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News

May 2007: Anthony Chen publishes, "The Party of Lincoln and the Politics of State Fair Employment Practices Legislation in the North, 1945-64" in the American Journal of Sociology.
April 2007: Alexandra Kalev's groundbreaking new study that shows employee diversity training does not work is featured in Time Magazine.
August 2006: Naomi Murakawa receives the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association's Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section.
August 2006: Robert Mickey receives the American Political Science Association's E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral disseration in the field of American Government.
April 2006: Anthony Chen publishes,"The Hitlerian Rule of Quotas: Racial Conservatism and the Politics of Fair Employment Legislation in NY State, 1941-45."

Selected Health Policy Publications by Scholars and Alumni -- Listed in Alphabetical Order

Beamer, Glenn, Ph.D. (Cohort IV)

Beamer, G. (2004). State Health Care Reform Politics and the Unfortunate End of the 1990s. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 29 (2)
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Burke, Tom, Ph.D. (Cohort VIII)

Muchmore, L., Lynch, W., Garnder, H., Williamson, T., Burke, T. (2003). Prevalence of Arthritis and Associated Joint Disorders in an Employed Population and the Associated Healthcare, Sick Leave, Disability, and Workers' Compensation Benefits Cost and Productivity Loss for Employers. JOEM, 45 (4).
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Esterling, Kevin, Ph.D. (Cohort VII)

Carpenter, D., Esterling, K., Lazer, D. (2003). The Strength of Strong Ties, A Model of Contact-Making in Policy Networks with Evidence from U.S. Health Politics. Rationality and Society, 15 (4), 411-440.
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Esterling, K. (2002). Explaining Argument Strategies: The Conditions for Evidence-Based Debate in Health Policy Hearings.
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Oberlander, Jonathan B., Ph.D. (Cohort II)

Oberlander, J. (2005). Health Policy, Markets and Medicine. Churchill, L., Estroff, S., Henderson, G., King, N., Strauss, R. Duke University Press. 288 pages.
Oberlander, J. (2005). Wrong Turn: The Wayward Path of Health Care Reform. Virtual Mentor: Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association, 7 (7).
Oberlander, J. (2003). The Politics of Health Reform: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good Plans. Health Affairs Web Exclusive, August 27 (W3), 391-404.
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Oberlander, J. (2003). The Political Life of Medicare. University of Chicago Press, 262 pages.
Oberlander, J. (2002). The U.S. Health Care System: On A Road to Nowhere? Canadian Medical Association Journal, 167 (2), 163-168.

Sheingate, Adam D., Ph.D. (Cohort IX)

Sheingate, A.D. "Promotion Versus Precaution: The Evolution of Biotechnology Policy in the United States", British Journal of Political Science, Volume 36, Issue 02, April 2006, pp 243-268
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0007123406000147.
Sheingate, A.D. and Yamagishi, T. "Occupation Politics: American Interests and the Struggle over Health Insurance in Postwar Japan," Social Science History 30.1 (2006) 137-164 (with Takakazu Yamagishi).
Sheingate, A.D. and Yamagishi, T. (2002). “Why No Comprehensive National Health Insurance in the United States? History, Policy, and Politics” (published in Japanese as “Naze Amerika ni kokumin kaihoken ga sonzai shinainoka?”), Shakai seisaku kenkyu [Studies in Social Policy]

John D. Wilkerson, Ph.D. (Cohort I)

Wilkerson, J.D. (2003). The Political Economy of Health in the United States. Annual Review of Political Science, 6, 327-43.
Wilkerson, J.D., Feeley, T.J., Sue, C., & Schiereck, N. (2002). Using Bills to Trace Attention in Congress: Policy Windows in Health Care Legislating. Baumgartner, F. and Jones, B.D. eds, Policy Dynamics, University of Chicago.

Yoon, Albert H., J.D., Ph.D. (Cohort VI)

Yoon, A.H. (2001). Damage Caps and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the South, 3. American Law & Economics Review, 199-227.

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