Beth Mintz
Biographic Data
| ID | 150478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beth Mintz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mintz |
| SIGNATURE | MINTZ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Higher Education: The Cost of Ideology
A number of factors have contributed to the crisis in higher education, including the long-term transformation in funding. In this article, I argue that neoliberalism can explain many of the processes leading to our changing commitment to colleges and universities and the cost increases that this change has produced. A number of neoliberal assumptions firmly rooted in conventional wisdom have contributed to a "student-as-customer" phenomenon, whi…
Studying the Power Elite: Fifty Years of Who Rules America
College as an Investment: The Role of Graduation Rates in Changing Occupational Inequality by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Occupational Segregation: Changes over Time in the Contemporary United States
In this article, we examine changes in the types of occupations that members of various racial/ethnic-gender groups have entered. We are interested in two trends that we believe may have contributed to differences in occupational concentration: budget reductions and policy changes in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforcement procedures, and the continuing increases in women's educational attainment. Using whites, African American…
The Ethnic, Race, and Gender Gaps in Workplace Authority: Changes over Time in the United States
We analyze factors explaining differences in hierarchical authority between men and women within and across categories of race and ethnicity in two time periods, finding that the processes leading to authority within the workplace operate differently by gender than by race or ethnicity. The demand-side factor, percentage of women in an occupation, helps explain authority differences between men and women in most groups. Supply-side factors, and, …
Commentary: The More Things Change
What types of occupations are women entering
Product Review: The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970
The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970
Solidarity and Contention: The Politics of Class and Sustainability in the Nafta Conflict
Business and Health Care Policy Reform in the 1980s: The 50 States
This paper explores the causes and consequences of business involvement in health care reform. It uses the 50 U.S. states as its focus, analyzing a series of legislative initiatives popular in the 1980s. From an empirical standpoint, it builds on earlier work on business involvement in health care issues; from a theoretical standpoint, it aims to improve our understanding of business involvement in the policy-making process. It considers three th…
Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom
From the Pages of the Insurgent Sociologist
Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails
The Private Regulation of American Health Care
This work discusses a transformation of health care delivery that was launched by coalitions of business leaders during the early 1970s. It argues for a single-payer system and considers how public regulation offers the possibility of democratic participation in setting health care policies
Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization
A quiet revolution came to corporate America during the late 1980s and early 1990S. Large shareholders - pension funds, insurance companies, money managers, and commercial banks - exercised new-found muscle, pressuring senior managers to meet heightened financial expectations by reshaping their organizations. Michael Useem attempts to reveal how those shareholder pressures have transformed the inside structures of many corporations. Useem draws o…
Business Participation in Health Care Policy Reform: Factors Contributing to Collective Action within the Business Community
This paper examines business political activity by exploring those corporate characteristics that contribute to intercorporate coalition formation. Using differences of interest in relation to health care profitability to illustrate the difficulties inherent in corporate collective action, this study examines the role of corporate selfinterest in political behavior. Distinguishing between narrow individual interest, a broader self-interest that m…
Landlords and Capitalists: The Dominant Class of Chile.Maurice Zeitlin , Richard Earl Ratcliff
The Power Structure of American Business
Toward a Political Sociology of the Economy
The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class
Techniques for Disaggregating Centrality Scores in Social Networks
Capital flows and the process of financial hegemony
Financial Interest Groups and Interlocking Directorates
Interlocking Directorates and Interest Group Formation
This paper uses data on interlocking directorates to test three theories of corporate organization: managerialism, coalition theory, and the theory of finance capital. Findings suggest that the modern corporation is not an autonomous unit as suggested by managerialism, that firms do not form flexible alliances which pursue mutual interests as implied by coalition theory, and that the interest groups of traditional finance capital theory do not ch…
Interlocking Directorates and Interest Group Formation
This paper uses data on interlocking directorates to test three theories of corporate organization: managerialism, coalition theory, and the theory of finance capital. Findings suggest that the modern corporation is not an autonomous unit as suggested by managerialism, that firms do not form flexible alliances which pursue mutual interests as implied by coalition theory, and that the interest groups of traditional finance capital theory do not ch…
The Structure of Intercorporate Unity in American Business
This paper examines the structure of intercorporate unity in the United States through an analysis of interlocking directorates. Our findings suggest that the major organizing institutions within the corporate world are the largest New York commercial banks, themselves united by a small number of prominent insurance companies. These institutions lend an order to corporate affairs and maintain a loose unity among firms. Although sources of conflic…
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Occupational Segregation: Changes over Time in the Contemporary United States
In this article, we examine changes in the types of occupations that members of various racial/ethnic-gender groups have entered. We are interested in two trends that we believe may have contributed to differences in occupational concentration: budget reductions and policy changes in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforcement procedures, and the continuing increases in women's educational attainment. Using whites, African American…
Techniques for Disaggregating Centrality Scores in Social Networks
The President's Cabinet, 1891-1912: A Contribution to the Power Structure Debate
Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Higher Education: The Cost of Ideology
A number of factors have contributed to the crisis in higher education, including the long-term transformation in funding. In this article, I argue that neoliberalism can explain many of the processes leading to our changing commitment to colleges and universities and the cost increases that this change has produced. A number of neoliberal assumptions firmly rooted in conventional wisdom have contributed to a "student-as-customer" phenomenon, whi…
