Kimberly J Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3739870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly J Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly J |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Beyond workforce alliances: State capacity and mental health provision
The Politics of Childcare
The politics of childcare has become a vibrant area of research. This review analyzes the evolution of this research over several decades and identifies two phases of scholarship. The first phase concerned the limited public supports for childcare in most countries and how this reinforced a particular gender order. A second current of research took off as many countries expanded their childcare systems and highlighted the role of electoral politi…
Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe
The phrase “immigration enforcement” often calls to mind border policing or efforts to detain and deport unauthorized migrants, but governments also employ techniques of exclusion—denying migrants access to public and private resources. This article evaluates the implementation of these measures in three European countries to inform theorizing about state power. Drawing on and developing Mann’s concept of infrastructural power, I show how impleme…
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
This is the comprehensively revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as ‘the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published’. Of its fifty-one chapters, some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are all right up to date. The first seven sections of the book cover the themes of ethics, history, approaches, inputs and actors, policies, policy outcomes, …
European Social Policy Embraces Solidarity in a Crisis
Governments in Europe responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by expanding their welfare systems to protect health, jobs, and incomes. The varied initiatives embody the principle of solidarity and demonstrate how welfare programs serve as a form of collective insurance against risk. But the twin health and economic crises also exposed gaps in coverage for many, including migrants and gig economy workers. Fiscal austerity, enforced by the European Unio…
Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Policing markets: The role of the social partners in internal immigration enforcement
In recent decades, governments have made labour markets sites of immigration enforcement through employer sanctions and other measures. In some countries, unions and employers’ associations facilitate implementation of these initiatives, while in others they openly or tacitly resist cooperation. This paper explores these patterns of cooperation and resistance through analysis of six countries. The method used is qualitative comparative analysis, …
Leveraging identities: The Strategic Manipulation of Social Hierarchies for Political Gain
The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and…
Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
The Impoverished Rhetoric of the US Welfare State
A new book lays blame for the weak social safety net on political rhetoric that justifies government aid as an individual right and not a public good–a tradition that dates back to the New Deal
Gender, right-wing populism, and immigrant integration policies in France, 1989–2012
Immigrant integration has been on the political agenda in France since at least the late 1980s, yet starting in the early 2000s this issue became bound up with concerns about the oppression of minority women. This article examines the evolution of the issue over two decades, pinpointing when and why debates over integration took on a gendered cast. The article's explanation centres on two factors – the growing threat of the Front National coupled…
Process tracing and the causal identification revolution
The essays in this special issue of New Political Economy are welcome contributions to growing debates about the logic and methods of process tracing in the social sciences. The introductory essay
Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Social Policy
The racial character of American society has shaped social policy-making in the United States and structured the American welfare state. At the same time, the structure of American social policy has affected the welfare state’s capacity to incorporate members of different racial and ethnic groups, shaping their access to social citizenship and their opportunities for full inclusion in (or isolation from) the American political economy. This dynam…
Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy
This Oxford Handbook pulls together much of our current knowledge about the origins, development, functions, and challenges of American social policy. After the introduction, the first substantive part of the handbook offers a historical overview of U.S. social policy from the colonial era to the present. This is followed by a set of chapters on different theoretical perspectives for understanding and explaining the development of social policy i…
Obstruction ou réforme
Le Congrès présente un grand nombre de caractéristiques qui peuvent paralyser la procédure législative. Cet article se propose d’analyser à nouveau ce point de vue traditionnel à la lumière des changements importants du système de santé au cours des trois dernières décennies. L’adoption de ces réformes reflète des changements dans le fonctionnement du Congrès : un personnel administratif plus efficace et une centralisation du pouvoir par les diri…
Public Housing and Vouchers
Public housing and rental vouchers constitute two distinct forms of housing subsidy in the United States. Public housing, the nation’s oldest housing program for low-income renters provides affordable housing to about 1.2 million households in developments ranging in size from a single unit to multibuilding complexes with hundreds of apartments. The Housing Choice Voucher Program, founded more than 35 years after the start of public housing is no…
Constituencies and Public Opinion
Public opinion alone cannot explain the trajectory of American social policy, but it is crucial in explaining the nature of social provision. Although most Americans are not highly knowledgeable about or interested in politics, and although their opinions are often shaped by misinformation, misperception, and framing effects, public opinion can offer broad guidance to politicians. Indeed, American social policy reflects majority preferences in a …
The U.S. Welfare State Since 1970
