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John D. Stephens
Former Collaborating Researcher
John D. Stephens is the Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology. He received his B.A. (1970) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1976) from Yale University. His main interests are comparative politics and political economy, with area focus on Europe and the Caribbean. Stephens teaches European politics and the political economy of advanced industrial societies. He is the author or co-author four books including Capitalist Development and Democracy (with Evelyne Huber and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Chicago, 1992, Winner – Best Book in Political Sociology), and Development and Crisis of the Welfare State (with Evelyne Huber, Chicago, 2001, Winner – Best Book in Political Economy). He has also contributed articles to, among others, The American Political Science Review, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, The British Journal of Sociology, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Social Research, and World Politics. Stephens is currently working on a study of the impact of neo-liberal economic reform of social policy in Latin America, Iberia, and the Antipodes. For the UNRISD project on Democratization and Social Policy, he draws on, combines, and extends the analysis in the 1992 book on democracy and the 2001 book on social policy.