Dena Levy
Biographic Data
| ID | 87686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dena Levy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dena |
| FAMILY NAME | Levy |
| SIGNATURE | LEVY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9285-9610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 264 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Rise of Investor‐Driven Climate Governance: From Myth to Institution
Investor‐driven climate governance (ICG) is premised on mobilizing finance to address climate change by leveraging investors to pressure companies to reduce emissions. Examining the rapid growth of ICG from an institutional political economy perspective, we argue that powerful financial and regulatory actors with varied interests coalesced to promote the discourse that climate risks equal financial risks, and to develop a finance‐centered mechani…
Why Trump? Candidate Authenticity, Trust in Government, and Primary Elections
Climate adaptation in the Anthropocene: Constructing and contesting urban risk regimes
The Anthropocene heralds a new era of heightened and unknown risks, particularly regarding the impacts of climate change. This article explores the initial phase of organizing for climate adaptation in Boston, Massachusetts, examining how multiple actors, including business, government, and community organization, are interacting as they attempt to comprehend, assess, and act on this issue. To understand this process of organizing, we develop the…
Love and Sex with Robots: Third International Conference, LSR 2017, London, UK, December 19-20, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
The impulse to orthodoxy: Why illiberal democracies treat religious pluralism as a threat
Why do illiberal regimes restrict the activities of marginal and benign religious groups? Since the late 1990s, increasingly illiberal governments across the post-Soviet space have redefined freedom of conscience as freedom from the influence of ‘non-traditional’ religious groups, which range from Evangelical Christians and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, to Falun Gong and Tablighi Jamaat. Examining state discourses on national and religious tradition i…
The role of intermediaries in governance of global production networks: Restructuring work relations in Pakistan’s apparel industry
This article locates the reorganization of work relations in the apparel sector in Pakistan, after the end of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quota regime, within the context of a global production network (GPN). We examine the role of a network of corporate, state, multilateral and civil society actors who serve as intermediaries in GPN governance. These intermediaries transmit and translate competitive pressures and invoke varied, sometimes c…
C entral A sia
Central Asia may refer to the five former Soviet Republics that lie between Russia, China, and the Caspian Sea, the six independent nations of the region if Afghanistan is included, and, in its broadest definition, the wider interior of Eurasia, including formerly independent territories and peoples that now constitute northwestern China such as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This entry will focus primarily on the territories that were an…
Comparative Perspectives on the Changing Business of Journalism and Its Implications for Democracy
The last decade has seen tremendous change in the commercial news media that play a central role in political processes in democracies around the world, as well as considerable progress in cross-national comparative media research. But despite the impact of Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini’s book Comparing Media Systems , empirical research into the institutional and systemic preconditions of journalism and news production has not kept pace wit…
Contested imaginaries and the cultural political economy of climate change
This article analyses the evolving cultural political economy of climate change by developing the concept of 'climate imaginaries'. These are shared socio-semiotic systems that structure a field around a set of shared understandings of the climate. Climate imaginaries imply a particular mode of organizing production and consumption, and a prioritization of environmental and cultural values. We use this concept to examine the struggle among NGOs, …
Governing Climate Change Transnationally: Assessing the Evidence from a Database of Sixty Initiatives
With this paper we present an analysis of sixty transnational governance initiatives and assess the implications for our understanding of the roles of public and private actors, the legitimacy of governance ‘beyond’ the state, and the North–South dimensions of governing climate change. In the first part of the paper we examine the notion of transnational governance and its applicability in the climate change arena, reflecting on the history and e…
Private Sector Governance for a Sustainable Economy: A Strategic Approach
Political Contestation in Global Production Networks
I develop a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literature on global commodity chains and global production networks, on institutional entrepreneurship, and on neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The framework views global production networks as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems in which market and political power are intertwined. The framework offers insights…
The Influence of African Americans on Congress: A Content Analysis of the Civil Rights Debates
In this paper we approach, from a different angle than previous research, the question of whether gains in descriptive representation for African Americans result in losses in substantive representation. By looking at how the presence of African Americans has changed Congress over time, we assess the long-term impact of electing more African Americans to Congress on substantive representation. Specifically, we content analyze House floor debates …
The Institutional Entrepreneur as Modern Prince: The Strategic Face of Power in Contested Fields
