Dylan Riley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3586913 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dylan Riley |
| NOMBRES | Dylan |
| APELLIDO | Riley |
| FIRMA | RILEY D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5699-5607 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 140 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
The Long Downturn and Its Political Results
Elites, Nonelites, and Power
Bringing together cutting-edge, multidisciplinary papers that weigh in on central issues of the world and social science, the collection consider power, elites, and nonelites in a new, inclusive way, drawing in researchers who deal with topics central to elite theory, but who might not be represented in more classic statements of it.
Sermons For Princes
Dylan Riley on Martin Wolf, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. The FT’s chief economics commentator blames the imbalances of rentier capitalism, not global trade, for political disaffection with ruling elites
Seven Theses on American Politics
Bidenism analysed as the outcome of a bipartisan lurch towards growthless Keynesianism, in a new stage of capitalist accumulation emerging from the long downturn. Classes—and class politics—redefined in a strikingly original intervention
Captalism and Democracy
Dentre os muitos relatos de 'populismo de direita', uns enfatizam a desigualdade de renda, outros a cultura, e outros ainda as especificidades de um dado sistema político. Este artigo dá um passo atrás para desenvolver uma visão estrutural de longo prazo. A tese principal propõe interpretar o cenário mundial enquanto crise da democracia capitalista. Os estilos políticos específicos e trajetos casuais que levaram homens como Trump, Bolsonaro, Dute…
Gender bias in academia
How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico
Capitalist Functionalism
A critical rejoinder to David Harvey’s reflections on the Grundrisse in NLR 130. If capital automatically responds to a falling rate of profit by seeking out a larger mass of labour, how does that square with the facts of the business cycle
Lockdown Limbo
Personal-sociological reflections on a pandemic year. From hospital consulting room to virtual seminar, rural Kentucky to affluent Berkeley, household isolation as division of labour, and appearances and realities of the wider social order
Getting real
Faultlines
American politics cast as a zero-sum battle between party coalitions for state-led divisions of the spoils—cheap money, bailouts, health insurance, tax—lending the electoral battle its peculiar intensity. Dominant and recessive logics of the party system in a stagnant economy
Real Utopia or Abstract Empiricism
Where to locate real utopias, as conceptualized by Wright, in the historical context of capitalist development? A rejoinder to Burawoy, emphasizing production over marketization, Marx over Polanyi, and analyses of the present over visions of the future, as the key to this theoretical conundrum
Trump em perspectiva histórica
Este artigo procura compreender as forças que produziram o governo de Donald Trump, e seu caráter distintivo como um fenômeno da sociologia política. Para tanto, é proposto o conceito de patrimonialismo neobonapartista (PNB) para caracterizar o presidente estadunidense, analisando sua conflitante relação com as estruturas tradicionais de dominação da potência capitalista. Ao mesmo tempo, o artigo discute como o governo Trump não pode ser analisad…
A teoria das classes de Pierre Bourdieu
O que explica a enorme popularidade da teoria crítica de Bourdieu na academia e, particularmente, na sociologia dos EUA? Este ensaio examina duas respostas. Uma é que Bourdieu oferece uma explicação macrossociológica convincente da sociedade contemporânea, à altura daquelas de Marx, Weber ou Durkheim. Entretanto, um exame mais rigoroso mostra que Bourdieu falha nessa empreitada. Seu trabalho não oferece nem uma análise das classes ancorada empiri…
Toward a Sociology of Knowledge of Land Surveys
Although land surveys can be viewed as accomplishments of strong states, this paper shows that they are successful not because of state power, but because of two social factors, lay knowledge and the alignment of social interests. Land surveyance is a strategic research site because it is technologically and labor intensive, so it is difficult to complete. The paper uses historical methodologies of comparison and narrative to show that a national…
Metaphysicking the West
What Is Trump
The pitfalls of bad historical analogizing laid bare in ubiquitous attempts to pin a ‘fascist’ label on the 45th president. Instead, Riley argues, Trump is better grasped as an incoherent amalgam of Weberian forms of rule—ramshackle patrimonialism, weak charisma—operating like a foreign body inserted into America’s capitalist-bureaucratic state
