Book manuscript

► Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe and the United States (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2006).

Published papers

► “Les politiques du temps de l’enfant en Europe occidentale: tendances et implications.” Recherches et Prévisions no. 83 (March 2006): 29-43.

► “Financing the Welfare State: Elite Politics and the Decline of the Social Insurance Model in America,” with Andrea Louise Campbell.

Studies in American Political Development 19, 2 (Fall 2005): 173-95.

► “Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” with Andrea Louise Campbell.

Comparative Political Studies, 38, 8 (October 2005): 887-914.

► “The ‘Production’ of Child Care: How Labor Markets Shape Social Policy and Vice Versa.”

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society 12, 2 (Summer 2005): 243-63.

► “The Politics of Mothers' Employment: France in Comparative Perspective”

World Politics 55, 2 (January 2003): 259-89.

► “Paid to Care: The Origins and Effects of Care Leave Policies in Western Europe” with Kathrin Zippel.

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society 10, 1 (Spring 2003): 49-85.

► “Forging the Frontiers between State, Church, and Family: Religious Cleavages and the Origins of Early Childhood Education and Care Policies in France, Sweden, and Germany.” Politics & Society 30, 1 (March 2002): 113-48.

► “A Child of the Sixties: The Great Society, the New Right, and the Politics of Federal Child Care”

Journal of Policy History 13, 2 (March 2001): 215-50.

► “Gender and the Welfare State.” Comparative Politics 34, 1 (October 2001): 105-25.

► “Child Care and the Liberal Welfare Regime: A Review Essay.” Review of Policy Research 20, 4(Winter 2003): p743-48.

Reviews several books on child care in the United States, Australia, and Great Britain. Books include: Vicky Randall, “The Politics of Child Daycare in Britain,” Sally S. Cohen, “Championing Child Care,” and Deborah Brennan, “The Politics of Australian Child Care, 2d edition.”

Papers in Progress

► Towards the Europeanization of Work-Family Policies? The Impact of the EU on Policies for Working Parents

► "The Religious Origins of the Gendered Welfare State: Policies for Mothers' Employment in Western Europe"

Part of a research project directed by Philip Manow and Kees van Kersbergen, “Religion and the Western Welfare State.”

http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/people/pm/pdf/religion_final%20cup%20manuscript%2027-1-2007.pdf

► “Family Values Meets the Tax Code: The Strange Career of the “Marriage Penalty” in American Politics.”

► “The Politics of Time: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Comparing and Explaining Work-Family Policies”