Dear RSF:
Please join us next Tuesday, October 8, at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a Guest Seminar by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez entitled “Social Science for Federal Policymaking: Lessons from Biden-Harris Administration Efforts to Democratize the Administrative State”. Click here for a copy of the background article for his presentation.
Hertel-Fernandez is an Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a former Russell Sage Scholar (VC 2019-20). He holds an AM and PhD in Government and Social Policy from Harvard University and a BA in Political Science from Northwestern University.
Hertel-Fernandez’s work focuses on the political economy of the United States, with an emphasis on the politics of organized interests and public policy. He reviews the strategies that businesses have developed to lobby across the states, the ways that wealthy individuals are intervening in politics and their effect on the U.S. political terrain, and the politics of social programs, including unemployment insurance and Medicaid.
His recent book, Politics at Work (Oxford, 2018), examined how American businesses are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics and how that practice is shaping American politics and policy. With Theda Skocpol, he is working on a new book (University of Chicago, under contract) which examines the rise of the Koch political network and its implications for the Republican Party and the American political economy.