Robert M Fishman
Biographic Data
| ID | 281017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Fishman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fishman |
| SIGNATURE | FISHMAN R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0484-584X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Deepening or Endangering Democracy: Demonstrations and Institutions under Representative Government
Do demonstrations tend to deepen or endanger democracy? I examine this theme of major debate between scholars and among political actors, analyzing how the United States and other democracies have dealt with—and been shaped by—popular pressure on representative institutions. Cases that are discussed include Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington and the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, as well as examples drawn from Spain, Portugal,…
El movimiento obrero en la transición: Objetivos Políticos Y Organizativos
En los últimos años, el movimiento obrero en España se ha enfrentado a la doble tarea de contribuir a la transición política a la democracia y de seguir sus propios objetivos organizacionales, como su extensión y mayor implantación entre los trabajadores. A pesar de las dificultades sindicales experimentadas durante la transición y la crisis económica, hoy en día los sindicatos ya extienden su ámbito de influencia en muchas empresas. Sin embargo,…
Democratic Practice: Origins of the Iberian Divide in Political Inclusion
This book offers a new way to conceptualize and study differences among democracies, focusing on political conduct and interaction as well as related taken-for-granted assumptions. With an empirical basis in a multimethod study of Portugal and Spain, pioneers in the worldwide turn to democracy that began in the 1970s, the argument identifies how political inclusion and equality vary substantially as a result of processes that the book theorizes: …
What 25 April Was and Why It Mattered
What Made the Third Wave Possible? Historical Contingency and Meta-Politics in the Genesis of Worldwide Democratization
How Civil Society Matters in Democratization: Setting the Boundaries of Post-Transition Political Inclusion
Mecanismos para entender los logros de los movimientos: Conversación, desplazamiento y disrupción
Buena parte de la investigación en movimientos sociales tiende a asumir - y en algunos casos argumenta de manera explícita - que la disrupción es el principal mecanismo a través del cual los movimientos de protesta obtienen importantes concesiones por parte de quienes detentan el poder. No obstante, algunos estudios y mucha evidencia empírica proporcionan una base sólida para sostener la existencia de otras vías para el logro de los movimientos s…
Rethinking Dimensions of Democracy for Empirical Analysis: Authenticity, Quality, Depth, and Consolidation
This article analyzes the scholarship on variation among democracies and offers a proposal intended to address the relative lack of consensus over the fundamental conceptual infrastructure underpinning this literature. The framework introduced here differentiates between four dimensions of democracy: authenticity, quality, depth and consolidation—arguing that they may vary with some independence from one another. This approach simultaneously addr…
Socio-historical foundations of citizenship practice: After social revolution in Portugal
Inequality and the Altruistic Life: A Study of the Priestly Vocation Rate
This article takes the rate of new incorporations into the Catholic priesthood within national societies as a social fact revealing underlying societal tendencies of broad theoretical relevance extending well beyond the study of religion. Our emphasis lies on the impact of income inequality on the prevalence of altruistic life options. We examine cross-national and time-series variation in the priestly vocation rate as the empirical foundation to…
How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste: Legacies of Democratization in Spain and Portugal
In this article, we show that large-scale macro-political change can powerfully condition how institutional practices shape individual cultural choice. We study the paired comparison of Portugal and Spain, two long-similar societies that moved from authoritarianism to democracy through divergent pathways in the 1970s. Data from the 2001 Eurobarometer indicate that while the cultural choices of persons born before democratic transition are compara…
Anomalies of Spain's Economy and Economic Policy-making
Spain's economic difficulties underscore the dangers inherent in the Eurozone's current austerity regime but despite the ways in which the larger context has conditioned and worsened Spanish difficulties, many of the country's problems are home-grown. Economic policy has suffered from an inability to identify and act on the country's genuine structural shortfalls and instead has repeatedly attempted to address chronically high unemployment throug…
The Politics of Industrial Relations: Labor Unions in Spain
Kerstin Hamann, New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-88465-5, £80.00 (hb), Pp. xvi +286 The extraordinary public significance of labour mobilisation in Spain has attracted the inter
Democratic Practice after the Revolution: The Case of Portugal and Beyond
This article examines democratic practice after the revolution that brought an end to authoritarian dictatorship in Portugal in April 1974, taking the Portuguese case as an opportunity to theorize democratic practice and historical processes that shape its emergence. The argument stresses the distinctive features of democracy born in social revolution and the explanatory role of the partial inversion of social hierarchies and remaking of cultural…
Rethinking the Iberian Transformations: How Democratization Scenarios Shaped Labor Market Outcomes
On the Costs of Conceptualizing Social Ties as Social Capital
On Being a Weberian (after Spain’s 11–14 March): Notes on the Continuing Relevance of the Methodological Perspective Proposed by Weber
11. On Being a Weberian (after Spain’s 11–14 March): Notes on the Continuing Relevance of the Methodological Perspective Proposed by Weber was published in Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered on page 261.
