212 - Regular Session. Comparative Historical Sociology: Historical Perspectives on State Policy Innovation

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

How do states decide upon and implement policies? What is the role of policy entrepreneurs, capitalists and others in shaping state policies? One pair of papers explain the adoption and failure of child labor reform and private pensions, while the other two address the ‘hidden’ U.S. state and its role in fostering American competitiveness in the global economy. Together these four papers take us within states and let us see divisions among agencies, politicians and the constituencies that seek to influence and benefit from state policies.

Sub Unit

• Comparative Historical Sociology

Session Organizer

• Richard Lachmann, State University of New York-Albany

Presider

• Monica Prasad, Northwestern University

Individual Presentations

• Mapping a New Frontier: Developmental Politics and State Building in the U.S. since the 1970s - Matthew Baltz, University of California - Los Angeles

• Policy Entrepreneurs and the Origins of Social Policy: Child Labor Reform in 19th-Century Europe - Elisabeth Anderson, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Structural Contingencies: The Marketization of Private Pensions in America since the New Deal - Michael A. McCarthy, Marquette University

• The Hidden American State Reconsidered: Rethinking State Visibility - Damon Mayrl, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Sarah Quinn, University of Washington

Discussant

• Monica Prasad, Northwestern University