight Suzanne Mettler · Can America Govern Itself? 11 2019 Theodore J. Lowi, APSA President (1990-91) In Memoriam Suzanne Mettler · PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS · Scholar only — 2019 The Paradox of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Appreciating Benefits But Not Their Source Suzanne Mettler · Policy Studies Journal 38 2019 The Trump Presidency and American Democracy: A Historical and Comparative Analysis Suzanne Mettler · Perspectives on Politics 237 2018 Policy Feedback Theory Suzanne Mettler · Theories of the policy process · Scholar only 592 2018 The Government-Citizen Disconnect Suzanne Mettler · Russell Sage Foundation 167 2018 The Welfare Boogeyman Suzanne Mettler · New York Times 5 2018 When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion Suzanne Mettler · Perspectives on Politics 152 2017 Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government Suzanne Mettler · FOREIGN AFFAIRS · Scholar only — 2017 Outside of Washington, There is a New Vital Center in Health Reform Suzanne Mettler · Health Affairs Blog — 2017 Review of Democracy for Realists, by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, and Democracy: A Case Study, by David Moss, “Democracy on the Brink: Protecting the Republic in Trump’s America.” Suzanne Mettler · Foreign Affairs · needs review 3 2016 Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2016 Introduction Suzanne Mettler · Oxford Handbooks Online 4 2016 Liberalism and American Political Development Suzanne Mettler · The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development · Scholar only 6 2016 Liking Health Reform But Turned Off by Toxic Politics Suzanne Mettler · Health Affairs 30 2016 Oxford Handbook of American Political Development Suzanne Mettler · Oxford University Press 36 2016 The Policyscape and the Challenges of Contemporary Politics to Policy Maintenance Suzanne Mettler · Perspectives on Politics 192