Suzanne Mettler is the co-author, with Trevor E. Brown of Rural Versus Urban:
Her previous book, written with Robert Lieberman, was Four Threats:The Recurring Crises of American Democracy, published by St, Martin’s Press. Writing in the New Yorker, Jelani Cobb called the book “A lively read about the cracks in the system. What’s more, it offers some good ideas for how we might go about fixing them.”
Suzanne is professor of Government at Cornell University where her research and teaching focus on American political development, public policy, and political behavior. She is particularly interested in issues pertaining to gender and politics, race and politics, democratization, inequality, and citizenship.
Among her earlier books is Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream. Citizens to Soldiers, published by Oxford University Press, was awarded both the 2006 Greenstone Prize and the Gladys Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association. The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy was published by the University of Chicago Press.