About

Torben Iversen is Professor of Political Economy. His research interests lie at the intersection of comparative political economy, electoral politics, and applied formal theory. He is the (co-)author of five books and about four dozen articles on advanced capitalist democracies.

Recent Books

Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity. Cambridge. University Press, 2022. (With Philipp Rehm)

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Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism Through a Turbulent Century. Princeton University Press 2019. (With David Soskice)

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Recent Articles

“The Democratic State and Redistribution: Whose Interests Are Served?” (with Mads Elkjær), American Political Science Review, forthcoming 2022.

“Information and Financialization: Credit Markets as a New Source of Inequality” (with Philipp Rehm), Comparative Political Studies, March 2022.

“The Political Representation of Economic Interests: Subversion of Democracy or Middle-Class Supremacy?” (with Mads Elkjær), World Politics 72.2, 2020: 254-290.

“The Welfare State with Private Alternatives: The Transformation of Popular Support for Social Insurance” (with Marius Busemeyer). Journal of Politics 82 (2), 2020: 671-686.

“The Dilemma of Gender Equality: How Labor Market Regulation Divides Women by Class” (with Frances Rosenbluth and Oyvind Skorge). Daedelus, 2020.