American Brumaire
The electoral watersheds of 2016 signalled a rejection of the global-neoliberal formula of rule, but no viable establishment alternative exists. In its absence, Riley argues, Trump may offer a neo-Bonapartist substitute for a coherent hegemonic project
Political Parties
Political parties are organized currents of opinion that aim to realize a program by controlling a political association. Parties can emerge only where a politics defined as a struggle over the leadership or the influence of the leadership of a human group exists. To the extent that leadership is divided between estates, clans, or families according to tradition and is not the object of struggle, neither politics nor parties can exist. Modern par…
Politics as Theatre
The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census
This paper examines the demographic categories in the first few US censuses, which are asymmetrical combinations of race and legal status not mandated by the US Constitution. State actors explicitly introduced and revised these categories; however, these state actors successfully introduced these categories into the census only when they were already widespread throughout society. Thus, more generally, the paper points to flaws in a “state-center…
Property Leading the People
Southern Questions
Back to Weber
Civic Associations and Authoritarian Regimes in Interwar Europe
What is the relationship between civic associations and authoritarian regimes? While Tocquevillian theories have concentrated mostly on the connection between civic associationism and democracy, this article develops a Gramscian approach, suggesting that a strong associational sphere can facilitate the development of authoritarian parties and hegemonic authoritarian regimes. Two countries are used for comparison, Italy from 1870 to 1926 and Spain…
The Passive Revolutionary Route to the Modern World
Most scholars argue that states are central to modernization in countries lacking a classic bourgeois social revolution. Through an analysis of Italian fascism and Indian nationalism, this essay explains a form of non-social revolutionary transformation that we call passive revolution, in which parties rather than states are the driving agents of change. We argue that India and Italy shared two conditions that led to a passive revolutionary route…
Beyond Strong and Weak
What is the impact of dictatorships on postdictatorial civil societies? Bottom-up theories suggest that totalitarian dictatorships destroy civil society while authoritarian ones allow for its development. Top-down theories of civil society suggest that totalitarianism can create civil societies while authoritarianism is unlikely to. This article argues that both these perspectives suffer from a one-dimensional understanding of civil society that …
Explaining macro-regional trends in global income inequalities, 1950-2000
This paper analyses levels and trends in within-country income inequality during the second-half of the 20th century. Two broad general trends were visible: beginning in the 1950s and 1960s inequality declined substantially in most countries, and in the 1980s and 1990s it increased more variably and more slightly. However, we focus here on presenting and explaining the distinct 'macro-regional' regimes of inequality that became evident in this pe…
Getting real
The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census
This paper examines the demographic categories in the first few US censuses, which are asymmetrical combinations of race and legal status not mandated by the US Constitution. State actors explicitly introduced and revised these categories; however, these state actors successfully introduced these categories into the census only when they were already widespread throughout society. Thus, more generally, the paper points to flaws in a “state-center…
Post-Colonial Journeys
The effect of Italian colonialism on migration to Italy differed according to the pre-colonial social structure, a factor previously neglected by immigration theories. In Eritrea, precolonial Christianity, sharp class distinctions, and a strong state promoted interaction between colonizers and colonized. Eritrean nationalism emerged against Ethiopia; thus, no sharp break between Eritreans and Italians emerged. Two outgrowths of colonialism, the E…
Privilege and Property
The distinction between state and civil society is deeply rooted in both sociology and political theory (Barkey and Parikh 1991:525; Bobbio 1999:115; Habermas 1989:19). Even thinkers who argue that civil society and the state 'interact' often retain the basic conceptual opposition between the terms. Barkey and Parikh go so far as to characterize recent work on the state as 'the state-society literature' (1991:524). Within sociology, however, ther…
