Q&A: JACOB HACKER & PAUL PIERSON – WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS

Aired 04/17/11 JACOB HACKER the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University, is the author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream and The Divided Welfare State. PAUL PIERSON is Professor of Political Science and holder of the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Politics in Time, Dismantling the Welfare State? Together they are authors of Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy as well as WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS. http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/jhacker.html http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=24