R A Benton
Biographic Data
| ID | 20173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R A Benton |
| GIVEN NAMES | R A |
| FAMILY NAME | Benton |
| SIGNATURE | BENTON R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7954-6062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The adverse impact of accountability policies: Performance-Based Funding, Diversity Outcomes, and Organizational Visibility
This study examines how accountability-based policies in US higher education reduce racial diversity. Drawing on the theory of racialized organizations, we argue that performance-based funding (PBF) policies embed racial ideology into admission decisions and performance metrics. These metrics, presented under the rationale of accountability, disregard structural inequalities and disproportionately disadvantage racial minorities. This leads public…
An Empirical Analysis of Race and Political Partisanship Effects on Workplace Mobility Patterns During Lockdown, Reopening, and Endemic Covid-19
The authors investigate how race and political partisanship affected variations in workplace and non-workplace mobility at three COVID-19 phases-lockdown (2020), reopening (2021), and endemic COVID (2022). They theorize that structural racism compelled relatively greater workplace mobility rates in Black communities during lockdown, and reduced Black workplace mobility during reopening and endemic COVID. By contrast, they posit elite-level anti-s…
The Dependency Structure of Bad Jobs: How Market Constraint Undermines Job Quality
Power and dependence in economic exchange shape industry structure. When a focal industry faces powerful suppliers or buyers, this can reduce industry rents. The authors argue that these dynamics also affect job quality by reducing the economic surplus available to be shared with workers. Drawing on ideas from power-dependency theory, this article explains industry earnings and job quality differences by examining inter-industry exchange patterns…
Gender inequality in relational position-taking: An analysis of intra-organizational job mobility networks
Changing employment relations under a fractured corporate elite
Shareholder power is often cited as contributing to the deterioration of employment relations. However, managerial power also shapes how shareholder pressures affect workers. In this article, we examine how managerial power contributed to the initial durability and eventual decline of white-collar benefits in the era of shareholder primacy. One traditional source of elite power is the network of overlapping board appointments which helped corpora…
Cohorts and wealth transfers: Generational changes in the receipt of inheritances, trusts, and inter vivos gifts in the United States
Eyes on the Horizon? Fragmented Elites and the Short-Term Focus of the American Corporation
Recent scholarship expresses concerns that U.S. corporations are too focused on short-term performance, undermining their long-term competitiveness. The authors examine how short-term strategies and performance, or short-termism, results from the dissolution of the American corporate elite network. They argue that the corporate board interlock network traditionally served as a collective resource that helped corporate elites to preserve their aut…
Mauri or Mirage? The Status of the Māori Language in Aotearoa New Zealand in the Third Millennium
Maori is an Eastern Polynesian language developed in relative isolation over six or seven centuries from the initial human settlement of New Zealand, and in regular contact with English since the late 18th century. This chapter traces how the status of the language has been recognized and reflected in practice within and outside the Maori ethnic community since initial contact with external influences. The recognition of Maori as an official lang…
Endogenous Dynamics in Contentious Fields: Evidence from the Shareholder Activism Network, 2006–2013
Shareholder activism is a contentious field where investors confront management over governance and social responsibility matters. Most prior research on shareholder activism focuses on firm traits, such as performance, that explain targeting. We argue that shareholder activism also reflects endogenous dynamics. Although activists target firms because of their characteristics, activists also choose targets based on their position in the relationa…
Social network cohesion and the retreat from Southern vowels in Raleigh
Network research in sociolinguistics suggests that integration in a local community network promotes speakers' retention of local linguistic variants in the context of pressure from external or standard dialects. In most sociolinguistic network research, a speaker is assigned a single score along an index representing the aggregate of several network and other social features. We propose that contemporary network methods in adjacent disciplines c…
The lasting effect of intergenerational wealth transfers: Human capital, family formation, and wealth
Uniters or dividers? Voluntary organizations and social capital acquisition
Lifestyles through Expenditures: A Case-Based Approach to Saving
Treating people as cases that are proximate in a behavior space-representing lifestyles-rather than as markers of single variables has a long history in sociology. Yet, because it is difficult to find analytically tractable ways to implement this idea, this approach is rarely used. We take seriously the idea that people are whole packages, and we use household spending to identify groups who occupy similar positions in social space. Using detaile…
The structure of internal job mobility and organizational wage inequality
Corporate Governance and Nested Authority: Cohesive Network Structure, Actor-Driven Mechanisms, and the Balance of Power in American Corporations
Corporate governance describes practices that allocate power and control within public corporations, especially between shareholders, the board of directors, and managers. Shareholder value norms have replaced earlier managerialist governance models. Concurrently, cohesion among the managerial corporate elite has declined, further contributing to a declining managerialist governance consensus. This study considers how governance orientations in p…
The Recruitment Paradox: Network Recruitment, Structural Position, and East German Market Transition
Economic institutions structure links between labor-market informality and social stratification. The present study explores how periods of institutional change and post-socialist market transition alter network-based job finding, in particular informal recruitment. We highlight how market transitions affect both the prevalence and distribution of network-based recruitment channels: open-market environments reduce informal recruitment's prevalenc…
Perfecting the partnership: Revitalising the Māori language in New Zealand education and society 1987–2014
