Ann Shola Orloff

Biographic Data

ID187899
NAMEAnn Shola Orloff
GIVEN NAMESAnn Shola
FAMILY NAMEOrloff
SIGNATUREORLOFF A S
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University
ORCID0000-0002-9170-9220
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS1397
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX11

  • Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity

    Open AccessAnn Shola Orloff, Ann OrloffCHAPTERRemaking Modernity2020

    Research in international relations has identified a variety of actors who appear to influence U.S. foreign policy, including experts and “epistemic communities,” organized interests (especially business and labor), and ordinary citizens or “public opinion.” This research, however, has often focused on a single factor at a time, rather than systematically testing the relative importance of alternative possible influences. Using three decades of e…

  • Commodification, vulnerability, risk: Gendered social policy developments in the United States, 1980–2018

    Open AccessMarie Laperrière, Ann Shola Orloff et al.ARTICLEJournal of International and…2019Cited by: 6References: 10

    Over the last few decades, the position of women vis-à-vis the welfare state has changed dramatically. Welfare states have adapted to women's increased labour force participation and to the “new social risks” that characterize postindustrial societies. In this paper, we examine gendered policy developments in the US, focusing on conceptions of vulnerability that inform policies meant to mitigate gendered social risks. Focusing on three policy are…

  • Gender and Welfare States

    Open AccessMarie Laperrière, Ann Shola OrloffCHAPTERHandbook of the Sociology of Gender2018

  • Gender and Welfare States

    Open AccessMarie Laperrière, Ann Shola OrloffOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2018References: 17

    The involvement of welfare states with gender has undergone major reconfigurations in the last century. Understanding these developments requires paying attention to women as caregivers, workers, and political actors, and to issues of power – how they shape redistributive and regulatory state projects, politics, and relationships within households

  • The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control

    Open AccessKimberly J Morgan, Ann Shola OrloffBOOKMany Hands of the State2017Cited by: 12

    The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and…

  • Gendered States Made and Remade: Gendered Labor Policies in the United States and Sweden, 1960–2010

    Open AccessAnn Shola OrloffCHAPTERMany Hands of the State2017

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  • Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control

    Ann Shola Orloff, Kimberly J MorganBOOKMany Hands of the State2017

  • The multidimensional politics of inequality: Taking stock of identity politics in the U.S. Presidential election of 2016

    Open AccessLeslie Mccall, Ann Shola OrloffARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology2017Cited by: 17References: 48

    Many Democrats hoped that a particular kind of identity politics – women's – would help Hillary Clinton win the White House. In the aftermath of the election, some commentators bemoaned the fact that a majority of white women had voted for Trump, and called it a kind of betrayal, underlining their expectation that women would naturally, on the basis of their gender identity, support a woman with women‐friendly politics. Indeed, this kind of think…

  • Perverse Politics?: Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity

    Ann Shola Orloff, Evren Savci et al.BOOKPerverse Politics?2016

  • Feminists in Power

    Open AccessAnn Shola Orloff, Ann Orloff et al.OTHEREmerging Trends in the Social and…2015

    In contrast to the scholarship allied with first and second waves of feminism, feminist analysts today survey a changed landscape of gender across the United States and much of the world: formal exclusions and discrimination are outlawed, gender hierarchies have been undermined, and women are appearing among economic, political, and other elites to an unprecedented degree even as gender inequalities stubbornly persist across multiple arenas. A fo…

  • Revisioning Gender, an Introduction

    Barbara Hobson, Ann Shola Orloff et al.ARTICLESocial Politics International…2015Cited by: 3References: 25

    Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2015

  • Remaking Power and Politics

    Open AccessAnn Shola OrloffARTICLESocial Science History2012References: 50

    I contend that we should remake conceptions of power and politics, taking off from the project of remaking “modernity.” Here, I perform a similar move for “power and politics,” core concepts for history and the human sciences, building on the foundational work of the 1970s and 1980s and bringing in key elements of institutionalist and culturalist critiques. The theories of the early days of social science history were usually materialist, and the…

  • Remaking Power and Politics

    Ann Shola OrloffARTICLESocial Science History2012

    I contend that we should remake conceptions of and taking off from the project of remaking modernity. Here, I perform a similar move for power and politics, core concepts for history and the human sciences, building on the foundational work of the 1970s and 1980s and bringing key elements of institutionalist and culturalist critiques. The theories of the early days of social science history were usually materialist, and the character of state pol…

  • Gender

    Ann Shola OrloffBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the…2010

    The comparative study of gender and welfare states has been favoured by the occurrence of two intellectual ‘big bangs’ — gender studies and regime analysis. ‘Gender’ represents the key theoretical and conceptual innovation of feminist scholarship, including that focused on systems of social provision and regulation. Two clusters of empirical research are addressed, which show the mutual influence of gender relations and systems of social provisio…