Democracy's Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain
Building on one of sociology's core ideas—that social ties can shape collective outcomes—Democracy's Voices shows that connections across class boundaries can remake public rhetoric and thus the quality of democratic life. Robert M. Fishman takes up a question of enduring significance to people concerned with the quality of democratic public life, focusing on why political rhetoric proves engaging and broadly relevant, or disengaging and narrow. …
Shaping, not Making, Democracy: The European Union and the Post-Authoritarian Political Transformations of Spain and Portugal
This essay argues that the forces and attitudes shaping the politics of transition in the two Iberian cases should be understood as prior to and deeper than those underpinning the ultimate form taken by the politics of European integration (although clearly EC membership had been pursued by some actors prior to democratization). The Spanish and Portuguese democracies have been shaped, but not made, by the successful effort of both countries to ac…
Linking Institutionalization to Regime Consolidation in Southern Europe: Leonardo Morlino's Democracy Between Consolidation and Crisis
Urbanity and Suburbanity: Rethinking the 'Burbs
ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE THAT MUCH OF THE ANALYSIS IN WILLIAM SHARPE'S and Leonard Wallock's vigorous polemic is seriously mistaken, I strongly agree with one fundamental point: authors' profound concern for urbanity. They define urbanity as diversity, cosmopolitanism, political culture, and public life, and they are right to be anxious about present status and future survival of these crucial values. Unfortunately their anxieties have led them to adop…
The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany
Working-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain
Rethinking State and Regime: Southern Europe's Transition to Democracy
The historical clustering of the transitions to democracy of Spain, Portugal, and Greece—all having taken place in the mid-1970s—encourages scholars to search for common causes, patterns, and paths of development. But important differences remain between the cases. Analytical distinctions include the difference between state and regime, and the contrast between regime crises of failure and crises of historical obsolescence. These distinctions mak…
The Labor Movement in Spain: From Authoritarianism to Democracy
After the death of Francisco Franco in 1975 the Spanish authoritarian regime' transformed itself (under pressure from the opposition) into a parliamentary democracy. This regime change was both cause and consequence of broader changes in Spanish society. This paper deals with the development of the labor movement in the newly established freedom, concentrating on an analysis of the 1978 union elections, the first under the new regime. The formati…
How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste: Legacies of Democratization in Spain and Portugal
In this article, we show that large-scale macro-political change can powerfully condition how institutional practices shape individual cultural choice. We study the paired comparison of Portugal and Spain, two long-similar societies that moved from authoritarianism to democracy through divergent pathways in the 1970s. Data from the 2001 Eurobarometer indicate that while the cultural choices of persons born before democratic transition are compara…
Rethinking State and Regime: Southern Europe's Transition to Democracy
The historical clustering of the transitions to democracy of Spain, Portugal, and Greece—all having taken place in the mid-1970s—encourages scholars to search for common causes, patterns, and paths of development. But important differences remain between the cases. Analytical distinctions include the difference between state and regime, and the contrast between regime crises of failure and crises of historical obsolescence. These distinctions mak…
Democratic Practice after the Revolution: The Case of Portugal and Beyond
This article examines democratic practice after the revolution that brought an end to authoritarian dictatorship in Portugal in April 1974, taking the Portuguese case as an opportunity to theorize democratic practice and historical processes that shape its emergence. The argument stresses the distinctive features of democracy born in social revolution and the explanatory role of the partial inversion of social hierarchies and remaking of cultural…
Rethinking Dimensions of Democracy for Empirical Analysis: Authenticity, Quality, Depth, and Consolidation
This article analyzes the scholarship on variation among democracies and offers a proposal intended to address the relative lack of consensus over the fundamental conceptual infrastructure underpinning this literature. The framework introduced here differentiates between four dimensions of democracy: authenticity, quality, depth and consolidation—arguing that they may vary with some independence from one another. This approach simultaneously addr…
How Civil Society Matters in Democratization: Setting the Boundaries of Post-Transition Political Inclusion
Urbanity and Suburbanity: Rethinking the 'Burbs
ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE THAT MUCH OF THE ANALYSIS IN WILLIAM SHARPE'S and Leonard Wallock's vigorous polemic is seriously mistaken, I strongly agree with one fundamental point: authors' profound concern for urbanity. They define urbanity as diversity, cosmopolitanism, political culture, and public life, and they are right to be anxious about present status and future survival of these crucial values. Unfortunately their anxieties have led them to adop…
Rethinking the Iberian Transformations: How Democratization Scenarios Shaped Labor Market Outcomes
Mecanismos para entender los logros de los movimientos: Conversación, desplazamiento y disrupción