Seven Theses on American Politics
Bidenism analysed as the outcome of a bipartisan lurch towards growthless Keynesianism, in a new stage of capitalist accumulation emerging from the long downturn. Classes—and class politics—redefined in a strikingly original intervention
What Is Trump
The pitfalls of bad historical analogizing laid bare in ubiquitous attempts to pin a ‘fascist’ label on the 45th president. Instead, Riley argues, Trump is better grasped as an incoherent amalgam of Weberian forms of rule—ramshackle patrimonialism, weak charisma—operating like a foreign body inserted into America’s capitalist-bureaucratic state
Waves of Historical Sociology
Remaking Modernity is both a very good book, and a very useful one. The uniformly high quality essays, divided between general reflections on the state of particular areas of knowledge and more tightly focused substantive contri-butions, provide an effective survey of what has become a sprawling sub-field. The introduction and conclusions are themselves major substantive contri-butions providing rigorous, comprehensive and stimulating overviews o…
Real Utopia or Abstract Empiricism
Where to locate real utopias, as conceptualized by Wright, in the historical context of capitalist development? A rejoinder to Burawoy, emphasizing production over marketization, Marx over Polanyi, and analyses of the present over visions of the future, as the key to this theoretical conundrum
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
The Long Downturn and Its Political Results
Toward a Sociology of Knowledge of Land Surveys
Although land surveys can be viewed as accomplishments of strong states, this paper shows that they are successful not because of state power, but because of two social factors, lay knowledge and the alignment of social interests. Land surveyance is a strategic research site because it is technologically and labor intensive, so it is difficult to complete. The paper uses historical methodologies of comparison and narrative to show that a national…
Back to Weber
Post-Colonial Journeys
The effect of Italian colonialism on migration to Italy differed according to the pre-colonial social structure, a factor previously neglected by immigration theories. In Eritrea, precolonial Christianity, sharp class distinctions, and a strong state promoted interaction between colonizers and colonized. Eritrean nationalism emerged against Ethiopia; thus, no sharp break between Eritreans and Italians emerged. Two outgrowths of colonialism, the E…
Privilege and Property
The distinction between state and civil society is deeply rooted in both sociology and political theory (Barkey and Parikh 1991:525; Bobbio 1999:115; Habermas 1989:19). Even thinkers who argue that civil society and the state 'interact' often retain the basic conceptual opposition between the terms. Barkey and Parikh go so far as to characterize recent work on the state as 'the state-society literature' (1991:524). Within sociology, however, ther…
Enigmas of Fascism
Dylan Riley on Michael Mann, Fascists and Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism. Alternative versions of the rise of a paramilitary Right in interwar Europe: were fascist movements ideologically coherent or inchoate, revolutionary or counter-revolutionary
Civic Associations and Authoritarian Regimes in Interwar Europe
What is the relationship between civic associations and authoritarian regimes? While Tocquevillian theories have concentrated mostly on the connection between civic associationism and democracy, this article develops a Gramscian approach, suggesting that a strong associational sphere can facilitate the development of authoritarian parties and hegemonic authoritarian regimes. Two countries are used for comparison, Italy from 1870 to 1926 and Spain…
Waves of Historical Sociology
Remaking Modernity is both a very good book, and a very useful one. The uniformly high quality essays, divided between general reflections on the state of particular areas of knowledge and more tightly focused substantive contri-butions, provide an effective survey of what has become a sprawling sub-field. The introduction and conclusions are themselves major substantive contri-butions providing rigorous, comprehensive and stimulating overviews o…
Democracy’s Graveyards
Explaining macro-regional trends in global income inequalities, 1950-2000
This paper analyses levels and trends in within-country income inequality during the second-half of the 20th century. Two broad general trends were visible: beginning in the 1950s and 1960s inequality declined substantially in most countries, and in the 1980s and 1990s it increased more variably and more slightly. However, we focus here on presenting and explaining the distinct 'macro-regional' regimes of inequality that became evident in this pe…