  • The Power of Gender Perspectives: Feminist Influence on Policy Paradigms, Social Science, and Social Politics

    Ann Shola Orloff, Bruno PalierARTICLESocial Politics International…2009Cited by: 24References: 2

    Feminist scholarship changed the study of welfare states; influential policy experts have taken off from the feminist critique, incorporating it as they crafted their own social investment strategy, (mis-)translating (and transforming) feminist arguments into an economic rationale. Social science mattered as well: it helped to create a new policy paradigm that is influential across a number of political spaces. Public policy analysis thus needs t…

  • Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda

    Open AccessAnn Shola OrloffARTICLESociological Theory2009Cited by: 57References: 126

    Can feminists count on welfare states-or at least some aspects of these complex systems-as resources in the struggle for gender equality? Gender analysts of 'welfare states' investigate this question and the broader set of issues around the mutually constitutive relationship between systems of social provision and regulation and gender. Feminist scholars have moved to bring the contingent practice of politics back into grounded fields of action a…

  • The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization

    John W Cioffi, Peter Cowhey et al.BOOKState after Statism2006

  • ‘Time and Tide…’: Rejoinder to Abbott, Charrad, Goldstone, Mahoney, Riley, Roy, Sewell, Wingrove and Zerilli

    Open AccessJulia Adams, Elisabeth S Clemens et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2006

    Dans cet article, les AA. repondent aux critiques et suggestions de leurs confreres a propos de leurs ecrits dans l'ouvrage Remaking Modernity, consacre a la sociologie historique aux Etats-Unis

  • Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology

    Open AccessElisabeth Clemens, Julia Adams et al.BOOKRemaking Modernity2005Cited by: 12

  • Once More into the Breach with Modernity: Rejoinder to Inglehart and Norris, and Young

    Julia Adams, Ann Shola OrloffARTICLEPolitics & Gender2005Cited by: 1References: 4

    With respect to modernity and women's place in it, Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris and Iris Marion Young are sharply at odds. Young sees a rending and tearing of the social fabric, and no determinate relationship between gender equality and modernity, while Inglehart and Norris think modernization and women's rights are seamlessly joined at the hip. We think that neither of these analytical stances will do. Our assessment extends from a concept…

  • Defending Modernity? High Politics, Feminist Anti-Modernism, and the Place of Gender

    Julia Adams, Ann Shola OrloffARTICLEPolitics & Gender2005Cited by: 14References: 9

    In the wake of 9/11 and the subsequent struggles in Afghanistan and Iraq, gender has become even more obviously important for understanding contemporary world politics, including armed conflict and war. Gender is an explicit structuring principle of contemporary conflicts between Western powers and an Islamist fundamentalism energized by opposition to the freedoms enjoyed by Western women and committed to the imposition of a version of sharia tha…

  • Citizens, workers or fathers? Men in the history of US social policy

    Open AccessAnn Shola Orloff, Renée A MonsonCHAPTERMaking Men into Fathers2002

    How are fathers treated in US social policy? One might well be stumped by such a question. Recent American social policy debates have swirled around single mothers on welfare and the need to get them into the workforce; only secondarily has attention alighted on the fathers of their children and the need to get them to pay child support. Debates about retirement provision, far weightier than welfare in terms of expenditures and population covered…

  • Making Men into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood

    Open AccessLivia Sz Oláh, Ann Shola Orloff et al.BOOKMaking Men into Fathers2002

    Fatherhood is on the political agenda in many countries, often cast in terms of crisis. One side of the policy debate focuses on fathers as deadbeat dads who do not provide financial support and care for their children. The other revolves around making men into active and engaged fathers. However, these policies are often at odds with the employers' reluctance to accommodate work schedules to fathers' needs. In Making Men into Fathers, prominent …

  • Explaining US welfare reform: Power, gender, race and the US policy legacy

    Open AccessAnn Shola OrloffARTICLECritical Social Policy2002Cited by: 12References: 24

    US welfare reform eliminates social rights and caregiving as bases for making claims; it expands the role of the market; and it marks a shift in patterns of stratification toward gender `sameness', in that mothers and fathers must be employed. The expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit reinforces these changes, channelling resources to poor parents, but only if they are employed. These changes are explained with reference to changing balances …

  • Gender and the Welfare State: New Research on the Origins and Consequences of Social Policy Regimes

    Karen J Morgan, Kimberly Morgan et al.ARTICLEComparative Politics2001Cited by: 3