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Ion Bogdan Vasi (with Brayden G. King)

Social Movements, Risk Perceptions, and Economic Outcomes: The Effect of Primary and Secondary Stakeholder Activism on Firms’ Perceived Environmental Risk and Financial Performance

American Sociological Review

August 2012

Robert Lieberman
Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historical Analysis
August 5, 2009


Miguel Urquiola
Parental choice and school markets: The impact of information approximating school effectiveness

Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile in its series Documentos de Trabajo
July 2009

Julia Angwin
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
March 17, 2009

Robert Lieberman
Review of Equality and Transparency: A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law by Daniel Sabbagh
Perspectives on Politics
March 2009

Sharyn O'Halloran
Gerrymanders as Tradeoffs: The Co-Evolution of Social Scientific and Legal Approaches to Racial Redistricting
Designing Democratic Government: Making Institutions Work
September 30, 2008

Manning Marable
Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line
September 30, 2008

Dorian Warren
Race and American Political Development
June 6, 2008

Steven Cohen
Options for Management of Municipal Solid Waste in New York City: A Preliminary Comparison of Health Risks and Policy Implications
Journal of Environmental Management
April 2008

 

All publications in alphabetical order by author.

 

Hishaam Aidi

Black Routes to Islam
August 4, 2009

Douglas Almond

Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-risk Newborns

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Julia Angwin

Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
March 17, 2009

Scott Barrett

Polio Eradication: Strengthening The Weakest Links

Health Affairs
July 2009

Steven Cohen

The Responsible Contract Manager: Protecting the Public Interest in an Outsourced World
November 15, 2008

Steven Cohen

The Effective Public Manager: Achieving Success in a Changing Government (4th ed)
September 2008

Steven Cohen

Options for Management of Municipal Solid Waste in New York City: A Preliminary Comparison of Health Risks and Policy Implications

Journal of Environmental Management
April 2008

Rodolfo de la Garza

No Entiendo: The Effects of Bilingualism on Hispanic Earnings

Tomas Rivera Institute
June 2009

William Eimicke

Innovation's Three Rs

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
December 8, 2009

William Eimicke

The Responsible Contract Manager: Protecting the Public Interest in an Outsourced World
November 15, 2008

William Eimicke

Enhancing Information Flow in Public Organizations

PA Times
November 2008

William Eimicke

Eliot Spitzer: "The People's Lawyer"—Disgraced

Public Integrity
Fall 2008

Seung Jin Jang

Are Diverse Political Networks Always Bad for Participatory Democracy? Indifference, Alienation, and Political Disagreement

American Politics Research
June 19, 2009

Seung Jin Jang

Get Out on Behalf of Your Group: Electoral Participation of Latinos and Asian Americans

Political Behavior
March 13, 2009

Wojciech Kopczuk

Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data since 1937

Quarterly Journal of Economics
February 2010

Robert Lieberman

American State Building: The Theoretical Challenge

The Unsustainable American State
September 25, 2009

Robert Lieberman

Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historical Analysis
August 5, 2009

Robert Lieberman

Die Wurzeln der Affirmative Action Antidiskriminierungspolitik in den USA und in Europa

Transit: Europäische Revue
Summer 2009

Robert Lieberman

The City and Exceptionalism in American Political Development

The City in American Political Development
March 2, 2009

Robert Lieberman

Review of Equality and Transparency: A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law by Daniel Sabbagh

Perspectives on Politics
March 2009

Leigh Linden

Measuring Discrimination in Education

NBER Working Papers
June 2009

Leigh Linden

The Effect of Proximity on School Enrollment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan

STICERD-UCL Development and Growth Seminar
May 2, 2009

W. Bentley MacLeod

First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes

Quarterly Journal of Economics
May 2008

Manning Marable

Black Routes to Islam 
August 4, 2009

Manning Marable

Let Nobody Turn Us Around:  Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal, An African-American Anthology
February 2009

Manning Marable

Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership

Souls
January 2009

Manning Marable

Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line
September 30, 2008

Jose Antonio Ocampo

¿Qué sabemos de la articulación entre las políticas económicas y las sociales?

Pensamiento social estratégico Una nueva mirada a los desafíos sociales de América Latina
December 2008

Sharyn O'Halloran

Gerrymanders as Tradeoffs: The Co-Evolution of Social Scientific and Legal Approaches to Racial Redistricting

Designing Democratic Government: Making Institutions Work
September 30, 2008

Kenneth Prewitt

Can (Should) Political Science be a Policy Science?

The Future of Political Science, Gary King (Editor), Kay Lehman Schlozman (Editor), Norman Nie (Editor)
March 23, 2009

Paul Thurman

NCI Designated Cancer Center Funding not Influenced by Organizational Structure

Journal of Cancer Biology and Therapy
May 15, 2009

Michael Ting

A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion

American Political Science Review
August 2008

Miguel Urquiola

Parental choice and school markets: The impact of information approximating school effectiveness

Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile in its series Documentos de Trabajo
July 2009

Miguel Urquiola

Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression-Discontinuity Design

American Economic Review
March 2009

Miguel Urquiola

School Choice, Stratification, and Information on School Performance: Lessons from Chile

Economia
Spring 2008

Bogdan Vasi (with Brayden G. King)

Social Movements, Risk Perceptions, and Economic Outcomes: The Effect of Primary and Secondary Stakeholder Activism on Firms’ Perceived Environmental Risk and Financial Performance

American Sociological Review

August 2012

Bogdan Vasi

Romania, mineworkers protests, 20th century

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present
April 20, 2009

Bogdan Vasi

New Heroes, Old Theories? Toward a Sociological Perspective on Social Entrepreneurship

An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship: Voices, Preconditions, Contexts
April 9, 2009

Bogdan Vasi

Civil Liberty in America: The Diffusion of Municipal Bill of Rights Resolutions after the Passage of the USA PATRIOT Act

American Journal of Sociology
May 2009

Diane Vaughan

Analytic Ethnography

The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology
September 15, 2009

Diane Vaughan

On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters

Contemporary Sociology
January 2009

Eric Verhoogen

Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression-Discontinuity Design

American Economic Review
March 2009

Dorian Warren

Re-establishing a Workers’ Rights Agenda

Mandate for Change: Policies and Leadership for 2009 and Beyond
January 31, 2009

Dorian Warren

The Politics and Practice of Economic Justice: Community Benefits Agreements as Tactic of the New Accountable Development Movement

Journal of Community Practice
January 2009

Dorian Warren

Community Benefits Agreements: A New Report from The Mobility Agenda

The Mobility Agenda
December 18, 2008

Dorian Warren

Race and American Political Development
June 6, 2008