Jacob Hacker, Ph.D., Yale University, 2000, is Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science. He is also a Fellow at the New America Foundation and sits on the American Political Science Association's public presence Task Force on Inequality and Democracy. His research interests include the politics of U.S. social policy, American political development, and the comparative political economy of the welfare state. His articles have appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, Studies in American Political Development, Politics & Society, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. He is also the author of two books: The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security (Princeton, 1997), which was co-winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration; and The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States (Cambridge, 2002), which, as a dissertation, received prizes from the American Political Science Association, the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the National Academy of Social Insurance.