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### Peter A. Hall 

 

Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard and a Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. His research interests lie at the intersection of comparative political economy, institutional analysis and social inequality. His publications include twelve books and more than a hundred articles on European politics, policy-making, and comparative political economy.



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##  Recent Books 

 



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[**Governing Growth: The Postwar Transformations of Capitalism and Democracy**](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691284934/governing-growth)

How do capitalist economies change over time? And what political consequences follow? In Governing Growth, Peter Hall traces the interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years, identifying a series of profound shifts in the political economies of Europe and the United States.



 

 

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[**Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies (Elements in European Politics)**](https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/political-change-and-electoral-coalitions-in-western-democracies/C90F49A2985854B029F1645E4CCF2445)

This Element documents long-term changes in the political attitudes of occupational groups, shifts in the salience of economic and cultural issues, and the movement of political parties in the electoral space from 1990 to 2018 in eight Western democracies.



 

 

 

 

 

##  Recent Publications 

 



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Hall PA. [Varieties of Capitalism and Inequality](/publications/varieties-capitalism-and-inequality). In: Grusky D, Dahir N, Daviss C, editors. Social Stratification. Fifth Edition. London: Routledge.



 

 

Hall PA. [Varieties of Capitalism and Inequality](/publications/varieties-capitalism-and-inequality). In: Grusky D, Dahir N, Daviss C, editors. Social Stratification. Fifth Edition. London: Routledge.



 

 

 

 

 



Hall PA. [Understanding How Political Economies Change](/publications/understanding-how-political-economies-change). In: The Handbook of Comparative Political Economy. London: Edward Elgar; 2025. pp. 119–136.



 

 

Hall PA. [Understanding How Political Economies Change](/publications/understanding-how-political-economies-change). In: The Handbook of Comparative Political Economy. London: Edward Elgar; 2025. pp. 119–136.



 

 

 

 

 



Hall PA. [Growth Regimes](/publications/growth-regimes). Business History Review. 2024;98.



 

 

Hall PA. [Growth Regimes](/publications/growth-regimes). Business History Review. 2024;98.



 

 

 

 

 



Barnes L, Hall P, Taylor R. [The Structural Sources of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: A Cross-National Perspective](/publications/structural-sources-socioeconomic-inequalities-health-cross-national-perspective). Socius. 2023;9:1–17.



 

 

Barnes L, Hall P, Taylor R. [The Structural Sources of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: A Cross-National Perspective](/publications/structural-sources-socioeconomic-inequalities-health-cross-national-perspective). Socius. 2023;9:1–17.



 

 

 

 

Kim SI, Hall PA. [Fairness and Support for Populist Parties](/publications/fairness-and-support-populist-parties). Comparative Political Studies. 2023.



 

 

Kim SI, Hall PA. [Fairness and Support for Populist Parties](/publications/fairness-and-support-populist-parties). Comparative Political Studies. 2023.



 

 

 

 

Hall PA, Evans G, Kim SI. [Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies](/publications/political-change-and-electoral-coalitions-western-democracies). New York: Cambridge University Press; 2023.



 

 

Hall PA, Evans G, Kim SI. [Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies](/publications/political-change-and-electoral-coalitions-western-democracies). New York: Cambridge University Press; 2023.



 

 

 

 This study documents long-term changes in the political attitudes of occupational groups, shifts in the salience of economic and cultural issues, and the movement of political parties in the electoral space from 1990 to 2018 in eight western democracies...



 

 

 

 



 

 

 

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