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.  She is the 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.  Her research interests in employers and social policy have been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Danish National Study of Power and Democracy, the German Marshall Fund, the Danish Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation.  She spent 1994-1995 as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and 2000-2001 as a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen.  Currently, she serves on the strategic advisory council of the Danish National Institute for Social Science Research and holds a visiting scholar position with the Copenhagen Business School.  During the academic year of 2007-2008, she will be on leave at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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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