Comparative Political Economy
Comparative Welfare States
West European Politics

• Gregory Luebbert award of American Political Science Association for best book in Comparative Politics 2004
• Gregory Luebbert award of American Political Science Association for best article in comparative politics 2004
• Winner of First Best Book in European Studies, Council for European Studies
• Victoria Schuck Faculty Fellow (2003- 2006), Stanford University
• Hellman Faculty Fellow (2003 - 2004), Stanford University
• German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 2001-2002.
• Fellow of the 9th Summer Institute on Institutions and Economic Performance in Advanced Economies since 1945, German-American Academic Council, 1998 - 1999.
• Research Fellowship, Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, 1998 - 1999.
• Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship in Comparative Public Policy and Institutions, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 1998.
• Co-Winner of Sage Prize of Comparative Politics Section of the APSA for Best Paper in Comparative Politics Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
• Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 1995, 1997.
• Max Weber Fellowship, Harvard University, 1992 -1994
• John D. Montgomery Prize Fellowship, Department of Government, Harvard University, 1992 - 1994.

Undergraduate Courses
The Politics of Labor in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Political Economy of Western Europe
European Political Development
Varieties of Capitalism
Social Protection around the world

Graduate Courses
Methods in Comparative Politics (with David Laitin)
Theories of Political Economy
Workshop in Comparative and Historical Analysis (with Beatriz Magaloni)
The Politics of Welfare State Expansion and Reform

Books

The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development, New York: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Series in Comparative Politics). 2003.

Isabela Mares. 2004. Warum die Wirtschaft die Sozialversicherung braucht. Frankfurt: Campus. (German translation of The Politics of Social Risk).

Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment. New York: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Series in Comparative Politics). Forthcoming April 2006.

Articles and Chapters

Isabela Mares. 2005. Social Protection around the world: External insecurity, state capacity and domestic political cleavages. Comparative Political Studies.

Isabela Mares. 2004. Wage bargaining in the presence of social policy transfers and services. World Politics.

Isabela Mares. 2004. Economic insecurity and social policy expansion: evidence from interwar Europe. International Organization, 58, 4, 745- 774.

Isabela Mares, 2003. "The sources of business interest in social insurance: sectoral versus national differences." World Politics, 55: 229-258.

Isabela Mares, 2001, "Strategic Bargaining and Social Policy Development: The Case of Unemployment Insurance in France and Germany", in Manow, Philip and Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Varieties of Welfare Regimes, London: Routledge., pp. 52- 75.

Isabela Mares, 2001, "Firms and the welfare state: When, Why and How does social policy matter to employers", in Peter Hall and David Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism: The National Foundations of Comparative Institutional Advantage, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 184- 212.

Isabela Mares, 2001, "Enterprise Reorganization and Social Insurance Reform: the Development of Early Retirement in France and Germany," Governance, 14, 3, 295- 318.

Isabela Mares, 2000, "Strategic Alliances and Social Policy Reform: Unemployment Insurance in Comparative Perspective", Politics and Society, 28, 2, 223- 244.

Isabela Mares, 1999, "Firms and the Welfare State: The Emergence of New Forms of Unemployment", Studia Politiczne (Warsaw: Poland), 9, 1, 75-98. An earlier version was published as Discussion Paper, FS I 96-308, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin.

Isabela Mares, 1997, "Is Unemployment Insurable? Employers and the Institutionalization of the Risk of Unemployment," Journal of Public Policy, 17, 3, 299- 327. A slightly modified version has been published as Discussion Paper FS I 96- 314, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin.

Working Papers

Isabela Mares. 2004. What is new about the new social pacts?, Manuscript, Stanford University.

Isabela Mares. 2004. The limits of wage moderation, manuscript, Stanford University.

Isabela Mares. 2001. Does the welfare state hurt employment? Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2001.

Isabela Mares. 2000. The evolution of early retirement: explaining policy blockage and policy frustration, Working Paper 11, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington DC.