This paper develops a theoretical framework that situates institutional entrepreneurship by drawing from Gramsci's concept of hegemony to understand the contingent stabilization of organizational fields, and by employing his discussion of the Modern Prince as the collective agent who organizes and strategizes counter-hegemonic challenges. Our framework makes three contributions. First, we characterize the interlaced material, discursive, and orga…
Global Corporate Power
Exploring the diverse ways that corporations affect the practices and structures of the global political economy, this innovative work addresses three fundamental questions: How can the corporation be most usefully conceptualized within the field of IPE? Does global governance succeed in constraining the power of multinational corporations? To what extent has the movement for corporate social responsibility been fruitful? The authors' rich, detai…
The Passion, Prescience, and Politics of The End of Nature: Introduction to the Symposium
Strategic Responses to Global Climate Change: Conflicting Pressures on Multinationals in the Oil Industry
MNCs are increasingly facing global environmental issues demanding coordinated market and non-market strategic responses. The home country institutional context and individual company histories can create divergent pressures on strategy for MNCs based in different countries; however, the location of MNCs in global industries and their participation in ‘global issues arenas’ create issue-level fields within which strategic convergence might also b…
Business Strategy and International Environmental Governance: Toward a Neo-Gramscian Synthesis
This paper develops a political economy approach to explaining the role of business in international environmental governance. The framework bridges micro and macro-levels of analysis and combines theories of International Relations with perspectives from management and organization. The uneven and fragmented nature of international governance is viewed as the outcome of a process of bargaining, compromise, and alliance formation among a range of…
Do Differences Matter: Women Members of Congress and the Hyde Amendment
Have women members of Congress made a difference? A handful of studies have answered this “so what” question by looking for differences between male and female legislators. We build on previous research and propose an additional way of answering this question. If women members are making a difference, then they should be changing how men behave in Congress. Specifically, if women members are making a difference, then they should be changing how t…
Do differences matter? Women members of congress and the Hyde amendment
Television Markets and the Competitiveness of U. S. House Elections
We argue that the competitiveness of House challengers is in part a function of the district in which they run and its geographic relationship to media markets. When the television market is well matched to the district, incumbents enjoy less of an advantage over challengers in making contact with the voters. In contrast, when the size of the television market is fragmented across more than one market, incumbents enjoy a bigger edge over challeng…
Congressional Committee Simulation: An Active Learning Experiment
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Capital Contests: National and Transnational Channels of Corporate Influence on the Climate Change Negotiations
Environmental Management as Political Sustainability
Grounded in critical theory and the Gramscian concept of hegemony, this article argues that environmental management (EM) can be understood as an accommodation to growing public awareness of environmental problems that potentially threatens dominant hegemonic coalitions. On the material level, EM is a set of practices that ameliorates the more egregious environmental consequences of industrialproduction; on the ideological and symbolic level, EM …
Europe, truth, and history: Husserl and Voegelin on philosophy and the identity of Europe
Contested imaginaries and the cultural political economy of climate change
This article analyses the evolving cultural political economy of climate change by developing the concept of 'climate imaginaries'. These are shared socio-semiotic systems that structure a field around a set of shared understandings of the climate. Climate imaginaries imply a particular mode of organizing production and consumption, and a prioritization of environmental and cultural values. We use this concept to examine the struggle among NGOs, …
Business Strategy and International Environmental Governance: Toward a Neo-Gramscian Synthesis
This paper develops a political economy approach to explaining the role of business in international environmental governance. The framework bridges micro and macro-levels of analysis and combines theories of International Relations with perspectives from management and organization. The uneven and fragmented nature of international governance is viewed as the outcome of a process of bargaining, compromise, and alliance formation among a range of…
Capital Contests: National and Transnational Channels of Corporate Influence on the Climate Change Negotiations
Television Markets and the Competitiveness of U. S. House Elections
We argue that the competitiveness of House challengers is in part a function of the district in which they run and its geographic relationship to media markets. When the television market is well matched to the district, incumbents enjoy less of an advantage over challengers in making contact with the voters. In contrast, when the size of the television market is fragmented across more than one market, incumbents enjoy a bigger edge over challeng…
The role of intermediaries in governance of global production networks: Restructuring work relations in Pakistan’s apparel industry
This article locates the reorganization of work relations in the apparel sector in Pakistan, after the end of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quota regime, within the context of a global production network (GPN). We examine the role of a network of corporate, state, multilateral and civil society actors who serve as intermediaries in GPN governance. These intermediaries transmit and translate competitive pressures and invoke varied, sometimes c…
