Walter L Goldfrank

Biographic Data

ID3586474
NAMEWalter L Goldfrank
GIVEN NAMESWalter L
FAMILY NAMEGoldfrank
SIGNATUREGOLDFRANK W L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS90
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX5

  • Beyond Cycles of Hegemony: Economic, Social, and Military Factors

    Open AccessWalter L GoldfrankARTICLEJournal of World-Systems Research2015

    As we survey the changing world on the eve of the 21st century, scholars confront empirical puzzles and interpretive uncertainties. Those of us who identify with worldwide social and political movements seeking more democracy, more equality, more justice, and more rationality find ourselves at once free and daunted. We are free, finally, from the albatross of repressive party-states calling themselves "socialist," from the illusion that social-de…

  • Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California's Loyalty Oath

    Open AccessWalter L GoldfrankARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2012

  • Comment and Reply

    Open AccessM K Nelson, Anita Ilta Garey et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2010

    James Rule's evaluation of our collection of essays, Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families, includes the critiques that we fail to offer enough informative and news, and that we fail to estab lish thematic normative stance?e.g., given forms of surveillance should be cur tailed, encouraged, regulated or, censored. All essay collections build generalizations from the ground up. This one is no excep tion. In ou…

  • Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global System

    Open AccessWalter L GoldfrankARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2008

  • Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America

    Walter L GoldfrankREVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

  • Rational kernels in a mystical shell: A comment on Robinson

    Open AccessWalter L GoldfrankARTICLETheory and Society2001Cited by: 1

  • Paradigm Regained? The Rules Of Wallersteins World-System Method

    Open AccessWalter L GoldfrankARTICLEJournal of World-Systems Research2000Cited by: 30References: 4

    The last third of the twentieth century was ushered in by a set ofeventswars, rebellions, ?nally economic crisisthat dealt a crushing blow to the previously dominant paradigm in U.S. social science, the structural-functionalist modernizationism elaborated by Talcott Parsons and his students. Within sociology, the site of much social science innovation in the post-war period, a notable splintering occurred. Already under-way in the early nineteen-…

  • Ecology and the World-System

    Walter L Goldfrank, David Goodman et al.BOOKEcology and the World-System1999

    Integrating environmental and world-systems analyses in chapters ranging from the ancient to the contemporary, from the global to the local, from West to East, and from North to South, this book is the first collection to analyze environmental issues from the world-systems perspective. The introduction provides Immanuel Wallerstein's fullest explication of the role of ecological constraints in the world-system. Early chapters diagnose the increas…

  • The Big Question

    Walter L Goldfrank, C Chase-Dunn et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1998

  • Praxis, Shmaxis: Commentary on Wagar

    Open AccessWalter L GoldfrankARTICLEJournal of World-Systems Research1996

    What are the controversies here? Wagar makes one main point and several subsidiary ones. The mainpoint is that a world party will /should be the principal organizational vehicle for the long-run victory of democratic socialism in a global commonwealth. The subsidiary points are (1) thatthe array of (multi-) cultures will / should give way to (or at least not preclude) agreement on the basic values of the Western Enlightenment; (2) that currently …

  • Beyond Cycles of Hegemony: Economic, Social, and Military Factors

    Open AccessWalter L GoldfrankARTICLEJournal of World-Systems Research1995Cited by: 1References: 4

    As we survey the changing world on the eve of the 21st century, scholars confront empirical puzzles and interpretive uncertainties. Those of us who identify with worldwide social and political movements seeking more democracy, more equality, more justice, and more rationality find ourselves at once free and daunted. We are free, finally, from the albatross of repressive party-states calling themselves "socialist," from the illusion that social-de…

  • Preparing for the Twenty-First Century

    Walter L Goldfrank, Paul KennedyREVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

    Following on from his book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, the author looks at the different ways in which society prepares itself for the arrival of the 21st century. Digesting and synthesizing developments in population growth, environmental change, biotechnology, robotics, communications technology and global financial markets, this book looks at the possible future for the developed world. Contents: Part One: General Trends 1. Prologue…

  • The Social Origins of Democratic Collapse: The First Portuguese Republic in the Global Economy

    Walter L Goldfrank, Kathleen C SchwartzmanARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992

    An outstanding contribution to the growing literature in world-systems theory, Kathleen Schwartzman's study of the first Portuguese republic demonstrates the significant ways in which a nation's and political structures are shaped by its position in the global economy. In May 1926, a military coup ended Portugal's first turbulent, sixteen-year experiment with democracy. During that period no less than 45 prime ministers and an equal number of coa…

  • Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World-System

    Walter L Goldfrank, Samir Amin et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991

    In this successor volume to the widely read Dynamics of Global Crisis, the authors engage in a provocative discussion of the history and contemporary dilemmas facing the movements that are variously described as antisystemic, social, or popular. The authors believe that these movements, which have for the past 150 years protested and organized against the multiple injustices of the existing system, are the key locus of social transformation

  • World Society Studies, Vol. 1

    Walter L Goldfrank, Volker Bornschier et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1991

  • States, War and Capitalism: Studies in Political Sociology

    Walter L Goldfrank, Michael MannARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1990

  • Managing Political Change: Social Scientists and the Third World

    Walter L Goldfrank, Irene L GendzierARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1987

  • Global Conflict: The Domestic Sources of International Crisis

    Walter L Goldfrank, John W BurtonARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1986

  • The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development

    Walter L GoldfrankREVIEWSocial Forces1986

  • Critique and Anti-Critique: Essays on Dependence and Reformism.Andre Gunder Frank

    Walter L GoldfrankARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1986

  • The Limits of State Autonomy: Post-Revolutionary Mexico, by Nora Hamilton

    Open AccessWalter L GoldfrankARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1984Cited by: 17

    In a historical treatment of Mexico beginning with the pre-Revolutionary period and focusing on the administration of Lazaro Cardenas (1934-1940), Nora Hamilton explores the possibilities and limits of reform in a capitalist society.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.…

  • Miti and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975

    Walter L Goldfrank, Chalmers JohnsonARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1983

  • The Misery of Our Poor: Recent Studies in Development Literature

    Rosemary E Ommer, Jean Gottmann et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1983

    CORES AND PERIPHERIES, metropoles and hinterlands, development and underdevelopment, and dependency are related themes which have become increasingly prominent in the socio-economic literature of the last decade or so. These concepts arise out of a variety of disciplines, ideologies, and schools and amount at present to an inchoate collection of disparate ideas which cries out for overview, some way of welding a potentially valuable series of app…

  • Modernization of the Working Class: The Politics of Legitimacy

    Walter L Goldfrank, Carlos H WaismanARTICLESocial Forces1983

  • Commentary on Skocpol

    Open AccessWalter L Goldfrank, WalterL GoldfrankARTICLETheory and Society1982