Sven Steinmo  Chair in Public Policy and Political Economy European University Institute Via Rocentini 9, San Dominico di Fiesole, (FI) 50014 Italy

 Relatively current CV (click here)
 

Relatively current bio (click here)
 

HOT OFF THE PRESS ---  New book: 

 Growing Apart? America and Europe in the 21st Century 
(with Jeff Kopstein co-editor) 

Teaching American Politics  Comparative Politics  Political Economy  Class Web Pages: American Politics in Comparative Perspective Taking Ideas Seriously - a workshop with Fritz Kratokwil  Pol. Sci. 4272 (The Political Economy of Industrial Societies)  IAFS 1000 (Global Issues and International Affairs)   Poli. Sci. 2012 (Introduction to Comparative Politics)  Poli. Sci. 5142 (Political Economy of Advanced Industrial States)  Poli. Sci. 5141 (Political Economy - America Compared)  Pol. Sci. 4721 (Rethinking American Politics) Bordeaux short course (Why Is America Different?)

Research Interests: Political Economy  American Political Development  Institutional Theory  Public Policy Sustainable Development

Here are some papers I am currently working on or have recently finished: 

Taking Evolution Seriously (with Orion Lewis) 

What Should the State Do?

One Big Question

EU - USA,  Fin de la Democratie?

What is Historical Institutionalism?

The End of the Strong State?  The Evolution of Japanese Tax Policy (with Eisaku Ide)

Do Libraries Matter?  On the Creation of Social Capital (with Andreas Varheim and Eisaku Ide)

The Democratic Dilemma,

The Wealth of A Nation:  Political Institutions and American Economic Wealth

In the Land of Milk and Honey (Building a New Nation)

Your comments and criticisms on any of these papers would be much appreciated.
 

A book proposal:
In the Land of Milk and Honey: A Short History of America and the People it Created.

The following are some essays that I have written that have subsequently been published.  If you would like to download a draft, please feel free (but cite the final published version if you are so inclined).

Consumption Taxes and the Welfare State in Sweden and Japan (with Takatsugu Akaishi)
The New Redistribution in Japan,  (with Alison Chopel and Nozumu Kuno)
Restructuring the Welfare State: Institutions, Evolution and Political Change (with Bo Rothstei)
Globalization and Taxation:  Challenges to the Swedish Welfare State
Policy vs. Rhetoric:  The Political Economy of Taxation and Redistribution in Japan (with Andrew DeWit)
Bucking the Trend?  Social Democracy in a Global Economy:  The Swedish Case Up Close
The Evolution of Economic Ideas: Tax Policy in the 20th Century
Correcting the Record: Understanding the History of Federal Intervention and the Failure in Securing US Educational Reform (with Mathew Hirschland)  
Why Tax Reform?
The New Political Economy of Taxation  (with Duane Swank) (American Journal of Political Science, 2002)
The New Insitutionalism,  in Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, Barry Clark and Joe Foweracker (eds.), 2001
Institutionalism,in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nelson Polsby (ed.), 2001
Taxation, Redistribution and Regulation, 2001
  Rethinking American Exceptionalism: Culture or Institutions?
  Why is Government So Small in America?
 It's the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive Health Care Reform Always Fails in America.
Do Institutions Really Matter? (with Caroline Tolbert)
Structuring Politics:  Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics (with Kathleen Thelen)
Political Insitutions and Tax Policy, World Politics, (1989)