This paper looks at aspects of Māori language revitalisation since the passage of the Māori Language Act, 1987 which gave official status to the language. It is a sequel to an article on Māori language in education published in this journal the following year [Benton, R. A. (1988). The Maori language in New Zealand education. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1(2), 75–83]. It traverses developments in the compulsory education sector, the strategi…
Dual Embeddedness: Informal Job Matching and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany
Journal Article Dual Embeddedness: Informal Job Matching and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany Get access Steve McDonald, Steve McDonald North Carolina State University E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard A. Benton, Richard A. Benton North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David F.…
Bilingual education policy, past and future
The Maori language in New Zealand education
The paper discusses the present position of the Maori language in New Zealand, its decline and revival in recent history, its current status in the educational system, and the challenges it faces in the years ahead. Among the issues raised are the implications of multiculturalism versus biculturalism in state policy, the role of the school in the maintenance and revival of an ethnic language; the balance between linguistic cultural elements in th…
Numeral and Attributive Classifiers in Trukese
The lasting effect of intergenerational wealth transfers: Human capital, family formation, and wealth
Eyes on the Horizon? Fragmented Elites and the Short-Term Focus of the American Corporation
Recent scholarship expresses concerns that U.S. corporations are too focused on short-term performance, undermining their long-term competitiveness. The authors examine how short-term strategies and performance, or short-termism, results from the dissolution of the American corporate elite network. They argue that the corporate board interlock network traditionally served as a collective resource that helped corporate elites to preserve their aut…
Corporate Governance and Nested Authority: Cohesive Network Structure, Actor-Driven Mechanisms, and the Balance of Power in American Corporations
Corporate governance describes practices that allocate power and control within public corporations, especially between shareholders, the board of directors, and managers. Shareholder value norms have replaced earlier managerialist governance models. Concurrently, cohesion among the managerial corporate elite has declined, further contributing to a declining managerialist governance consensus. This study considers how governance orientations in p…
Social network cohesion and the retreat from Southern vowels in Raleigh
Network research in sociolinguistics suggests that integration in a local community network promotes speakers' retention of local linguistic variants in the context of pressure from external or standard dialects. In most sociolinguistic network research, a speaker is assigned a single score along an index representing the aggregate of several network and other social features. We propose that contemporary network methods in adjacent disciplines c…
Cohorts and wealth transfers: Generational changes in the receipt of inheritances, trusts, and inter vivos gifts in the United States
The structure of internal job mobility and organizational wage inequality
Perfecting the partnership: Revitalising the Māori language in New Zealand education and society 1987–2014
This paper looks at aspects of Māori language revitalisation since the passage of the Māori Language Act, 1987 which gave official status to the language. It is a sequel to an article on Māori language in education published in this journal the following year [Benton, R. A. (1988). The Maori language in New Zealand education. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1(2), 75–83]. It traverses developments in the compulsory education sector, the strategi…
Gender inequality in relational position-taking: An analysis of intra-organizational job mobility networks
Changing employment relations under a fractured corporate elite
Shareholder power is often cited as contributing to the deterioration of employment relations. However, managerial power also shapes how shareholder pressures affect workers. In this article, we examine how managerial power contributed to the initial durability and eventual decline of white-collar benefits in the era of shareholder primacy. One traditional source of elite power is the network of overlapping board appointments which helped corpora…
The Maori language in New Zealand education
The paper discusses the present position of the Maori language in New Zealand, its decline and revival in recent history, its current status in the educational system, and the challenges it faces in the years ahead. Among the issues raised are the implications of multiculturalism versus biculturalism in state policy, the role of the school in the maintenance and revival of an ethnic language; the balance between linguistic cultural elements in th…
The Dependency Structure of Bad Jobs: How Market Constraint Undermines Job Quality
Power and dependence in economic exchange shape industry structure. When a focal industry faces powerful suppliers or buyers, this can reduce industry rents. The authors argue that these dynamics also affect job quality by reducing the economic surplus available to be shared with workers. Drawing on ideas from power-dependency theory, this article explains industry earnings and job quality differences by examining inter-industry exchange patterns…
Numeral and Attributive Classifiers in Trukese
The Maori language in New Zealand education
The paper discusses the present position of the Maori language in New Zealand, its decline and revival in recent history, its current status in the educational system, and the challenges it faces in the years ahead. Among the issues raised are the implications of multiculturalism versus biculturalism in state policy, the role of the school in the maintenance and revival of an ethnic language; the balance between linguistic cultural elements in th…
Bilingual education policy, past and future
Dual Embeddedness: Informal Job Matching and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany
Journal Article Dual Embeddedness: Informal Job Matching and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany Get access Steve McDonald, Steve McDonald North Carolina State University E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard A. Benton, Richard A. Benton North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David F.…
The Recruitment Paradox: Network Recruitment, Structural Position, and East German Market Transition
