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Individuals v. States
Wade Cole sent me an excellent paper entitled: “Individuals v. States: An Analysis of Human Rights Committee Rulings, 1979-2007.” The paper is about complaints issued to the Human Rights Committee...
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Environmentalism in Textbooks
Tricia Bromley sent me another terrific paper, written with John Meyer and Chiqui Ramirez, coming out of the increasingly-prolific comparative project on textbooks. The paper shows vividly how...
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Frank et al — Criminal Regulation of Sexuality
David Frank just passed on some terrific news. His paper on worldwide trends in the regulation of sex (with Bayliss Camp and Steve Boutcher) just got accepted at ASR!!!!!!! Congratulations! It is a...
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The Sources of Association
The world is awash in associations, which go by many labels: non-profits, NGOs, advocacy groups, “community based organizations”, voluntary associations, and so on. Wes and I have been working for a...
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Human Rights: Myth and Consequences?
Wade sent me and Ann some of his recent work on human rights. He’s got some great papers, including one coming out in the AJS. More congrats to Wade! He’s really on a roll! Anyhow, the papers take...
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Meyer Annual Review
John Meyer wrote a terrific review paper entitled “World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor.” It can be downloaded here. It is John’s most refined, clear statement about institutional...
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Wes Longhofer Defends
Last but not least, Wes Longhofer defended yesterday! Woohoo! Wes is the first student I’ve worked with from beginning to end, so it was especially rewarding to see it all come together. Wes’s...
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The World’s Regions (according to news reports)…
Marc Ventresca passed along a neat wired article, describing the work of Kalev Leetaru, a research fellow at Georgetown. Leetaru did a cluster analyses of news report data to define regions in the...
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INGO memberships: raw or cooked?
I’ve been hanging out at Stanford, which is great fun. One question that came up recently is “how to best measure INGO memberships?” I’ve been dealing with INGO data for a long time and I have...
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The global citation cluster
I enjoyed Neal Caren’s post on the citation “clusters” of sociology, which follows Kieran Healy’s analysis of philosophy. Neal took a bunch of articles from 2011 and 2012, and identified references...
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World polity or world society?
I get asked: What’s the difference between world polity theory and world society theory? The short answer: They refer to the same intellectual tradition. The term “world polity” came first. But,...
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Polity vs society, the substantive issue
I brought up the question of “world polity theory” vs. “world society theory” as an issue of labeling. In a nutshell, they refer to the same theoretical tradition within sociology. But, there is also...
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Polity vs society, the blog
Yes, I wanted to call the blog “worldsociety.wordpress.com”, but that name was already taken. (I was annoyed to see that the person doesn’t use the blog… but still hogs the name. Grrr.) But,...
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Rethinking War
The big news in our household is that Ann’s newest book is out! Tokens of Power: Rethinking War, by Ann Hironaka, (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Amazon link. This is Ann’s biggest book by far in...
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Congratulations to Louisa Roberts, who successfully defended her dissertation at Ohio State University this week: “The Globalization of the Acceptance of Homosexuality: Mass Opinion and National...
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