Robert R Alford
Biographic Data
| ID | 134085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert R Alford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert R |
| FAMILY NAME | Alford |
| SIGNATURE | ALFORD R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 386 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The Handbook of Political Sociology: States, Civil Societies, and Globalization
This Handbook provides a complete survey of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I explores the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the formation, transitions, and regime structure of the state. Part III takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures from civil society.
The Craft of Inquiry: Theories, Methods, Evidence
The Craft of Inquiry shows how research emerges from and interacts with theory, helping undergraduate students formulate, reformulate, and pursue their own theoretically-informed research. The author also provides a vocabulary to guide novice researchers through the maze of process. He author suggests that there are three basic explanatory approaches to sociology - multi-variate, interpretive and historical - all of which, on their own, are open …
Question Everything? The Social Production of Knowledge
Orpheus wounded: The experience of pain in the professional worlds of the piano
Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge, and Presuppositions
The concept of practices whether of representation, of political or scientific traditions, or of organizational culture is central to social In this book, Stephen Turner presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities. Understood broadly as a tacit understanding by a group, the concept of a has a fatal difficulty, Turner argues: there is no…
Orphée blessé: L'expérience de la douleur dans le monde professionnel du piano
Orpheus wounded The institutional field of the piano contains three social worlds -the virtuoso, pedagogical and medical worlds - each of which in its distinctive way produces, manages, or denies physical pain in piano playing. A number of "risk factors" combine to increase the production of pain among a signiftcant number of professional pianists : increasing market competition, faulty technique (and inadequate teaching), expansion of the standa…
Social Theory for a Changing Society
Systemic crisis and the nonprofit sector: Toward a political economy of the nonprofit health and social services sector
The Dead End of Matatheory
Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought.Samuel Bowles , Herbert Gintis
Powers of Theory: Capitalism, the State, and Democracy
Existing theories of the nature of the state in Western capitalist democracies have been mostly propounded from one of three major theoretical perspectives, each emphasising a particular aspect of the state: the 'pluralist', which emphasises its democratic aspect: the 'managerial', which emphasises its bureaucratic elements: and the 'class', which focuses on its capitalistic aspect. Each of these theoretical perspectives has contributed something…
Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism: Public Policy and the Theory of the State
Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform
Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform
Political conflict, urban structure, and the fiscal crisis1
Les gouvernements locaux ont pour rǒle d'encourager d'une part la croissance économique, d'autre part l'intégration politique. Cette double fonction devient potentiellement contradictoire dans des conditions qui sont soit celles de la croissance, ou de la récession économique. Les gouvernements locaux sont donc organisés, et pour empěcher l'émergence de conflits politiques urbains intenses, et pour assurer l'adaptation continue aux besoins change…
Blue Cross: What Went Wrong?Sylvia A. Law
Health care politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform
Political Participation and Public Policy
Nations, parties, and participation: A critique of political sociology
The Political Economy of Health Care: Dynamics Without Change
Community Structure and Innovation: The Case of Urban Renewal
The presence of, and speed of application for, and number of dollars reserved for, Federal urban renewal programs (the measures of innovation) are analyzed for 582 American cities over 25,000 population in 1960. Other variables studied are ethnicity, income, Democratic vote, political structure, industrial character, educational level, voting turnout, age and size of the city, unemployment, migration, housing condition, and nonwhite composition. …
Bureaucracy and Participation: Political Cultures in Four Wisconsin Cities
Community Structure and Innovation: The Case of Public Housing
Innovation can be defined as "... the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new ideas, processes, products, or services." We mean here an activity, process, service, or idea that is new to an American city. We do not restrict it to mean only the first appearance ever of something new (i.e., an invention) or only the first use by one among a set of social actors. We are concerned neither with the diffusion of innovation nor with internal s…
Data resources for comparative studies of urban administration
Voting Turnout in American Cities
Writing about local elections in 1968, Charles R. Adrian and Charles Press report that, "It is not known whether ... state and national voting-population characteristics fit municipal voting, too." Although a number of important studies of politics and elections in individual communities have emerged in recent years, the data are far from sufficient to permit more than the most speculative generalizations about the nature of the local electorate.…
Community Structure and Innovation: The Case of Urban Renewal
The presence of, and speed of application for, and number of dollars reserved for, Federal urban renewal programs (the measures of innovation) are analyzed for 582 American cities over 25,000 population in 1960. Other variables studied are ethnicity, income, Democratic vote, political structure, industrial character, educational level, voting turnout, age and size of the city, unemployment, migration, housing condition, and nonwhite composition. …
Political Participation and Public Policy
A Suggested Index of the Association of Social Class and Voting
Journal Article LIVING RESEARCH: A SUGGESTED INDEX OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL CLASS AND VOTING Get access ROBERT R. ALFORD ROBERT R. ALFORD *The author is Assistant Professor of Sociology, and Associate Director of the Survey Research Laboratory, at the University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 3, FALL 1962, Pages 417–425, https://doi.org/10.1086/2…
Community Structure and Innovation: The Case of Public Housing
Innovation can be defined as "... the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new ideas, processes, products, or services." We mean here an activity, process, service, or idea that is new to an American city. We do not restrict it to mean only the first appearance ever of something new (i.e., an invention) or only the first use by one among a set of social actors. We are concerned neither with the diffusion of innovation nor with internal s…
