Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 132280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dietrich Rueschemeyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dietrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Rueschemeyer |
| SIGNATURE | RUESCHEMEYER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 450 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Conclusion
The Verein fur Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge
Conclusion
The Verein für Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge
4. The Verein für Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge was published in States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies on page 117.
States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies
Participation and Democracy East and West: Comparisons and Interpretations
Since Alexis de Tocqueville first made the linkage in his writings on America, a healthy democracy has been associated with the flourishing of civil society, as measured by popular participation in voluntary and civic activities and the vitality of organizations that mediate between the individual and the state. This volume takes a fresh look at this classic theme in the context of post-communist Eastern Europe, the West European welfare states a…
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
On Recent Comparative Historical Studies
The State and Economic Transformation: Toward an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective Intervention (translated by Grigory Yudin)
Usable Theory: Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research
The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science--to create predictive scientific theory--resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused "theory frames" that formulate problems and point to relevant causal factors and conditions have produced vibrant, insightful, and analytically oriented empirical research. While theory frames alone cannot offer expla…
Dependency and Development in a Globalized World: Looking Back and Forward
Democracy and Social Welfare
Democratic government and generous social provisions are both critical qualities of good societies, at least in the prevailing views in most rich countries. Democracy and social welfare policies are also interrelated. While social policy can thrive in authoritarian polit ical systems, democracies often present specif ically favorable conditions for sustainable social provisions. In turn, the growth of social welfare states was arguably supportive…
Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the global political economy has undergone a profound transformation. Democracy has swept the globe, and both rich and developing nations must compete in an increasingly integrated world economy. How are social welfare policies being affected by this wave of economic globalization? Leading researchers explore the complex question in this new comparative study. Shifting their focus from the more common…
States and Development
One of the most important issues in comparative politics is the relationship between the state and society and the implications of different relationships for long-term social and economic development
States and Development
Why are states important for economic growth and for the social transformations that go with it? Adam Smith (1776) and the Scottish enlightenment gave a first answer: the state can guarantee the institutions enabling individuals and firms to engage in economic activities that bring economic growth.The institutional infrastructure around contract, property, tort law, and incorporation allows the exchange of goods and services as well as the accumu…
States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance
The Quality of Democracy: Addressing Inequality
As part of the project to examine the quality of existing democracies, this paper examines political in/equality. Political equality must be analyzed in relation to the main dimensions of social inequality — class, status and power. The paper considers the normative merits as well as the chances of advancing political equality, focusing first on measures within the political sphere and then on policies that tackle social and economic inequality. …
Can One or a Few Cases Yield Theoretical Gains?
The Issue The crux of skepticism about comparative historical analysis is the “small- N problem” – the combination of many factors assumed to be causally relevant with evidence from only a small number of comparable cases. Exploring the impact of a large number of relevant factors and conditions in only a few cases seems to run into insuperable obstacles for learning anything that is theoretically relevant. In this essay, I will turn a skeptical …
Comparative Historical Analysis: Achievements and Agendas
Comparative historical analysis has a long and distinguished history in the social sciences. Those whom we now regard as the founders of modern social science, from Adam Smith to Alexis de Tocqueville to Karl Marx, all pursued comparative historical analysis as a central mode of investigation. In doing so, they continued a tradition of research that had dominated social thought for centuries. Even when social science began to organize itself into…
Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences
On Benign and Disastrous State Action
Book reviewed: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott
States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies
The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social Dimensions
