Alexander Hicks is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Emory University. He is coeditor of The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches.
"This book by Alexander Hicks is a number-cruncher's delight, but is should be of interest to normal people as well because of its exceptional awareness of the entire range of literature on welfore programs."-Donald Sassoon, University of London. American Historical Review, June 2001 "Through sophisticated and historically sensitive quantitative and formal qualitative analyses, he is able to appraise the social democratic thesis through several phases of welfare state development...The results are so rich as to be difficult to sumarize in a short review."-Edwin Amenta, New York University. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4 "Alexander Hicks has written one of the most important works in the past thirty years on the development of income security policies in democratic capitalist states. If this were not sufficient, the book also is the most significant comparative public policy study I have read. Based on years of reflection, scholarship and teaching, it covers, not merely cites, a range of literatures. It is extremely sensitive to particular historical experiences. It is theoretically informed. Most impressively, it is methodologically sophisticated and imaginative. And the book is concise and well-written. In short, it is a model of what exciting comparative research can be."-Norman Furniss, Indiana University, Comparative Politics, September 2002 "Hicks's vast and impressive study...make valuable contributions to the study of the welfare state."-Timothy Tilton, Indiana University, American Journal of Sociology, November 2001 "Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism offers a wonderful analytic history of income transfer programs throughout the 20th century. Alexander Hicks's central thesis about the importance of working class politics to the evolution of the welfare state is subtly argued and comprehensively tested. I cannot think of a better treatment of the subject."-Geoffrey Garrett, Yale University "Grounded solidly on a data-set of income security programs in the OECD countries, Alexander Hicks's book is a rigorous and authoritative account of the rise and retrenchment of the various forms of the modern welfare state through the 20th century. The book is essential reading for all those interested in the past or future of welfare states."-Michael Mann, UCLA "Alexander Hicks has here provided the most comprehensive analysis yet available on the links among political regimes, industrial relations systems, welfare state forms, and social policy outcomes. Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism is a landmark in comparative policy analysis."-Colin Crouch, Oxford University "Alexander Hicks, a leading figure in contemporary welfare state research, has with this book provided a new benchmark for comparative political economy. Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism is a tour de force of political history and state-of-the-art quantitative comparison. The result is a truly masterful demonstration of why, how, and how much political mobilization matters in shaping egalitarian outcomes in the rich democracies. This is one of those books that sets the standards of exemplary analysis for years to come. It is bound to become must reading for all aspiring-and seasoned-comparativists."-Gosta Esping-Andersen, University of Trento, Italy
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