Isabel M. Perera
@isabelmperera.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell
Author of The Welfare Workforce (CUP, open-access: https://tinyurl.com/yc2t9hw5)
www.isabelmperera.com
Author of The Welfare Workforce (CUP, open-access: https://tinyurl.com/yc2t9hw5)
www.isabelmperera.com
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I’m so happy to announce that my book is now published and available open-access! (🧵coming soon, too :)
"A beautifully written and insightful take on the evolution of mental healthcare in advanced democracies, and one that opens a new lens on one of the most central, and largely unexamined, parts of the modern state."
The Welfare Workforce by Isabel M. Perera
Out now in #OpenAccess cup.org/3DQJizT
The Welfare Workforce by Isabel M. Perera
Out now in #OpenAccess cup.org/3DQJizT
As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social 🧵 1/11
For #WorldMentalHealthDay, check out @namicommunicate.bsky.social and its resources.
We won’t get better mental care unless we advocate for it:
We won’t get better mental care unless we advocate for it:
How can engaging with your community support your mental health?
If you are seeking peers who are also on a journey towards learning about mental health conditions, or a place to be involved with events raising awareness of mental health - your local NAMI is here for you!
If you are seeking peers who are also on a journey towards learning about mental health conditions, or a place to be involved with events raising awareness of mental health - your local NAMI is here for you!
October 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
For #WorldMentalHealthDay, check out @namicommunicate.bsky.social and its resources.
We won’t get better mental care unless we advocate for it:
We won’t get better mental care unless we advocate for it:
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Can we have 8 min of your time please?
@siljahausermann.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social & I wrote a very brief reflection on why social investment might be a misleading paradigm. Way forward: please distinguish different types of social investments!
More here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@siljahausermann.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social & I wrote a very brief reflection on why social investment might be a misleading paradigm. Way forward: please distinguish different types of social investments!
More here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Social investment—A (mis)leading paradigm? Why we need to distinguish different types of social investments - Julian Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier, 2025
Social investment has become a buzzword among social policy-makers and welfare state scholars alike. Social investments seem to be the natural social policy res...
journals.sagepub.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Can we have 8 min of your time please?
@siljahausermann.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social & I wrote a very brief reflection on why social investment might be a misleading paradigm. Way forward: please distinguish different types of social investments!
More here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@siljahausermann.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social & I wrote a very brief reflection on why social investment might be a misleading paradigm. Way forward: please distinguish different types of social investments!
More here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to Trevor Brown @jhuartssciences.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @apsa.bsky.social Labor Politics A Philip Randolph Award! Here presented by the great @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social 🥳
September 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Congratulations to Trevor Brown @jhuartssciences.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @apsa.bsky.social Labor Politics A Philip Randolph Award! Here presented by the great @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social 🥳
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We're thrilled to welcome @isabelmperera.bsky.social of Cornell University to the network! Perera's research focuses on how politics shape the social policies, labor markets, and overall economies of affluent democracies.
🔗 Learn more: scholars.org/scholar/isab...
🔗 Learn more: scholars.org/scholar/isab...
September 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We're thrilled to welcome @isabelmperera.bsky.social of Cornell University to the network! Perera's research focuses on how politics shape the social policies, labor markets, and overall economies of affluent democracies.
🔗 Learn more: scholars.org/scholar/isab...
🔗 Learn more: scholars.org/scholar/isab...
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📢 Call for Proposals
CES is pleased to invite submissions for its 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, to be held in Dublin, June 16–18, 2025.
For more information about the Conference Theme and how to apply visit: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...
CES is pleased to invite submissions for its 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, to be held in Dublin, June 16–18, 2025.
For more information about the Conference Theme and how to apply visit: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...
August 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📢 Call for Proposals
CES is pleased to invite submissions for its 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, to be held in Dublin, June 16–18, 2025.
For more information about the Conference Theme and how to apply visit: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...
CES is pleased to invite submissions for its 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, to be held in Dublin, June 16–18, 2025.
For more information about the Conference Theme and how to apply visit: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...
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Likely to backfire and make things worse. #HousingFirst programs work to get most people out of homelessness status. Defunding them is a bad with more costs for emergency housing and emergency room visits.
Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire
In late July, President Trump signed an executive order urging local authorities to find ways to force homeless individuals with mental illness into hospitals. On its face, some observers might find t...
thefulcrum.us
August 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Likely to backfire and make things worse. #HousingFirst programs work to get most people out of homelessness status. Defunding them is a bad with more costs for emergency housing and emergency room visits.
Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire
In late July, President Trump signed an executive order urging local authorities to find ways to force homeless individuals with mental illness into hospitals. On its face, some observers might find t...
thefulcrum.us
August 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
The @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy and Welfare Network was thrilled to inaugurate its Early Career Workshop at our meeting last week 🎉🙌
July 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy and Welfare Network was thrilled to inaugurate its Early Career Workshop at our meeting last week 🎉🙌
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For those interested in EUropean politics June 2026 is going to be fab.
Please consider going to Council for European Studies conference in Dublin 16-18 June 2026,
& then on to @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast 18-20 June.
@karendublin.bsky.social & I will be joining you!
Please consider going to Council for European Studies conference in Dublin 16-18 June 2026,
& then on to @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast 18-20 June.
@karendublin.bsky.social & I will be joining you!
Congrats to EPSS! Lots of opportunities to attend the Council for European Studies conference at UCD in Dublin (16-18 June 2026) before the EPSS -- CES is interdisciplinary with lots of top-notch polsci research on European/EU politics. ces-europe.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
For those interested in EUropean politics June 2026 is going to be fab.
Please consider going to Council for European Studies conference in Dublin 16-18 June 2026,
& then on to @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast 18-20 June.
@karendublin.bsky.social & I will be joining you!
Please consider going to Council for European Studies conference in Dublin 16-18 June 2026,
& then on to @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast 18-20 June.
@karendublin.bsky.social & I will be joining you!
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Scenes from the Council for European Studies conference in Philly, at #Temple University. Fantastic presentations and lots of fun making new contacts and hanging out with old friends. @ofioretos.bsky.social @ces-europe.bsky.social @dalriada77.bsky.social @maxinedavid.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Scenes from the Council for European Studies conference in Philly, at #Temple University. Fantastic presentations and lots of fun making new contacts and hanging out with old friends. @ofioretos.bsky.social @ces-europe.bsky.social @dalriada77.bsky.social @maxinedavid.bsky.social
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How do you teach health care policy in 2025 and end your class on a positive note (or at least some sense of optimism)?
I might actually go with growth and apparent sustainability of Medicaid.
I might actually go with growth and apparent sustainability of Medicaid.
May 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
How do you teach health care policy in 2025 and end your class on a positive note (or at least some sense of optimism)?
I might actually go with growth and apparent sustainability of Medicaid.
I might actually go with growth and apparent sustainability of Medicaid.
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 @cornelluniversity.bsky.social values.
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 @cornelluniversity.bsky.social values.
May 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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 @cornelluniversity.bsky.social values.
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 @cornelluniversity.bsky.social values.
Huge thanks to the Hangs for performing in CPP today! Get your tickets for their May 6 concert at www.hangovers.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Huge thanks to the Hangs for performing in CPP today! Get your tickets for their May 6 concert at www.hangovers.com
It was huge honor to visit @unevadareno.bsky.social. This place is really special. My thanks to @ianmhartshorn.com and colleagues for nurturing a superior intellectual environment—and then inviting me to participate in it!
We’re probably going to have some austerity on campus after the next budget so I was *really* happy we got to bring in my friend and colleague @isabelmperera.bsky.social for a great public talk and guest visit to my political economy class. Her new book is great and open access!
April 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It was huge honor to visit @unevadareno.bsky.social. This place is really special. My thanks to @ianmhartshorn.com and colleagues for nurturing a superior intellectual environment—and then inviting me to participate in it!
Heading to you now, @ianmhartshorn.com ! Thanks so much for having me. This Ithacan won’t be fazed by the snow :)
I'm very happy to be hosting my friend, the great and the good @isabelmperera.bsky.social at UNR next week to discuss her new book!
April 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Heading to you now, @ianmhartshorn.com ! Thanks so much for having me. This Ithacan won’t be fazed by the snow :)
Thank you, @bpetrova.bsky.social and @ttu.edu for inviting me to share the project with you. What a great community and thoughtful discussion!
Very happy to welcome @isabelmperera.bsky.social to @ttu.edu to hear her present her CUP book The Welfare Workforce.
It's an incredibly timely and important book that makes a valuable contribution to existing scholarship on social policy and mental health care.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
It's an incredibly timely and important book that makes a valuable contribution to existing scholarship on social policy and mental health care.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
The Welfare Workforce
Cambridge Core - Sociology of Science and Medicine - The Welfare Workforce
www.cambridge.org
April 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Thank you, @bpetrova.bsky.social and @ttu.edu for inviting me to share the project with you. What a great community and thoughtful discussion!
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Have a listen to the audio Abstract of "Why States Do and Do Not Privatize," by Isabel Perera and Trevor Brown. #privatization #government #coalitions #laborunions @isabelmperera.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/mt5bYXrFUpWD...
February 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Have a listen to the audio Abstract of "Why States Do and Do Not Privatize," by Isabel Perera and Trevor Brown. #privatization #government #coalitions #laborunions @isabelmperera.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/mt5bYXrFUpWD...
