Government work has doubled since 1960, both in the United States and elsewhere (Brady et al. 2020). Not only do public employees now account for a larger share of the labor force, but they have all but replaced private sector employees as the political leaders of contemporary trade union movements. Limited political research has assessed the impact of these changes. While economists and sociologists have developed robust research programs in the area of public employment, political scientists studying this topic are more fragmented. This workshop aims to integrate the field by offering intensive feedback on participants’ working papers, as well as by stimulating discussion on how to strengthen this research area in the discipline.
Meet the Grantees
Isabel Perera
Faculty member
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Cornell
I am an Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University, where I also am affiliated with the Center for the Study of Inequality. I study how politics shape the social policies, labor markets, and overall economies of post-industrial societies, focusing on the United States and Western Europe. My book, The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies, is now available open-access from Cambridge University Press (Studies in Comparative Politics Series).