care about formal democracy because it tends to be more than merely formal. It tends to be real to some extent. Giving the many a real voice in the formal collective decision-making of a country is the most promising basis for further progress in the distribution of power and other forms of substantive equality.'1 We made this assertion when we introduced the results of a broad-based comparative historical investigation of the roots of democracy …
In an Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics and Public Life
Capitalist development and democracy
The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social Dimensions
care about formal democracy because it tends to be more than merely formal. It tends to be real to some extent. Giving the many a real voice in the formal collective decision-making of a country is the most promising basis for further progress in the distribution of power and other forms of substantive equality.'1 We made this assertion when we introduced the results of a broad-based comparative historical investigation of the roots of democracy …
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies
New Theoretical Perspectives on Democratization
Capitalist development and democracy
Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences
The Impact of Economic Development on Democracy
Any account of the social and economic conditions of democracy must come to terms with the central finding of the cross-national statistical research: a sturdy (though not perfect) association between economic development and democracy. To tackle these questions of causation, we adopted a strategy of analytic induction based on comparative historical research. Our program of comparative historical research confirmed the conclusion of the cross-na…
The Quality of Democracy: Addressing Inequality
As part of the project to examine the quality of existing democracies, this paper examines political in/equality. Political equality must be analyzed in relation to the main dimensions of social inequality — class, status and power. The paper considers the normative merits as well as the chances of advancing political equality, focusing first on measures within the political sphere and then on policies that tackle social and economic inequality. …
On Durkheim's Explanation of Division of Labor
Durkheim's explanation of the division of labor is shown to be faulty in several major respects. While his metatheoretical critique of utilitarian social theory, which was closely intertwined with his analysis of the division of labor, is still persuasive, his causal explanation of the division of labor is questionable wherever it modifies the earlier body of thought. Ironically, it was his metatheoretical concerns expressed in the critique of ut…
Structural Differentiation, Efficiency, and Power
The theory of structural differentiation, long a major conceptual tool of the study of social change, is critically reviewed. The link between differentiation and efficiency advantages involves a number of unsolved problems. In addition, past differentiation theory paid too little attention to actual processes of differentiation theory as well as de-differentiation. Both sets of problems can be tackled better if power constellations and power int…
Doctors and Lawyers: A Comment on the Theory Of the Professions
La théorie actuelle ayant trait aux professions utilise surtout la profession médicale comme modèle. Elle accorde aux variables indépen‐dantes — le partage d'un ensemble systématisé de connaissances, la pertinence de l'activité professionnelle par rapport aux principales valeurs de la société et les problèmes de contrôle social — un rôle prépondérant dans la détermination de l'organisation structurale des professions et de la place qu'on leur acc…
Dependency and Development in a Globalized World: Looking Back and Forward
States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies
Statism, Rationality, and State Centrism
The Lawyer and His Community: The Practicing Bar in a Middle-Sized City
Planning without Markets: Knowledge and State Action in East German Housing Construction
Democracy and Social Welfare
Democratic government and generous social provisions are both critical qualities of good societies, at least in the prevailing views in most rich countries. Democracy and social welfare policies are also interrelated. While social policy can thrive in authoritarian polit ical systems, democracies often present specif ically favorable conditions for sustainable social provisions. In turn, the growth of social welfare states was arguably supportive…
Sociology of Law in Germany
Sociological perspectives in the study of law have a long history in German scholarship. As early as the beginning of the nineteenth century the "Historical School of Jurisprudence" had insisted that the law is embedded in the developing patterns of social and cultural life, and that this aspect should guide the analysis of law as well as govern legislation. Still, it was only during the decades before and after 1900 that more specifically sociol…
Variations on two themes in Durkheim'sDivision du travail: Power, solidarity, and meaning in Division of Labor
On the Power of Knowledge
The Behavior of Law.Donald Black
The Legal Profession in Comparative Perspective
Criminal Law: Problems for Decision in the Promulgation, Invocation, and Administration of a Law of Crime. Richard C. Donnelly , Joseph Goldstein , Richard D. Schwartz
Doctors and Lawyers: A Comment on the Theory Of the Professions
La théorie actuelle ayant trait aux professions utilise surtout la profession médicale comme modèle. Elle accorde aux variables indépen‐dantes — le partage d'un ensemble systématisé de connaissances, la pertinence de l'activité professionnelle par rapport aux principales valeurs de la société et les problèmes de contrôle social — un rôle prépondérant dans la détermination de l'organisation structurale des professions et de la place qu'on leur acc…
The Lawyer and His Community: The Practicing Bar in a Middle-Sized City
Sociology of Law in Germany
Sociological perspectives in the study of law have a long history in German scholarship. As early as the beginning of the nineteenth century the "Historical School of Jurisprudence" had insisted that the law is embedded in the developing patterns of social and cultural life, and that this aspect should guide the analysis of law as well as govern legislation. Still, it was only during the decades before and after 1900 that more specifically sociol…
Lawyers and Their Society: A Comparative Study of the Legal Profession in Germany and in the United States
Lawyers and Their Society: A Comparative Study of the Legal Profession in Germany and in the United States
The Legal Profession in Comparative Perspective
Structural Differentiation, Efficiency, and Power
The theory of structural differentiation, long a major conceptual tool of the study of social change, is critically reviewed. The link between differentiation and efficiency advantages involves a number of unsolved problems. In addition, past differentiation theory paid too little attention to actual processes of differentiation theory as well as de-differentiation. Both sets of problems can be tackled better if power constellations and power int…
The Behavior of Law.Donald Black
On Durkheim's Explanation of Division of Labor
Durkheim's explanation of the division of labor is shown to be faulty in several major respects. While his metatheoretical critique of utilitarian social theory, which was closely intertwined with his analysis of the division of labor, is still persuasive, his causal explanation of the division of labor is questionable wherever it modifies the earlier body of thought. Ironically, it was his metatheoretical concerns expressed in the critique of ut…
Theoretical Generalization and Historical Particularity in the Comparative Sociology of Reinhard Bendix
The work of Reinhard Bendix embodies a distinctive sense of the fundamental purpose of sociological work. In 1951, virtually at the outset of his scholarly career, in the programmatic essay “Social Science and the Distrust of Reason,” he distanced himself from a conception of social science that acknowledges no other rationale for its pursuits than the validity of specific findings and their possible usefulness for varied social purposes. This co…
In Search of Law: Sociological Approaches to Law
The State and Economic Transformation: Toward an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective Intervention
Effective state intervention is now assumed to be an integral part of successful capitalist development. The classic interpretations of Polanyi and Gerschenkron have brought the state to the fore in the analysis of European industrialization, puncturing the myth of the original industrial revolution as a purely private process. In the Third World, where the capacity of the private entrepreneurial class to undertake industrialization was always vi…
On the Road toward a More Adequate Understanding of the State
An intellectual sea change is underway in comparative social science, so the introductory essay to this volume argued. A diverse set of scholars with wide-ranging substantive concerns has begun to place the state, viewed as an institution and social actor, at the center of attention. Yet the introduction also suggested that the important work of theoretical reorientation is only beginning to be done. To overcome deeply rooted assumptions about th…
Bringing the State Back In
Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political processes. The contributors to this volume, which includes some of the best r…
Redefining Political Sociology
On the Power of Knowledge
Six Essays in Search of (a) Structure
Empires
Statism, Rationality, and State Centrism
A World Political Economy
Planning without Markets: Knowledge and State Action in East German Housing Construction
State and Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry
The State and the Market in Development, the Editors. Part 1 Alternative Views of the Problem: Varieties of Policy in Third World, G.Ohlin Against Minimalism, P.Streeten Some Thoughts on Plan and Market in the Aftermath of State Socialism in Eastern Europe, A.Nove. Part 2 State Action and the World Economy in Comparative Perspective: A Theory of Government Intervention in Late Industrialization, A.Amsden The Role of Government and Markets in the …
The Impact of Economic Development on Democracy
Any account of the social and economic conditions of democracy must come to terms with the central finding of the cross-national statistical research: a sturdy (though not perfect) association between economic development and democracy. To tackle these questions of causation, we adopted a strategy of analytic induction based on comparative historical research. Our program of comparative historical research confirmed the conclusion of the cross-na…
Variations on two themes in Durkheim'sDivision du travail: Power, solidarity, and meaning in Division of Labor
Political science (34 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Law (25 works) · Politics (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Social science (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works)