A Hicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 14855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Hicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hicks |
| SIGNATURE | HICKS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8941-9566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 966 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
World Polity Matters
Did the nation-state spread due to global diffusion? Wimmer and Feinstein's 2010 ASR article concludes that there are no "world polity" influences on the rise of the nation-state; rather, the spread of the nation-state was driven by proximate and contextual political factors situated at the local and regional levels, in line with historical institutionalist arguments. Here, after arguing that Wimmer and Feinstein misspecify the historical domain …
Do international non-governmental organizations inhibit globalization? The case of capital account liberalization in developing countries
Why do countries liberalize capital controls? The literature identifies a range of possible reasons. Yet, despite considerable advances, the impact of international non-governmental organizations has yet to be considered. In fact, surprisingly, systematic analysis of the role of international non-governmental organizations in the diffusion of economic openness, financial or otherwise, has not been pursued previously. We offer the first such analy…
Can International Nongovernmental Organizations Boost Government Services? The Case of Health
Do international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) lessen the need for states to provide their own services? In the case of health, many assume that INGOs limit health spending by governments. Against the conventional wisdom, we argue that these organizations create increased demand for governmental health spending through three mechanisms: (1) indirectly affecting the policy-making climate (“climatic conditioning”), (2) aiding domestic NGO a…
Research Methods
Pension income replacement
We extend analysis of fine-grained measures of social policy benefit levels to pension policy, with health care policy the most costly and economically consequential of social policies. To do so we analyze public pension income replacement rates(IRRs) for 18 affluent democracies, 1975–2000, using error correction (EC) models that allow for distinct longer-run and shorter-run estimates that may be particularly important for pension benefits. Resul…
Varieties of Neoliberalization
Neoliberalism is most commonly regarded as a discourse of state laissezfaire with regard to both domestic and international markets, as well as a normative theory of radically free and competitive markets as conceived by or thodox economists since the devolution of Keynesian neo-classical synthesis. As such, neoliberalism is a preeminent political eco nomic discourse of our time. Moreover, as a discourse that reflects, as well as constitutes, pol…
An Anatomy of Power
Auteur discourse and the cultural consecration of American films
Free-Market and Religious Fundamentalists versus Poor Relief
In their stimulating Poverty to Perversity, Somers and Block (2005:261) bring from scattered academic and journalistic references (Giddens 1998:15; Soros 2002:4-10, 120-23; Stiglitz 2002:14-16, 230-31) into the pages of the American Sociological Review. They enlighten us by analyzing the role of Malthusian rhetoric as a causal mechanism in the generation of two epochal welfare retrenchments that advanced market fundamentalism in its era, the 1834…
Economic Globalization, the Macro Economy, and Reversals of Welfare
A key question in debates over globalization is its effect on the welfare states in particular on welfare "retrenchments": programmatic retractions of the scope and coverage of social programs. We conceptualize such retrenchments as discrete policy events; and we offer a comprehensive model of their occurrence that integrates domestic economic, political, and institutional factors as well as those related to the global economy. Our analysis of al…
Comparative and Historical Studies of Public Policy and the Welfare State
The welfare state and sociology grew up in tandem. The cornerstones of the modern welfare state were erected in the late nineteenth century, first in Germany and soon thereafter across most of Western Europe. This was during the same era in which sociology, as an academic discipline, was founded. Such coincidence is hardly accidental. Both evolved out of prevailing controversies on how to address the 'social question' how to ensure order and cons…
Back to the future? A review essay on income concentration and conservatism
Equality and inequality, democracy and oligarchy in the USA have ever varied;and they have varied dramatically over the last century or so. Accompanying theNew Deal and the World War II came a new equality—or, in less sanguine terms,a waning of economic oligarchy. However, the waning of the New Deal, first witha post-LBJ de-alignment from the Democratic Party and subsequently with a substantial post-Carter re-alignment favouring the Republican Pa…
Varieties of welfare capitalism
Journal Article Varieties of welfare capitalism Get access Alexander Hicks, Alexander Hicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lane Kenworthy Lane Kenworthy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 27-61, https://doi.org/10.1093/soceco/1.1.27 Published: 01 January 2003 Article history Received: 29 October 2001 Revisi…
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism
What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfare as a preindustrial atavism; others, as a functional requirement of industrial society. Most recently, scholars have stressed the reformist actions of center-left parties during the decades following World War II, the workings of "new" post-industrial politics lately, and a multifaceted r…
Global Transformations
Debate
Cooperation and Political Economic Performance in Affluent Democratic Capitalism
Research on comparative political economic performance has traditionally followed two separate tracks, one concerned with collective economic gain (growth and efficiency) and the other focused on distribution and redistribution. Cooperative institutions offer a key to understanding cross–national variation among the affluent capitalist democracies in both facets of political economic performance. These institutions cluster along two dimensions: n…
