Suzanne Shanahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3631085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Shanahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Shanahan |
| SIGNATURE | SHANAHAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 463 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Prisoners and Paupers: The Impact of Group Threat on Incarceration in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Cities
This article uses data on prisoners incarcerated for misdemeanors in late-nineteenth-century U.S. cities to assess a three-part argument that asserts that threats to white dominance prompted efforts of social control directed against African Americans and foreign-born whites: (1) For African Americans, competition with whites for jobs instigated efforts by whites to enforce the racial barrier. (2) For the foreign-born, upward mobility became asso…
For Export Only: Diffusion Professionals and Population Policy
Export-only diffusion occurs when innovators do not adopt an innovation themselves, but rather promote it to others for adoption. Potential adopters do not take their cues from early adopters, but rather from diffusion professionals who make it their job to spread a practice or institution. The global spread of national-level, population-control policies during the Cold War is one such instance: developed and promoted by wealthy countries that di…
Lost and Found: The Sociological Ambivalence Toward Childhood
Recent social scientific research on childhood is oddly ambivalent. Despite much theoretically creative and empirically innovative work, the sociology of childhood, as a subfield, is often uncomfortable with its own object of inquiry. I identify three possible sources of this sociological ambivalence. First, much work does not fully differentiate children from childhood. Second, much of the literature conflates the notion of childhood as a social…
Dynamics of Corporate Responsibility
State retrenchment and scandals of corporate governance are just two of the more recent concerns that have fueled an almost thirty-year international debate over business-society relations. Is profit maximization the sole obligation of business or should private enterprise play a broader role in society? Should business be expected to more directly address pressing economic, social, and environmental issues? By 2000, public opinion, at least, was…
The Changing Meaning of Family: Individual Rights and Irish Adoption Policy, 1949-99
This article examines child adoption discourse to investigate the changing cultural conceptions of children, family, and individual rights. Through an analysis of Irish child adoption debate from 1949 to 1999, the author explores the relationship between the worldwide individual rights imperative and culturally specific, national ideals of family. This analysis reveals two general policy dynamics. First, these debates reveal how policies are ofte…
Brave New Worlds: Philosophy, Politics, and Science in Human Biotechnology
Advances in biotechnology have important applications to the core demographic concerns of human reproduction and longevity, raising a number of difficult ethical issues. In the debate over those issues, however, the voices of demographers and other social scientists are nearly silent. In the United States the dominant bioethical arguments currently heard come from a conservative political and ideological position, represented, for example, by the…
Racial Policy and Racial Conflict in the Urban United States, 1869-1924
This article extends existing explanations of racial conflict by suggesting how legislation and court rulings instigate processes of legitimation and competitive exclusion, which in turn affect the likelihood of racial violence. We argue that federal legislation and court cases that reinforced the white-nonwhite racial boundary stigmatized nonwhites and prompted whites to attack nonwhites. However, legislation and court rulings that dismantled se…
Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change
1 A Quick History of Modern Democracy 2 States, Social Movement Challengers, and Elite Reformers 3 Eighteenth-Century Revolution, Nineteenth-Century Eddies 4 Twentieth-Century Pendulum Swings 5 Semidemocracy, Pseudodemocracy, Democracy 6 Beyond the Great Democratic Wave 7 Into the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges, New Opportunities
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990
The authors analyze the acquisition of women's suffrage in 133 countries from 1890 to 1990. Throughout the twentieth century the influence of national political and organizational factors has declined and the importance of international links and influences has become increasingly important. These findings indicate that the franchise has become institutionalized worldwide as a taken-for-granted feature of national citizenship and an integral comp…
Different standards and standard differences: Contemporary citizenship and immigration debates
Poverty, Segregation, and Race Riots: 1960 To 1993
Les AA. montrent que la theorie de la privation economique et celle qui met en exergue l'isolement social des minorites ethniques constituent les principales approches qui permettent d'expliquer le developpement des emeutes raciales entre 1960 et 1993 aux Etats-Unis. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees au cours de cette periode concernant ces evenements. Ils examinent l'influence d'un certain nombre de facteurs comme la segrega…
Deprivation and Race Riots: An Extension of Spilerman's Analysis
