Publications

BOOKS:

1. Rating Politics: Sovereign Credit Ratings and Democratic Choice in Prosperous Developed Countries (2023) Oxford University Press (with Zsofia Barta)

2. From Convergence to Crisis: Labor Markets and the Instability of the Euro.  (2016).  Cornell University Press, in the Cornell Studies in Money Series

- Honorable mention for the International Studies Association's 2017 Best Book in IPE Prize 

- Honorable mention for the European Union Studies Association's 2015-2016 Best Book Prize

- Reviewed in Foreign Affairs, Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Common Market Studies, and the European Union   Studies Association's Review of Books 

SPECIAL ISSUES:

1. Looking back and looking forward in IPE (2023). Special feature for the Review of International Political Economy co-edited with Jennifer Bair, Juanita Elias, Daniela Gabor, Randall Germain, Aida Hozic, Saori Katada, Lena Rethel and Kevin Young. Volume 30.

2. Bricks in the Wall: The Politics of housing in Europe (2020) Special issue for West European Politics, co-edited with Paulette Kurzer. Volume 43, Issue 2.

3. Rethinking Comparative Capitalism and European Integration (2018) Special issue for New Political Economy, co-edited with Aidan Regan. Volume 23, Issue 2.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. Barta, Z., Baccaro, L. and Johnston, AL. (2024) "Signaling Virtue or Vulnerability?: The changing impact of EMU on government bond spreads", Socio-Economic Review.

2. Johnston, AL (2024). "So right it's wrong?: Right governments, far right populism, and investment risk". Comparative Political Studies.

3. Johnston, AL and Barta, Z. (2023). "The strings of the ‘golden straitjacket’: Sovereign ratings and the welfare state in developed countries".  Socio-Economic Review.  21(1): 533-570

4. Najam, R and Johnston, AL. (2023) "Information provision and preferences toward tuition introduction in public universities: Evidence from a survey experiment in Afghanistan", Education Economics.  31(6):  649-663.

5. Bair, J., Elias, J., Gabor, D., Germain, R., Hozic, A., Johnston AL, Katada, S., Rethel, L., and Young, KL. (2023) “RIPE 30th anniversary special feature: looking back and looking forward in IPE”, Review of International Political Economy.  30(1): 1-14.

6. Johnston, AL, Hamann, K., and Field, B. (2022) "A strike against the left: General strikes and public opinion of incumbent governments in Spain", in Political Studies. 70(3): 837-864

7. Barta, Z and Johnston, AL (2021) "Entitlements in the crosshairs: How sovereign credit ratings judge the welfare state in advanced market economies", in Review of International Political Economy. 28(5): 1169-1195.

8. Johnston AL, Fuller, GW, and Regan, A. (2021) "It takes two to tango: mortgage markets, labor markets and rising household debt in Europe", in Review of International Political Economy. 28(4): 843-873

9. Johnston AL and Kurzer, P (2020), "Bricks in the wall: The politics of housing in Europe", West European Politics. 43(2): 275-296.

10. Fuller, GW, Johnston AL, and Regan A (2020) "Housing Prices and Wealth Inequality in Western Europe", West European Politics. 43(2): 297-320.

11. Barta, Z., and Johnston, AL (2018) "Rating Politics?: Partisan Discrimination in Credit Ratings in Developed Economies", Comparative Political Studies. 51(5): 587-620.

- Selected for an Albie award (publicized in the Washington Post) as one of the best works on political economy in 2018

- Winner of the EUSA conference's 2017 best paper prize.

12. Johnston, AL and Regan, A (2018) "Is the European Union capable of integration diverse models of capitalism?", New Political Economy. 23(2): 145-159.

13. Johnston, AL and Regan, A (2017) "Global Finance, Labor Politics and the Political Economy of Housing Prices", Politics & Society. 45(3): 327-358

14. Tanner, A and Johnston, AL (2017) "The Impact of Rural Electric Access on Deforestation Rates", World Development. 94(June): 174-185

15. Hamann, K., Johnston AL, and Kelly, J.  (2016) "The Electoral Effects of General Strikes in Western Europe", Comparative Politics. 49(1): 63-82.