Trade Union Growth and Decline
Trade Union Membership Economic Growth and Industrial Restructuring Earnings, Inflation, Unemployment, and Female Employment The Impact of Government The Quality of Trade Union Services Employer Attitudes Public Opinion Can Union Decline Be Arrested
The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State
The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State
The Programmatic Emergence of the Social Security State
Les AA. examinent les programmes politiques en matiere de securite sociale lors de la formation des Etats-providence au tournant du siecle. Ils envisagent la strategie bismarkienne significative des etats de type «patriarcal» et qui repond aux mobilisations de masse de la classe ouvriere, puis une strategie d'incorporation des partis ou des syndicats ouvriers dans des coalitions liberales, enfin une strategie de reforme menee par les partis catho…
Is Political Sociology Informed by Political Science
Journal Article Is Political Sociology Informed by Political Science? Get access Alexander Hicks Alexander Hicks Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 73, Issue 4, June 1995, Pages 1219–1229, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/73.4.1219 Published: 01 June 1995
Methodological innovations in comparative political economy
Comparative research is exploding with new methodological and theoretical approaches. In this book, scholars who are expert in each one of these methods provide the first comprehensive explanation and application of time-series, pooled, event history, and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state. Each section of the book focuses on a new method with a general introduction to the method and then two papers using the method to d…
The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State
Comparative research is exploding with alternative methodological and theoretical approaches. In this book, experts in each one of these methods provide a comprehensive explanation and application of time-series, pooled, event history and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state. Each section of the book focuses on a different method with a general introduction to the methods and then two papers using the method to deal with a…
Politics, Institutions, and Welfare Spending in Industrialized Democracies, 1960-82
We examine the roles of democratic politics and political institutions in shaping social welfare spending in 18 contemporary capitalist democracies. We explore the social spending consequences of government partisanship, electoral competition and turnout, and the self-interested behaviors of politicians and bureaucrats, as well as such relatively durable facets of political institutions as neocorporatism, state centralization, and traditionalist …
On the Political Economy of Welfare Expansion
This article elaborates the thesis that economic growth and various types of collective action by class-linked actors determine the expansion and decline of welfare spending in rich capitalist democracies. Our multivariate model of this thesis, specified to 1960-1971 growth rates in direct cash transfer payments as proportions of gross domestic product, is supported strongly by regression analyses. These indicate that economic growth notably faci…
Varieties of welfare capitalism
Journal Article Varieties of welfare capitalism Get access Alexander Hicks, Alexander Hicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lane Kenworthy Lane Kenworthy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 27-61, https://doi.org/10.1093/soceco/1.1.27 Published: 01 January 2003 Article history Received: 29 October 2001 Revisi…
Cooperation and Political Economic Performance in Affluent Democratic Capitalism
Research on comparative political economic performance has traditionally followed two separate tracks, one concerned with collective economic gain (growth and efficiency) and the other focused on distribution and redistribution. Cooperative institutions offer a key to understanding cross–national variation among the affluent capitalist democracies in both facets of political economic performance. These institutions cluster along two dimensions: n…
The Programmatic Emergence of the Social Security State
Les AA. examinent les programmes politiques en matiere de securite sociale lors de la formation des Etats-providence au tournant du siecle. Ils envisagent la strategie bismarkienne significative des etats de type «patriarcal» et qui repond aux mobilisations de masse de la classe ouvriere, puis une strategie d'incorporation des partis ou des syndicats ouvriers dans des coalitions liberales, enfin une strategie de reforme menee par les partis catho…
Social Democratic Corporatism and Economic Growth
Recent papers by Lange and Garrett and by Jackman have debated whether the political and economic power of the Left has had a sustained impact on the economic growth of relatively affluent capitalist democracies since 1973. This paper indicates that, consistent with theory and research by Lange and Garrett, they have had such an impact. Economic growth between 1974 and 1980-1982 accelerated where both unions were organizationally strong and Left …
Political Resources and the Growth of Welfare in Affluent Capitalist Democracies, 1960-1982
Explanations of welfare effort in affluent postwar democracies are partially integrated within a "political resource" framework. Political resource models of welfare effort fare well when tested with pooled time-series data for 1960-82. Use of governmental authority by the left, use of disruption by the working class and the petty burgeois, and use of lobbying, voting, and/or entitlement rights by the elderly and the unemployed constitute means o…
Governmental Redistribution in Rich Capitalist Democracies
Economic Globalization, the Macro Economy, and Reversals of Welfare