Buena parte de la investigación en movimientos sociales tiende a asumir - y en algunos casos argumenta de manera explícita - que la disrupción es el principal mecanismo a través del cual los movimientos de protesta obtienen importantes concesiones por parte de quienes detentan el poder. No obstante, algunos estudios y mucha evidencia empírica proporcionan una base sólida para sostener la existencia de otras vías para el logro de los movimientos s…
Anomalies of Spain's Economy and Economic Policy-making
Spain's economic difficulties underscore the dangers inherent in the Eurozone's current austerity regime but despite the ways in which the larger context has conditioned and worsened Spanish difficulties, many of the country's problems are home-grown. Economic policy has suffered from an inability to identify and act on the country's genuine structural shortfalls and instead has repeatedly attempted to address chronically high unemployment throug…
The Labor Movement in Spain: From Authoritarianism to Democracy
After the death of Francisco Franco in 1975 the Spanish authoritarian regime' transformed itself (under pressure from the opposition) into a parliamentary democracy. This regime change was both cause and consequence of broader changes in Spanish society. This paper deals with the development of the labor movement in the newly established freedom, concentrating on an analysis of the 1978 union elections, the first under the new regime. The formati…
Inequality and the Altruistic Life: A Study of the Priestly Vocation Rate
This article takes the rate of new incorporations into the Catholic priesthood within national societies as a social fact revealing underlying societal tendencies of broad theoretical relevance extending well beyond the study of religion. Our emphasis lies on the impact of income inequality on the prevalence of altruistic life options. We examine cross-national and time-series variation in the priestly vocation rate as the empirical foundation to…
Shaping, not Making, Democracy: The European Union and the Post-Authoritarian Political Transformations of Spain and Portugal
This essay argues that the forces and attitudes shaping the politics of transition in the two Iberian cases should be understood as prior to and deeper than those underpinning the ultimate form taken by the politics of European integration (although clearly EC membership had been pursued by some actors prior to democratization). The Spanish and Portuguese democracies have been shaped, but not made, by the successful effort of both countries to ac…
What 25 April Was and Why It Mattered
Socio-historical foundations of citizenship practice: After social revolution in Portugal
The Politics of Industrial Relations: Labor Unions in Spain
Kerstin Hamann, New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-88465-5, £80.00 (hb), Pp. xvi +286 The extraordinary public significance of labour mobilisation in Spain has attracted the inter
How the Southerner Looks at International Affairs
The Labor Movement in Spain: From Authoritarianism to Democracy
After the death of Francisco Franco in 1975 the Spanish authoritarian regime' transformed itself (under pressure from the opposition) into a parliamentary democracy. This regime change was both cause and consequence of broader changes in Spanish society. This paper deals with the development of the labor movement in the newly established freedom, concentrating on an analysis of the 1978 union elections, the first under the new regime. The formati…
Rethinking State and Regime: Southern Europe's Transition to Democracy
The historical clustering of the transitions to democracy of Spain, Portugal, and Greece—all having taken place in the mid-1970s—encourages scholars to search for common causes, patterns, and paths of development. But important differences remain between the cases. Analytical distinctions include the difference between state and regime, and the contrast between regime crises of failure and crises of historical obsolescence. These distinctions mak…
Working-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain
The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany
Urbanity and Suburbanity: Rethinking the 'Burbs
ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE THAT MUCH OF THE ANALYSIS IN WILLIAM SHARPE'S and Leonard Wallock's vigorous polemic is seriously mistaken, I strongly agree with one fundamental point: authors' profound concern for urbanity. They define urbanity as diversity, cosmopolitanism, political culture, and public life, and they are right to be anxious about present status and future survival of these crucial values. Unfortunately their anxieties have led them to adop…
Linking Institutionalization to Regime Consolidation in Southern Europe: Leonardo Morlino's Democracy Between Consolidation and Crisis
Shaping, not Making, Democracy: The European Union and the Post-Authoritarian Political Transformations of Spain and Portugal
This essay argues that the forces and attitudes shaping the politics of transition in the two Iberian cases should be understood as prior to and deeper than those underpinning the ultimate form taken by the politics of European integration (although clearly EC membership had been pursued by some actors prior to democratization). The Spanish and Portuguese democracies have been shaped, but not made, by the successful effort of both countries to ac…
Democracy's Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain
Building on one of sociology's core ideas—that social ties can shape collective outcomes—Democracy's Voices shows that connections across class boundaries can remake public rhetoric and thus the quality of democratic life. Robert M. Fishman takes up a question of enduring significance to people concerned with the quality of democratic public life, focusing on why political rhetoric proves engaging and broadly relevant, or disengaging and narrow. …
On Being a Weberian (after Spain’s 11–14 March): Notes on the Continuing Relevance of the Methodological Perspective Proposed by Weber
11. On Being a Weberian (after Spain’s 11–14 March): Notes on the Continuing Relevance of the Methodological Perspective Proposed by Weber was published in Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered on page 261.
