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Margarita Estévez-Abe
mestevez@wcfia.harvard.edu
Associate Professor of Government
Department of Government
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/
After earning her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1999, Professor Margarita Estévez-Abe was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota before joining the Harvard faculty in 2001. Her research interests include comparative social policy, comparative study of women’s employment patterns and Japanese politics. She is currently working on a book titled: Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism. Her recent work includes: "Forgotten Link? Welfare-Finance Nexus" in Manow and Ebbinghaus eds., Varieties of Welfare States; "Social Protection and Skill Formation" (co-authored with Torben Iversen and David Soskice) in Hall and Soskice eds., Varieties of Capitalism; "Negotiating Welfare Reform" in Rothstein and Steinmo eds, Restructuring the Welfare State. Her book, Political Logics of Welfare Capitalism: Party, Bureaucracy and Business in Postwar Japan, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
