Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington is Making the Rich Richer

Jacob Hacker

Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D., is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University, and a Resident Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He is also a Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., and a former Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. Hacker received a B.A. from Harvard in 1994 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 2000.

An expert on the politics of U.S. health and social policy, his most recent book, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (2010), was written with Paul Pierson. He is also author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (2006, in paperback January 2008), The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States (2002), and The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton’s Plan for Health Security (1997), co-winner of the Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is also co-author, with Paul Pierson, of Off Center: the Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (2005) and has edited two volumes—most recently, Health at Risk: America’s Ailing Health System and How to Heal It (2008).