Isabel M. Perera
@isabelmperera
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Assistant Professor @CornellGov / Author of The Welfare Workforce (CUP, open-access: https://t.co/CiB92XQWFs) / https://t.co/45c31i83pv
Joined September 2019
As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from @CUP_PoliSci 🧵1/11.
I’m so happy to share that my book is now published and available open-access 🥳 Thank you, @CUP_PoliSci and @jrgingrich for this endorsement! . (🧵coming soon, too :).
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RT @CUP_PoliSci: Global Challenges to Democracy by Valerie J. Bunce, Thomas B. Pepinsky, Rachel Beatty Riedl and Kenneth M. Roberts .The fi….
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The White Paper projects are back! . This year’s winner? Prisha Agarwal, Sepehra Azami, & Anna Cecilia Fierro’s powerful campaign to improve the #H2AVisa program for farm workers — a timely & important project that highlights the original @Cornell values.
🧵Building on pedagogical inspiration from @juliaflynch & @povertyscholar, I asked the students in Comparative Public Policy to write White Papers that used the lessons learned from another country to propose a policy addressing an inequality in the U.S. @cornellgov @CornellBPP.
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Huge thanks to the Hangs for performing in CPP today! Get your tickets for their May 6 concert at
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Thank you, @CES_Europe !!.
Congratulations to CES Executive Committee Member @isabelmperera, Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell, for the publication of her first book, The Welfare Workforce: How Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies.
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RT @lfbeisermcgrath: If you work on topics related to climate change, social policy, and politics, broadly defined, then we'd love you to s….
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Thank you for this profile, @CornellNews !.
Priorities: In her new book, “The Welfare Workforce,” Isabel Perera of @cornellgov explains why after deinstitutionalization, some affluent democracies failed to provide adequate services for the severely mental ill while others expanded care. @CornellCAS
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RT @normanaselmeyer: Fellowship opportunity. @wadhamoxford in cooperation with the @OxfordHistory Faculty established the Koch History Cent….
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@AFSCMEArchivist @ArchivesnatFr @SPHtweeter Ch 7 discusses the implications for both welfare state scholarship and mental health policy. Lots of complexities to unpack, especially as the welfare workforce continues to evolve (see the Postscript). Kudos to @Rf_psykiskhelse for modeling a coalitional way forward 🙌 11/11.
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@AFSCMEArchivist @ArchivesnatFr @SPHtweeter Ch 6 tests the generalizability of the argument in two Scandinavian countries. Despite their similarities, Sweden's supply of mental health care is significantly lower than that of Norway. The welfare workforce argument helps to explain why. 10/11.
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The lack of coalition in the US made it hard to build mental health care after WWII (Ch 4); while its presence in France produced the opposite result (Ch 5). Check out the previously untapped archives & process-tracing tables here🧐@AFSCMEArchivist @ArchivesnatFR @SPHtweeter 9/11.
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Ch 3 shows that the US and French mental health systems were surprisingly similar before the critical juncture of WWII, except for one factor: the ability of managers and workers to form coalitions. Also an economic re-reading of the history of psychiatry 👀👀 8/11.
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Ch 3-5 contrast the important cases of the US and France to gain analytic leverage on the research questions. 7/11.
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Ch 2 uses two original datasets show just how widely countries vary in mental health policy, despite sharing the same goal of deinstitutionalization (defined in the Coda and operationalized in Fig 2.2). That’s also where you’ll find the logic of the research design 6/11
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@PhiladelphiaGov Ch 1 theorizes when, why, and how welfare workers gain political leverage, emphasizing the importance of cross-class alliances and long-term “supply-side” policy feedback effects. 5/11.
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@PhiladelphiaGov The answer lies in the political power of those who work for the welfare state: the “welfare workforce.” 👩🏽⚕️👨🏾⚕️🧑🏻⚕️Service sector workers have become major players in post-industrial politics, in ways that can transform the distribution of social welfare. 4/11.
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@PhiladelphiaGov Why, the 😱 made me wonder, do different countries provide different levels of mental health care (Fig 1.1)? And why, from a political economy perspective, would the state provide services to clients who lack the political and economic resources to demand them? 3/11
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This project began with a midnight shriek in downtown @PhiladelphiaGov. You can learn more about that night in the short preface-- perhaps the best summary of the book—here: 2/11.
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RT @seapcornell: Research Travel Grants for Graduate Students, from the @EinaudiCenter, can support your international research or fieldwor….
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RT @World_Pol: The January issue of @World_Pol is live! It includes articles from @BrentonKenkel @EmielAwad & Scott F Abramson; @isabelmper….
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