Bulletin No. 18 / May 18 08
Mark your calendars!
Session details follow below (room numbers still TBA, but all are at the Sheraton Boston):
Saturday August 2
8:30-10:10 Open Paper Session: Ethno-Racial Diversity, Civic Engagement, and the Politics of Redistribution. Organizer: Irene Bloemraad
10:30-11:30 Roundtables (see detailed information below on participants) Organizer: Denise Benoit Scott
11:30-12:10 Business Meeting
12:30-2:10 Invited Panel - Political Sociology and Political Science: How Similar? How Different? Organizer: John Skrentny
2:30-4:10 Invited Panel – Politics at Work. Organizer: Bruce Western
Sunday August 3
8:30-10:10 Open Paper Session: The Comparative Political Sociology of Welfare States.
Organizer: Thomas Janoski
10:30-12:10 Open Paper Session: New Directions in Political Economy. Organizers: Greta Krippner, Isaac Martin.
SESSION DETAILS
Politics at Work
Organizer & presider: Bruce Western, Harvard
Session Description: The clash of rival social forces is often played out in the small theater of the workplace. This panel showcases research taking institutional, organizational, and comparative perspectives on the workplace as an arena of political conflict.
Panelists:
Frank Dobbin, Harvard; Daniel Schrage (Harvard), Alexandra Kalev (University of Arizona), "It Takes Two: How Affirmative Action Oversight Catalyzed Corporate Fair Employment Practices."
Vincent Roscigno (Ohio State University), "The Micro-Politics of Power, Structure and Abuse on the Shop Floor."
Beverly Silver (Johns Hopkins), "World Politics on the Shop Floor."
Political Sociology and Political Science: How Similar? How Different?
Organizer & Presider: John D. Skrentny, UC San Diego
Session Description: Despite apparently overlapping subject matter, political sociologists and political scientists do not always collaborate. Why is this the case? Is the subject matter of the two fields very different? Or do scholars from each discipline use very different theoretical approaches or have conflicting agendas? And are there some areas where both fields work together on a common projects? This panel will explore these and other questions with leading practitioners representing both disciplines and a variety of approaches and subject matter.
Panelists:
Edwin Amenta (Department of Sociology, UC Irvine), "Limited Engagement Only: The Practice and Possibilities of Collaboration between Political Sociologists and Political Scientists"
Peter Evans (Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley), "Institutions, Power and Interests in Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Sociology"
Jennifer Hochschild (Department of Government, Harvard University), "How Can We Distinguish among Poaching, Slumming, and Interdisciplinarity?"
Jeff Manza (Department of Sociology, NYU), "How Political Sociology Invented Voting Studies, and Why Political Science Took It Over"
Kim Williams (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), "Overlaps and Disconnects: Race and Social Movements in Political Sociology and Political Science"
New Directions in Political Economy
Organizers & Presiders: Greta Krippner (U of Michigan) and Isaac W. Martin (UC San Diego)
Discussant: Mark S. Mizruchi (U of Michigan)
Participants:
Simone Polillo (U of Pennsylvania), “States, Money and the Reputational Work of Elites”
Pamela Herd (U of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Fourth Way: Big States, Big Business, and the Evolution of the Earned Income Tax Credit.”
Monica Prasad (Northwestern U), “The Non-History of National Sales Tax in America: Contingency and Critical Junctures.”
Tamara Kay (Harvard), “How Environmentalists “Greened” Trade Policy: Strategic Action and the Architecture of Field Overlap.”
Ethno-Racial Diversity, Civic Engagement, and the Politics of Redistribution
Organizer & Presider: Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley
Cybell Fox, (UC Berkeley), “The Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and City-Level Spending on Public and Private Outdoor Relief in the United States, 1929”
Maureen Eger, (University of Washington), “Even in Sweden: The Effect of Immigration on Support for Welfare State Spending”
Christel Kesler (University of Oxford), Irene Bloemraad (UC Berkeley), “Do Immigrants Hurt Civic and Political Engagement? The Conditional Effects of Immigrant Diversity on Trust, Membership and Participation across 23 Countries, 1981-2001”
Robert Andersen, (University of Toronto), Scott Milligan (University of Toronto), “Immigrant Status and Voluntary Association Membership in Canada: Individual and Contextual Effects”
Jan Duyvendak (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Menno Hurenkamp (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research), Evelien Tonkens (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research), “Citizenship in the Netherlands: locally produced, nationally contested”
Section on Political Sociology Paper Session: The Comparative Political Sociology of Welfare States
Organizer & Presider: Thomas Janoski (University of Kentucky)
Participants:
Juan J. Fernandez (UC Berkeley), “Countervailing Social Forces in Welfare States: Public Pension Generosity in OECD Countries, 1980-2002.”
Sebastien St. Arnaud (U of Toronto), “Population Heterogeneity and Public Support for the Welfare State: Analysis and Evidence for 17 capitalist democracies.”
Sukriti Issar (Brown University), “State Scalar Structures: A Comparative Analysis of US Welfare Spends.”
Catherine I. Bolzendahl (University of California, Irvine), “Unintended Consequences? How Policymakers Do Gender in Germany, Sweden and the United States.”
Roundtables – please follow links for information on presenters
Table 01. The Politics of Public Policy Formation and Services Provision
Table 02. Rebuilding the Civic Sphere
Table 03. Global Gender and Human Rights
Table 04. Labor and the State
Table 05. Identities and Markets as State Building
Table 06. Global Social Movements
Table 07. Electoral Politics and Political Attitudes
Table 08. Democracy, Conflict, and Development
Table 09. States and Societies
Table 10. Reconstructing American Institutions
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