Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States

By Jacob S. Hacker. American Political Science Review, 2004

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Housing affordability, tenure and mental health in Australia and the United Kingdom: a comparative panel analysis (2016, background): “One of the primary outcomes has been a shifting of risk away from institutions or corporations to individuals (e.g. Hacker, 2004).”
How Party Polarization Affects Governance (2015, background): “The consequences for public policy seem best characterized as “drift” (Hacker 2004, p. 246).”
Has the Nordic Welfare Model Been Transformed (2011, background): “In a study of the USA as representing the Liberal welfare model, Hacker (2004) demonstrates how the US welfare system has become more privatised not so much through direct reforms such as eliminating public policies or replacing them with private ones, but rather by a gradual transformation of…”
Causal logics and mechanisms in policy design: How and why adopting a mechanistic perspective can improve policy design (2019, background): “…produce negative policy feedback, as indicated by a large body of literature in the field of comparative public policy, especially with respect to health and welfare (Bonoli and Palier, 2007; Esping-Andersen, 1996; Fernández and Jaime-Castillo, 2013; Hacker, 2004, 2010; Starr, 2011; Weaver, 2010).”
Variation in Institutional Strength (2009, background): “Moreover, in a context of low institutional durability, the cost of wholesale replacement may be relatively low, as vested interests and other mechanisms of reproduction have less time to develop (Hacker 2004, Grzymala-Busse 2006).”
Introduction: Understanding integrated policy strategies and their evolution (2009, background): “In welfare state reform, for example, goal shifts from family to individual support (and vice versa) have occurred without necessarily altering the instruments in place to implement the earlier policy goal; resulting in a disjuncture between policy means and ends (Hacker, 2004c).”
A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change: Measurement, Explanation and Strategies of Policy Dismantling (2014, background): “and Steinmo 1992) or self-reinforcing (Pierson 2000; Hacker 2004) versus reactive sequences (Mahoney 2000; Streeck and Thelen 2005; Mahoney and Thelen 2010) - lies at the heart of the debate, regardless of the specific theoretical perspective adopted.”
Making global markets: Historical institutionalism in international political economy (2010, background): “Hence, the most recent generation of work in historical institutionalism has sought specifically to identify the particular mechanisms underlying institutional stability and change (such as recent work on institutional layering and conversion e.g. Thelen, 2004; Hacker, 2004; Jackson and Deeg, 2008; ”
Financialization of the Economy (2015, background): “This was primarily due to the long-term shift from defined benefit to defined contribution pensions, such as 401(k) plans (Hacker 2004), and soaring household involvement in the stock market through direct share ownership or mutual funds (Davis 2008).”
Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types (2014, background): “…a concept developed in the neoinstitutional sociological literature by some of its leading figures, namely Beland (2007), Beland and Hacker (2004), Hacker (2004), Stead and Meijers (2004) and Thelen (2004) to explain the pattern through which social and political institutions have evolved over…”
When Do Institutions “Bite”? Historical Institutionalism and the Politics of Institutional Change (2016, background): “Laws ments only f of sha regula http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-12/bundesverfassungsgericht- , accessed October 22, 2015. karlsruhe-npd-verbot strategy presents common aspects with processes of drift (Hacker, 2004, .”