Faculty Profile

BIO

Charlotte Cavaillé is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Her research examines the dynamics of popular attitudes towards redistributive social policies at a time of rising inequality, high fiscal stress, and high levels of immigration. Her first book, Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality (CUP, Comparative Politics series, 2023), investigates the “missing left turn,” namely the absence of an egalitarian policy response to rising inequality. Fair Enough? has won two best book awards from the Class & Inequality and the European Politics & Society sections of the American Political Science Association. It also received an honorable mention for the Luebbert Prize in Comparative Politics. Articles related to her second book project, Borders of Solidarity, Immigration and the Welfare State Revisited, have appeared in the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics and the Journal of Economic Literature. She has also published work on the measurement of mass public opinion, particularly how best to measure the intensity of individual support for changes to the status quo. Ongoing lines of research include the study of people’s perceptions of free riding among net beneficiaries of social spending, the politics of debt management in post-industrial democracies, and institutional change in interwar France.