Dan Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mills College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8627-5029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
This Doesn't Change Everything
Democracy, Courts and the Information Order
Conventional wisdom about civil litigation, both among scholars and political actors, holds that abuse of the legal process is common, that there is too much litigation, that it is "all about the money", and that "a bad settlement is better than a good trial". This constellation of attitudes that emphasize the economic function of law suggests that courts are an expensive conflict resolution mechanism of last resort and that their use would be mi…
Emergent Temporal Effects in Community Initiatives
Based on a qualitative case study of a multiyear, multicity attempt to forge community coalitions against substance abuse, this article analyzes three categories of organizational temporalities: Cycles, event streams, and temporal style. Community initiatives based on collaboration, coalitions, and cooperation, projects that 'bring everyone to the table,' provide an opportunity for naturalistic observation of the unanticipated, but analyzable, ef…
Time Use: Expanding the Explanatory Power of the Social Sciences
Getting the Word Out: Notes on the Social Organization of Notification
Even when the timing, sequence, and manner of notification are instrumentally inconsequential, how one conveys information affects the meaning of the telling. This article introduces the concepts of “notification norms” and the “information order,” showing how the former constrain the behavior of nodes in social networks as well as enabling manipulation of the relationships that comprise those networks. “Notification” is defined as information tr…
Why It Is So Difficult to Form Effective Community Coalitions
Reviews of large‐scale community coalition evaluations suggest that most have not been successful either in involving a broad array of institutions or in meeting their outcome goals. Informed by the literature and by insights from fieldwork, a social‐structural theoretical explanation is offered for this lack of success. To summarize: coalition structures and the concept of community are loosely defined; local structures attempt to cope with prob…
"Fighting Back" Against Substance Abuse: The Structure and Function of Community Coalitions
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Fighting Back (FB) program was one of the first efforts to develop “community coalitions” to reduce drug and alcohol problems. The challenges of coalition building are described and analyzed based on fieldwork from 10 of the 14 urban communities where the program operated. The possibilities and limits of broad-based participation in decision making and interagency collaboration are described. The program trigg…
Why It Is So Difficult to Form Effective Community Coalitions
Reviews of large‐scale community coalition evaluations suggest that most have not been successful either in involving a broad array of institutions or in meeting their outcome goals. Informed by the literature and by insights from fieldwork, a social‐structural theoretical explanation is offered for this lack of success. To summarize: coalition structures and the concept of community are loosely defined; local structures attempt to cope with prob…
Time Use: Expanding the Explanatory Power of the Social Sciences
Getting the Word Out: Notes on the Social Organization of Notification
Even when the timing, sequence, and manner of notification are instrumentally inconsequential, how one conveys information affects the meaning of the telling. This article introduces the concepts of “notification norms” and the “information order,” showing how the former constrain the behavior of nodes in social networks as well as enabling manipulation of the relationships that comprise those networks. “Notification” is defined as information tr…
Emergent Temporal Effects in Community Initiatives
Based on a qualitative case study of a multiyear, multicity attempt to forge community coalitions against substance abuse, this article analyzes three categories of organizational temporalities: Cycles, event streams, and temporal style. Community initiatives based on collaboration, coalitions, and cooperation, projects that 'bring everyone to the table,' provide an opportunity for naturalistic observation of the unanticipated, but analyzable, ef…
"Fighting Back" Against Substance Abuse: The Structure and Function of Community Coalitions
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Fighting Back (FB) program was one of the first efforts to develop “community coalitions” to reduce drug and alcohol problems. The challenges of coalition building are described and analyzed based on fieldwork from 10 of the 14 urban communities where the program operated. The possibilities and limits of broad-based participation in decision making and interagency collaboration are described. The program trigg…
Why It Is So Difficult to Form Effective Community Coalitions
Reviews of large‐scale community coalition evaluations suggest that most have not been successful either in involving a broad array of institutions or in meeting their outcome goals. Informed by the literature and by insights from fieldwork, a social‐structural theoretical explanation is offered for this lack of success. To summarize: coalition structures and the concept of community are loosely defined; local structures attempt to cope with prob…
Getting the Word Out: Notes on the Social Organization of Notification
Even when the timing, sequence, and manner of notification are instrumentally inconsequential, how one conveys information affects the meaning of the telling. This article introduces the concepts of “notification norms” and the “information order,” showing how the former constrain the behavior of nodes in social networks as well as enabling manipulation of the relationships that comprise those networks. “Notification” is defined as information tr…
Time Use: Expanding the Explanatory Power of the Social Sciences
Emergent Temporal Effects in Community Initiatives
Based on a qualitative case study of a multiyear, multicity attempt to forge community coalitions against substance abuse, this article analyzes three categories of organizational temporalities: Cycles, event streams, and temporal style. Community initiatives based on collaboration, coalitions, and cooperation, projects that 'bring everyone to the table,' provide an opportunity for naturalistic observation of the unanticipated, but analyzable, ef…
Democracy, Courts and the Information Order
Conventional wisdom about civil litigation, both among scholars and political actors, holds that abuse of the legal process is common, that there is too much litigation, that it is "all about the money", and that "a bad settlement is better than a good trial". This constellation of attitudes that emphasize the economic function of law suggests that courts are an expensive conflict resolution mechanism of last resort and that their use would be mi…
This Doesn't Change Everything
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)