Research
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Book.
Mettler, Suzanne, and Trevor E. Brown. 2025. Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Journal Articles.
Brown, Trevor E., and Suzanne Mettler. 2025. “Rural Politics in the United States.” Annual Review of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-040623-114017
Perera, Isabel M., and Trevor E. Brown. 2025. "Why States Do and Do Not Privatize: Cross-Class Coalitions in the Public Sector." World Politics. https://doi.org/10.1353/wp.2025.a950022
Brown, Trevor E. 2024. "Cross-Domain Policy Feedback: The Institutionalization of Collective Bargaining Rights for Health Care Workers." Journal of Policy History. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898030624000071
Brown, Trevor E., Gisela Pedroza Jauregui, Suzanne Mettler, and Marissa Rivera. 2024. “A Rural-Urban Political Divide Among Whom? Race, Ethnicity, and Political Behavior Across Place.” Politics, Groups, and Identities. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2024.2328551
Brown, Trevor E., and Suzanne Mettler. 2023. "Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976–2020." Perspectives on Politics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723002918
Mettler, Suzanne, and Trevor E. Brown. 2022. “The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 699, no. 1: 130–142. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162211070061
Brown, Trevor E., Suzanne Mettler, and Samantha Puzzi. 2021. "When Rural and Urban Become 'Us' versus 'Them': How a Growing Divide is Reshaping American Politics." The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics. https://doi.org/10.1515/for-2021-2029
Scholarly Book Reviews & Essays.
Brown, Trevor E. 2024. "The New Politics (and Political Science) of Workers’ Rights?: A Review Essay." Political Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqae055
Brown, Trevor E. 2022. "Book Review: Automation Anxiety: Why and How to Save Work, by Cynthia Estlund." ILR Review (March). https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00197939221080695
Book Chapters.
Brown, Trevor E., and Suzanne Mettler. 2025. “How the Transformation of the American Political Economy Spurred a Rural-Urban Political Divide.” In Free People, Free Markets: Can Democracy & Capitalism be Reconciled? Eds. Scott Miller and Sidney M. Milkis. Oxford University Press.
Other Writing.
Brown, Trevor E.. 2024. “The Distinctive Politics and Economics of the Health Care Workforce.” The American Political Economy Blog. https://www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/blog-articles/studying-healthcare-labor-through-an-american-political-economy-lens
Brown, Trevor E., Gisela Pedroza Jauregui, Suzanne Mettler, and Marissa Rivera. 2024. “The Rural-Urban Political Divide is Mostly Driven by White Voters, and There are Fewer Divisions Over Policy than Many Think.” London School of Economics American Politics and Policy Blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024/06/07/the-rural-urban-political-divide-is-mostly-driven-by-white-voters-and-there-are-fewer-divisions-over-policy-than-many-think/
In Progress.
Workers Against Solidarity: The Political Development of the American Health Care Workforce
Book-length dissertation project that charts how the public-private welfare state has shaped the political power and well-being of health care workers.
Other Research Experience.
Research Consultant, International Labor Organization. Summer 2021.
Collected and reviewed primary and secondary sources on organized labor's response to the COVID-19 pandemic for ILO's Flagship Report on Social Dialogue.
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