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Torben Iversen

 

Torben Iversen

Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy
 
E-mail:
Phone:
 iversen@fas.harvard.edu
617-384-5847
 CGIS N308
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~iversen

Biographical Note:

Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy. His research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, electoral politics, and applied formal theory. He is the author of Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare (CUP 2005), Contested Economic Institutions (CUP 1999), coauthor (with Frances Rosenbluth) of Patriarchy Explained: The Rise and Fall of Gender Inequality (Yale UP, forthcoming), and co-editor (with Jonas Pontusson and David Soskice) of Unions, Employers and Central Bankers (CUP 2000). He is also the author or co-author of more than two dozen articles in leading journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Economics, World Politics, and numerous edited volumes. He has been a Hoover National Fellow (1999-2000) and a Guggenheim Fellow (2008-9), and his work has won five American Political Science Association prizes including Best Book on European Politics and Society, the Luebbert Best Article Award, and the Gabriel Almond Best Dissertation Award. His current work focuses on the comparative political economy of distribution, representation, and economic performance, and he is working on a book-length project with David Soskice on the political representation of economic interests.