A key question in debates over globalization is its effect on the welfare states in particular on welfare "retrenchments": programmatic retractions of the scope and coverage of social programs. We conceptualize such retrenchments as discrete policy events; and we offer a comprehensive model of their occurrence that integrates domestic economic, political, and institutional factors as well as those related to the global economy. Our analysis of al…
Welfare expansion revisited
Post‐war welfare effort (i.e., welfare spending as a share of national income) in advanced capitalist political democracies is proposed to result from policy routines emphasized in the traditional academic literatures complemented and mediated by class‐linked factors stressed in the ‘new political economy’ literature. Both sets of factors are integrated into a single conception of state policy‐making. In this, self‐interested elite and administra…
Can International Nongovernmental Organizations Boost Government Services? The Case of Health
Do international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) lessen the need for states to provide their own services? In the case of health, many assume that INGOs limit health spending by governments. Against the conventional wisdom, we argue that these organizations create increased demand for governmental health spending through three mechanisms: (1) indirectly affecting the policy-making climate (“climatic conditioning”), (2) aiding domestic NGO a…
Class Power and State Policy
This paper investigates the impact of business and labor organizations upon governmental redistribution to the poor, or the extent to which government expenditures and revenues redistribute income to poor households. A cross-sectional analysis of 48 American states circa 1960 supports the propositions that large business corporations negatively affect governmental redistribution and that labor unions positively affect governmental redistribution.…
Civil Disorder, Relief Mobilization, and AFDC Caseloads
In this paper we argue that previous attempts to test Piven and Cloward's explanation of post-World War II increases in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) caseloads have been incomplete at best. Using short-term time-series analyses of nationallevel data for 1948 to 1977, we find mixed support for Piven and Cloward's explanation of AFDC caseload growth. Piven and Cloward's hypotheses that Community Action Agency legal aid and counseli…
Elections, Keynes, Bureaucracy and Class
On the Robustness of the Left Corporatist Model of Economic Growth
Contrary to claims by Jackman, Hicks's revision of the Lange-Garrett model of 1974-1980 economic growth rates receives robust empirical support from regression analyses of Lange and Garrett's original fifteen cases. Jackman's criticisms of Hicks's (1988) "expanded" model founder once statistically appropriate procedures are used to gauge the stability of Hicks's estimates and statistical tests. Jackman's criticisms of Hick's "elementary" model co…
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Analytical Induction
This article bridges two research traditions, analytical induction (AI) and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in the context of a study of early welfare state formation. First, the article differentiates classical AI from neoanalytical induction (NAI), tracing the latter to the former and identifying some problems with NAI. Next, it outlines QCA and identifies some problems with it. Third, it sketches two bridges, along with solutions that t…
Military Keynesianism in the United States, 1949-1976
This paper examines "... Military Expenditures in the United States, 1949-1976" at a less aggregate level than was done by Griffin, Devine, and Wallace. Assuming that distinctive and independent causal processes generate each of four subcategories that include nearly all military spending, Griffin, Devine, and Wallace's model can be transposed with little modification to the two most generously financed subcategories, equipment and personnel. How…
Auteur discourse and the cultural consecration of American films
Catholicism and Unionization in Affluent Postwar Democracies
We build on a structural model of union density to construct a model of unionization in industrialized democracies that specifies a causal role for Roman Catholic culture. We consider the population size and political orientation of the Catholic laity, and the influences of political institutions, in particular Christian Democratic parties. We use generalized least squares regression analyses to evaluate pooled time series for 18 affluent democra…
Pension income replacement
We extend analysis of fine-grained measures of social policy benefit levels to pension policy, with health care policy the most costly and economically consequential of social policies. To do so we analyze public pension income replacement rates(IRRs) for 18 affluent democracies, 1975–2000, using error correction (EC) models that allow for distinct longer-run and shorter-run estimates that may be particularly important for pension benefits. Resul…
Free-Market and Religious Fundamentalists versus Poor Relief
In their stimulating Poverty to Perversity, Somers and Block (2005:261) bring from scattered academic and journalistic references (Giddens 1998:15; Soros 2002:4-10, 120-23; Stiglitz 2002:14-16, 230-31) into the pages of the American Sociological Review. They enlighten us by analyzing the role of Malthusian rhetoric as a causal mechanism in the generation of two epochal welfare retrenchments that advanced market fundamentalism in its era, the 1834…
World Polity Matters
Did the nation-state spread due to global diffusion? Wimmer and Feinstein's 2010 ASR article concludes that there are no "world polity" influences on the rise of the nation-state; rather, the spread of the nation-state was driven by proximate and contextual political factors situated at the local and regional levels, in line with historical institutionalist arguments. Here, after arguing that Wimmer and Feinstein misspecify the historical domain …
An Anatomy of Power
Toward a Theory of Income Determination
The goal of this article is to construct a theoretical framework for the study of income determination that incorporates elements of three major approaches we characterize as status attainment, human capital, and structural approaches. These three approaches are briefly reviewed and criticized. The framework is introduced through the theoretical concepts of the social relations of production and exchange, the sociotechnical relations of productio…