The Passive Revolutionary Route to the Modern World
Most scholars argue that states are central to modernization in countries lacking a classic bourgeois social revolution. Through an analysis of Italian fascism and Indian nationalism, this essay explains a form of non-social revolutionary transformation that we call passive revolution, in which parties rather than states are the driving agents of change. We argue that India and Italy shared two conditions that led to a passive revolutionary route…
Freedom’s Triumph
Reviving its classical definition, ‘rule of the propertyless’, Luciano Canfora recasts the story of democracy in Europe as one of successive defeats, with lessons from Louis Napoleon on the use of suffrage as legitimation for oligarchic rule. Dylan Riley assesses a remarkable historical polemic from the Italian philologist
The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe
Tony Judt
Few Anglophone intellectuals have received such posthumous acclaim as the Director of the Remarque Institute, leading contributor to the New York Review of Books, and late champion of social-democracy. Regularly compared to George Orwell, if not Isaiah Berlin, does any careful examination of his oeuvre sustain such panegyrics
Bernstein’s Heirs
Routes or Rivals? Social Citizenship, Capitalism, and War in the Twentieth Century
Southern Questions
Back to Weber
Beyond Strong and Weak
What is the impact of dictatorships on postdictatorial civil societies? Bottom-up theories suggest that totalitarian dictatorships destroy civil society while authoritarian ones allow for its development. Top-down theories of civil society suggest that totalitarianism can create civil societies while authoritarianism is unlikely to. This article argues that both these perspectives suffer from a one-dimensional understanding of civil society that …
The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census
This paper examines the demographic categories in the first few US censuses, which are asymmetrical combinations of race and legal status not mandated by the US Constitution. State actors explicitly introduced and revised these categories; however, these state actors successfully introduced these categories into the census only when they were already widespread throughout society. Thus, more generally, the paper points to flaws in a “state-center…
Property Leading the People
Politics as Theatre
American Brumaire
The electoral watersheds of 2016 signalled a rejection of the global-neoliberal formula of rule, but no viable establishment alternative exists. In its absence, Riley argues, Trump may offer a neo-Bonapartist substitute for a coherent hegemonic project
Political Parties
Political parties are organized currents of opinion that aim to realize a program by controlling a political association. Parties can emerge only where a politics defined as a struggle over the leadership or the influence of the leadership of a human group exists. To the extent that leadership is divided between estates, clans, or families according to tradition and is not the object of struggle, neither politics nor parties can exist. Modern par…
Metaphysicking the West
What Is Trump
The pitfalls of bad historical analogizing laid bare in ubiquitous attempts to pin a ‘fascist’ label on the 45th president. Instead, Riley argues, Trump is better grasped as an incoherent amalgam of Weberian forms of rule—ramshackle patrimonialism, weak charisma—operating like a foreign body inserted into America’s capitalist-bureaucratic state
A teoria das classes de Pierre Bourdieu
O que explica a enorme popularidade da teoria crítica de Bourdieu na academia e, particularmente, na sociologia dos EUA? Este ensaio examina duas respostas. Uma é que Bourdieu oferece uma explicação macrossociológica convincente da sociedade contemporânea, à altura daquelas de Marx, Weber ou Durkheim. Entretanto, um exame mais rigoroso mostra que Bourdieu falha nessa empreitada. Seu trabalho não oferece nem uma análise das classes ancorada empiri…
Toward a Sociology of Knowledge of Land Surveys
Although land surveys can be viewed as accomplishments of strong states, this paper shows that they are successful not because of state power, but because of two social factors, lay knowledge and the alignment of social interests. Land surveyance is a strategic research site because it is technologically and labor intensive, so it is difficult to complete. The paper uses historical methodologies of comparison and narrative to show that a national…
Political science (16 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (6 obras) · Political Economy and Marxism (6 obras) · Democracy (5 obras) · Economics (5 obras)