Brooke Harrington
Biographic Data
| ID | 177609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brooke Harrington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brooke |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrington |
| SIGNATURE | HARRINGTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5741-6846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Does anti-immigrant sentiment decrease support for redistribution? Evidence from two online experiments
This study examines a relationship that has been implied by years of correlational research: that natives’ support for welfare redistribution declines when benefits are allocated to immigrants rather than natives—a phenomenon known as welfare chauvinism. We conducted two online experiments ( N 1 = 273, N 2 = 1060) involving redistribution to unemployed people through real donations to charity, framed as tax compliance decisions within a simulated…
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame
When most people hear the word “sanctions,” they think of formal economic and political punishments leveled at rogue regimes, like the US trade embargo against Iran, or the threatened expulsion of Hungary from the European Union. Both kinds of sanctions have been leveled against Russia since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But the past eight months have also brought a different sanctions strategy to the fore: one aimed at stigmatizing the …
Do experienced subjects bias experimental results? Evidence from 16 laboratories in six countries
This paper addresses an area of growing concerns for laboratory researchers: is subjects’ behaviour affected by prior experiences in laboratory experiments? We address the question with a large and highly diverse international dataset and an operationalisation strategy that allows our findings to cohere with previous work while shedding new light on future research. The findings presented in this article are drawn from original data gathered as p…
Regional variation in tax compliance and the role of culture
This research note analyzes the role of culture on individuals’ tax compliance by focusing on regional differences within a single country: Italy. Southern Italy has long been a focus of research interest, not only for its high rates of tax evasion, but for a host of other social and political ills, all usually attributed to regional culture. Our laboratory tax compliance experiment, conducted in provinces of the northern and southern regions, re…
Transnational Professionals
This review answers recent calls to consider the transformative role of transnational professionals in contemporary globalization. It departs from the dominant perspective, which views professions as constrained by states’ geographical boundaries and by organizations such as nationally based professional associations. Transnational professionals have particular characteristics: they combine high-level abstract knowledge, high mobility across nati…
Turning vice into virtue
Why do professionals engage in or aid misconduct, rather than rejecting it as a threat to their legitimacy and labor market survival? This article contributes to the scholarly agenda by drawing on an ethnographic study of professionals who facilitate offshore tax avoidance for the ultra-wealthy. This form of expert advisory work has become highly controversial, and is increasingly classified as a form of professional wrongdoing. Building on theor…
Capital without Borders
How do the one percent hold on to their wealth? And how do they keep getting richer, despite financial crises and the myriad of taxes on income, capital gains, and inheritance? Capital without Borders takes a novel approach to these questions by looking at professionals who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world’s richest people: wealth managers. Brooke Harrington spent nearly eight years studying this little-known group—including two…
Trusts and financialization
This article identifies trusts as a legal structure associated with the global spread of financialization. Although trusts originated in Medieval England, they have acquired a new significance in contemporary finance by virtue of their advantages in terms of 10 profit maximization and capital mobility. As a result, trusts have become common in contemporary structured finance for corporations, in addition to their traditional functions as estate p…
Grey areas
Journal Article Grey areas: irresponsible corporations and reputational dynamics Get access Gregory Jackson, Gregory Jackson * *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen Brammer, Stephen Brammer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan M. Karpoff, Jonathan M. Karpoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Trust and Estate Planning
This article offers a new perspective on the connection between socioeconomic inequality and occupations by examining the impact of trust and estate planners on global wealth stratification. While many studies treat the professions as mirrors of inequalities in their environments, this article looks at the ways professionals participate in the creation of stratification regimes. Trust and estate planners do this by sheltering their clients' asset…
Deception
From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores deception and offers insights from leading figures in disparate fields, drawing out surprising commonalities. For the first time, one broadly accessible volume pulls together classic philosophical debates on deception with examinations of contemporary issues, including stock market fraud and terrorism. Deception off…
Tiny Publics
It has been conventional to conceptualize civic life through one of two core images: the citizen as lone individualist or the citizen as joiner. Drawing on analyses of the historical development of the public sphere, we propose an alternative analytical framework for civic engagement based on small-group interaction. By embracing this micro-level approach, we contribute to the debate on civil society in three ways. By emphasizing local interactio…
