Jill Quadagno

Contact Information:

Areas of Specialization:

Research:
- Sociology of Aging
- Medical Sociology
- Comparative Historical Sociology
- Political Sociology
- Long Term Care

Teaching:
- Political Sociology
- Comparative Historical Sociology
- Aging

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge University, England, 1979.
  
• University of Kansas, 1973-1976, Ph.D. in Sociology
  
• University of California - Berkeley, 1964-1966, M.A. in Sociology
  
• Pennsylvania State University, 1960-1964 B.A. in Sociology, with Distinction

Selected Papers and Publications:

Blekesaune, Morten and Jill Quadagno. 2003. "Public Attitudes toward Welfare State Policies: a Comparative Analysis of 24 Nations." European Sociological Review 19, 5: 415-427.

Quadagno, Jill. 2004. "Physician Sovereignty and the Purchasers Revolt." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 29:815-834.

Quadagno, Jill. 2004. "Why the United States Has No National Health Insurance: Stakeholder Mobilization Against the Welfare State, 1945-1996." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45:25-44.

Quadagno, Jill and Debra Street. 2005. "Ideology and Public Policy: Antistatism in American Welfare State Transformation." Journal of Policy History 17 (1):56-75.

Quadagno, Jill. 2005. One Nation, Unisured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance. Oxford Universtiy Press. In press.

Quadagno, Jill and Debra Street. "Antistatism in American Welfare State Development." Jounrnal of Policy History. In press.

Quadagno, Jill. "Why the United States Has No National Health Insurance: Stakeholder Mobilzation Against the Welfare State, 1945-1996" Journal of Health and Social Behavior. In press.

Quadagno, Jill. "Physician Sovereignty and the Purchasers Revolt." Journal of Health Politics, Polcy and Law 29:815-834. In press.

Keene, Jennifer Reid and Jill Quadagno. 2004. "Predictors of Perceived Work Family Balance: Gender Difference or Gender Similarity?" Sociological Perspectives 47, 1:1-23

Street, Debra, Jill Quadagno, Lori Parham and Steve McDonald. 2003. "Reinventing Long Term Care: The Effect of Policy Changes on Trends in Nursing Home Reimbursement and Resident Characteristics: Florida, 1989-1997." The Gerontologist 43:66-79.

Blekesaune, Morten and Jill Quadagno. 2003. "Public attitudes toward welfare state policies: a comparative analysis of 24 nations." European Sociological Review. In press.

Quadagno, Jill. 2000. "Promoting Civil Rights through the Welfare State: How Medicare Integrated Southern Hospitals." Social Problems 47:68-89.

Manuscripts in Progress:

"Social Security Rights" (with Deana Rohlinger). Public Sociologies, Judith Blau and Keri Iyall Smith, editors. Rowman and Littlefield.. In preparation.

"The Religious Basis of Welfare State Politics in the United States." In preparation.

Honors:

2001-2001 Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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