From the New Deal era through the Great Society the U.S. welfare state underwent a period of expansion, but from the mid-1970s onward the ideas underpinning welfare-state growth came under attack from conservative commentators and political actors. In addition, the assumption that the resources were available to finance further expansion of the state’s social welfare role was challenged. This essay looks at what happened to foster this mood of do…
Quelles politiques publiques pour concilier vie familiale et vie professionnelle
Aux États-Unis, on peut déplorer l’absence de politiques publiques destinées au plus grand nombre qui aideraient les parents ayant un emploi. In fine , la plupart des familles sont tributaires des marchés privés et des employeurs pour concilier vie familiale et vie professionnelle. Dans ces conditions, les familles à revenus élevés ont davantage que les autres accès à des modes de garde d’enfants de qualité et elles sont plus susceptibles de trav…
Path Shifting of the Welfare State: Electoral Competition and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe
What explains the surprising growth of work-family policies in several West European countries? Much research on the welfare state emphasizes its institutional stickiness and immunity to major change. Yet, over the past two decades, governments in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have introduced important reforms to their welfare regimes, enacting paid leave schemes, expanded rights to part-time work, and greater investments in ch…
From 'Sick Man' to 'Miracle: Explaining the Robustness of the German Labor Market During and After the Financial Crisis 2008-09
What explains Germany's exceptional labor market performance during the Great Recession of 2008-09? Contrary to accounts that emphasize employment protection legislation or government policy (i.e., short-time work), this article argues that actions by firms-embedded in ever-changing coordinative institutional structures-were crucial. Firms chose to keep rather than shed labor, a strategy induced by (i) a 'toolkit' of flexible labor market instrum…
The Delegated Welfare StateMedicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy
'The Delegated Welfare State' tackles the federal government's increasing propensity in recent times to outsource governmental functions to the private sector.
Promoting social investment through work–family policies: Which nations do it and why?
This chapter analyses the development of childcare and work-family reconciliation policies in three groups of countries: countries where early childhood education and care policies are well developed (Sweden and France); path-shifting countries who, in the past decade or so, have broken from decades of entrenched immobility on child care and leave-time policy (Germany, the Netherlands and the UK); and countries that so far have not developed any …
Path Shifting of the Welfare State: Electoral Competition and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe
What explains the surprising growth of work-family policies in several West European countries? Much research on the welfare state emphasizes its institutional stickiness and immunity to major change. Yet, over the past two decades, governments in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have introduced important reforms to their welfare regimes, enacting paid leave schemes, expanded rights to part-time work, and greater investments in ch…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
The Politics of Mothers' Employment: France in Comparative Perspective
Contemporary theories and typologies of welfare states in Western Europe assume that social democratic parties are the engine behind progressive policies on gender roles and on the participation of women in the labor force. The French case challenges these assumptions—this conservative welfare state, surprisingly, provides an extensive system of public day care along with other forms of support that facilitate mothers' employment. This article ex…
Forging the Frontiers Between State, Church, and Family: Religious Cleavages and the Origins of Early Childhood Education and Care Policies in France, Sweden, and Germany
European states differ tremendously in the extent to which their national education systems administer preschool programs, and whether or not these services can serve as day care for working parents. This article traces contemporary policy differences in three countries-France, Sweden, and Germany-to the effects of nineteenth-century conflicts between religious and secular forces over education. Intense, clerical-anticlerical conflict in France l…
The Origins of Tax Systems: A French-American Comparison
This article examines the origins of tax systems. Through a historical comparison of France and the United States, and analysis of several shadow cases, the article explains why the United States has relied more heavily on progressive income taxation than France, which has favored regressive sales taxes. This study traces the origins of these two tax systems to the early 20th century, arguing that decisions about tax structure were shaped by resi…
The Political Path to a Dual Earner/Dual Carer Society: Pitfalls and Possibilities
What are the political pathways to the dual earner/dual caregiver model? Are most countries likely to attain only a partial transformation of policies and societies, rather than a full embrace of this model? This article examines the development of work-family policies in Western Europe to probe the politics and consequences of these programs. In many countries, the political context frustrates efforts to enact a unified, comprehensive vision lik…
Caring Time Policies in Western Europe: Trends and Implications
The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and…
Gender, right-wing populism, and immigrant integration policies in France, 1989–2012
Immigrant integration has been on the political agenda in France since at least the late 1980s, yet starting in the early 2000s this issue became bound up with concerns about the oppression of minority women. This article examines the evolution of the issue over two decades, pinpointing when and why debates over integration took on a gendered cast. The article's explanation centres on two factors – the growing threat of the Front National coupled…
From 'Sick Man' to 'Miracle: Explaining the Robustness of the German Labor Market During and After the Financial Crisis 2008-09
What explains Germany's exceptional labor market performance during the Great Recession of 2008-09? Contrary to accounts that emphasize employment protection legislation or government policy (i.e., short-time work), this article argues that actions by firms-embedded in ever-changing coordinative institutional structures-were crucial. Firms chose to keep rather than shed labor, a strategy induced by (i) a 'toolkit' of flexible labor market instrum…
Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States
Until the early 1990s, Germany and the United States had similar systems of long-term care. At that time, Germany created a new social insurance program, whereas American reform efforts stalled. As conventional explanations of social policies—rooted in objective conditions, policy legacies, interest group mobilization, and party politics—fail to explain the diverging trajectories, the authors show how differing federal structures shaped reform ef…
Process tracing and the causal identification revolution
The essays in this special issue of New Political Economy are welcome contributions to growing debates about the logic and methods of process tracing in the social sciences. The introductory essay
Leveraging identities: The Strategic Manipulation of Social Hierarchies for Political Gain
Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe
The phrase “immigration enforcement” often calls to mind border policing or efforts to detain and deport unauthorized migrants, but governments also employ techniques of exclusion—denying migrants access to public and private resources. This article evaluates the implementation of these measures in three European countries to inform theorizing about state power. Drawing on and developing Mann’s concept of infrastructural power, I show how impleme…
Policing markets: The role of the social partners in internal immigration enforcement
In recent decades, governments have made labour markets sites of immigration enforcement through employer sanctions and other measures. In some countries, unions and employers’ associations facilitate implementation of these initiatives, while in others they openly or tacitly resist cooperation. This paper explores these patterns of cooperation and resistance through analysis of six countries. The method used is qualitative comparative analysis, …
The Politics of Childcare
The politics of childcare has become a vibrant area of research. This review analyzes the evolution of this research over several decades and identifies two phases of scholarship. The first phase concerned the limited public supports for childcare in most countries and how this reinforced a particular gender order. A second current of research took off as many countries expanded their childcare systems and highlighted the role of electoral politi…
Forging the Frontiers Between State, Church, and Family: Religious Cleavages and the Origins of Early Childhood Education and Care Policies in France, Sweden, and Germany
European states differ tremendously in the extent to which their national education systems administer preschool programs, and whether or not these services can serve as day care for working parents. This article traces contemporary policy differences in three countries-France, Sweden, and Germany-to the effects of nineteenth-century conflicts between religious and secular forces over education. Intense, clerical-anticlerical conflict in France l…
Child Care and the Liberal Welfare Regime: A Review Essay
A Review Essay of Vicky Randall, The Politics of Child Daycare in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); Sally S. Cohen, Championing Child Care (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001); Deborah Brennan, The Politics of Australian Child Care, 2d. ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
The Politics of Mothers' Employment: France in Comparative Perspective
Contemporary theories and typologies of welfare states in Western Europe assume that social democratic parties are the engine behind progressive policies on gender roles and on the participation of women in the labor force. The French case challenges these assumptions—this conservative welfare state, surprisingly, provides an extensive system of public day care along with other forms of support that facilitate mothers' employment. This article ex…
Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States
Until the early 1990s, Germany and the United States had similar systems of long-term care. At that time, Germany created a new social insurance program, whereas American reform efforts stalled. As conventional explanations of social policies—rooted in objective conditions, policy legacies, interest group mobilization, and party politics—fail to explain the diverging trajectories, the authors show how differing federal structures shaped reform ef…
Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe and the United States
While the extent of female participation in the labor force varies across western countries, most have experienced a substantial change in women's attachment to the world of paid work. Everywhere, this trend has raised two central questions related to the children of working mothers: Should mothers of young children work outside the home at all? And if so, who bears responsibility for assuring the care and well-being of their children? Comparing …
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union: Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion
In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either western or eastern Europe, this book investigates the similarities and differences in diverse parts of Europe. Although initially limited, gender equalit…
The Political Path to a Dual Earner/Dual Carer Society: Pitfalls and Possibilities
What are the political pathways to the dual earner/dual caregiver model? Are most countries likely to attain only a partial transformation of policies and societies, rather than a full embrace of this model? This article examines the development of work-family policies in Western Europe to probe the politics and consequences of these programs. In many countries, the political context frustrates efforts to enact a unified, comprehensive vision lik…
Caring Time Policies in Western Europe: Trends and Implications
The Origins of Tax Systems: A French-American Comparison
This article examines the origins of tax systems. Through a historical comparison of France and the United States, and analysis of several shadow cases, the article explains why the United States has relied more heavily on progressive income taxation than France, which has favored regressive sales taxes. This study traces the origins of these two tax systems to the early 20th century, arguing that decisions about tax structure were shaped by resi…
The Delegated Welfare StateMedicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy
'The Delegated Welfare State' tackles the federal government's increasing propensity in recent times to outsource governmental functions to the private sector.
