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Street Level Bureaucracy
Status: Why Is It Everywhere? Why Does It Matter?: Why Is It Everywhere? Why Does It Matter?
Street-Level Bureaucracy, 30th Anniversary Edition
First published in 1980, Street-Level Bureaucracy received critical acclaim for its insightful study of how public service workers, in effect, function as policy decision makers, …
Sociology of the Economy
The new economic sociology is based on the theory that patterns of economic behavior are shaped by social factors. The Sociology of the Economy brings together a dozen …
Process is the Punishment
It is conventional wisdom that there is a grave crisis in our criminal courts: the widespread reliance on plea-bargaining and the settlement of most cases with just a few seconds …
Trust and Reciprocity
Trust is essential to economic and social transactions of all kinds, from choosing a marriage partner, to taking a job, and even buying a used car. The benefits to be gained from …
Private Equity at Work
Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street companies. Are these firms financial innovators that save …
Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality
The rapid rise in the proportion of foreign-born residents in the United States since the mid-1960s is one of the most important demographic events of the past fifty years. The …
Improving School-to-Work Transitions
As anxieties about America's economic competitiveness mounted in the 1980s, so too did concerns that the nation's schools were not adequately preparing young people for the modern …
Social Science for What?
Much like today, the early twentieth century was a period of rising economic inequality and political polarization in America. But it was also an era of progressive reform-a time …
Rethinking the Financial Crisis
Some economic events are so major and unsettling that they "e;change everything."e; Such is the case with the financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 and is …