Book Chapters
"On Casing a Study versus Studying a Case." In E. Simmons and N.R. Smith, eds. 2021. Rethinking Comparison. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp.84-106.
"Neoliberalism for the Common Good? Public Value Governance and the Downsizing of Democracy." with Adam Dahl. In A. Yeatman and B. Costea, eds. 2018. The Triumph of Managerialism: New Technologies of Governance and their Implications for Value. Rowman & Littlefield.
“Criminal Justice Predation and Neoliberal Governance.” With Joshua Page. In S.F. Schram and M. Pavlovskaya, eds. 2017. Rethinking Neoliberalism. New York, NY: Routledge.
“Welfare and Welfare Reform in the Age of Neoliberal Paternalism.” with Sanford F. Schram and Richard C. Fording in M. Reisch, ed. 2017. Social Policy and Social Justice. 2nd ed. Cognella. Pp.383-408.
“Learning from Ferguson: Welfare, Criminal Justice, and the Political Science of Race and Class.” With Vesla Weaver. In Juliet Hooker and Alvin B. Tillery, eds. 2016. American Political Science Association Task Report on Racial and Class Inequalities Across the Americas. Washington, DC: American Political Science Association.
“It Can’t Be a Lie: The Wire as Breaching Experiment.” with Joshua Page. In S. Deylami and J. Havercroft, eds. 2015. The Politics of HBO’s The Wire: Everything Is Connected. New York, NY: Routledge. Pp.11-40.
“Babies as Barriers: Welfare Policy Discourse in an Era of Neoliberalism.” With Linda Houser, Sanford F. Schram, and Richard C. Fording in S. Haymes, M. Vidal de Haymes, and R. Miller, eds. 2015. Routledge Handbook of Poverty and the United States. New York, NY: Routledge. pp.143-60.
“Guardianship and the New Gilded Age: Insular Politics and the Perils of Elite Rule.” With Lawrence R. Jacobs in M.G. Crain and M. Sherraden, eds. 2014. Working and Living in the Shadow of Economic Fragility. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
“Welfare and Welfare Reform in the Age of Neoliberal Paternalism.” with Sanford F. Schram and Richard C. Fording in M. Reisch, ed. 2013. Social Policy and Social Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Pp.377-404.
“Performance Management as a Disciplinary Regime: Street-Level Organizations in a Neoliberal Era of Poverty Governance” with Sanford F. Schram and Richard C. Fording in E. Brodkin and G. Marston, eds. 2013. Work and the Welfare State: The Politics and Management of Policy Change. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Pp125-40.
“Neoliberal Paternalism: Race and the New Poverty Governance.” with Sanford F. Schram and Richard C. Fording in Moon-Kie Jung, João Costa Vargas and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, eds. 2011. State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Pp.130-57.
“Coloring the Terms of Membership: Reinventing the Divided Citizenry in an Era of Neoliberal Paternalism.“ with Sanford F. Schram in D. Harris and A.C. Lin, eds. 2008. The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. Pp.293-322.
“The New Politics of Inequality: A Policy-Centered Perspective.” with Jacob S. Hacker and Suzanne Mettler in J. Soss, J.S. Hacker, and S. Mettler, eds. 2007. Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
“A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback.” with Sanford Schram in J. Soss, J.S. Hacker, and S. Mettler, eds. 2007. Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality. New York, NY: Russell Sage. Link to original article in APSR.
“Talking Our Way to Meaningful Explanations: A Practice-Centered Approach to In-Depth Interviews for Interpretive Research.” In D. Yanow and P. Schwartz-Shea, eds. 2006. Interpretation and Method. New York: M.E. Sharpe. Pp.127-49. Reprinted in 2nd edition, 2013.
“Making Clients and Citizens: Welfare Policy as a Source of Status, Belief, and Action.” In Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram, eds. 2005. Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy. State University of New York Press. pp.291-328.
“Contemporary Public Opinion: Poverty and Welfare.” with Erin O’Brien. In Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds. 2004. Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
“Introduction” with Sanford Schram and Richard Fording. In S.F. Schram, J. Soss, and R.C. Fording, eds. 2003. Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
“The Hard Line and the Color Line: Race, Welfare, and the Roots of Get-Tough Reform.” with Sanford Schram, Thomas Vartanian, and Erin O’Brien. In S.F. Schram, J. Soss, and R.C. Fording, eds. 2003. Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
“Success Stories: Welfare Reform, Policy Discourse, and the Politics of Research.” with Sanford Schram. In R. Albelda and A. Withorn, eds. 2002. Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond. Boston, MA: South End Press. pp.57-78. (reprinted from The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science).
“Making Something Out of Nothing: Welfare Reform and a New Race to the Bottom.” with Sanford Schram. In Sanford F. Schram, ed. 1999. Welfare Reform: A Race to the Bottom? Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp.83-104 (reprinted from Publius).
“Already Hit Bottom: General Assistance, Welfare Retrenchment, and Single Male Migration.” with Thomas Vartanian, Sanford Schram, and Jim Baumohl. In Sanford Schram, ed. 1999. Welfare Reform: A Race to the Bottom? Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp.111-28 (reprinted from American Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare).