Faculty

Suzanne Mettler, the Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, conducts research and teaches on American politics and public policy. Her most recent book is The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy (University of Chicago Press 2011). Her earlier books include Dividing Citizens: Gender And Federalism In New Deal Public Policy (Cornell University Press), which was awarded the Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy, and Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford University Press), which won the Kammerer Award as well as the Greenstone Prize of the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. She is co-editor, with Joe Soss and Jacob Hacker, of Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality (Russell Sage Foundation), and co-editor with Lawrence R. Jacobs of a special issue of the Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law focused on “Public Opinion, Health Policy and American Politics.” She has published articles in several journals, including American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, and Studies in American Political Development, and numerous book chapters in edited volumes. She is now working on three projects: one that examines how a wide array of changes in the American welfare state since the 1970s have shaped Americans’ attitudes about government and participation in politics; a second about the politics of higher education policy and what the implications of stagnating access to college may be for American democracy; and a third about how the new health care reform law enacted in 2010 influences Americans’ attitudes about the law and their political involvement. Mettler is a Fellow of the Century Foundation and she is a member of the steering committee of the Scholars Strategy Network. She is the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and grants from the Spencer Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation.

“We Are the 96 Percent,” New York Times Op-Ed, with John Sides, September 24, 2012

Paper on visibility of “government social programs,” with Julianna Koch

“Our Hidden Government Benefits”, New York Times Op-Ed, September 19, 2011

“20,000 Leagues Under the State”, Washington Monthly, July/August 2011

“Obama’s Forgotten Triumphs”, Salon.com, October 15, 2011

Research Cited by Journalists and Blog Discussions

New York Times Blog discussion of social policy usage related to “We Are the 96 Percent” Op-Ed

Ezra Klein, Bloomburg.com

Ezra Klein on MSNBC

Paul Krugman in New York Times

Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune (1)

Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune (2)