Do Differences Matter: Women Members of Congress and the Hyde Amendment
Have women members of Congress made a difference? A handful of studies have answered this “so what” question by looking for differences between male and female legislators. We build on previous research and propose an additional way of answering this question. If women members are making a difference, then they should be changing how men behave in Congress. Specifically, if women members are making a difference, then they should be changing how t…
The Rise of Investor‐Driven Climate Governance: From Myth to Institution
Investor‐driven climate governance (ICG) is premised on mobilizing finance to address climate change by leveraging investors to pressure companies to reduce emissions. Examining the rapid growth of ICG from an institutional political economy perspective, we argue that powerful financial and regulatory actors with varied interests coalesced to promote the discourse that climate risks equal financial risks, and to develop a finance‐centered mechani…
Congressional Committee Simulation: An Active Learning Experiment
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Why Trump? Candidate Authenticity, Trust in Government, and Primary Elections
The impulse to orthodoxy: Why illiberal democracies treat religious pluralism as a threat
Why do illiberal regimes restrict the activities of marginal and benign religious groups? Since the late 1990s, increasingly illiberal governments across the post-Soviet space have redefined freedom of conscience as freedom from the influence of ‘non-traditional’ religious groups, which range from Evangelical Christians and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, to Falun Gong and Tablighi Jamaat. Examining state discourses on national and religious tradition i…
Do differences matter? Women members of congress and the Hyde amendment
Comparative Perspectives on the Changing Business of Journalism and Its Implications for Democracy
The last decade has seen tremendous change in the commercial news media that play a central role in political processes in democracies around the world, as well as considerable progress in cross-national comparative media research. But despite the impact of Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini’s book Comparing Media Systems , empirical research into the institutional and systemic preconditions of journalism and news production has not kept pace wit…
Private Sector Governance for a Sustainable Economy: A Strategic Approach
Europe, truth, and history: Husserl and Voegelin on philosophy and the identity of Europe
The life of order and the order of life: Eric Voegelin on modernity and the problem of philosophical anthropology
Europe, truth, and history: Husserl and Voegelin on philosophy and the identity of Europe
Correlates of Publication Success: Some AJPS Results
Environmental Management as Political Sustainability
Grounded in critical theory and the Gramscian concept of hegemony, this article argues that environmental management (EM) can be understood as an accommodation to growing public awareness of environmental problems that potentially threatens dominant hegemonic coalitions. On the material level, EM is a set of practices that ameliorates the more egregious environmental consequences of industrialproduction; on the ideological and symbolic level, EM …
Capital Contests: National and Transnational Channels of Corporate Influence on the Climate Change Negotiations
Television Markets and the Competitiveness of U. S. House Elections
We argue that the competitiveness of House challengers is in part a function of the district in which they run and its geographic relationship to media markets. When the television market is well matched to the district, incumbents enjoy less of an advantage over challengers in making contact with the voters. In contrast, when the size of the television market is fragmented across more than one market, incumbents enjoy a bigger edge over challeng…
Congressional Committee Simulation: An Active Learning Experiment
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Do Differences Matter: Women Members of Congress and the Hyde Amendment
Have women members of Congress made a difference? A handful of studies have answered this “so what” question by looking for differences between male and female legislators. We build on previous research and propose an additional way of answering this question. If women members are making a difference, then they should be changing how men behave in Congress. Specifically, if women members are making a difference, then they should be changing how t…
Do differences matter? Women members of congress and the Hyde amendment
Strategic Responses to Global Climate Change: Conflicting Pressures on Multinationals in the Oil Industry
MNCs are increasingly facing global environmental issues demanding coordinated market and non-market strategic responses. The home country institutional context and individual company histories can create divergent pressures on strategy for MNCs based in different countries; however, the location of MNCs in global industries and their participation in ‘global issues arenas’ create issue-level fields within which strategic convergence might also b…
Business Strategy and International Environmental Governance: Toward a Neo-Gramscian Synthesis
This paper develops a political economy approach to explaining the role of business in international environmental governance. The framework bridges micro and macro-levels of analysis and combines theories of International Relations with perspectives from management and organization. The uneven and fragmented nature of international governance is viewed as the outcome of a process of bargaining, compromise, and alliance formation among a range of…
The Passion, Prescience, and Politics of The End of Nature: Introduction to the Symposium
