Margaret Weir
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 280900 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Margaret Weir |
| NOMBRES | Margaret |
| APELLIDO | Weir |
| FIRMA | WEIR M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 163 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
We the People
Ideas and Politics
Governing the New Geography of Poverty in Metropolitan America
This article contributes to the research on the new geography of poverty by examining how low-income residents fit into the governmental patchwork that defines metropolitan America. Our analysis pays particular attention to two features of local governments: their size and their status as incorporated municipalities or unincorporated areas. Relying on Census data, we study these patterns for the five largest metropolitan areas in each of the five…
America’s Two Worlds of Welfare
Studies of the “delegated state” highlight the growing role of nongovernmental organizations to fulfill public purposes. We argue that America’s delegated state has taken two distinct forms: a civic-public model prominent in the North and Midwest and a very different religious-private model more evident in the South and the West. Distinctive regional legacies rooted in European immigration, religion, race, and the timing of urban growth gave rise…
We the People
The Power of Coalitions
Between 1980 and 2010 California's health care policy field shifted from a business-dominated, closed-door pattern of decision making to a more open political arena. Through this process, a wide-ranging and diversely resourced coalition advocating on behalf of beneficiaries became an accepted partner in policymaking. This article examines this transformation, considering its broader implications for the political dynamics of the public-private we…
We the People
We the People
Collaborative Governance and Civic Empowerment
Whether as a solution to problems of political legitimacy or social mistrust, as a way of involving civil society, or as a method of crafting more effective “third way” policies, collaborative governance has been a topic of renewed interest for political scientists and policy intellectuals. Carmen Sirianni's Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance (Brookings, 2009) is an important new book that raises many of these i…
Property Rights, Taxpayer Rights, and the Multiscalar Attack on the State
Studies of new regionalism often focus on the new actors or goals characteristic of contemporary regional coalitions, at the cost of recognizing how competing social movements may constrain regional policy. This paper considers the recent evolution of the property rights and taxpayer movements in the U.S., and how their attacks on state regulatory and tax capacity have affected regional governance. The development and strategic use of scalar repe…
Collaboration Is Not Enough
Over the past two decades, a burgeoning literature has touted the promise of regional collaboration to address a wide range of issues. This article challenges the premise that horizontal collaboration alone can empower regional decision-making venues. By analyzing efforts to create regional venues for transportation policy making in Chicago and Los Angeles, the authors show that vertical power is essential to building regional capacities. Only by…
States, Race, and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism
There is no escaping the New Deal's pivotal place in studies of twentieth-century American politics. Social scientists have vigorously debated the causes of the New Deal's distinctive features and continue to argue about its consequences for subsequent American political development. The predominant perspective advances a coherent linear history in which the central features of New Deal reform shape the understanding of political developments bot…
The Calculus of Coalitions
Reductions in federal urban assistance and devolution have made cities increasingly reliant on their state governments at a time when cities have lost political strength in state legislatures. This article identifies three types of coalitions that historically supported cities: party-imposed coalitions, interest-based coalitions, and governor-brokered coalitions. It shows how institutional, demographic, and economic changes have made these legisl…
Challenging Inequality
Together, the final reports of the APSA Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy and its three working groups constitute a remarkable resource for students of contemporary American politics. Most striking in these materials is the depiction of a reinforcing cycle of political and economic inequality. The task force report argues that inequalities in political voice reverberate in patterns of governance, which in turn give rise to public po…
Theda Skocpol
APSA president Theda Skocpol's research has had a profound intellectual influence that crosses disciplinary boundaries and spans several subfields in political science, including comparative politics, comparative-historical analysis, and American politics. Her work addresses major questions about politics and social organization in a remarkably diverse range of empirical settings. What are the causes of major social revolutions, such as the Frenc…
Activities and Appointments
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Politics and Jobs
Politics and Jobs
Journal Article Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States. By Margaret Weir. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xviii + 238 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-07853-X.) Get access Edward Berkowitz Edward Berkowitz George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1685–1686, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Ideas and the politics of bounded innovation
Social scientists have long been interested in the influence of ideas on government action. In Max Weber's classic formulation, innovative ideas could create new “world images” and fundamentally reshape the terms of struggle among interests. A half century later, John Maynard Keynes, hoping to revolutionize thinking about the government and the economy, made his famous observation that “the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared…
Innovation and Boundaries in American Employment Policy
Journal Article Innovation and Boundaries in American Employment Policy Get access Margaret Weir Margaret Weir MARGARET WEIR is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is the author of Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States. Her current research examines the political isolation of cities in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qua…
Award Recipients
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Social Polity and Welfare State in Sweden. Sven E. Olsson
Bringing the Welfare State Back In
We the People
The Sixth Edition has been carefully updated to reflect most recent developments, including the ongoing conflict in Iraq and the 2006 midterm elections. Complemented by a rich package of multimedia tools for instructors and students, including a new video-clip DVD, We the People is now more pedagogically effective than ever.