Journal Article Deprivation and Race Riots: An Extension of Spilerman's Analysis Get access Susan Olzak, Susan Olzak Stanford University Direct all correspondence to Susan Olzak, Department of Sociology, McClatchy Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Suzanne Shanahan Suzanne Shanahan University College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
School Desegregation, Interracial Exposure, and Antibusing Activity in Contemporary Urban America
Prior research emphasized either resource mobilization or grievance explanations of antibusing activity. This article argues that both explanations imply that racial competition generated collective action against busing. It suggests that increases in interracial exposure in schools and neighborhoods trigger racial and ethnic conflict. This article examines these competition arguments using data on antibusing events, school desegration, and inter…
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990
The authors analyze the acquisition of women's suffrage in 133 countries from 1890 to 1990. Throughout the twentieth century the influence of national political and organizational factors has declined and the importance of international links and influences has become increasingly important. These findings indicate that the franchise has become institutionalized worldwide as a taken-for-granted feature of national citizenship and an integral comp…
Poverty, Segregation, and Race Riots: 1960 To 1993
Les AA. montrent que la theorie de la privation economique et celle qui met en exergue l'isolement social des minorites ethniques constituent les principales approches qui permettent d'expliquer le developpement des emeutes raciales entre 1960 et 1993 aux Etats-Unis. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees au cours de cette periode concernant ces evenements. Ils examinent l'influence d'un certain nombre de facteurs comme la segrega…
School Desegregation, Interracial Exposure, and Antibusing Activity in Contemporary Urban America
Prior research emphasized either resource mobilization or grievance explanations of antibusing activity. This article argues that both explanations imply that racial competition generated collective action against busing. It suggests that increases in interracial exposure in schools and neighborhoods trigger racial and ethnic conflict. This article examines these competition arguments using data on antibusing events, school desegration, and inter…
Lost and Found: The Sociological Ambivalence Toward Childhood
Recent social scientific research on childhood is oddly ambivalent. Despite much theoretically creative and empirically innovative work, the sociology of childhood, as a subfield, is often uncomfortable with its own object of inquiry. I identify three possible sources of this sociological ambivalence. First, much work does not fully differentiate children from childhood. Second, much of the literature conflates the notion of childhood as a social…
Prisoners and Paupers: The Impact of Group Threat on Incarceration in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Cities
This article uses data on prisoners incarcerated for misdemeanors in late-nineteenth-century U.S. cities to assess a three-part argument that asserts that threats to white dominance prompted efforts of social control directed against African Americans and foreign-born whites: (1) For African Americans, competition with whites for jobs instigated efforts by whites to enforce the racial barrier. (2) For the foreign-born, upward mobility became asso…
Racial Policy and Racial Conflict in the Urban United States, 1869-1924
This article extends existing explanations of racial conflict by suggesting how legislation and court rulings instigate processes of legitimation and competitive exclusion, which in turn affect the likelihood of racial violence. We argue that federal legislation and court cases that reinforced the white-nonwhite racial boundary stigmatized nonwhites and prompted whites to attack nonwhites. However, legislation and court rulings that dismantled se…
Deprivation and Race Riots: An Extension of Spilerman's Analysis
Journal Article Deprivation and Race Riots: An Extension of Spilerman's Analysis Get access Susan Olzak, Susan Olzak Stanford University Direct all correspondence to Susan Olzak, Department of Sociology, McClatchy Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Suzanne Shanahan Suzanne Shanahan University College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Different standards and standard differences: Contemporary citizenship and immigration debates
Brave New Worlds: Philosophy, Politics, and Science in Human Biotechnology
Advances in biotechnology have important applications to the core demographic concerns of human reproduction and longevity, raising a number of difficult ethical issues. In the debate over those issues, however, the voices of demographers and other social scientists are nearly silent. In the United States the dominant bioethical arguments currently heard come from a conservative political and ideological position, represented, for example, by the…
School Desegregation, Interracial Exposure, and Antibusing Activity in Contemporary Urban America
Prior research emphasized either resource mobilization or grievance explanations of antibusing activity. This article argues that both explanations imply that racial competition generated collective action against busing. It suggests that increases in interracial exposure in schools and neighborhoods trigger racial and ethnic conflict. This article examines these competition arguments using data on antibusing events, school desegration, and inter…