Global Corporate Power
Exploring the diverse ways that corporations affect the practices and structures of the global political economy, this innovative work addresses three fundamental questions: How can the corporation be most usefully conceptualized within the field of IPE? Does global governance succeed in constraining the power of multinational corporations? To what extent has the movement for corporate social responsibility been fruitful? The authors' rich, detai…
The Institutional Entrepreneur as Modern Prince: The Strategic Face of Power in Contested Fields
This paper develops a theoretical framework that situates institutional entrepreneurship by drawing from Gramsci's concept of hegemony to understand the contingent stabilization of organizational fields, and by employing his discussion of the Modern Prince as the collective agent who organizes and strategizes counter-hegemonic challenges. Our framework makes three contributions. First, we characterize the interlaced material, discursive, and orga…
Political Contestation in Global Production Networks
I develop a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literature on global commodity chains and global production networks, on institutional entrepreneurship, and on neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The framework views global production networks as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems in which market and political power are intertwined. The framework offers insights…
The Influence of African Americans on Congress: A Content Analysis of the Civil Rights Debates
In this paper we approach, from a different angle than previous research, the question of whether gains in descriptive representation for African Americans result in losses in substantive representation. By looking at how the presence of African Americans has changed Congress over time, we assess the long-term impact of electing more African Americans to Congress on substantive representation. Specifically, we content analyze House floor debates …
Private Sector Governance for a Sustainable Economy: A Strategic Approach
Governing Climate Change Transnationally: Assessing the Evidence from a Database of Sixty Initiatives
With this paper we present an analysis of sixty transnational governance initiatives and assess the implications for our understanding of the roles of public and private actors, the legitimacy of governance ‘beyond’ the state, and the North–South dimensions of governing climate change. In the first part of the paper we examine the notion of transnational governance and its applicability in the climate change arena, reflecting on the history and e…
Comparative Perspectives on the Changing Business of Journalism and Its Implications for Democracy
The last decade has seen tremendous change in the commercial news media that play a central role in political processes in democracies around the world, as well as considerable progress in cross-national comparative media research. But despite the impact of Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini’s book Comparing Media Systems , empirical research into the institutional and systemic preconditions of journalism and news production has not kept pace wit…
Contested imaginaries and the cultural political economy of climate change
This article analyses the evolving cultural political economy of climate change by developing the concept of 'climate imaginaries'. These are shared socio-semiotic systems that structure a field around a set of shared understandings of the climate. Climate imaginaries imply a particular mode of organizing production and consumption, and a prioritization of environmental and cultural values. We use this concept to examine the struggle among NGOs, …
C entral A sia
Central Asia may refer to the five former Soviet Republics that lie between Russia, China, and the Caspian Sea, the six independent nations of the region if Afghanistan is included, and, in its broadest definition, the wider interior of Eurasia, including formerly independent territories and peoples that now constitute northwestern China such as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This entry will focus primarily on the territories that were an…
Climate adaptation in the Anthropocene: Constructing and contesting urban risk regimes
The Anthropocene heralds a new era of heightened and unknown risks, particularly regarding the impacts of climate change. This article explores the initial phase of organizing for climate adaptation in Boston, Massachusetts, examining how multiple actors, including business, government, and community organization, are interacting as they attempt to comprehend, assess, and act on this issue. To understand this process of organizing, we develop the…
Love and Sex with Robots: Third International Conference, LSR 2017, London, UK, December 19-20, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
The impulse to orthodoxy: Why illiberal democracies treat religious pluralism as a threat
Why do illiberal regimes restrict the activities of marginal and benign religious groups? Since the late 1990s, increasingly illiberal governments across the post-Soviet space have redefined freedom of conscience as freedom from the influence of ‘non-traditional’ religious groups, which range from Evangelical Christians and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, to Falun Gong and Tablighi Jamaat. Examining state discourses on national and religious tradition i…
The role of intermediaries in governance of global production networks: Restructuring work relations in Pakistan’s apparel industry
This article locates the reorganization of work relations in the apparel sector in Pakistan, after the end of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quota regime, within the context of a global production network (GPN). We examine the role of a network of corporate, state, multilateral and civil society actors who serve as intermediaries in GPN governance. These intermediaries transmit and translate competitive pressures and invoke varied, sometimes c…
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