Torben Iversen

Torben Iversen
Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy

Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy. 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 in leading social science journals and edited volumes. 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.

Latest publication:

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


Contact
617/384-5847
iversen@fas.harvard.edu
My Website

1737 Cambridge Street
CGIS Knafel Building, Room 308


Subfields
Comparative Politics

Academic Interests
Democracy | Gender | Institutions | Parties, Campaigns & Elections | Political Economy & Development | Public Policy | Social Policy & the Welfare State | State-Society Relations

Research Methods
Formal Theory | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods

Geographic Regions of Study
Europe | United States