The Social Psychology of Access in Ethnographic Research
This article uses social psychological theories to unify and expand current conceptions of access in ethnographic research-the process by which researchers gather data via interpersonal relationships with participants. Although this process is acknowledged as central to the practice of ethnography, understanding of access is fragmented. A review of the ethnographic methods literature, along with "tales of the field" from published ethnographies, …
Obtrusiveness as Strategy in Ethnographic Research
The Ethnographic Imagination
"Opening the "Black Box
As sociologists look into the new century for sources of explanatory leverage, we argue that small group research contains untapped theoretical potential. Small groups have been largely ignored as a topic in their own right; instead they are treated as a black box in which other social phenomena are observed. We propose a reassessment. By opening the black box, sociologists will find that the core issues of the discipline come together in small g…
Tiny Publics
It has been conventional to conceptualize civic life through one of two core images: the citizen as lone individualist or the citizen as joiner. Drawing on analyses of the historical development of the public sphere, we propose an alternative analytical framework for civic engagement based on small-group interaction. By embracing this micro-level approach, we contribute to the debate on civil society in three ways. By emphasizing local interactio…
The Social Psychology of Access in Ethnographic Research
This article uses social psychological theories to unify and expand current conceptions of access in ethnographic research-the process by which researchers gather data via interpersonal relationships with participants. Although this process is acknowledged as central to the practice of ethnography, understanding of access is fragmented. A review of the ethnographic methods literature, along with "tales of the field" from published ethnographies, …
"Opening the "Black Box
As sociologists look into the new century for sources of explanatory leverage, we argue that small group research contains untapped theoretical potential. Small groups have been largely ignored as a topic in their own right; instead they are treated as a black box in which other social phenomena are observed. We propose a reassessment. By opening the black box, sociologists will find that the core issues of the discipline come together in small g…
The Ethnographic Imagination
Obtrusiveness as Strategy in Ethnographic Research
Trust and Estate Planning
This article offers a new perspective on the connection between socioeconomic inequality and occupations by examining the impact of trust and estate planners on global wealth stratification. While many studies treat the professions as mirrors of inequalities in their environments, this article looks at the ways professionals participate in the creation of stratification regimes. Trust and estate planners do this by sheltering their clients' asset…
Grey areas
Journal Article Grey areas: irresponsible corporations and reputational dynamics Get access Gregory Jackson, Gregory Jackson * *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen Brammer, Stephen Brammer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan M. Karpoff, Jonathan M. Karpoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Turning vice into virtue
Why do professionals engage in or aid misconduct, rather than rejecting it as a threat to their legitimacy and labor market survival? This article contributes to the scholarly agenda by drawing on an ethnographic study of professionals who facilitate offshore tax avoidance for the ultra-wealthy. This form of expert advisory work has become highly controversial, and is increasingly classified as a form of professional wrongdoing. Building on theor…
Trusts and financialization
This article identifies trusts as a legal structure associated with the global spread of financialization. Although trusts originated in Medieval England, they have acquired a new significance in contemporary finance by virtue of their advantages in terms of 10 profit maximization and capital mobility. As a result, trusts have become common in contemporary structured finance for corporations, in addition to their traditional functions as estate p…
Regional variation in tax compliance and the role of culture
This research note analyzes the role of culture on individuals’ tax compliance by focusing on regional differences within a single country: Italy. Southern Italy has long been a focus of research interest, not only for its high rates of tax evasion, but for a host of other social and political ills, all usually attributed to regional culture. Our laboratory tax compliance experiment, conducted in provinces of the northern and southern regions, re…
"Opening the "Black Box
As sociologists look into the new century for sources of explanatory leverage, we argue that small group research contains untapped theoretical potential. Small groups have been largely ignored as a topic in their own right; instead they are treated as a black box in which other social phenomena are observed. We propose a reassessment. By opening the black box, sociologists will find that the core issues of the discipline come together in small g…
The Ethnographic Imagination
Obtrusiveness as Strategy in Ethnographic Research
The Social Psychology of Access in Ethnographic Research
This article uses social psychological theories to unify and expand current conceptions of access in ethnographic research-the process by which researchers gather data via interpersonal relationships with participants. Although this process is acknowledged as central to the practice of ethnography, understanding of access is fragmented. A review of the ethnographic methods literature, along with "tales of the field" from published ethnographies, …
