Torben Iversen

Torben Iversen

Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Department of Government
Torben Iversen

Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy in the Government Department at Harvard University. His research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, electoral politics, and applied formal theory. He is the author or co-author of Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity (Cambridge UP 2022) (with Philipp Rehm), Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century (Princeton UP 2019) (with David Soskice), Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality (Yale UP 2010) (with Frances Rosenbluth), Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare (Cambridge UP 2005), and Contested Economic Institutions (Cambridge UP 1999). He is also the author or co-author of more than four dozen articles on comparative politics and political economy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a Radcliffe Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Hoover National Fellow, and a BP Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.

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