Steven A Boutcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven A Boutcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven A |
| FAMILY NAME | Boutcher |
| SIGNATURE | BOUTCHER S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Status and collaboration: The case of pro bono network inequalities in corporate law
Getting on the Radar Screen: Homeschooling Litigation as Agenda Setting, 1972–2007
Since the legalization of homeschooling in 1972, litigation by homeschooling adversaries has shaped the legal frameworks regulating its practice. Adjudicating between complementary theoretical claims, we examine whether homeschooling litigation trends—specifically the ability of either side to set the agenda by getting on court dockets—reflect concerns over contentious educational practices and policies or broader cultural and political dynamics.…
Introduction: Law, Social Movements, and Mobilization across Contexts
Strain, ethnic competition, and power devaluation: White supremacist protest in the U.S., 1948–1997
Many Western democracies have seen an increase in extreme right mobilization over the past several decades but extreme right mobilization is not a new phenomenon when we look historically. In this paper, we examine fifty years of white supremacist protest in the United States to help shed light on the factors that explain variation in levels of right-wing mobilization. Using annual time-series analysis, we find that traditional strain explanation…
Private Law Firms in the Public Interest: The Organizational and Institutional Determinants of Pro Bono Participation, 1994–2005
Despite longstanding concern that the commercialization of legal practice is antithetical to professionalism, corporate law firms have dramatically increased their pro bono participation over the past few decades. What explains this paradox? This article examines the organizational and institutional determinants of pro bono participation across an elite field of large law firms. I find that pro bono work is only partly rooted in internal organiza…
Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America
Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005
Between 1945 and 2005, nation-states around the world revised their criminal laws on sexual activities. This global reform wave-across countries and domains of sexual activity-followed from the reconstitution of world models of society around individuals rather than corporate bodies. During the post-World War II period, this process rearranged the global cultural and organizational underpinnings of sex, eroding world-level support for criminal la…
Signals and Spillover: Brown v. Board of Education and Other Social Movements
The watershed Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education affected activist politics on issues that extend well beyond African-American civil rights or education. The apparent success of the Court decision in spurring social change encouraged activists in other social movements to emulate the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's litigation strategy, and to adapt organizational structures, political strategies, and rhetoric borrowed from the civil…
Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005
Between 1945 and 2005, nation-states around the world revised their criminal laws on sexual activities. This global reform wave-across countries and domains of sexual activity-followed from the reconstitution of world models of society around individuals rather than corporate bodies. During the post-World War II period, this process rearranged the global cultural and organizational underpinnings of sex, eroding world-level support for criminal la…
Signals and Spillover: Brown v. Board of Education and Other Social Movements
The watershed Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education affected activist politics on issues that extend well beyond African-American civil rights or education. The apparent success of the Court decision in spurring social change encouraged activists in other social movements to emulate the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's litigation strategy, and to adapt organizational structures, political strategies, and rhetoric borrowed from the civil…
Private Law Firms in the Public Interest: The Organizational and Institutional Determinants of Pro Bono Participation, 1994–2005
Despite longstanding concern that the commercialization of legal practice is antithetical to professionalism, corporate law firms have dramatically increased their pro bono participation over the past few decades. What explains this paradox? This article examines the organizational and institutional determinants of pro bono participation across an elite field of large law firms. I find that pro bono work is only partly rooted in internal organiza…
Introduction: Law, Social Movements, and Mobilization across Contexts
Getting on the Radar Screen: Homeschooling Litigation as Agenda Setting, 1972–2007
Since the legalization of homeschooling in 1972, litigation by homeschooling adversaries has shaped the legal frameworks regulating its practice. Adjudicating between complementary theoretical claims, we examine whether homeschooling litigation trends—specifically the ability of either side to set the agenda by getting on court dockets—reflect concerns over contentious educational practices and policies or broader cultural and political dynamics.…
Strain, ethnic competition, and power devaluation: White supremacist protest in the U.S., 1948–1997
Many Western democracies have seen an increase in extreme right mobilization over the past several decades but extreme right mobilization is not a new phenomenon when we look historically. In this paper, we examine fifty years of white supremacist protest in the United States to help shed light on the factors that explain variation in levels of right-wing mobilization. Using annual time-series analysis, we find that traditional strain explanation…
Status and collaboration: The case of pro bono network inequalities in corporate law
Signals and Spillover: Brown v. Board of Education and Other Social Movements
The watershed Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education affected activist politics on issues that extend well beyond African-American civil rights or education. The apparent success of the Court decision in spurring social change encouraged activists in other social movements to emulate the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's litigation strategy, and to adapt organizational structures, political strategies, and rhetoric borrowed from the civil…
Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005
Between 1945 and 2005, nation-states around the world revised their criminal laws on sexual activities. This global reform wave-across countries and domains of sexual activity-followed from the reconstitution of world models of society around individuals rather than corporate bodies. During the post-World War II period, this process rearranged the global cultural and organizational underpinnings of sex, eroding world-level support for criminal la…
Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America
Private Law Firms in the Public Interest: The Organizational and Institutional Determinants of Pro Bono Participation, 1994–2005
Despite longstanding concern that the commercialization of legal practice is antithetical to professionalism, corporate law firms have dramatically increased their pro bono participation over the past few decades. What explains this paradox? This article examines the organizational and institutional determinants of pro bono participation across an elite field of large law firms. I find that pro bono work is only partly rooted in internal organiza…
Strain, ethnic competition, and power devaluation: White supremacist protest in the U.S., 1948–1997
Many Western democracies have seen an increase in extreme right mobilization over the past several decades but extreme right mobilization is not a new phenomenon when we look historically. In this paper, we examine fifty years of white supremacist protest in the United States to help shed light on the factors that explain variation in levels of right-wing mobilization. Using annual time-series analysis, we find that traditional strain explanation…
Getting on the Radar Screen: Homeschooling Litigation as Agenda Setting, 1972–2007
Since the legalization of homeschooling in 1972, litigation by homeschooling adversaries has shaped the legal frameworks regulating its practice. Adjudicating between complementary theoretical claims, we examine whether homeschooling litigation trends—specifically the ability of either side to set the agenda by getting on court dockets—reflect concerns over contentious educational practices and policies or broader cultural and political dynamics.…
Introduction: Law, Social Movements, and Mobilization across Contexts
Status and collaboration: The case of pro bono network inequalities in corporate law
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