The politics of predistribution: Interview with Jacob Hacker
Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 21 Number 2-3 (2013)
The politics of predistribution: Interview with Jacob Hacker
Jacob Hacker, Ben Jackson, Martin O'Neill
Abstract
Jacob Hacker interviewed by Ben Jackson and Martin O’Neill
The American political scientist Jacob Hacker has been catapulted into the heart of British political debate as a result of Ed Miliband’s prominent endorsement of Hacker’s idea of ‘predistribution’. Hacker is a distinguished and influential scholar of public policy and American politics, who has also been closely involved in public debates in the United States on issues such as health-care reform and welfare policy. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Divided Welfare State (2002); The Great Risk Shift (2006); and Winner-Take-All Politics (2010) (co-authored with Paul Pierson). In this interview Hacker explores what he means by predistribution; its political and economic implications; and why he thinks it has struck a chord in today’s Labour Party.
To cite this article
Jacob Hacker, Ben Jackson, Martin O'Neill (2013) The politics of predistribution: Interview with Jacob Hacker, Renewal, 21(2-3 )