Duane Swank

Professor of Political Science. Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1984.

duane.swank@marquette.edu

Prof. Swank's teaching and research focus on the developed democracies. His specializations include comparative and international political economy, comparative public policy, and European politics. He has published in these areas in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Science, International Organization, and Political Studies. He currently serves on the editorial boards of American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy and Socio-Economic Review: A Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. His recent book, Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States (Cambridge University Press), examines the questions of how globalization has influenced contemporary social policy in the developed democracies and how national political institutions have shaped the domestic impacts of globalization. His current research focuses on the international diffusion of policies and institutions, the transformation of labor market policies in the developed democracies and political origins of organized capitalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Courses

• POSC 2401 Comparative Politics | Syllabus
• POSC 4406 Public Policy in Industrial Democracies | Syllabus
• POSC 4411 Politics, Economics, and Democracy | Syllabus
• POSC 4501 European Politics | Syllabus
• POSC 4931 Globalization and the Nation State | Syllabus
• POSC 6411 Comp. Political Economy of Advanced Industrial Societies
• POSC 6501 European Politics | Syllabus
• POSC 6954 American Political Economy in Comparative Perspective
• POSC 6956 Globalization and the Nation-State | Syllabus

Recent Publications

• "The Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism: Business Organization, Party Systems, and the State in the Age of Innocence." American Political Science Review (May 2008). (with Cathie Jo Martin)
• "Tax Policy in an Era of Internationalization: An Assessment of a Conditional Diffusion Model of the Spread of Neoliberalism." International Organization November 2006. A modified version of this paper is also forthcoming (2007) in The Diffusion of Neoliberalism, eds., Beth Simmons, Frank Dobbin, and Geoff Garrett, Cambridge University Press.
• "What Comparativists Really Do: A Reply to Michael Shalev, 'Limits and Alternatives to Multiple Regression in Comparative Analysis.'" Comparative Social Research Volume 25, 2006.
• "Globalization, the Welfare State and Inequality: The Domestic Sources of Contemporary Trends in Social Protection and Equality." Social Policy and Society Vol. 4 (2005): 183-195.
• "Does the Organization of Capital Matter? Employers and Active Labor Market Policies at the National and Firm Levels." American Political Science Review Vol 98 November 2004. With Cathie Jo Martin.
• Duane Swank. 2003. "Withering Welfare? Globalization, Political Economic Institutions, and the Foundations of Contemporary Welfare States." In Linda Weiss, ed., States and Global Markets: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in International Relations.
• Duane Swank and Hans Georg-Betz. 2003 "Globalization, the Welfare State, and Right Wing Populism in Western Europe." Socio-Economic Review 1 (No. 2)
• Duane Swank and Sven Steinmo. 2002. "The New Political Economy of Taxation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies." American Journal of Political Science 46 (No. 3): 477-89.
• Duane Swank. 2002. Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States. New York: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics.

Working Papers

• "Institutional Change and the Persistence of Coordination: Explaining Patterns of Reform in Coordinated Market Economies." Paper presented at the 16th International Conference of the Council for European Studies, March 2008, Chicago. (with Kathleen Thelen and Cathie Jo Martin)
• "Taxing Choices: Policy Diffusion, Internationalization, and the Domestic Political and Institutional Determinants of Capital Taxation." Paper to be presented at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany, October 2006.
• "Activating Change: International and Domestic Sources of Employment Policy Reform in Developed Capitalist Countries." Paper presented at the Fifteenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies, March 29 to April 2, Chicago, IL; a revised version of this paper will be presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 31 to September 3, Philadelphia, PA.
• "Policy Diffusion, Globalization, and Welfare State Retrenchment in the Developed Capitalist Democracies." Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC. September 1-4.
• "The Diffusion of Neoliberalism: U.S. Economic Power and the Case Tax Policy," CES Working Paper No. 120, December 2004 (Center of European Studies, Harvard University).

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