Cathie Jo Martin

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Cathie Jo Martin is a professor of political science at Boston University. In recent work, she has shown how employers come to support social policies that promote human capital investment. Her publications include 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 in the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and World Politics.

While at Radcliffe, Martin will complete a book that investigates employers’ struggles to define their social identities in modern capitalist democracies. In particular, she will assess the impact of party competition and interest organization on managers’ perceptions of their political interests. Ultimately, the project will analyze the construction of business as a social class and suggest implications for social solidarity and equality.

Martin received a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has held a postdoctoral fellowship with the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity, and has taught at Northwestern University. Her research has been funded by the Danish Social Science Research Council, the German Marshall Fund, and the National Science Foundation, among other organizations. She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and 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 professorship with the Copenhagen Business School.