Fiona Ross
[author of chapter 6 ]
Lecturer (Assistant/Associate Professor), Department of Political Science, University of Bristol, UK.
British B. A., University of Strathclyde; Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, US.
Professor Ross’ fields of interest are comparative social policy and American government and policy. Before joining Bristol in 1996, she was an Instructor at the University of Pittsburgh (1993-95) and at Bucknell University (1995-96). Between 1998-1999 she was a European Forum Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She has published widely in scholarly journals, including Governance, West European Politics, International Journal of Political Studies, Journal of Public Policy, and Revista internacional de estudos politicos. She has also contributed to several edited volumes, including American Politics and Society Today (2002), Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy (2003), Reconstructing the Welfare State (2003), and Ideational Institutionalism (forthcoming 2004). Fiona Ross is currently working on the politics of unpopular policies, focusing on welfare retrenchment across a sample of advanced industrial democracies. In this work she is focusing on the political calculations that political leaders confront in deciding to initiate an agenda that incurs electoral risk. Her book Partisan Politics, Contentious Policy-making and Welfare Reform in the US and Britain will be published during 2004.
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