“Response to Laura Katz Olson’s Review of Disordered,” New Political Science (March 20, 2023).
“House of Medicine for Rent,” Medscape (March 29, 2022).
“License or Liberty: Public Health and Medical Licensure’s Movers and Motives, 1870s-1910s,” (2021), Social Science Research Network, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3803526.
“Health Care Business and Historiographical Exchange,” Studies in American Political Development 33:1 (April 2019), response to a special roundtable discussion of “Misrepresented Interests” (see below), https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-american-political-development/issue/AEF8C63BFE205695FC01449C77F07773.
“Misrepresented Interests: Organized Business, Medicare, and the Building of the American Health Care State,” Studies in American Political Development 32:1 (April 2018). Awarded the APSA’s 2019 Mary Parker Follett Prize for best article in politics and history. Reprinted in Dennie Oude-Nijhuis, ed., Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State (London: Routledge, 2019).
“Business Power and the Welfare State: Comment on Walter Korpi and His ‘Power Resources and Employer-Centered Approaches,” (2017), Social Science Research Network https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2961043
Essay for “Review Symposium: Teachers’ Unions and Public Education in America,” Perspectives on Politics 10:1 (March 2012).
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“Solidarity between Classes: Employers, Lockouts, and the Spirit of Saltsjöbaden,” unpublished English version of “Solidaritet mellan klasserna” (see above).
“Good Distribution, Bad Delivery, and Ugly Politics: The Traumatic Origins of Germany’s Health Care System,” in Ian Shapiro, Peter A. Swenson, and Daniella Donna eds., Divide and Deal: The Politics of Distribution in Democracies (New York: New York University Press, 2008.
“B is for Byrnes, and Business: An Untold Story about Medicare,” Clio: Newsletter of Politics and History 16:2 (Spring/Summer 2006).
“Varieties of Capitalist Interests: Power, Institutions, and Welfare State Formation in Sweden and the United States,” Studies in American Political Development 18 (Spring 2004). Awarded the APSA’s 2003 Mary Parker Follett Prize for best article in politics and history.
“Foul Weather Friends: Big Business and Health Care Reform in the 1990s in Historical Perspective,” (with Scott Greer), Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 27:4 (August 2002).
“Bad Manors and the Good Welfare State. A Nordic Perspective on Sanford Jacoby’s Modern Manors and American Welfare Capitalism,” (review symposium essay), in Industrial Relations 38:2 (April 1999).
“Arranged Alliance: Business Interests in the New Deal,” Politics and Society 25:1 (March 1997).
“Labor Markets, Production Strategies, and Wage Bargaining Institutions: The Swedish Employer Offensive in Comparative Perspective,” Comparative Political Studies 29:2 (April 1996) (with Jonas Pontusson).
“Managing the Managers: The Swedish Employers’ Confederation, Labor Scarcity, and the Suppression of Labor Market Segmentation,” Scandinavian Journal of History 16 (1992).
“Varför har arbetsgivarna övergivit den svenska modellen?” (with Jonas Pontusson), Arkiv för studier in arbetarrörelsens historia 53-54 (1992), https://arkiv.nu/butik/arkiv-for-studier-i-arbetarrorelsens-historia-nr-53-54/.
“Bringing Capital Back In, or Social Democracy Reconsidered: Employer Power, Cross-Class Alliances, and Centralization of Industrial Relations in Denmark and Sweden,” World Politics 43:4 (July 1991).
“Labor and the Limits of the Welfare State: Intraclass Conflict and Cross-Class Alliances in Sweden and West Germany,” Comparative Politics 23:4 (July 1991).
“The Influence of Recruitment on the Structure of Power in the U.S. House, 1870-1940,” Legislative Studies Quarterly 7:1 (February, 1982). Reprinted in Joel Silbey ed., The Congress of the United States 1789-1989 (New York: Carlson, 1991).