Social Policy as if People Matter

Speaker Bios Mark Kesselman

Mark Kesselman is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, specializing in the political economy of Western Europe and comparative labor movements. Since 1998 he has been co-director of the Columbia University Seminar on Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles. He is the author of The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Politics, 4th ed. (with Alan Draper and Ira Katznelson, 2003) and the editor and co-author of A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century? (with Herrick Chapman and Martin Schain, 1998), An Introduction to Comparative Politics, third ed. (with Joel Krieger and William A. Joseph, 2003), and European Politics in Transition, 4th ed. (with Joel Krieger, 2003).