Category: Publications

Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics Abstract: Authoritarianism evokes phenomenal realities of different kinds: rules, behaviors, institutional settings, representations, dispositions, and attitudes. Given this lack of fixed meaning, the present chapter addresses conceptual issues by considering designs, tools, and argumentative frameworks centered on authoritarian regimes. This practical lens highlights five modes of conceptualization defined as ways …

What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment edited by Anne M. O’Leary-Kelly and Shannon L. Rawski

Democracy, Governance, and Law Abstract: Purpose – This chapter shows how open meeting laws (also called “sunshine laws”) place administrative burdens on the public and inadvertently thwart political participation. Methodology/approach – This argument is supported by 36 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 68 interviews with engaged citizens in Wisconsin. Findings – While the expressed purpose of open meeting …

Chad Alan Goldberg’s article “Murder and Moral Responsibility: Thinking with and against Sartre about Reactions to the October 7th Pogrom,” originally published in Responses to 7 October, edited by Rosa Freedman and David Hirsh (Routledge, 2024), was reprinted in April 2025 in Hebrew translation in Israeli Sociology (vol. 26, no. 1), the journal of the …

Social Science Research Abstract: Recent research argues that the criminalization of immigration reflects broader social processes of membership and belonging, making some noncitizens deportable and others worthy of protection. Yet, while scholars suggest that both immigration and punishment are gendered, limited research scrutinizes gendered crimmigration on a large scale or explores how it operates in …

Population and Environment Abstract: Environmental disruptions, such as extreme weather events, can heighten household uncertainty by causing financial, marital, and housing instability. In this paper, we draw on unique interview data to deepen understanding of fertility intentions and the role of environmentally induced uncertainty in shaping them. Using in-depth interviews collected in rural Malawi in …

Qualitative Sociology Abstract: Prior studies of postindustrial societies have shown that despite declines in some gendered expectations, the view that women should not work when their children are young persists. Yet there is insufficient research on how individuals arrive at and make sense of negative views of maternal employment in the context of increasing gender …

The Annals of Applied Statistics Abstract: We introduce a new nonparametric causal decomposition approach that identifies the mechanisms by which a treatment variable contributes to a group-based outcome disparity. Our approach distinguishes three mechanisms: group differences in: (1) treatment prevalence, (2) average treatment effects, and (3) selection into treatment based on individual-level treatment effects. Our …

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Abstract: In this paper, we integrate two bodies of literature on higher education—horizontal stratification and gender segregation—to generate new insights into the consequences of the increase in vocationally oriented programs for gender segregation and inequality. We specifically examine the case of Japan, where college expansion and women’s increasing enrollment …

Birth Abstract: Introduction The postpartum visit is an important opportunity to prevent pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality; however, about 1 in 10 birthing people do not attend this visit. Intrapartum care experiences are an understudied factor that may contribute to postpartum healthcare engagement. Materials and Methods We analyze data from a novel survey supplement on intrapartum …