{{Short description|American political scientist (1951–2006)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{more footnotes needed|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox scholar | name = Michael Wallerstein | birth_date = {{birth date|1951|01|16}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|01|07|1951|01|16}} | alma_mater = University of Chicago | main_interests = Political science | awards = Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award }} '''Michael Wallerstein''' (16 January 1951 – 7 January 2006) was an American political scientist and the son of psychoanalyst Robert S. Wallerstein and psychologist Judith Wallerstein. He was also the nephew of the American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein.
== Education == Wallerstein received his undergraduate education at the Stanford University, majoring in political science and graduating in 1974. He received his graduate training in political science at the University of Chicago. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1985, he was affiliated with UCLA.
== Career == In 1994, he moved to Northwestern University, and finally moved to Yale University in 2004, where he was named as Saden Professor.
== Research == Wallerstein's research concerned inequality in advanced industrial societies. In particular, he studied the impact of labor market institutions, such as systems of collective bargaining, as well as the politics of income redistribution, such as social insurance and affirmative action.
He and Karl Ove Moene suggested that citizens don't see public pensions, unemployment insurance and sickness insurance as a form of residual redistribution from the rich to poor, but as a personal warranty to maintain their standard of living in the event of a job loss, an illness, or old age.<ref>Lane Kenworthy, Leslie McCall, ''Inequality, public opinion and redistribution'', in ''Socio-Economic Review'', Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 35–68, {{doi|10.1093/ser/mwm006}}.</ref>
Wallerstein continued the school of thought founded by his dissertation advisor Adam Przeworski and inspired by the democratic theory of Joseph Schumpeter, along with Michael Wallerstein, Stathis Kalyvas, Jose Cheibub, Leonard Wantchekon.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Arthur J. Jacobson|author2= John P. McCormick|url=https://academic.oup.com/icon/article/3/4/706/792056?searchresult=1|title=The business of democracy is democracy|journal=International Journal of Constitutional Law|volume= 3|issue =4|date=October 1, 2005|pages =706–722|doi=10.1093/icon/moi049|issn=1474-2659}}</ref>
== Awards == Wallerstein was awarded the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award in 1985 for the best paper presented at the American Political Science Association's 1984 annual meeting, and he later served on the APSA executive council. In 2005, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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== Selected bibliography == * {{cite book | last = Wallerstein | first = Michael | title = Working class solidarity and rational behavior | publisher = University of Chicago, Joseph Regenstein Library, Department of Photoduplication | location = Chicago | year = 1985 | oclc = 18226235 }} ''(PhD thesis)'' * {{cite book | last1 = Wallerstein | first1 = Michael | last2 = Flanagan | first2 = Robert J. | last3 = Moene | first3 = Karl Ove |authorlink3=Karl Ove Moene | title = Trade union behaviour, pay-bargaining, and economic performance | publisher = Clarendon Press Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780198287988 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Wallerstein | first1 = Michael | last2 = Bardhan | first2 = Pranab | last3 = Bowles | first3 = Samuel | author-link2 = Pranab Bardhan | author-link3 = Samuel Bowles (economist) | title = Globalization and egalitarian redistribution | publisher = Princeton University Press | location = Princeton, New Jersey | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780691125190 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Wallerstein | first1 = Michael (author) | last2 = Various (editors) | title = Selected works of Michael Wallerstein: the political economy of inequality, unions, and social democracy | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 9780521714853 }}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103234018/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v34.n16/story21.html Obituary from Yale Bulletin and Calendar] * [https://archive.today/20130209222344/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2006/jan/12/scholar-wallerstein-dies-at-54/ Obituary from Yale Daily News] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131112232202/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-01-22/news/0601220258_1_mr-wallerstein-political-economy-comparative-politics Obituary from Chicago Tribune]
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