The social divide
The book highlights three distinctive features of politics and policymaking in creating this politics: the polarization of political elites; the predominance of advertising politics and intense fragmented interest group politics as political parties have ceased to mobilize ordinary people into politics; and the unprecedented role that budgetary concerns have played in social policymaking. The authors first analyze the institutions and tools of po…
The Calculus of Coalitions
Reductions in federal urban assistance and devolution have made cities increasingly reliant on their state governments at a time when cities have lost political strength in state legislatures. This article identifies three types of coalitions that historically supported cities: party-imposed coalitions, interest-based coalitions, and governor-brokered coalitions. It shows how institutional, demographic, and economic changes have made these legisl…
Collaboration Is Not Enough
Over the past two decades, a burgeoning literature has touted the promise of regional collaboration to address a wide range of issues. This article challenges the premise that horizontal collaboration alone can empower regional decision-making venues. By analyzing efforts to create regional venues for transportation policy making in Chicago and Los Angeles, the authors show that vertical power is essential to building regional capacities. Only by…
States, Race, and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism
There is no escaping the New Deal's pivotal place in studies of twentieth-century American politics. Social scientists have vigorously debated the causes of the New Deal's distinctive features and continue to argue about its consequences for subsequent American political development. The predominant perspective advances a coherent linear history in which the central features of New Deal reform shape the understanding of political developments bot…
State Structures and Social Keynesianism
Schooling for All
America’s Two Worlds of Welfare
Studies of the “delegated state” highlight the growing role of nongovernmental organizations to fulfill public purposes. We argue that America’s delegated state has taken two distinct forms: a civic-public model prominent in the North and Midwest and a very different religious-private model more evident in the South and the West. Distinctive regional legacies rooted in European immigration, religion, race, and the timing of urban growth gave rise…
The Power of Coalitions
Between 1980 and 2010 California's health care policy field shifted from a business-dominated, closed-door pattern of decision making to a more open political arena. Through this process, a wide-ranging and diversely resourced coalition advocating on behalf of beneficiaries became an accepted partner in policymaking. This article examines this transformation, considering its broader implications for the political dynamics of the public-private we…
Politics and Jobs
Journal Article Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States. By Margaret Weir. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xviii + 238 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-07853-X.) Get access Edward Berkowitz Edward Berkowitz George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1685–1686, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Property Rights, Taxpayer Rights, and the Multiscalar Attack on the State
Studies of new regionalism often focus on the new actors or goals characteristic of contemporary regional coalitions, at the cost of recognizing how competing social movements may constrain regional policy. This paper considers the recent evolution of the property rights and taxpayer movements in the U.S., and how their attacks on state regulatory and tax capacity have affected regional governance. The development and strategic use of scalar repe…
Governing the New Geography of Poverty in Metropolitan America
This article contributes to the research on the new geography of poverty by examining how low-income residents fit into the governmental patchwork that defines metropolitan America. Our analysis pays particular attention to two features of local governments: their size and their status as incorporated municipalities or unincorporated areas. Relying on Census data, we study these patterns for the five largest metropolitan areas in each of the five…
Collaborative Governance and Civic Empowerment
Whether as a solution to problems of political legitimacy or social mistrust, as a way of involving civil society, or as a method of crafting more effective “third way” policies, collaborative governance has been a topic of renewed interest for political scientists and policy intellectuals. Carmen Sirianni's Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance (Brookings, 2009) is an important new book that raises many of these i…
Innovation and Boundaries in American Employment Policy
Journal Article Innovation and Boundaries in American Employment Policy Get access Margaret Weir Margaret Weir MARGARET WEIR is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is the author of Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States. Her current research examines the political isolation of cities in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qua…
Challenging Inequality
Together, the final reports of the APSA Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy and its three working groups constitute a remarkable resource for students of contemporary American politics. Most striking in these materials is the depiction of a reinforcing cycle of political and economic inequality. The task force report argues that inequalities in political voice reverberate in patterns of governance, which in turn give rise to public po…
State Structures and Social Keynesianism
Public Schooling and Working-Class Formation
This essay examines the role of the working class in the expansion of the American public school system from 1870 to 1900. In contrast to progressive and recent revisionist historians, the authors identify the nature and limits of conflict as the key to explaining the growth of public education in the United States. Four empirical claims are made: (1) The working class did not provide the central agency struggling to expand the school systems cre…
