Research Bio

Jonah D. Levy received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1994. Levy teaches courses in the areas of French and West European politics, welfare policy, comparative political economy, and the politics of dystopian novels. His publications include: Rethinking Economic Liberalization (Edward Elgar, 2025); Contested Liberalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Conflict in France (Cambridge University Press,  2023); "The Return of the State? France's Response to the 2008 Financial and Economic Crisis," Comparative European Politics, June 2017; The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State (co-edited, 2015); Political Representation in the Global Age: Identification, Mobilization, and Adjudication (co-edited, Cambridge University Press 2014); Developments in French Politics 3 & 4 (co-edited, Palgrave, 2005 & 2008); The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization (Harvard University Press, 2006); Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France (Harvard University Press, 1999); "Vice into Virtue? Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe," Politics and Society, June 1999. Levy has received a Phi Beta Kappa award for excellence in teaching and been selected as the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Political Science Association Professor of the Year.

Research Expertise and Interest

French politics, comparative political economy, West European politics, relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe, political science, social policy