Recent Papers:    

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• "Welfare State Decommodification in Eighteen OECD Countries: A Replication and Revision." Published in the Journal of European Social Policy (February 2006).  Co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs.

• "The Distributive Consequences of Welfare State Reform, 1970-2002." Published in Comparative Political Studies (September 2006). Revised version of paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 2-5, 2004 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).

• "Welfare State Decommodification and Poverty in Advanced Industrial Democracies." Paper presented to the Fourteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 11-13, 2004 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).

• "The Changing Party System in Québec: The 2003 Elections and Beyond." Co-authored with Richard Vengroff. Published in Québec Studies.

• "Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies." [Data (Zipped .dta & .do files) ] Co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs. Published article in the American Journal of Political Science 48 (3):496-512 (July 2004).

• "Trends in Welfare State Decommodification in Eighteen Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1972-2000." [PDF] Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 27-31, 2003 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).

• "Politics As Usual? Political Parties and Welfare Regime Change in Advanced Industrial Societies." [PDF] Paper presented to the Thirteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 14-16, 2002 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).

• "Partisan Politics and Welfare State Outcomes: A Comparative Study of Eighteen Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1979-1997." [PDF] Working Paper No. 12, Keele European Parties Research Unit (KEPRU), Keele University, 2002.

• "Still Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism? Comparing Welfare Regime Change in Advanced Industrial Societies." [PDF] Paper presented to the 59th annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 19-22, 2001 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).

• "Three Worlds Divided or Convergent? Comparing European Welfare States in the Late 1990s." [Word] Paper presented to the Twelfth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 30-April 1, 2000 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).

• "Hyperlinked Learning: Teaching International Relations with the Web." [PowerPoint] Active Learning Roundtable presentation made to the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, March 14-18, 2000.