Richard M Coughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 97399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard M Coughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard M |
| FAMILY NAME | Coughlin |
| SIGNATURE | COUGHLIN R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Social Construction of Distinctions: Risk, Rape, Public Goods, and Altruism
This chapter describes well-known distinctions with powerful implications for public policy. It includes the voluntary/involuntary dichotomy to explain the relative acceptability of risks, consent versus coercion in sexual relations, the justification of governmental action based on the dichotomy between public and private goods, and the long-standing efforts to distinguish between selfishness and altruism as a moral basis for evaluating behavior…
Culture and Social Theory
Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate, but related, areas: the social construction of meaning, normative/analytic political philosophy, and a theory of rational choices. This book is the first in a series of Aaron Wil…
Family Structure and Children's Needs: The Test Case of Moral Development
Family researchers disagree on the family characteristics essential for meeting children's developmental needs. Some argue that a particular family structure, two biological parents, is crucial. Others maintain that specific parenting behaviors and access to resources are more important than a particular structure for meeting children's needs. We examine this issue in the instance of children's moral development for which two distinct literatures…
Grid-Group Theory and Political Ideology: A Consideration of Their Relative Strengths and Weaknesses for Explaining the Structure of Mass Belief Systems
The primary purpose of this paper is to introduce an alternative, grid-group theory, to the conventional liberal-conservative continuum for understanding the structure of mass belief systems. We also examine the potential advantages of this alternative in explaining preference formation with a series of exploratory empirical comparisons of the relative strengths and weaknesses of grid-group theory and the conventional measure of political ideolog…
The Sociology of Social Security
Alleviating Professional Immobility in Political Science: Faculty Exchanges as a Remedy
Morality, Rationality, and Efficiency: New Perspectives on Socio-Economics
A Review Essay: Building Better Comparative Social Theory Through Alternative Conceptions of Rationality
Building Better Comparative Social Theory through Alternative Conceptions of Rationality: A Review Essay
Charles Lockhart, Richard M. Coughlin, Building Better Comparative Social Theory through Alternative Conceptions of Rationality: A Review Essay, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 793-809
A Responsive Society: Collected Essays on Guiding Deliberate Social Change
Part 1 The need for social change: facing the slings and arrows - personal reflections on a life of social activism conditions for guiding change author's note a theory of societal guidance. Part 2 The elements of social change: decision making and social change - author's note mixed scanning revisited rationality is anti-entropic normative-affective factors - toward a new decision-making model the responsive community - author's note liberals an…
State Responsiveness and State Activism: An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies that Explain the Rise in Social Expenditures in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy 1870-1968
Theories of state responsiveness and state activism the methodological problems of comparative macro sociology. Part 1 The growth of the welfare state: institutional patterns in the growth of social welfare state responsiveness to social needs and political pressures state involvement and patterns of growth in welfare expenditures. Part 2 The growth of mass education systems: institutional patterns in the expansion of education state responsivene…
The Possibility of Politics: A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
In this study of the welfare state the author asks whether it works and, depending on the answer, goes on to consider what this says about the success of political reform. The basic concepts of poverty and economic efficiency are considered in the light of political science, sociology and economics. The methodology of income redistribution research is restated and reconsidered, and approaches which are often regarded as alternatives are examined.…
Responsibility, Rights, and Welfare: The Theory of the Welfare State
Modern Welfare States: A Comparative View of Trends and Prospects
Public Opinion, Ideology, and State Welfare
The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism. John D. Stephens
Payroll taxes for social security in the United States: The future of fiscal and social policy illusions
Insight and Social Betterment: A Preface to Applied Social Science
Grid-Group Theory and Political Ideology: A Consideration of Their Relative Strengths and Weaknesses for Explaining the Structure of Mass Belief Systems
The primary purpose of this paper is to introduce an alternative, grid-group theory, to the conventional liberal-conservative continuum for understanding the structure of mass belief systems. We also examine the potential advantages of this alternative in explaining preference formation with a series of exploratory empirical comparisons of the relative strengths and weaknesses of grid-group theory and the conventional measure of political ideolog…
Payroll taxes for social security in the United States: The future of fiscal and social policy illusions
Insight and Social Betterment: A Preface to Applied Social Science
Insight and Social Betterment: A Preface to Applied Social Science
Payroll taxes for social security in the United States: The future of fiscal and social policy illusions
The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism. John D. Stephens
Public Opinion, Ideology, and State Welfare
Modern Welfare States: A Comparative View of Trends and Prospects
Responsibility, Rights, and Welfare: The Theory of the Welfare State
State Responsiveness and State Activism: An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies that Explain the Rise in Social Expenditures in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy 1870-1968
Theories of state responsiveness and state activism the methodological problems of comparative macro sociology. Part 1 The growth of the welfare state: institutional patterns in the growth of social welfare state responsiveness to social needs and political pressures state involvement and patterns of growth in welfare expenditures. Part 2 The growth of mass education systems: institutional patterns in the expansion of education state responsivene…
The Possibility of Politics: A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
In this study of the welfare state the author asks whether it works and, depending on the answer, goes on to consider what this says about the success of political reform. The basic concepts of poverty and economic efficiency are considered in the light of political science, sociology and economics. The methodology of income redistribution research is restated and reconsidered, and approaches which are often regarded as alternatives are examined.…
A Review Essay: Building Better Comparative Social Theory Through Alternative Conceptions of Rationality
Building Better Comparative Social Theory through Alternative Conceptions of Rationality: A Review Essay
Charles Lockhart, Richard M. Coughlin, Building Better Comparative Social Theory through Alternative Conceptions of Rationality: A Review Essay, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 793-809
A Responsive Society: Collected Essays on Guiding Deliberate Social Change
Part 1 The need for social change: facing the slings and arrows - personal reflections on a life of social activism conditions for guiding change author's note a theory of societal guidance. Part 2 The elements of social change: decision making and social change - author's note mixed scanning revisited rationality is anti-entropic normative-affective factors - toward a new decision-making model the responsive community - author's note liberals an…
Alleviating Professional Immobility in Political Science: Faculty Exchanges as a Remedy
Morality, Rationality, and Efficiency: New Perspectives on Socio-Economics
The Sociology of Social Security
Grid-Group Theory and Political Ideology: A Consideration of Their Relative Strengths and Weaknesses for Explaining the Structure of Mass Belief Systems
The primary purpose of this paper is to introduce an alternative, grid-group theory, to the conventional liberal-conservative continuum for understanding the structure of mass belief systems. We also examine the potential advantages of this alternative in explaining preference formation with a series of exploratory empirical comparisons of the relative strengths and weaknesses of grid-group theory and the conventional measure of political ideolog…
Family Structure and Children's Needs: The Test Case of Moral Development
Family researchers disagree on the family characteristics essential for meeting children's developmental needs. Some argue that a particular family structure, two biological parents, is crucial. Others maintain that specific parenting behaviors and access to resources are more important than a particular structure for meeting children's needs. We examine this issue in the instance of children's moral development for which two distinct literatures…
On the Social Construction of Distinctions: Risk, Rape, Public Goods, and Altruism
This chapter describes well-known distinctions with powerful implications for public policy. It includes the voluntary/involuntary dichotomy to explain the relative acceptability of risks, consent versus coercion in sexual relations, the justification of governmental action based on the dichotomy between public and private goods, and the long-standing efforts to distinguish between selfishness and altruism as a moral basis for evaluating behavior…
Culture and Social Theory
Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate, but related, areas: the social construction of meaning, normative/analytic political philosophy, and a theory of rational choices. This book is the first in a series of Aaron Wil…
Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Welfare state (5 works)