Margaret Weir is the Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Brown University. Before joining Brown, she was the Avice M Saint Chair in Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Politics and Jobs; Schooling for All (with Ira Katznelson); Who Gets What (coedited with Frances Rosenbluth); The Social Divide; and The Politics of Social Policy in the United States (coedited with Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol).