Recent Books from CSD Projects
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The following books
and special issues of journals have developed from recent Center
research conferences or Center-sponosored seed grant projects:
NINA BANDELJ
ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY OF WORK (RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK)
(Emerald Publishing Limited 2009)
ANDRE BLAIS, SHAUN BOWLER, AND BERNARD GROFMAN, eds.
("Minisymposium: Runoff Elections," Electoral Studies 2009)
CATHERINE BOLZENDAHL
"Making the Implicit Explicit: Gender Influences on Social Spending in 12 Industrialized Democracies, 1980-1999."
(Social Politics 16(1):40-81, 2009)
MARTHA S. FELDMAN AND KATHRYN S. QUICK
Generating resources and energizing frameworks through inclusive public management. 2009
International Public Management Journal
( Vol. 12, No. 9:137-171)
MARTHA S. FELDMAN, ANNE M. KHADEMIAN AND KATHRYN S. QUICK
Ways of knowing, inclusive management and promoting democratic engagement: Introduction to the special issue. 2009
International Public Management Journal
(Vol. 12, No. 9:123-136)
DAVID FRANK, STEVEN A. BOUTCHER, AND BAYLISS CAMP
"The Repeal of Sodomy Laws from a World-Society Prespective."
Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law, edited by S. Barclay, M.Bernstein, and A.M. Marshall
(New York, NY: New York University Press, 2009)
DAVID FRANK, TARA HARDINGE, AND KASSIA WOSICK-CORREA
"The Global Dimensions of Rae-Law Reform: A Cross-National Study of Policy Outcomes."
(American Sociological Review 74 (April) 2720-90, 2009)
MICHELLE R. GARFINKEL, STERGIOS SKAPERDAS, CONSTANTINOS SYROPOULOS
"Globalization and Insecurity: Reviewing Some Basic Issues," in G.D. Hess (ed.)
Guns and Butter: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Conflict
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009)
VIMAL KUMAR AND STERGIOS SKAPERDAS
"Organized Crime," in N. Garoupa (ed.)
Criminal Law and Economics, Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2nd Edition
(Northampton, MA: Edgar Elgar, 2009)
MICHAEL MCBRIDE
Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild," with Gary Richardson (UCI)
(2009, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 71 (2): 172-186)
DONALD G. SAARI
Collisions, Rings, and Other Newtonian N-Body Problems
(American Mathematical Society, Translated into Russion, March 2009)
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER
States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980-2000
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009)
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER
"Xiagang and the Geometry of Urban Political Patronage in China: Celebrated State(once-) Workers and State Chagrin," Thomas B. Gold, William J. Hurst, Jaeyoun Won, and Li Qiang, eds.
Laid-Off Workers in a Workers' State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics
(New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009), 36-46.
CALEB SOUTHWORTH AND JUDITH STEPAN-NORRIS
"American Trade Unions and Data Limitations: A New Agenda for Labor Studies."
(Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 35, 2009)
REIN TAAGEPERA
Predicting party sizes: The 2008 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture.
(Scandinavian Political Studies, 31, no. 1, 2009)
ANDRE BLAIS, ed
To Keep or To Change First Past the Post? The Politics of Electoral Reform
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
NINA BANDALJ
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Post Socialist Europe
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008)
CATHERINE BOLZENDAHL
"More than Just Numbers? Clinton, Palin, and the 2008 Campaign."
(Political Sociology Newsletters. 14(3):8-9, 2008)
CATHERINE BOLZENDAHL AND SIGRUN OLAFSDOTTIR
"Private Problems or Public Solutions? Understanding U.S. Support for Family Policy in a Comparative Perspective."
(Sociological Perspectives 51(2): 281-304, 2008)
SHAUN BOWLER and AMIHAI GLAZER, eds.
Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions
(Palgrave Macillian, 2008)
MICHELLE R. GARFINKEL, STERGIOS SKAPERDAS AND CONSTANTINOS SYROPOULOS
"Globalization and Domestic Conflict"
(Journal of International Economics 76(2), 296-308, December 2008)
RICK GRANNIS, DAVID SMITH AND JUDITH STEPAN-NORRIS
"The Working Connections: Shopfloor networks and Union Leadership."
(Sociological Prespectives Vol. 51 No. 3: 649-672 2008)
LISA HANDLEY and BERNARD GROFMAN, eds.
Redistricting in Comparative Perspective (Comparative Politics)
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
RUSSELL J. DALTON, DOH CHULL SHIN, and YUN-HAN CHU, eds.
Party Politics In East Asia: Citizens, Elections, and Democratic Development
(Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 2008)
MARTHA S. FELDMAN AND ANNE M. KHADEMIAN
The continuous process of policy formation. 2008
In Kulsum Ahmed and Ernesto Sanchez-Triana (eds.)
Strategic environmental assessment for policies: An Instrument for good governance.
The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
AMIHAI GLAZER AND ANTHONY MCGANN, eds.
Direct Democracy and the Stability of Policy"
(Palgrave MaAcMillan, 2008)
MICHAEL MCBRIDE
"Position-specific Information in Social Networks: Are You Connected?"
(2008, Mathemetical Social Sciences, 56(2): 283-295)
MICHAEL MCBRIDE
"Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation: A Game Theoretic Analysis"
(2008, American Journal of Sociology, 114 (1): 77-108)
NHU-NGOC T. ONG AND DAVID S. MEYER
Protests and the Political Incorporation: Vietnamese-American Protests in Orange County, 1975-2001
(Journal of Vietnamese Studies 3 (2008) 1:78-107)
FRANCESCA POLLETTA, "Storytelling in Social Movements,"
Social Movements and Culture, edited by Hank Johnston
(Routledge, 2008)
FRANCESCA POLLETTA, PANG CHING CHEN, AND CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON
"Is Information Good for Democracy? Link-Posting in an Online Forum."
(Journal of Public Deliberation, 2008)
FRANCESCA POLLETTA
Storytelling in Politics
(Contexts 7(2008):20-25).
FRANCESCA POLLETTA
"Culture and Movements."
Annuals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 619 (2008): 78-96.
FRANCESCA POLLETTA
"Just Talk: Public Deliberation after 9/11."
Journal of Public Deliberation 4 (2008)
ALEXANDER ROBSON AND STERGIOS SKAPERDAS
"Costly Enforcement of Property Rights and the Coase Theorem"
(Economic Theory, 36(1), 109-128, July 2008)
DONALD SAARI
Disposing Dictators; Demystifying Voting Paradoxes
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER
"The Political Implications of China's Social Future: Complacency, Scorn, and the Forlorn," in Cheng Li, ed.
China's Changing Politial Landscape: Prospects for Democracy
(Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution Press, 2008), 251-66.
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER
"Business Groups: For or Against the Regime," in Bruce Gilley and Larry Diamond, eds.
Political Change in China: Comparisons with Taiwan
(Boulder: Lynee Rienner, 2008), 94-114.
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER
"Inequality's Specter Haunts China"
The Far Eastern Economic Review
171, 5(June 2008), 19-22.
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER
"The Dibao Recipients: Mollified Anti-Emblem of Urban Modernization"
China Prespectives
4 (2008) 36-46.
STERGIOS SKAPERDAS
"An Economic Approach to Analyzing Civil Wars"
(Economics of Governance, 9(1), 296-308, December 2008)
REIN TAAGEPERA
Beyond Regression in Social Sciences: The Need for Predictive Models
(Oxford Press, 2008)
REIN TAAGEPERA
"Making Social Sciences More Scientific: The Need for Predictive Models"
(Oxford Press, 2008)
EDWIN AMENTA
Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park
(University of Chicago Press, 2007)
NINA BANDELJ
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Invesment in Postsocialist Europe
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007)
CATHERINE BOLZENDAHL AND CLEM BROOKS
"Women's Political Resources and Welfare Sate Spending in 12 Capitalist Democracies."
(Social Forces 85, 2007)
RUSSELL J. DALTON AND HANS-DIETER KLINGEMANN, eds.
Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 992 pp.
RUSSELL J. DALTON AND IAN MCALLISER
"An Introduction to Political Parties and Political Development"
Party Politics 13 (March 2007):139-140
RUSSELL J. DALTON AND STEVE WELDON
"Partisanship and Party System Institutionalization"
Party Politics 13 (March 2007) 179-196
MARTHA S. FELDMAN AND ANNE M. KHADEMIAN
The role of the public manager in inclusion. 2007
Governance, 20(2):305-324
DAVID JOHN FRANK AND JOHN W. MEYER
"Worldwide Expansion and Change in the University." Towards a Multiversity?
Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions, edited by G. Krucken, A. Kosmutzky, and M. Torka
(Bielefeld, Germany: transcript-Verlag, pp 19-44, 2007)
DAVID JOHN FRANK
"Ecology and Economy."
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer
(Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Pp. 1289-91, 2007)
DAVID JOHN FRANK, WESLEY LONGHOFER AND EVAN SCHOFER
"World Society, NGOs, and Environmental Policy Reform in Asia."
(International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48 (August): 275-95, 2007)
DAVID JOHN FRANK AND JOHN W. MEYER
"University Expansion and the Knowledge Society."
(Theory and Society 36 (August): 287-311, 2007)
MICHELLE R. GARFINKEL AND STERGIOS SKAPERDAS
"Economics of Conflict: An Overview," in T. Sandler and K. Hartley (eds.)
(Handbook of Defense Economics, Vol, II, 649-709, North Holland-Elsevier, 2007)
MAREK KAMINSKI
Parametric Rationing Methods
(Decyzje, 2007)
KAI A. KONRAD AND STERGIOS SKAPERDAS
"Succession Rules and Leadership Rents"
(Journal of Conflict Resolution, 51(4), 622-645, August 2007)
MICHAEL MCBRIDE AND STERGIOS SKAPERDAS
"Explaining Conflict in Low-Income Countries: Incomplete Contracting in the Shadow of the Future," in M. Gradestein and K.A. Konrad, (eds.)
Institutions and Norms in Economic Development
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 141-161, 2007)
DAVID MEYER
Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
JOHN W. MEYER, FRANCISCO O. RAMIREZ, DAVID JOHN FRANK AND EVAN SCHOFER
"Higher Education as an Institution."
Pp. 187-221 in Sociology of Higher Education: Contribution and Their Contexts, edited by P.J. Gumport.
Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press
SHAWN W. ROSENBERG
Deliberation, Participation & Democracy: Can the People Govern
London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007)
BARBARA SINCLAIR
Party Wars: Polarization and the Politics of the Policy Process (Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series, V.10)
(University of Oklahoma Press, 2006, third ed, 2007)
JUDITH STEPAN-NORRIS AND CALEB SOUTHWORTH
"Churches as Organizational Resources: A Case Study in the Geography of Religion and Political Voting in Post-War Detroit."
Social Science History Vol. 31 No. 3:343-380 2007)
REIN TAAGEPERA
Predicting Party Sizes
(Oxford University Press, 2007)
REIN TAAGEPERA
Electoral Systems
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics
(Oxford: Oxford UP, Ch34 (678-702, 2007)
NINA BANDELJ AND DANICA PURG
"Networks as Resources, Organizational Locig, and Change Mechanism: The Case of Private Business Schools in Postsocialism."
Sociological Form 21(4): 587-622, 2006
RUSSELL J. DALTON AND DOH CHULL SHIN, eds.
Citizens, Democracy and Markets around the Pacific Rim: Congruence Theory and Political Culture
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 309 pp.