Business Participation in Health Care Policy Reform: Factors Contributing to Collective Action within the Business Community
This paper examines business political activity by exploring those corporate characteristics that contribute to intercorporate coalition formation. Using differences of interest in relation to health care profitability to illustrate the difficulties inherent in corporate collective action, this study examines the role of corporate selfinterest in political behavior. Distinguishing between narrow individual interest, a broader self-interest that m…
The Ethnic, Race, and Gender Gaps in Workplace Authority: Changes over Time in the United States
We analyze factors explaining differences in hierarchical authority between men and women within and across categories of race and ethnicity in two time periods, finding that the processes leading to authority within the workplace operate differently by gender than by race or ethnicity. The demand-side factor, percentage of women in an occupation, helps explain authority differences between men and women in most groups. Supply-side factors, and, …
Problems of Proof in Elite Research
This paper reviews the two most prominent methodological procedures used in the study of elites: social background investigations and decision-making analyses. Neither of these methodologies when used alone can resolve the power structure debate. Social background analyses do not take into account the possibility that individuals may not, in all cases, represent the social groups from which they are recruited. Decision-making analyses fail to inv…
Business and Health Care Policy Reform in the 1980s: The 50 States
This paper explores the causes and consequences of business involvement in health care reform. It uses the 50 U.S. states as its focus, analyzing a series of legislative initiatives popular in the 1980s. From an empirical standpoint, it builds on earlier work on business involvement in health care issues; from a theoretical standpoint, it aims to improve our understanding of business involvement in the policy-making process. It considers three th…
What types of occupations are women entering
Commentary: The More Things Change
The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970
Capital flows and the process of financial hegemony
Financial Interest Groups and Interlocking Directorates
The President's Cabinet, 1891-1912: A Contribution to the Power Structure Debate
Problems of Proof in Elite Research
This paper reviews the two most prominent methodological procedures used in the study of elites: social background investigations and decision-making analyses. Neither of these methodologies when used alone can resolve the power structure debate. Social background analyses do not take into account the possibility that individuals may not, in all cases, represent the social groups from which they are recruited. Decision-making analyses fail to inv…
American Capitalism: Two Visions
Interlocking Directorates and Interest Group Formation
This paper uses data on interlocking directorates to test three theories of corporate organization: managerialism, coalition theory, and the theory of finance capital. Findings suggest that the modern corporation is not an autonomous unit as suggested by managerialism, that firms do not form flexible alliances which pursue mutual interests as implied by coalition theory, and that the interest groups of traditional finance capital theory do not ch…
The Structure of Intercorporate Unity in American Business
This paper examines the structure of intercorporate unity in the United States through an analysis of interlocking directorates. Our findings suggest that the major organizing institutions within the corporate world are the largest New York commercial banks, themselves united by a small number of prominent insurance companies. These institutions lend an order to corporate affairs and maintain a loose unity among firms. Although sources of conflic…
Financial Interest Groups and Interlocking Directorates
The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class
Techniques for Disaggregating Centrality Scores in Social Networks
Capital flows and the process of financial hegemony
Toward a Political Sociology of the Economy
The Power Structure of American Business
Landlords and Capitalists: The Dominant Class of Chile.Maurice Zeitlin , Richard Earl Ratcliff
The Private Regulation of American Health Care
This work discusses a transformation of health care delivery that was launched by coalitions of business leaders during the early 1970s. It argues for a single-payer system and considers how public regulation offers the possibility of democratic participation in setting health care policies
Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization
A quiet revolution came to corporate America during the late 1980s and early 1990S. Large shareholders - pension funds, insurance companies, money managers, and commercial banks - exercised new-found muscle, pressuring senior managers to meet heightened financial expectations by reshaping their organizations. Michael Useem attempts to reveal how those shareholder pressures have transformed the inside structures of many corporations. Useem draws o…
Business Participation in Health Care Policy Reform: Factors Contributing to Collective Action within the Business Community
This paper examines business political activity by exploring those corporate characteristics that contribute to intercorporate coalition formation. Using differences of interest in relation to health care profitability to illustrate the difficulties inherent in corporate collective action, this study examines the role of corporate selfinterest in political behavior. Distinguishing between narrow individual interest, a broader self-interest that m…
Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails
Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom
From the Pages of the Insurgent Sociologist
Business and Health Care Policy Reform in the 1980s: The 50 States
This paper explores the causes and consequences of business involvement in health care reform. It uses the 50 U.S. states as its focus, analyzing a series of legislative initiatives popular in the 1980s. From an empirical standpoint, it builds on earlier work on business involvement in health care issues; from a theoretical standpoint, it aims to improve our understanding of business involvement in the policy-making process. It considers three th…
Solidarity and Contention: The Politics of Class and Sustainability in the Nafta Conflict
Product Review: The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970
The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970
What types of occupations are women entering
Commentary: The More Things Change
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Occupational Segregation: Changes over Time in the Contemporary United States
In this article, we examine changes in the types of occupations that members of various racial/ethnic-gender groups have entered. We are interested in two trends that we believe may have contributed to differences in occupational concentration: budget reductions and policy changes in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforcement procedures, and the continuing increases in women's educational attainment. Using whites, African American…
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