Joyce Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 76460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3694-6749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 102 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1961 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 102 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Response to Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontusson’s Review of Challenging Inequality: Variation across Postindustrial Societies
Goodbye to Meltzer-Richard: Testing major theories of redistribution
We re-analyse four major explanations of redistribution including the Meltzer-Richard model, power resources theory, Iversen-Soskice’s political institutions explanation, and Lupu and Ponstusson’s skewness theory. For each of these, we reconsider the causal chain and test their assumptions using a comprehensive, original dataset on working-age income-inequality consisting of 589 country-years for affluent democracies in the period 1963–2019. We f…
Children as Filmmakers: Well-Being, Social Ecology, and Cognitive Mapping in Delhi at Eleven
Delhi at Eleven, a compendium of four short films made with video cameras by eleven-year-old Indian schoolchildren in 2012, is filmed from a child's perspective – literally, in the low positioning of the single camera, and mentally, in the nature of the close attention paid to the details of events and relationships. The films create strikingly individual images of the filmmakers' world and offer sharply observed comments on the restrictions upon…
Poverty and Social Rights Among the Working Age Population in Post-Industrial Democracies
This article explores the determinants of relative market income poverty and poverty reduction among the working age population in 22 advanced industrial democracies. The article revisits Moller et al. (2003) but goes beyond the earlier study in four major ways. First, we are able to measure welfare state effort with social rights rather than expenditure. This allows us to separate the effect of policy from need, which jointly shape expenditure. …
Financialization, labor market institutions and inequality
The last three decades have witnessed rising inequality and deepening financialization in post-industrial democracies. A rapidly growing literature has linked these two phenomena. We go beyond existing scholarship by specifying which aspects of financialization can be expected to increase inequality and where in the income distribution this effect will occur. We also show that this effect is contingent on institutional context. We posit that the …
Private education and inequality in the knowledge economy
This article explores the consequences of public and private spending on education at all levels, looking at skills and income inequality. We use data for 22 affluent democracies from 1960 or 1995 (depending on data availability) to 2017. High levels of public education spending consistently lower income inequality, both measured as wage dispersion and as the education premium. In contrast, higher levels of private education spending are associat…
Power, policy, and top income shares
The rise of the super-rich has attracted much political and academic attention in recent years. However, there have been few attempts to explain the cross-national along with the temporal variation in the rise of top incomes. Drawing on the World Wealth and Income Database, we study the income share of the top 1% in current postindustrial democracies from 1960 to 2012. We find that extreme income concentration at the top is a predominantly politi…
The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature
The Political Foundations of State Effectiveness
Starting from the assumption that the aim of development is to increase human flourishing, this paper develops an analytical perspective on how effective states are built. Modern theories of development see the state as the key agent for delivering the most critical forms of productive investment – investment in capability expanding collective goods. Accomplishing this requires bureaucratic capacity, as earlier analyses of state effectiveness hav…
Multilevel Governance and the State
Limited Statehood
The Competition State
Rentier States and State Transformations
Transformations of the Democratic State
Human Development, State Transformation, and the Politics of the Developmental State
Debates on the nature of the developmental state must supersede the concept’s origins in the analysis of East Asian Strategies of Industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s, refocusing attention from capital accumulation to the central role of human development in national developmental success. This refocusing entails rethinking the state-society relations in which contemporary developmental states are embedded. Close ties with industrial elites a…
The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State
This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South. 0Leading experts in their fields, from Europe and North America, discuss conceptualizations and theories of the state and the transformations of the state in its enga…
Postindustrial Social Policy
In the past three decades, the systems of social consumption in advanced industrial countries have undergone significant changes. Economic and demographic changes have necessitated adaptations to cover new risks in addition to the old while making the welfare states fiscally sustainable (Armingeon and Bonoli 2006). In the period of welfare state expansion, partisanship strongly manifested itself in the battles over the introduction of welfare sta…
Emerging Welfare States in Latin America and East Asia
Revisiting Pierson’s Work on the Politics of Welfare State Reform in the Era of Retrenchment Twenty Years Later
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The Politics of Muslim Rage: Secular Law and Religious Sentiment in Late Colonial India
This article explores debates in India after the trial and murder of the publisher of Rangila Rasul, a satire of the Prophet Muhammad's marital life. The Lahore High Court acquitted the publisher of criminal charges in 1927, leading to an outcry by Indian Muslims. The mainstream Indian press and Hindu leaders proclaimed that Indian Muslims had 'gone mad' and accused them of endangering the freedom struggle. Historians have also emphasized the rol…
Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies: Demographic, Economic and Political Determinants 1
This article analyses the determinants of market income distribution and governmental redistribution. The dependent variables are Luxembourg Income Study data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25–59 years and the per cent reduction in the Gini index by taxes and transfers. We test the generalizability of the Goldin–Katz hypothesis that inequality has increased in the USA because the country f…
"Comment on "Latin American Political Economy: Making Sense of a New Reality
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The Service Transition and Women’s Employment
This chapter explores the effect of social policy and labor market regulation on employment of women and in services. The authors—Moira Nelson and John Stephens—argue that in the current economic environment, attaining high employment rates and therefore sustainable welfare states depends on expanding women’s employment. Their analysis focuses on the impact of various policies in seventeen OECD countries. They find evidence of the existence of tw…
Measuring social citizenship: Achievements and Future Challenges
Significant advances have been made in the development of measures of social citizenship, but this progress is not without its challenges and limitations. Drawing on new comparative analyses of two prominent datasets – the Comparative Welfare States Dataset (CWED) and Social Citizenship Indicator Program (SCIP) – this study highlights several important inconsistencies found in existing data on social citizenship and identifies their underlying ca…
Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America
Distribution and Redistribution in Postindustrial Democracies
This article analyzes the processes of distribution and redistribution in postindustrial democracies. The authors combine a pooled time-series data base on welfare state effort and its determinants assembled by Huber, Ragin, and Stephens (1997) with data on income distribution assembled in the Luxembourg Income Survey (IJS) archive. In the case of the LIS data, the authors recalculate the microdata in order to remove the distorting influence of p…
Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State
The literature on the determinants of welfare state effort displays many inconsistencies and contradictins. This article takes imoprtant stepts toward resolving these issues with the use of pooled cross-sectional and time-series analyses. The findings are that various independent variables affect different measures of welfare state effort in different and theoretically meaningful ways. Of special importance are the contrasting effects of Christia…
Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation
The authors propose a synthesis of power resources theory and welfare production regime theory to explain differences in human capital formation across advanced democracies. Emphasizing the mutually reinforcing relationships between social insurance, skill formation, and spending on public education, they distinguish three distinct worlds of human capital formation: one characterized by redistribution and heavy investment in public education and …
Partisan Governance, Women's Employment, and the Social Democratic Service State
The causes of the expansion and cross-national variation in the provision of welfare state goods and services are examined. Social democratic governance is by far the most important determinant of the public delivery of services and is one of the most important determinants of the public funding of the provision of welfare state goods and services. Christian democratic governance is an important determinant of public funding of services, but is n…
Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
Using relative poverty measures based on micro-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study, in conjunction with pooled time-series data for 14 advanced capitalist democracies between 1970 and 1997, the authors analyze separately the rate of pretax/transfer poverty and the reduction in poverty achieved by systems of taxes and transfers. Socioeconomic factors, including de-industrialization and unemployment, largely explain pre-tax/transfer poverty…
Politics and Social Spending in Latin America
We examine the determinants of social expenditure in an unbalanced pooled time-series analysis for 18 Latin American countries for the period 1970 to 2000. This is the first such analysis of spending in Latin American countries with a full complement of regime, partisanship, state structure, economic, and demographic variables, making our analysis comparable to analyses of welfare states in advanced industrial countries. Democracy matters in the …
Politics and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
This article presents the first pooled time series analysis of the impact that politics and policy have on inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. The authors build on models consisting of sociological and economic variables, adding the strength of the democratic tradition, long-term legislative partisan political power distribution, and social spending to explain variation in inequality. They analyze an unbalanced pooled time series data …
The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social Dimensions
care about formal democracy because it tends to be more than merely formal. It tends to be real to some extent. Giving the many a real voice in the formal collective decision-making of a country is the most promising basis for further progress in the distribution of power and other forms of substantive equality.'1 We made this assertion when we introduced the results of a broad-based comparative historical investigation of the roots of democracy …
Internationalization and the Social Democratic Model: Crisis and Future Prospects