DAVID FRANK AND JAY GABLER
Reconstructuring the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century
(Stanford University Press, 2006)
ANTHONY MCGANN
The Logic of Democracy: Reconciling Equality, Deliberation, and Minority Protection (Michigan Studies in Political Analysis)
(University of Michigan Press, 2006)
KEVIN O'LEARY
Saving Democracy: A Plan for Real Representation in America
(Stanford University Press, 2006)
FRANCESCA POLLETTA
It was Like A Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
MICHAEL REGENWETTER, BERNARD GROFMAN, A.A.J. MARLEY AND ILIA TSETLIN
Behavioral Social Choice: Probabilistic Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
STERGIOS SKAPERDAS, BARRY WEINGAST, DONALD WHITMAN, eds.
Anarchy," Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
(Oxford University Press, 2006)
DAVID A. SNOW, J. LOFLAND, L. ANDERSON, and L. LOFLAND
Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observations and Analysis
(Wadsworth Publishing, 2006)
CATHERINE BOLZENDAHL AND CLEM BROOKS
"Polarization, Secularization, or Differences as Usual? The Denominational Cleavage in U.S. Social Attitudes since the 1970s."
(The Sociological Quarterly 46:47-79, 2005)
BERNARD GROFMAN AND MICHAEL LEW BECK
Elections Under the French Double-Ballot System. Minisymposium. French Politics, 3(2): 93-97 (2005)
DAVID S. MEYER, VALERIE JENNESS, and HELEN INGRAM, eds.
Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
DONALD G. SAARI
Collisions, Rings, and Other Newtonian N-Body Problems
(American Mathematical Society, 2005)
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER, ed
Narratives of the Chinese Economic Reforms: Individual Pathways from Plan to Market
(Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2005)
MAREK KAMINSKI
Games Prisoners Play: The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Prison
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
RUSSELL J. DALTON
Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices: The Erosion in Political Support in Advanced Industrial Democracies
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
DAVID SNOW, et al. eds.
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
(London: Blackwell, 2004).
BRUCE CAIN, RUSSELL J. DALTON, and SUSAN SCARROW, editors.
Democracy Transformed? The Expansion of Political Access in Advanced Industrial Democracies.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
AMIHAI GLAZER and KAI K. KONRAD, editors,
Conflict and Governance
(Springer Verlag, 2003).
ROBERT ROHRSCHNEIDER and RUSSELL J. DALTON, editors.
The 2002 German Federal Elections
A special issue of German Politics and Society (Summer 2003).
KAARE STROM, WOLFGANG C. MULLER, TORBJORN BERGMAN, editors.
Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
KATHERINE TATE,
Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and their Representatives in Congress
(Princeton University Press, 2003).
MARTIN WATTENBERG
Where Have All the Voters Gone?
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).
BERNARD GROFMAN and AREND LIJPHART, editors,
The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries
(New York: Agathon Press, 2002).
DAVID MEYER, NANCY WHITTIER, AND BELINDA ROBNETT, editors,
Social Movements : Identity, Culture, and the State
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
RUSSELL J. DALTON and MARTIN WATTENBERG, editors,
Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
BERNARD GROFMAN, editor,
Political Science as Puzzle Solving
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
MATTHEW SOBERT SHUGART and MARTIN WATTENBERG, editors,
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds?
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
SHAUN BOWLER and BERNARD GROFMAN, editors,
Elections in Australia, Ireland and Malta under the Single Transferable Vote: Reflections on an Embedded Institution.
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).
WOLFGANG MUELLER and KAARE STROM, editors,
Coalition Governments in Western Europe.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
RUSSELL DALTON, PAULA GARB, NICHOLAS LOVRICH, JOHN PIERCE, and JOHN WHITELEY,
Critical Masses: Citizen's, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia.
(Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1999).
BERNARD GROFMAN, SUNG-CHULL LEE, EDWIN WINKLER, editors.
Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan Under the Single Non-Transferable Vote: The Comparative Study of an Embedded Institution
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER, DAVID A. SMITH and STEVEN TOPIK, editors,
States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy
(Routledge, 1999).
HARRY ECKSTEIN, FREDERIC FLERON, ERIK HOFFMAN, and WILLIAM RIESINGER, eds.
Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia?: Explorations in State-Society Relations
(Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).