Economic institutions structure links between labor-market informality and social stratification. The present study explores how periods of institutional change and post-socialist market transition alter network-based job finding, in particular informal recruitment. We highlight how market transitions affect both the prevalence and distribution of network-based recruitment channels: open-market environments reduce informal recruitment's prevalenc…
Perfecting the partnership: Revitalising the Māori language in New Zealand education and society 1987–2014
This paper looks at aspects of Māori language revitalisation since the passage of the Māori Language Act, 1987 which gave official status to the language. It is a sequel to an article on Māori language in education published in this journal the following year [Benton, R. A. (1988). The Maori language in New Zealand education. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1(2), 75–83]. It traverses developments in the compulsory education sector, the strategi…
Uniters or dividers? Voluntary organizations and social capital acquisition
Lifestyles through Expenditures: A Case-Based Approach to Saving
Treating people as cases that are proximate in a behavior space-representing lifestyles-rather than as markers of single variables has a long history in sociology. Yet, because it is difficult to find analytically tractable ways to implement this idea, this approach is rarely used. We take seriously the idea that people are whole packages, and we use household spending to identify groups who occupy similar positions in social space. Using detaile…
The structure of internal job mobility and organizational wage inequality
Corporate Governance and Nested Authority: Cohesive Network Structure, Actor-Driven Mechanisms, and the Balance of Power in American Corporations
Corporate governance describes practices that allocate power and control within public corporations, especially between shareholders, the board of directors, and managers. Shareholder value norms have replaced earlier managerialist governance models. Concurrently, cohesion among the managerial corporate elite has declined, further contributing to a declining managerialist governance consensus. This study considers how governance orientations in p…
Mauri or Mirage? The Status of the Māori Language in Aotearoa New Zealand in the Third Millennium
Maori is an Eastern Polynesian language developed in relative isolation over six or seven centuries from the initial human settlement of New Zealand, and in regular contact with English since the late 18th century. This chapter traces how the status of the language has been recognized and reflected in practice within and outside the Maori ethnic community since initial contact with external influences. The recognition of Maori as an official lang…
Endogenous Dynamics in Contentious Fields: Evidence from the Shareholder Activism Network, 2006–2013
Shareholder activism is a contentious field where investors confront management over governance and social responsibility matters. Most prior research on shareholder activism focuses on firm traits, such as performance, that explain targeting. We argue that shareholder activism also reflects endogenous dynamics. Although activists target firms because of their characteristics, activists also choose targets based on their position in the relationa…
Social network cohesion and the retreat from Southern vowels in Raleigh
Network research in sociolinguistics suggests that integration in a local community network promotes speakers' retention of local linguistic variants in the context of pressure from external or standard dialects. In most sociolinguistic network research, a speaker is assigned a single score along an index representing the aggregate of several network and other social features. We propose that contemporary network methods in adjacent disciplines c…
The lasting effect of intergenerational wealth transfers: Human capital, family formation, and wealth
Cohorts and wealth transfers: Generational changes in the receipt of inheritances, trusts, and inter vivos gifts in the United States
Eyes on the Horizon? Fragmented Elites and the Short-Term Focus of the American Corporation
Recent scholarship expresses concerns that U.S. corporations are too focused on short-term performance, undermining their long-term competitiveness. The authors examine how short-term strategies and performance, or short-termism, results from the dissolution of the American corporate elite network. They argue that the corporate board interlock network traditionally served as a collective resource that helped corporate elites to preserve their aut…
Changing employment relations under a fractured corporate elite
Shareholder power is often cited as contributing to the deterioration of employment relations. However, managerial power also shapes how shareholder pressures affect workers. In this article, we examine how managerial power contributed to the initial durability and eventual decline of white-collar benefits in the era of shareholder primacy. One traditional source of elite power is the network of overlapping board appointments which helped corpora…
The Dependency Structure of Bad Jobs: How Market Constraint Undermines Job Quality
Power and dependence in economic exchange shape industry structure. When a focal industry faces powerful suppliers or buyers, this can reduce industry rents. The authors argue that these dynamics also affect job quality by reducing the economic surplus available to be shared with workers. Drawing on ideas from power-dependency theory, this article explains industry earnings and job quality differences by examining inter-industry exchange patterns…
Gender inequality in relational position-taking: An analysis of intra-organizational job mobility networks
An Empirical Analysis of Race and Political Partisanship Effects on Workplace Mobility Patterns During Lockdown, Reopening, and Endemic Covid-19
The authors investigate how race and political partisanship affected variations in workplace and non-workplace mobility at three COVID-19 phases-lockdown (2020), reopening (2021), and endemic COVID (2022). They theorize that structural racism compelled relatively greater workplace mobility rates in Black communities during lockdown, and reduced Black workplace mobility during reopening and endemic COVID. By contrast, they posit elite-level anti-s…
The adverse impact of accountability policies: Performance-Based Funding, Diversity Outcomes, and Organizational Visibility
This study examines how accountability-based policies in US higher education reduce racial diversity. Drawing on the theory of racialized organizations, we argue that performance-based funding (PBF) policies embed racial ideology into admission decisions and performance metrics. These metrics, presented under the rationale of accountability, disregard structural inequalities and disproportionately disadvantage racial minorities. This leads public…
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