Cathie Jo Martin Professor Office: PLS 311A Phone: 617.353.3798 E-mail: cjmartin@bu.edu Education: B.A., Carleton College; M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Areas of Specialization: Comparative Political Economy American Politics, Business and Politics.

Cathie Jo Martin is professor of Political Science at Boston University and chair of the Council for European Studies. Martin is currently writing a book (together with Duane Swank) investigating the origins of coordinated capitalism and the circumstances under which employers are persuaded to endorse social policies promoting economic productivity and social solidarity.  She is author of Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy (Princeton University Press, 2000), Shifting the Burden: the Struggle over Growth and Corporate Taxation (University of Chicago Press, 1991), and articles appearing in journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, and Politics and Society among others.  She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the University of Copenhagen; in addition, she has received grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Danish Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation.  She holds a five-year appointment as a visiting professor of the Copenhagen Business School, serves on the strategic advisory board of the Danish National Institute for Social Science Research, and sits on the editorial boards of Socio-Economic Review and Polity.  Professor Martin eceived her Ph.D. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.

Professor Martin regularly teaches the following courses:
Political Parties (PO 318)
Comparative Public Policy (PO 341)
Political Economy of Advanced Industrialized Societies (PO 621)
Field Seminar in American Politics (PO 711)

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