Bringing the Welfare State Back In
The Social Welfare History State
Public Schooling and Working-Class Formation
This essay examines the role of the working class in the expansion of the American public school system from 1870 to 1900. In contrast to progressive and recent revisionist historians, the authors identify the nature and limits of conflict as the key to explaining the growth of public education in the United States. Four empirical claims are made: (1) The working class did not provide the central agency struggling to expand the school systems cre…
State Structures and Social Keynesianism
State Structures and Social Keynesianism
State Structures and the Possibilities for “Keynesian” Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States
When the Great Depression of the 1930s swept across the Western industrial democracies, it undermined classical liberal orthodoxies of public finance. Economic crisis called into question the predominant conviction that government should balance its budget, maintain the gold standard, and let business reequilibrate of its own accord during economic downturns. Demands were voiced for extraordinary government actions on behalf of industrial workers…
Schooling for All
The United States Working Class and Schooling
Beyond Entitlement
The Federal Government and Unemployment
The Politics of Social Policy in the United States
The Social Welfare History State
Who's Afraid of the Welfare State
Award Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Social Polity and Welfare State in Sweden. Sven E. Olsson
Bringing the Welfare State Back In
Ideas and the politics of bounded innovation
Social scientists have long been interested in the influence of ideas on government action. In Max Weber's classic formulation, innovative ideas could create new “world images” and fundamentally reshape the terms of struggle among interests. A half century later, John Maynard Keynes, hoping to revolutionize thinking about the government and the economy, made his famous observation that “the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared…
Innovation and Boundaries in American Employment Policy
Journal Article Innovation and Boundaries in American Employment Policy Get access Margaret Weir Margaret Weir MARGARET WEIR is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is the author of Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States. Her current research examines the political isolation of cities in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qua…
Politics and Jobs
Politics and Jobs
Journal Article Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States. By Margaret Weir. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xviii + 238 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-07853-X.) Get access Edward Berkowitz Edward Berkowitz George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1685–1686, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Activities and Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Theda Skocpol
APSA president Theda Skocpol's research has had a profound intellectual influence that crosses disciplinary boundaries and spans several subfields in political science, including comparative politics, comparative-historical analysis, and American politics. Her work addresses major questions about politics and social organization in a remarkably diverse range of empirical settings. What are the causes of major social revolutions, such as the Frenc…
Challenging Inequality
Together, the final reports of the APSA Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy and its three working groups constitute a remarkable resource for students of contemporary American politics. Most striking in these materials is the depiction of a reinforcing cycle of political and economic inequality. The task force report argues that inequalities in political voice reverberate in patterns of governance, which in turn give rise to public po…
States, Race, and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism
There is no escaping the New Deal's pivotal place in studies of twentieth-century American politics. Social scientists have vigorously debated the causes of the New Deal's distinctive features and continue to argue about its consequences for subsequent American political development. The predominant perspective advances a coherent linear history in which the central features of New Deal reform shape the understanding of political developments bot…
The Calculus of Coalitions
Reductions in federal urban assistance and devolution have made cities increasingly reliant on their state governments at a time when cities have lost political strength in state legislatures. This article identifies three types of coalitions that historically supported cities: party-imposed coalitions, interest-based coalitions, and governor-brokered coalitions. It shows how institutional, demographic, and economic changes have made these legisl…
Property Rights, Taxpayer Rights, and the Multiscalar Attack on the State
Studies of new regionalism often focus on the new actors or goals characteristic of contemporary regional coalitions, at the cost of recognizing how competing social movements may constrain regional policy. This paper considers the recent evolution of the property rights and taxpayer movements in the U.S., and how their attacks on state regulatory and tax capacity have affected regional governance. The development and strategic use of scalar repe…
Collaboration Is Not Enough
Over the past two decades, a burgeoning literature has touted the promise of regional collaboration to address a wide range of issues. This article challenges the premise that horizontal collaboration alone can empower regional decision-making venues. By analyzing efforts to create regional venues for transportation policy making in Chicago and Los Angeles, the authors show that vertical power is essential to building regional capacities. Only by…
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