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Jonah Levy

Professor
Email
jlevy@berkeley.edu
Phone
1 (510) 318-4115
Office
762 Social Sciences Building
Personal Statement

Jonah D. Levy teaches courses in the areas of comparative political economy, welfare policy, French and West European politics, and the politics of dystopian novels. In 2023, Levy published Contested Liberalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Conflict in France (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which describes and analyzes the contentious politics surrounding economic liberalization in France. In 2025, Levy published Rethinking Economic Liberalization (Edward Elgar), which traces progressive opportunities within liberalizing reforms. 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.

Academic Subfields
Comparative Politics
Political Economy
Research Interests
Political Economy
Western Europe
France
Globalization
Welfare State
Economic Liberalization
Industrial Policy
Degrees
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Books
  • Rethinking Economic Liberalization (Edward Elgar, 2025)
  • Contested Liberalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Conflict in France (2023)
  • The Oxford Handbook of the Transformations of the State (co-editor) (Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • Political Representation in the Global Age: Identification, Mobilization, and Adjudication (co-editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
  • The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization (editor) (Harvard University Press, 2006)
  • Developments in French Politics 3 and 4 (co-editor) (Palgrave, 2005 and 2008)
  • Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France (Harvard University Press, 1999)
Articles
  • "The Return of the State? France's Response to the 2008 Financial and Economic Crisis," Comparative European Politics, June 2017
  • The Political Economy of Advanced Industrial States: The Trajectory of the Statist Model," in The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State, (Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • "Directionless: French Economic Policy in the 21st Century," in Dan Breznitz and John Zysman (eds.), The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich? (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • "Welfare Retrenchment," in Francis Castles et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States, (Oxford University Press: 2010). New version in 2021
  • "From the Dirigiste State to the Social Anesthesia State: French Economic Policy in the Longue Durée," Modern and Contemporary France, November 2008
  • "Les politiques économiques et sociales" (Economic and Social Policy), in Olivier Borraz and Virginie Guiraudon (eds.), Politiques publiques: La France dans la gouvernance européenne (Public Policy: France in the European Union), Paris: Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 2008
  • Between Neo-Liberalism and No Liberalism: Progressive Approaches to Economic Liberalization in Western Europe,” in Barry Eichengreen, Michael Landesmann, and Dieter Stiefel (eds.), The European Economy in an American Mirror (Routledge, Taylor, and Francis 2007)