Do international non-governmental organizations inhibit globalization? The case of capital account liberalization in developing countries
Why do countries liberalize capital controls? The literature identifies a range of possible reasons. Yet, despite considerable advances, the impact of international non-governmental organizations has yet to be considered. In fact, surprisingly, systematic analysis of the role of international non-governmental organizations in the diffusion of economic openness, financial or otherwise, has not been pursued previously. We offer the first such analy…
Public Policy, Party Platforms, and Critical Elections
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Class Power and State Policy
This paper investigates the impact of business and labor organizations upon governmental redistribution to the poor, or the extent to which government expenditures and revenues redistribute income to poor households. A cross-sectional analysis of 48 American states circa 1960 supports the propositions that large business corporations negatively affect governmental redistribution and that labor unions positively affect governmental redistribution.…
Civil Disorder, Relief Mobilization, and AFDC Caseloads
In this paper we argue that previous attempts to test Piven and Cloward's explanation of post-World War II increases in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) caseloads have been incomplete at best. Using short-term time-series analyses of nationallevel data for 1948 to 1977, we find mixed support for Piven and Cloward's explanation of AFDC caseload growth. Piven and Cloward's hypotheses that Community Action Agency legal aid and counseli…
Toward a Theory of Income Determination
The goal of this article is to construct a theoretical framework for the study of income determination that incorporates elements of three major approaches we characterize as status attainment, human capital, and structural approaches. These three approaches are briefly reviewed and criticized. The framework is introduced through the theoretical concepts of the social relations of production and exchange, the sociotechnical relations of productio…
The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Elections, Keynes, Bureaucracy and Class
Governmental Redistribution in Rich Capitalist Democracies
On the Political Economy of Welfare Expansion
This article elaborates the thesis that economic growth and various types of collective action by class-linked actors determine the expansion and decline of welfare spending in rich capitalist democracies. Our multivariate model of this thesis, specified to 1960-1971 growth rates in direct cash transfer payments as proportions of gross domestic product, is supported strongly by regression analyses. These indicate that economic growth notably faci…
Military Keynesianism in the United States, 1949-1976
This paper examines "... Military Expenditures in the United States, 1949-1976" at a less aggregate level than was done by Griffin, Devine, and Wallace. Assuming that distinctive and independent causal processes generate each of four subcategories that include nearly all military spending, Griffin, Devine, and Wallace's model can be transposed with little modification to the two most generously financed subcategories, equipment and personnel. How…
Reevaluating the uses of status
Does Politics Matter? The Determinants of Public Policy
Theoretical Insights and Oversights in 'Methodological Problems
Socialism
National Collective Action and Economic Performance
Journal Article National Collective Action and Economic Performance: A Review Article Get access Alexander Hicks Alexander Hicks Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 1988, Pages 131–153, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600624 Published: 01 June 1988
Social Democratic Corporatism and Economic Growth
Recent papers by Lange and Garrett and by Jackman have debated whether the political and economic power of the Left has had a sustained impact on the economic growth of relatively affluent capitalist democracies since 1973. This paper indicates that, consistent with theory and research by Lange and Garrett, they have had such an impact. Economic growth between 1974 and 1980-1982 accelerated where both unions were organizationally strong and Left …
Two Possible Welfare State Futures
On the Robustness of the Left Corporatist Model of Economic Growth
Contrary to claims by Jackman, Hicks's revision of the Lange-Garrett model of 1974-1980 economic growth rates receives robust empirical support from regression analyses of Lange and Garrett's original fifteen cases. Jackman's criticisms of Hicks's (1988) "expanded" model founder once statistically appropriate procedures are used to gauge the stability of Hicks's estimates and statistical tests. Jackman's criticisms of Hick's "elementary" model co…
Welfare expansion revisited
Post‐war welfare effort (i.e., welfare spending as a share of national income) in advanced capitalist political democracies is proposed to result from policy routines emphasized in the traditional academic literatures complemented and mediated by class‐linked factors stressed in the ‘new political economy’ literature. Both sets of factors are integrated into a single conception of state policy‐making. In this, self‐interested elite and administra…
Age, Class, Politics and the Welfare State. Fred C. Pampel , John B. Williamson
Democracy and Markets
Hollywood Shot by Shot
Expanding Perspectives in Policy Studies and the Policy Studies Organization
Politics, Institutions, and Welfare Spending in Industrialized Democracies, 1960-82
We examine the roles of democratic politics and political institutions in shaping social welfare spending in 18 contemporary capitalist democracies. We explore the social spending consequences of government partisanship, electoral competition and turnout, and the self-interested behaviors of politicians and bureaucrats, as well as such relatively durable facets of political institutions as neocorporatism, state centralization, and traditionalist …
Hitchcock
Reexamining Democracy
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