This article examines the crisis of the social democratic model in the four countries (Austria, Norway, Finland, and Sweden) in which social democracy was most successful in maintaining and even extending its two central achievements—full employment and the institutional welfare state—through the end of the 1980s. Four major conclusions emerge from the analysis. First, supply side measures, more so than demand management, were central to the empl…
Decommodification and activation in social democratic policy: Resolving the paradox
In Esping-Andersen's influential work decommodification appears as the central characteristic of the welfare state, and efforts to decommodify labour are posited to be the main goal of social democracy. Since decommodification is defined as exit from the labour market with little or no loss of income, social democrats' emphasis on decommodification clashes with another purported goal of social democracy, high labour force participation. Drawing o…
Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies: Demographic, Economic and Political Determinants 1
This article analyses the determinants of market income distribution and governmental redistribution. The dependent variables are Luxembourg Income Study data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25–59 years and the per cent reduction in the Gini index by taxes and transfers. We test the generalizability of the Goldin–Katz hypothesis that inequality has increased in the USA because the country f…
New Theoretical Perspectives on Democratization
Employment Performance in OECD Countries: A Test of Neoliberal and Institutionalist Hypotheses
This article provides the first comprehensive test of the frequent, sharply differing market liberal and insitutionalist political economy recommendations for employment creation. The statistical analysis is a pooled time series for 17 advanced capitalist democracies from 1974 through 1999. Consistent with both neoliberal and institutionalist hypotheses, long-term unemployment replacement rates, social security taxes, and employment protection la…
The Impact of Economic Development on Democracy
Any account of the social and economic conditions of democracy must come to terms with the central finding of the cross-national statistical research: a sturdy (though not perfect) association between economic development and democracy. To tackle these questions of causation, we adopted a strategy of analytic induction based on comparative historical research. Our program of comparative historical research confirmed the conclusion of the cross-na…
Power, policy, and top income shares
The rise of the super-rich has attracted much political and academic attention in recent years. However, there have been few attempts to explain the cross-national along with the temporal variation in the rise of top incomes. Drawing on the World Wealth and Income Database, we study the income share of the top 1% in current postindustrial democracies from 1960 to 2012. We find that extreme income concentration at the top is a predominantly politi…
Democratic Transition and Breakdown in Western Europe, 1870-1939: A Test of the Moore Thesis
Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy is widely regarded as a contemporary classic, yet there have been few attempts to evaluate the validity of his argument on a large number of comparable cases. This article makes such an attempt with all Western European countries experiencing democratic rule between 1870 and 1939. It seeks (1) to explain what structural and historical features distinguish the breakdown cases from tho…
Measuring social citizenship: Achievements and Future Challenges
Significant advances have been made in the development of measures of social citizenship, but this progress is not without its challenges and limitations. Drawing on new comparative analyses of two prominent datasets – the Comparative Welfare States Dataset (CWED) and Social Citizenship Indicator Program (SCIP) – this study highlights several important inconsistencies found in existing data on social citizenship and identifies their underlying ca…
Political Parties and Public Pensions: A Quantitative Analysis
This article analyses pooled time series and cross-sections data for pension expenditure in advanced industnal democracies from 1958 to 1986, and cross-sectional data for pension quality and the distributive effect of pensions for 1980. Contrary to previous studies, it demonstrates significant effects of the party political composition of governments ; both Christian democratic and social democratic incumbency are positively associated with pensi…
Studying development since the sixties: The emergence of a new comparative political economy
The Politics of Women's Economic Independence
Journal Article The Politics of Women's Economic Independence Get access Evelyne Huber, Evelyne Huber Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John D. Stephens, John D. Stephens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Bradley, David Bradley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Moller, Stephanie Moller Search f…
Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America
Poverty has long been recognized as one of the most serious and lasting problems facing Latin America. Recent data from the United Nations' Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) show that 41 .7 percent of Latin Americans lived in poverty in 2004, while 17.4 percent lived in extreme poverty.1 Despite this generally high level of poverty, there is significant variation among Latin American states. Indeed, in 2002 the share …
The Changing Swedish Electorate: Class Voting, Contextual Effects, and Voter Volatility
This article attempts to assess the contribution of long-term changes in Swedish social structure to three recent developments in Swedish electoral behavior: the decline of the Social Democrats, the decline in class voting, and the increase in the volatility of party preference. The author argues that the decline of the Social Democrats cannot be attributed to long-term structural changes in the electorate but rather is a product of the policies …
Class Formation and Class Consciousness: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Reference to Britain and Sweden
