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Peter Swenson Ph.D.
Yale University
Associate Professor

His fields are Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Economy, Politics of Western Europe, and Politics of Labor.

Swenson is the author of Fair Shares: Unions, Pay, and Politics in Sweden and West Germany (Cornell University Press) as well as a number of articles on the political economy of labor relations and the welfare state in Western Europe and the United States.

He is currently writing a book entitled Employers Unite: Labor Market Governance and the Welfare State in the United States and Sweden, a comparative study of collective employer strategies in domestic labor markets, politics, and the world economy. 

[e-mail: p-swenson@northwestern.edu]

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