Thanks, Storied Teller, for profiling our work!
For an interview on our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article:
For an interview on our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article:
How do manager-worker coalitions act as the most powerful antidote to privatization? January @worldpolitics.bsky.social authors Isabel Perera and Trevor Brown answer this and more in The Storied Teller. @isabelmperera.bsky.social @cornelluniversity.bsky.social wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...
Union Made
In the January 2025 (Volume 77, Number 1) issue of World Politics, Cornell University Department of Government scholars, Isabel M. Perera, an assistant professor, and Trevor Brown, a Ph.D. candidate, ...
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February 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Thanks, Storied Teller, for profiling our work!
For an interview on our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article:
For an interview on our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article:
Worried about the privatization of public services ? 👀 Wondering what might PREVENT it ??
Check out our article in @worldpolitics.bsky.social for a theory on the role of public employees.
(Also great for train buffs 🙌🚊)
Check out our article in @worldpolitics.bsky.social for a theory on the role of public employees.
(Also great for train buffs 🙌🚊)
Can labor and management coalitions affect the privatization of public services? @isabelmperera.bsky.social & Trevor Brown argue that they do through the study of passenger rail in their January @worldpolitics.bsky.social article. #privatization #government muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Worried about the privatization of public services ? 👀 Wondering what might PREVENT it ??
Check out our article in @worldpolitics.bsky.social for a theory on the role of public employees.
(Also great for train buffs 🙌🚊)
Check out our article in @worldpolitics.bsky.social for a theory on the role of public employees.
(Also great for train buffs 🙌🚊)
Thank you, @ces-europe.bsky.social !!
Congratulations to CES Executive Committee Member
@isabelmperera.bsky.social, 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. bit.ly/TheWelfareWo...
@isabelmperera.bsky.social, 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. bit.ly/TheWelfareWo...
February 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Thank you, @ces-europe.bsky.social !!
As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social 🧵 1/11
I’m so happy to announce that my book is now published and available open-access! (🧵coming soon, too :)
"A beautifully written and insightful take on the evolution of mental healthcare in advanced democracies, and one that opens a new lens on one of the most central, and largely unexamined, parts of the modern state."
The Welfare Workforce by Isabel M. Perera
Out now in #OpenAccess cup.org/3DQJizT
The Welfare Workforce by Isabel M. Perera
Out now in #OpenAccess cup.org/3DQJizT
February 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social 🧵 1/11
Reposted by Isabel M. Perera
New 2024 data: Over 50% of GOP fundraising now comes from just 100 mega-donors.
Trump’s embrace of the billionaire class—and their embrace of him—will only supercharge this trend.
Trump’s embrace of the billionaire class—and their embrace of him—will only supercharge this trend.
January 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
New 2024 data: Over 50% of GOP fundraising now comes from just 100 mega-donors.
Trump’s embrace of the billionaire class—and their embrace of him—will only supercharge this trend.
Trump’s embrace of the billionaire class—and their embrace of him—will only supercharge this trend.
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Checkout @isabelmperera.bsky.social & Trevor Brown's excellent new article in World Politics: Why States Do or Do Not Privatize! (There's a super handy companion methods piece in QMMR, too: zenodo.org/records/14062872) www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/post/why-sta...
Why States Privatize? Isabel Perera & Trevor Brown Publish in World Politics | Consortium on the American Political Economy
Read Cornell APE scholars Isabel Perera and Trevor Brown's new article--Why States Do or Do Not Privatize: Cross-Class Coalitions in the Public Sector--in the latest World Politics! (Check out the acc...
www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org
January 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Checkout @isabelmperera.bsky.social & Trevor Brown's excellent new article in World Politics: Why States Do or Do Not Privatize! (There's a super handy companion methods piece in QMMR, too: zenodo.org/records/14062872) www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/post/why-sta...
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The January @worldpolitics.bsky.social is live! It includes articles by @brentonkenkel.bsky.social, @emielawad.bsky.social & Scott F Abramson; @isabelmperera.bsky.social & Trevor Brown; Florian Grotz & Till Weber; @rickyclark.bsky.social & Anna Meyerrose; & Michael L. Ross. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54152
January 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The January @worldpolitics.bsky.social is live! It includes articles by @brentonkenkel.bsky.social, @emielawad.bsky.social & Scott F Abramson; @isabelmperera.bsky.social & Trevor Brown; Florian Grotz & Till Weber; @rickyclark.bsky.social & Anna Meyerrose; & Michael L. Ross. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54152
Thank you, @ankehassel.bsky.social !!
What a beautiful and timely book! Cannot wait to read it.
I’m so happy to announce that my book is now published and available open-access! (🧵coming soon, too :)
January 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Thank you, @ankehassel.bsky.social !!