What's distinctive now is not that majorities have a hard time getting their way ; it's that minorities have [ the ability ] to get their way.

Paul Pierson

Paul Pierson (born 1959) is an American professor of political science and holder of the John Gross Endowed Chair of Political Science (and he holds/held the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy) at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2007-2010 he served at UC Berkeley as Chair of the Department of Political Science. He is noted for his research on comparative public policy and political economy, the welfare state, and American political development. His works on the welfare state have been characterized as influential.

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