Tiny Publics
It has been conventional to conceptualize civic life through one of two core images: the citizen as lone individualist or the citizen as joiner. Drawing on analyses of the historical development of the public sphere, we propose an alternative analytical framework for civic engagement based on small-group interaction. By embracing this micro-level approach, we contribute to the debate on civil society in three ways. By emphasizing local interactio…
Deception
From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores deception and offers insights from leading figures in disparate fields, drawing out surprising commonalities. For the first time, one broadly accessible volume pulls together classic philosophical debates on deception with examinations of contemporary issues, including stock market fraud and terrorism. Deception off…
Trust and Estate Planning
This article offers a new perspective on the connection between socioeconomic inequality and occupations by examining the impact of trust and estate planners on global wealth stratification. While many studies treat the professions as mirrors of inequalities in their environments, this article looks at the ways professionals participate in the creation of stratification regimes. Trust and estate planners do this by sheltering their clients' asset…
Grey areas
Journal Article Grey areas: irresponsible corporations and reputational dynamics Get access Gregory Jackson, Gregory Jackson * *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen Brammer, Stephen Brammer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan M. Karpoff, Jonathan M. Karpoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Capital without Borders
How do the one percent hold on to their wealth? And how do they keep getting richer, despite financial crises and the myriad of taxes on income, capital gains, and inheritance? Capital without Borders takes a novel approach to these questions by looking at professionals who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world’s richest people: wealth managers. Brooke Harrington spent nearly eight years studying this little-known group—including two…
Trusts and financialization
This article identifies trusts as a legal structure associated with the global spread of financialization. Although trusts originated in Medieval England, they have acquired a new significance in contemporary finance by virtue of their advantages in terms of 10 profit maximization and capital mobility. As a result, trusts have become common in contemporary structured finance for corporations, in addition to their traditional functions as estate p…
Turning vice into virtue
Why do professionals engage in or aid misconduct, rather than rejecting it as a threat to their legitimacy and labor market survival? This article contributes to the scholarly agenda by drawing on an ethnographic study of professionals who facilitate offshore tax avoidance for the ultra-wealthy. This form of expert advisory work has become highly controversial, and is increasingly classified as a form of professional wrongdoing. Building on theor…
Transnational Professionals
This review answers recent calls to consider the transformative role of transnational professionals in contemporary globalization. It departs from the dominant perspective, which views professions as constrained by states’ geographical boundaries and by organizations such as nationally based professional associations. Transnational professionals have particular characteristics: they combine high-level abstract knowledge, high mobility across nati…
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame
When most people hear the word “sanctions,” they think of formal economic and political punishments leveled at rogue regimes, like the US trade embargo against Iran, or the threatened expulsion of Hungary from the European Union. Both kinds of sanctions have been leveled against Russia since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But the past eight months have also brought a different sanctions strategy to the fore: one aimed at stigmatizing the …
Do experienced subjects bias experimental results? Evidence from 16 laboratories in six countries
This paper addresses an area of growing concerns for laboratory researchers: is subjects’ behaviour affected by prior experiences in laboratory experiments? We address the question with a large and highly diverse international dataset and an operationalisation strategy that allows our findings to cohere with previous work while shedding new light on future research. The findings presented in this article are drawn from original data gathered as p…
Regional variation in tax compliance and the role of culture
This research note analyzes the role of culture on individuals’ tax compliance by focusing on regional differences within a single country: Italy. Southern Italy has long been a focus of research interest, not only for its high rates of tax evasion, but for a host of other social and political ills, all usually attributed to regional culture. Our laboratory tax compliance experiment, conducted in provinces of the northern and southern regions, re…
Does anti-immigrant sentiment decrease support for redistribution? Evidence from two online experiments
This study examines a relationship that has been implied by years of correlational research: that natives’ support for welfare redistribution declines when benefits are allocated to immigrants rather than natives—a phenomenon known as welfare chauvinism. We conducted two online experiments ( N 1 = 273, N 2 = 1060) involving redistribution to unemployed people through real donations to charity, framed as tax compliance decisions within a simulated…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)