On the Costs of Conceptualizing Social Ties as Social Capital
Rethinking the Iberian Transformations: How Democratization Scenarios Shaped Labor Market Outcomes
Democratic Practice after the Revolution: The Case of Portugal and Beyond
This article examines democratic practice after the revolution that brought an end to authoritarian dictatorship in Portugal in April 1974, taking the Portuguese case as an opportunity to theorize democratic practice and historical processes that shape its emergence. The argument stresses the distinctive features of democracy born in social revolution and the explanatory role of the partial inversion of social hierarchies and remaking of cultural…
Anomalies of Spain's Economy and Economic Policy-making
Spain's economic difficulties underscore the dangers inherent in the Eurozone's current austerity regime but despite the ways in which the larger context has conditioned and worsened Spanish difficulties, many of the country's problems are home-grown. Economic policy has suffered from an inability to identify and act on the country's genuine structural shortfalls and instead has repeatedly attempted to address chronically high unemployment throug…
The Politics of Industrial Relations: Labor Unions in Spain
Kerstin Hamann, New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-88465-5, £80.00 (hb), Pp. xvi +286 The extraordinary public significance of labour mobilisation in Spain has attracted the inter
How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste: Legacies of Democratization in Spain and Portugal
In this article, we show that large-scale macro-political change can powerfully condition how institutional practices shape individual cultural choice. We study the paired comparison of Portugal and Spain, two long-similar societies that moved from authoritarianism to democracy through divergent pathways in the 1970s. Data from the 2001 Eurobarometer indicate that while the cultural choices of persons born before democratic transition are compara…
Inequality and the Altruistic Life: A Study of the Priestly Vocation Rate
This article takes the rate of new incorporations into the Catholic priesthood within national societies as a social fact revealing underlying societal tendencies of broad theoretical relevance extending well beyond the study of religion. Our emphasis lies on the impact of income inequality on the prevalence of altruistic life options. We examine cross-national and time-series variation in the priestly vocation rate as the empirical foundation to…
Mecanismos para entender los logros de los movimientos: Conversación, desplazamiento y disrupción
Buena parte de la investigación en movimientos sociales tiende a asumir - y en algunos casos argumenta de manera explícita - que la disrupción es el principal mecanismo a través del cual los movimientos de protesta obtienen importantes concesiones por parte de quienes detentan el poder. No obstante, algunos estudios y mucha evidencia empírica proporcionan una base sólida para sostener la existencia de otras vías para el logro de los movimientos s…
Rethinking Dimensions of Democracy for Empirical Analysis: Authenticity, Quality, Depth, and Consolidation
This article analyzes the scholarship on variation among democracies and offers a proposal intended to address the relative lack of consensus over the fundamental conceptual infrastructure underpinning this literature. The framework introduced here differentiates between four dimensions of democracy: authenticity, quality, depth and consolidation—arguing that they may vary with some independence from one another. This approach simultaneously addr…
Socio-historical foundations of citizenship practice: After social revolution in Portugal
How Civil Society Matters in Democratization: Setting the Boundaries of Post-Transition Political Inclusion
What 25 April Was and Why It Mattered
What Made the Third Wave Possible? Historical Contingency and Meta-Politics in the Genesis of Worldwide Democratization
Democratic Practice: Origins of the Iberian Divide in Political Inclusion
This book offers a new way to conceptualize and study differences among democracies, focusing on political conduct and interaction as well as related taken-for-granted assumptions. With an empirical basis in a multimethod study of Portugal and Spain, pioneers in the worldwide turn to democracy that began in the 1970s, the argument identifies how political inclusion and equality vary substantially as a result of processes that the book theorizes: …
Deepening or Endangering Democracy: Demonstrations and Institutions under Representative Government
Do demonstrations tend to deepen or endanger democracy? I examine this theme of major debate between scholars and among political actors, analyzing how the United States and other democracies have dealt with—and been shaped by—popular pressure on representative institutions. Cases that are discussed include Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington and the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, as well as examples drawn from Spain, Portugal,…
Political science (23 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Democracy (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Democratization (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works)