Recent Marxist writers, such as Poulantzas, Carchedi and Wright, have broken with the traditional Marxist orthodoxy in attempting to deal theoretically with the class placement of propertyless non-manual employees (or the 'new middle class ) rather than just dismissing the group as a transitory phenomenon destined to disappear in the face of increasing proletarianization.l Though these works differ from one another on other points, they share one…
The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Financialization, labor market institutions and inequality
The last three decades have witnessed rising inequality and deepening financialization in post-industrial democracies. A rapidly growing literature has linked these two phenomena. We go beyond existing scholarship by specifying which aspects of financialization can be expected to increase inequality and where in the income distribution this effect will occur. We also show that this effect is contingent on institutional context. We posit that the …
Investment and intervention in education during the interregnum
(1967). Investment and intervention in education during the interregnum. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 253-262
On Being Excluded: An Analysis of Elderly and Adolescent Street Hustlers
Loners, Losers, and Lovers: Elderly Tenants in a Slum Hotel
Contemporary Social Gerontology: Significant Developments in the Field of Aging
Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 3, Number 1 (SPRING, 1978): Notes and Comments
The Other Side of the Looking Glass: Problems Encountered in Fieldwork examines some of the difficulties that are likely to be encountered in participant observation research, and presents strategies fOT handling them. The general position of this paper and the specific examples presented grew out of a research study conducted by the author of the elderly tenants ofa slum hotel in a large midwestern city
Marx’s Theory of the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Karl Marx's analysis of the internal dynamics of capitalist society led him to conclude that this order would be replaced by socialism. Since Marx laid down his pen, academics and political activists alike have hotly debated the accuracy of his predictions and the adequacy of his theory. Though this discussion is by now almost one hundred years old, a few basic lines of argument have been repeatedly advanced by the various antagonists in the deba…
The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Class Formation and Class Consciousness: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Reference to Britain and Sweden
Recent Marxist writers, such as Poulantzas, Carchedi and Wright, have broken with the traditional Marxist orthodoxy in attempting to deal theoretically with the class placement of propertyless non-manual employees (or the 'new middle class ) rather than just dismissing the group as a transitory phenomenon destined to disappear in the face of increasing proletarianization.l Though these works differ from one another on other points, they share one…
Race and State in Capitalist Development: Comparative Perspectives
Limits of the Welfare State: Critical Views on Post-War Sweden
City System Behaviour and Corporate Influence: The Headquarters Location of US Industrial Firms, 1955-75
Research on the locational patterns of corporate headquarters in the United States shows that corporate control has become less concentrated over the past 25 years. Analysis of the largest 500 industrial corporations reveals a trend toward a more balanced distribution on a regional basis but a greater degree of stability within the rank size hierarchy. The largest cities, regardless of their location, tend to be the steering points in the economi…
The Changing Swedish Electorate: Class Voting, Contextual Effects, and Voter Volatility
This article attempts to assess the contribution of long-term changes in Swedish social structure to three recent developments in Swedish electoral behavior: the decline of the Social Democrats, the decline in class voting, and the increase in the volatility of party preference. The author argues that the decline of the Social Democrats cannot be attributed to long-term structural changes in the electorate but rather is a product of the policies …
And They Took Themselves Wives: The Emergence of Patriarchy in Western Civilization
Office Location and the Journey to Work: A Comparative Study of Five Urban Areas
Democratic Socialism in Dependent Capitalism: An Analysis of the Manley Government in Jamaica
The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Political Power and Social Theory: A Research Annual, Vol. 4
Class, Power, and Pensions
Democratic Socialism in Jamaica
Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism
The work includes a detailed historical account of the Manley years, focusing on shifting relations between contending social forces and on the interaction between economics and politics.Originally published in 1986.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. These editions preserve the original texts of…
Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism
The Democratic Class Struggle.Walter Korpi
The Transition to Mass Parties and Ideological Politics: The Jamaican Experience Since 1972
The dominant views in the literature on the evolution of ideological mass-membership parties, which hold that these parties emerged with the entry of the masses into politics and as a result of prolonged electoral competition moderated their ideological stands to appeal to more centrist voters, cannot account for the case of a mass party which, after years of electoral competition, moves sharply to the left and maintains or increases its electora…
Authorial Revision and Constraints on the Role of the Reader: Some Examples from Wilfred Owen
In recent decades, the debate about the role of the reader in the creation of meaning in a literary work, if viewed diachronically, has tended to shift from a position in which the meaning was seen as inhering in the work itself as object, with the reader as passive recipient, to one in which the reader's subjective response to the unfolding text is the action which is crucial. Hence variability of interpretation is inevitable, since no two reade…
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