Sources of Local Political Involvement
Despite the legal norm of universal adult citizenship in the United States, and thus the legitimacy of participation by all strata of society, the actual level of political involvement in local communities is not high and differs greatly from group to group. Our task here is to spell out some of the conditions of group membership which contribute to local political involvement. Our broader purpose is to argue the need to re-expand the theoretical…
Political conflict, urban structure, and the fiscal crisis1
Les gouvernements locaux ont pour rǒle d'encourager d'une part la croissance économique, d'autre part l'intégration politique. Cette double fonction devient potentiellement contradictoire dans des conditions qui sont soit celles de la croissance, ou de la récession économique. Les gouvernements locaux sont donc organisés, et pour empěcher l'émergence de conflits politiques urbains intenses, et pour assurer l'adaptation continue aux besoins change…
The Political Economy of Health Care: Dynamics Without Change
Sources of Diversity in English Local Government Decisions
Political Parties in a New Nation: The American Experience, 1776-1809
Orpheus wounded: The experience of pain in the professional worlds of the piano
Health care politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform
The Dead End of Matatheory
Community Leadership, Education, and Political Behavior
Nations, parties, and participation: A critique of political sociology
Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
The Role of Social Class in American Voting Behavior
in the United States as in some other Anglo-American countries.' The parties in the United States are not explicitly linked to class-organizations and do not appeal for support on the basis of class. Nevertheless, the parties are seen by the electorate as linked to specific class-interests, and undoubtedly many people vote in accordance with an image of the parties as representing their economic interests. A number of characteristics of American …
Bureaucracy and Participation: Political Cultures in Four Wisconsin Cities
Orphée blessé: L'expérience de la douleur dans le monde professionnel du piano
Orpheus wounded The institutional field of the piano contains three social worlds -the virtuoso, pedagogical and medical worlds - each of which in its distinctive way produces, manages, or denies physical pain in piano playing. A number of "risk factors" combine to increase the production of pain among a signiftcant number of professional pianists : increasing market competition, faulty technique (and inadequate teaching), expansion of the standa…
Party and Society: The Anglo-American Democracies
The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations
Systemic crisis and the nonprofit sector: Toward a political economy of the nonprofit health and social services sector
A Suggested Index of the Association of Social Class and Voting
Journal Article LIVING RESEARCH: A SUGGESTED INDEX OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL CLASS AND VOTING Get access ROBERT R. ALFORD ROBERT R. ALFORD *The author is Assistant Professor of Sociology, and Associate Director of the Survey Research Laboratory, at the University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 3, FALL 1962, Pages 417–425, https://doi.org/10.1086/2…
The Role of Social Class in American Voting Behavior
in the United States as in some other Anglo-American countries.' The parties in the United States are not explicitly linked to class-organizations and do not appeal for support on the basis of class. Nevertheless, the parties are seen by the electorate as linked to specific class-interests, and undoubtedly many people vote in accordance with an image of the parties as representing their economic interests. A number of characteristics of American …
Political Parties in a New Nation: The American Experience, 1776-1809
The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations
Professional Staffs of Congress.Kenneth Kofmehl
Party and Society: The Anglo-American Democracies
Party and Society
Community Leadership, Education, and Political Behavior
Voting Turnout in American Cities
Writing about local elections in 1968, Charles R. Adrian and Charles Press report that, "It is not known whether ... state and national voting-population characteristics fit municipal voting, too." Although a number of important studies of politics and elections in individual communities have emerged in recent years, the data are far from sufficient to permit more than the most speculative generalizations about the nature of the local electorate.…
Sources of Local Political Involvement
Despite the legal norm of universal adult citizenship in the United States, and thus the legitimacy of participation by all strata of society, the actual level of political involvement in local communities is not high and differs greatly from group to group. Our task here is to spell out some of the conditions of group membership which contribute to local political involvement. Our broader purpose is to argue the need to re-expand the theoretical…
Bureaucracy and Participation in Four Wisconsin Cities
Sources of Diversity in English Local Government Decisions
Community Structure and Innovation: The Case of Urban Renewal
The presence of, and speed of application for, and number of dollars reserved for, Federal urban renewal programs (the measures of innovation) are analyzed for 582 American cities over 25,000 population in 1960. Other variables studied are ethnicity, income, Democratic vote, political structure, industrial character, educational level, voting turnout, age and size of the city, unemployment, migration, housing condition, and nonwhite composition. …
Bureaucracy and Participation: Political Cultures in Four Wisconsin Cities
Community Structure and Innovation: The Case of Public Housing
Innovation can be defined as "... the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new ideas, processes, products, or services." We mean here an activity, process, service, or idea that is new to an American city. We do not restrict it to mean only the first appearance ever of something new (i.e., an invention) or only the first use by one among a set of social actors. We are concerned neither with the diffusion of innovation nor with internal s…
Data resources for comparative studies of urban administration
Bureaucracy and Participation: Political Cultures in Four Wisconsin Cities
The Political Economy of Health Care: Dynamics Without Change
Nations, parties, and participation: A critique of political sociology
Health care politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform
Political Participation and Public Policy
Blue Cross: What Went Wrong?Sylvia A. Law
Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism: Public Policy and the Theory of the State
Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform
Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform
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