Promoting social investment through work–family policies: Which nations do it and why?
This chapter analyses the development of childcare and work-family reconciliation policies in three groups of countries: countries where early childhood education and care policies are well developed (Sweden and France); path-shifting countries who, in the past decade or so, have broken from decades of entrenched immobility on child care and leave-time policy (Germany, the Netherlands and the UK); and countries that so far have not developed any …
From 'Sick Man' to 'Miracle: Explaining the Robustness of the German Labor Market During and After the Financial Crisis 2008-09
What explains Germany's exceptional labor market performance during the Great Recession of 2008-09? Contrary to accounts that emphasize employment protection legislation or government policy (i.e., short-time work), this article argues that actions by firms-embedded in ever-changing coordinative institutional structures-were crucial. Firms chose to keep rather than shed labor, a strategy induced by (i) a 'toolkit' of flexible labor market instrum…
Public Housing and Vouchers
Public housing and rental vouchers constitute two distinct forms of housing subsidy in the United States. Public housing, the nation’s oldest housing program for low-income renters provides affordable housing to about 1.2 million households in developments ranging in size from a single unit to multibuilding complexes with hundreds of apartments. The Housing Choice Voucher Program, founded more than 35 years after the start of public housing is no…
Constituencies and Public Opinion
Public opinion alone cannot explain the trajectory of American social policy, but it is crucial in explaining the nature of social provision. Although most Americans are not highly knowledgeable about or interested in politics, and although their opinions are often shaped by misinformation, misperception, and framing effects, public opinion can offer broad guidance to politicians. Indeed, American social policy reflects majority preferences in a …
The U.S. Welfare State Since 1970
From the New Deal era through the Great Society the U.S. welfare state underwent a period of expansion, but from the mid-1970s onward the ideas underpinning welfare-state growth came under attack from conservative commentators and political actors. In addition, the assumption that the resources were available to finance further expansion of the state’s social welfare role was challenged. This essay looks at what happened to foster this mood of do…
Quelles politiques publiques pour concilier vie familiale et vie professionnelle
Aux États-Unis, on peut déplorer l’absence de politiques publiques destinées au plus grand nombre qui aideraient les parents ayant un emploi. In fine , la plupart des familles sont tributaires des marchés privés et des employeurs pour concilier vie familiale et vie professionnelle. Dans ces conditions, les familles à revenus élevés ont davantage que les autres accès à des modes de garde d’enfants de qualité et elles sont plus susceptibles de trav…
Path Shifting of the Welfare State: Electoral Competition and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe
What explains the surprising growth of work-family policies in several West European countries? Much research on the welfare state emphasizes its institutional stickiness and immunity to major change. Yet, over the past two decades, governments in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have introduced important reforms to their welfare regimes, enacting paid leave schemes, expanded rights to part-time work, and greater investments in ch…
Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Social Policy
The racial character of American society has shaped social policy-making in the United States and structured the American welfare state. At the same time, the structure of American social policy has affected the welfare state’s capacity to incorporate members of different racial and ethnic groups, shaping their access to social citizenship and their opportunities for full inclusion in (or isolation from) the American political economy. This dynam…
Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy
This Oxford Handbook pulls together much of our current knowledge about the origins, development, functions, and challenges of American social policy. After the introduction, the first substantive part of the handbook offers a historical overview of U.S. social policy from the colonial era to the present. This is followed by a set of chapters on different theoretical perspectives for understanding and explaining the development of social policy i…
Obstruction ou réforme
Le Congrès présente un grand nombre de caractéristiques qui peuvent paralyser la procédure législative. Cet article se propose d’analyser à nouveau ce point de vue traditionnel à la lumière des changements importants du système de santé au cours des trois dernières décennies. L’adoption de ces réformes reflète des changements dans le fonctionnement du Congrès : un personnel administratif plus efficace et une centralisation du pouvoir par les diri…
Process tracing and the causal identification revolution
The essays in this special issue of New Political Economy are welcome contributions to growing debates about the logic and methods of process tracing in the social sciences. The introductory essay
The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and…
Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
The Impoverished Rhetoric of the US Welfare State
A new book lays blame for the weak social safety net on political rhetoric that justifies government aid as an individual right and not a public good–a tradition that dates back to the New Deal
Gender, right-wing populism, and immigrant integration policies in France, 1989–2012
Immigrant integration has been on the political agenda in France since at least the late 1980s, yet starting in the early 2000s this issue became bound up with concerns about the oppression of minority women. This article examines the evolution of the issue over two decades, pinpointing when and why debates over integration took on a gendered cast. The article's explanation centres on two factors – the growing threat of the Front National coupled…
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