- Featured on the Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog

16. Hauser, D. and Johnston, AL (2016) “Public Costs, Relative Subsidies, and Repayment Burdens of Federal U.S. Student Loan Plans: Lessons for Reform” Higher Education Policy. 29(1): 89-107.

17. Johnston, AL and Regan, A. (2016) "European monetary integration and the incompatibility of national varieties of capitalism”, Journal of Common Market Studies. 54(2): 318-336

18. Docherty, A and Johnston, AL  (2015)  “Prenatal Care in Oregon and Washington: The Role of Policy in Supporting Access for those most in Need” Nursing Research. 62(4): 117-127

19. Hamann, K., Johnston AL, Katsanidou, A., Kelly, J., and Pollock, P.  (2015) “Sharing the Rewards but Dividing the Costs?: The Electoral Consequences of Social Pacts and Legislative Reform in Western Europe” West European Politics. 38(1): 206-227.

20. Johnston AL, Hancké, R, and Pant, S. (2014) “Comparative Institutional Advantage in Europe’s Sovereign Debt Crisis”.  Comparative Political Studies. 47(13) 1771-1800

21. Hamann, K., Johnston AL, and Kelly, J.  (2013) “Striking Concessions from Governments:Explaining the Success of General Strikes in Western Europe, 1980-2009”  Comparative Politics, 46(1): 23-41

22. Hamann, K., Johnston AL, and Kelly, J.  (2013) “Unions Against Governments: Explaining General Strikes in Western Europe, 1980-2006”.  Comparative Political Studies.  46(9): 1030-1057

23. Johnston AL, and Barr, N. (2013) "Student Loan Reform, Interest Subsidies and Costly Technicalities: Lessons from the UK Experience," Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. 35(2): 167-178

24. Johnston AL (2012) “European Economic and Monetary Union's Perverse Effects on Sectoral Wage Inflation: Negative Feedback Effects from Institutional Change?”. European Union Politics. 13(3): 345-366.

25. Johnston AL, Kornelakis A, Rodriguez-D’Acri, C. (2012) “Swords of Justice in an age of retrenchment? The role of trade unions in welfare provision” Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research. 18(2): 213-224.

26. Johnston AL, Kornelakis A, Rodriguez-D’Acri, C. (2011) “Social partners and welfare state reconfiguration: privatization or re-collectivization of social risks?”  European Journal of Industrial Relations.  17(4): 349-364

27. Johnston AL, Hancké R (2009) “Wage inflation and labour unions in EMU” Journal of European Public Policy, 16(4): 601-622

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Johnston, AL and Regan, A. (2023) “Growth models and European political economy” in Moschella, M., Quaglia, L. and Spendzharova, A. eds European Political Economy: Theoretical Approaches and Policy Issues. Oxford University Press.

2. Johnston, AL and Matthijs, M. (2022) "The political economy of the EU's post-crisis growth model" in Baccaro, L., Blyth, M., and Pontusson, J. eds Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation. Oxford University Press. pgs 117-142.

3. Johnston, AL. (2021) "Always a Winning Strategy?: Wage moderation's conditional impact on growth outcomes", in Hassel, A. and Palier, B. eds Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies.  Oxford University Press. pgs 291-319.

4. Johnston, AL. (2017) "Comparative and International Political Economy and the Global Financial Crisis", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press

5. Hamann, K., Johnston AL, and Kelly, J. (2012) "Generalstreiks in Westeuropa 1980-2011" in Gallas, A., Nowak, J. and Wilde, F. eds Politische Streikes im Europa der Krise.  VSA: Verlag Hamburg. Pgs. 107-113. (Translation: “General Strikes in Western Europe, 1980-2011”, in Political Strikes in Europe During the Crisis)

6. Hassel A, Johnston AL, Wagner B:  (2009) “Wage setting, minimum wages and industrial relations.”  In Industrial Relations in Europe 2008. European Commission (ed), Brussels: 73-97.