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1. The Spillover of Genomic Testing Results in Families: Same Variant, Different Logics

   Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 166-180, June 2017.
   

2. A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest

   Building on Karl Mannheim’s theory of generations, this address argues that U.S. Millennials comprise a new political generation with lived experiences and worldviews that set them apart from their elders. Not only are they the first generation of “digital natives,” but, although they are more educated than any previous U.S. generation, they face a labor market in which precarity is increasingly the norm.

3. Paradoxes of Social Policy: Welfare Transfers, Relative Poverty, and Redistribution Preferences

   Korpi and Palme’s (1998) classic “The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality” claims that universal social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme’s classic, and in the process, explores and informs a set of enduring questions about social policy, politics, and social equality.

4. Policy Entrepreneurs and the Origins of the Regulatory Welfare State: Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Europe

   Industrial child labor laws were the earliest manifestation of the modern regulatory welfare state. Why, despite the absence of political pressure from below, did some states (but not others) succeed in legislating working hours, minimum ages, and schooling requirements for working children in the first half of the nineteenth century? I use case studies of the politics behind the first child labor laws in Germany and France, alongside a case study of a failed child labor reform effort in Belgium, to answer this question.

5. Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? Political Articulation and the Canadian Comparison, 1932 to 1948

   Why is there no labor party in the United States? This question has had deep implications for U.S. politics and social policy. Existing explanations use "reflection" models of parties, whereby parties reflect preexisting cleavages or institutional arrangements. But a comparison with Canada, whose political terrain was supposedly more favorable to labor parties, challenges reflection models.

6. Protest Campaigns and Movement Success: Desegregating the U.S. South in the Early 1960s

   Can protest bring about social change? Although scholarship on the consequences of social movements has grown dramatically, our understanding of protest influence is limited; several recent studies have failed to detect any positive effect. We investigate sit-in protest by black college students in the U.S. South in 1960, which targeted segregated lunch counters.

7. “On Culture, Politics, and Poverty”

   The Great Recession, Occupy, and Black Lives Matter: all have helped raise public consciousness around issues of economic disadvantage. Leading figures from both major political parties have debated these issues, and the popular media has reported on a wide variety of stories relating to poverty and inequality. Everyday conversations among millions of Americans now include casual references to the 1%—and the 99%.

8. Working Hours Mismatch, Macroeconomic Changes, and Mental Well-being in Europe

   Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 217-231, June 2017.
   

9. It’s Better to be Angry Together

   Contexts, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 52-59, Fall 2017.
   

10. From Ferguson to France

    Jean Beaman compares the conditions that led to 2005 uprisings in French banlieues and 2014 protests in cities across the U.S.