Poverty, Segregation, and Race Riots: 1960 To 1993
Les AA. montrent que la theorie de la privation economique et celle qui met en exergue l'isolement social des minorites ethniques constituent les principales approches qui permettent d'expliquer le developpement des emeutes raciales entre 1960 et 1993 aux Etats-Unis. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees au cours de cette periode concernant ces evenements. Ils examinent l'influence d'un certain nombre de facteurs comme la segrega…
Deprivation and Race Riots: An Extension of Spilerman's Analysis
Journal Article Deprivation and Race Riots: An Extension of Spilerman's Analysis Get access Susan Olzak, Susan Olzak Stanford University Direct all correspondence to Susan Olzak, Department of Sociology, McClatchy Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Suzanne Shanahan Suzanne Shanahan University College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990
The authors analyze the acquisition of women's suffrage in 133 countries from 1890 to 1990. Throughout the twentieth century the influence of national political and organizational factors has declined and the importance of international links and influences has become increasingly important. These findings indicate that the franchise has become institutionalized worldwide as a taken-for-granted feature of national citizenship and an integral comp…
Different standards and standard differences: Contemporary citizenship and immigration debates
Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change
1 A Quick History of Modern Democracy 2 States, Social Movement Challengers, and Elite Reformers 3 Eighteenth-Century Revolution, Nineteenth-Century Eddies 4 Twentieth-Century Pendulum Swings 5 Semidemocracy, Pseudodemocracy, Democracy 6 Beyond the Great Democratic Wave 7 Into the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges, New Opportunities
Racial Policy and Racial Conflict in the Urban United States, 1869-1924
This article extends existing explanations of racial conflict by suggesting how legislation and court rulings instigate processes of legitimation and competitive exclusion, which in turn affect the likelihood of racial violence. We argue that federal legislation and court cases that reinforced the white-nonwhite racial boundary stigmatized nonwhites and prompted whites to attack nonwhites. However, legislation and court rulings that dismantled se…
The Changing Meaning of Family: Individual Rights and Irish Adoption Policy, 1949-99
This article examines child adoption discourse to investigate the changing cultural conceptions of children, family, and individual rights. Through an analysis of Irish child adoption debate from 1949 to 1999, the author explores the relationship between the worldwide individual rights imperative and culturally specific, national ideals of family. This analysis reveals two general policy dynamics. First, these debates reveal how policies are ofte…
Brave New Worlds: Philosophy, Politics, and Science in Human Biotechnology
Advances in biotechnology have important applications to the core demographic concerns of human reproduction and longevity, raising a number of difficult ethical issues. In the debate over those issues, however, the voices of demographers and other social scientists are nearly silent. In the United States the dominant bioethical arguments currently heard come from a conservative political and ideological position, represented, for example, by the…
Dynamics of Corporate Responsibility
State retrenchment and scandals of corporate governance are just two of the more recent concerns that have fueled an almost thirty-year international debate over business-society relations. Is profit maximization the sole obligation of business or should private enterprise play a broader role in society? Should business be expected to more directly address pressing economic, social, and environmental issues? By 2000, public opinion, at least, was…
Lost and Found: The Sociological Ambivalence Toward Childhood
Recent social scientific research on childhood is oddly ambivalent. Despite much theoretically creative and empirically innovative work, the sociology of childhood, as a subfield, is often uncomfortable with its own object of inquiry. I identify three possible sources of this sociological ambivalence. First, much work does not fully differentiate children from childhood. Second, much of the literature conflates the notion of childhood as a social…
For Export Only: Diffusion Professionals and Population Policy
Export-only diffusion occurs when innovators do not adopt an innovation themselves, but rather promote it to others for adoption. Potential adopters do not take their cues from early adopters, but rather from diffusion professionals who make it their job to spread a practice or institution. The global spread of national-level, population-control policies during the Cold War is one such instance: developed and promoted by wealthy countries that di…
Prisoners and Paupers: The Impact of Group Threat on Incarceration in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Cities
This article uses data on prisoners incarcerated for misdemeanors in late-nineteenth-century U.S. cities to assess a three-part argument that asserts that threats to white dominance prompted efforts of social control directed against African Americans and foreign-born whites: (1) For African Americans, competition with whites for jobs instigated efforts by whites to enforce the racial barrier. (2) For the foreign-born, upward mobility became asso…
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