 | Michael Wallerstein |
Michael Wallerstein, newly designated as the Charlotte Marion Saden Professor of Political Science, has focused his work on the subject of inequality in advanced industrial societies.
In particular, Wallerstein has studied the impact of labor market institutions such as systems of collective bargaining, as well as the politics of redistributive policies such as social insurance and affirmative action.
His books include "Trade Union Behavior, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performance" (with Robert Flanagan and Karl Ove Moene) and the forthcoming "Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution" (with Pranab Bardhan and Samuel Bowles). His numerous articles have explored such topics as unions versus cooperatives, class conflict, pay inequality, wage-setting in industrial societies, and behavioral economics and political economy.
Wallerstein earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1984 until 1994, when he joined the faculty at Northwestern University, where he served as chair of the political science department. He taught there until coming to Yale in 2004. At Yale, he has taught courses on comparative politics, the political economy of advanced industrial societies and formal political economy.
The political scientist has been the principal investigator for a number of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Norwegian Research Council exploring union organization, redistributive policies and other topics. He has been a scientific adviser for the Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration in Norway and a member of the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association (APSA). He served as president of the association's Comparative Politics Section 1999 to 2001 and was a member of the APSA Task Force on Graduate Education from 2002 to 2003. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Social Sciences at the Juan March institute in Madrid, Spain.
Wallerstein's honors include the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the annual meetings of the APSA in 1985. He was runner up for the Gregory Luebbert Award for the best article published in comparative politics in 1999.
He is a member of the editorial boards of Socio-Economic Review and of World Politics, and has been a referee for many professional journals, publications, university presses and institutions, among these the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Brookings Institution and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Wallerstein was a visiting scholar at the University of Oslo and the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway, 1989-1990.
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