Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy. Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, and Benjamin I. Page, eds. (Oxford, 2002).

Capitalists Against Markets: Employers in the Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden, by Peter Swenson (Oxford, 2002).

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, by Eric Klinenberg (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform: Welfare, Food Assistance, and Poverty in Rural America. Bruce Weber, Greg Duncan, and Leslie Whitener, eds. (Upjohn, 2002).