Publications

Anthony S. Chen, The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972 (Princeton University Press, 2009). Winner of the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association. [More details]

Anthony S. Chen and Margaret Weir, “The Long Shadow of the Past: Risk Pooling and the Political Development of State Health Care Reform.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Forthcoming.

Anthony S. Chen, Robert W. Mickey, and Robert P. Van Houweling, “Explaining the Contemporary Alignment of Race and Party: Evidence from California’s 1946 Ballot Initiative on Fair Employment,” Studies in American Political Development Fall 2008: 204-228. [PDF]

Anthony S. Chen, “The Party Of Lincoln and the Politics of State Fair Employment Legislation, 1945-1964,” American Journal of Sociology, 112 (May 2007): 1713-1774. [PDF] [Please e-mail me for data, programs, and logs.]

Anthony S. Chen, “'The Hitlerian Rule of Quotas': Racial Conservatism and the Politics of Fair Employment Practices Legislation in New York State, 1941-1945,” Journal of American History, 92 (March 2006):1238-64. [PDF]