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Sociology

Matthew Archibald

Formalization and the Survival of Health Movement Organizations

Matthew E. Archibald, Department of Sociology

This paper examines the conditions under which organizational formalization in the burgeoning alternative healthcare sector determines the longevity of its constituent organizations and shapes the field. Several contrasting expectations are suggested by organizations and social movement theories. The central issue is whether formalization and professional affiliation of health movement organizations produces institutional linkages that generate resources for survival or results in co-optation and failure. This paper addresses the issue by proposing two core research questions: How do formalization, professional alliances and resource differentiation alter health movement organizations’ chances of survival and how do the politics of market niches condition these dynamics? Results show that formalization enhances organizational survival, as does the density of professional alliances at the population level. However, especially when legal professionals are involved, organizational-professional affiliations reduce longevity. These vary under certain market conditions.

John Boli

Varieties of Globalization: Structures, Processes, Movements, Session A

Chair: John Boli, Emory University (USA)
"Visualizing Globalization" Sara R. Curran, Princeton University (USA); Paulette Lloyd, Princeton University (USA); Miguel Centeno, Princeton University (USA); John Galloway, NetMap Analytics and Suresh Sood, University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
"Constituting a Gendered Global Political Space: Women's International Struggle for Peace during WWI" Nitza Berkovitch and Sara Helman, Ben Gurion University (Israel)
"Globalization Before 'Globalization': Sociology, Ancient History and the Experience of the 'Global' in Human Affairs" Roland Robertson and David Inglis, University of Aberdeen (UK)

Varieties of Globalization: Structures, Processes, Movements, Session B

Chair: John Boli, Emory University (USA)
"Global Networks, Local Processes: Understanding the Influence of Global Structures and Discourse on National Actors in the Mental Health Field" Sigrun Olafsdottir, Indiana University (USA)
"Measuring Global Talk: Global Frames in Newspaper Editorials" Elizabeth Essary, Duke University (USA)
"The Globalization of Human Rights Ideology and the Triumph of the Individual" Michael Elliott, Emory University (USA)
"Neoliberalism, Liminality, and Globalization" Johanna Bockman, George Mason University (USA)
Distributive Paper "Globalization and the Transformation of Environmentalism in Turkey, 1980-2004" Gabriel Ignatow, Koç University (Turkey) Download Abstract (133 kB)

Varieties of Globalization: Structures, Processes, Movements, Session C

Chair: John Boli, Emory University (USA)
"Globalisation at the Peripheries of Capitalism: The Rise and Spread of International Auditing Standards in Post-Soviet Russia" Andrea Mennicken, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
"Landscapes of Memory: Open-Air Folk Museums and National Identity in a Transnational Age" Jennifer A. Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA)
"Hybridization, Glocalization and Transnationalism: The Roma Case" Ioana Bunescu, Polish Academy of Science Warsaw (Poland)
"Global-Local Dynamics: The Making of a Life Insurance Market in China" Cheris Shun-ching Chan, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Distributive Paper "Cultural Globalization, Fundamentalism, and Feminist Identities in the Middle East" Valentine M. Moghadam, UNESCO

Alex Hicks and Kendra Freeman

Political Partisanship and Pension: Long-run and Short-run Determinants.

Alex Hicks and Kendra Freeman, Department of Sociology

A new generation of fine grained measures of welfare policy – income replacement rates (IRRs), recipience figures, scales of de-commodification-- is emerging that allows for a far more precise analysis than earlier measures of programs spending per capita or as a share of GDP. For example, IRRs allow one to analyze benefit retrenchment in bad times when the sheer increases in entitlement demands on spending may boost social appending as a share of GDP. Although IRRs have been evident in the literature since the early 1990s work of Esping-Andersen and Walter Korpi and collaborators, they have only really available made it into the public domain with the recent work of Allan and Scruggs. Yet Allan and Scruggs have not analyzed income replacement for public pension. Moreover, their landmark work has examined changes in social insurance policy without attention to changes in, as well as levels of, explanatory factors. We extend the analysis of IRRs to minimum and standard public pensions in 18 affluent democracies, 1975-2000. We find that partisan cabinet, economic globalization and aspects of socio-demographic need and fiscal performance are crucial, more emphatically and subtly so when error correction models are used.