Power, Hegemony, and World Society Theory
A Critical Evaluation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2423926 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Downey (0000-0002-4549-3190, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author), Elizabeth M Lawrence (0000-0001-9176-3991, University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Micah Pyles, Micah A Pyles (0000-0002-5060-8124, University of Colorado Boulder), Derek Lee (0000-0002-1042-9543, University of Colorado Boulder) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2378-0231 • E-ISSN: 2378-0231 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2378023120920059 |
| OpenAlex | W3023138801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 60 |
World society theory has been one of the better published theoretical paradigms of the past 30 to 40 years. But despite its publishing successes, world society theory and research are beset by a number of theoretical and empirical problems that call into question the theory's ability to accurately describe and explain the global diffusion of government practices, policies, and structures. The authors summarize world society theory's key claims, demonstrate that the theory has trouble explaining a set of diffusion outcomes that it needs to be able to explain, and show that a key reason for this is that the actors highlighted by the theory are embedded in hierarchical and power-laden organizations, networks, and fields that strongly limit the kinds of actions these actors can take and the kinds of cultural scripts they can follow
Critical theory · Diffusion theory · Economics · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Hegemony · Key (lock · Knowledge management · Management science · Political science · Positive economics · Power (physics · Scripting language · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Computer Science · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · International Development and Aid · Law · World Systems and Global Transformations
When hazards don’t make law
Indigenous Inclusion in Latin American Constitutions
Women STEM faculty’s intentions to engage in entrepreneurship education programs
Meaning structures in the world polity
Differential Effectiveness of Regional Trade Agreements, 1958-2012
Who Supports Global Cooperation? Cooperative Internationalism at the Intersection of Social Class and Economic Development
Combining world-system and world polity approaches to analyze international environmental governance
Immanuel Wallerstein’s Lasting Legacies
Gender regimes, polities, and the world-system
Varying Vistas
The Promise of John W. Meyer’s World Society Theory
Business as usual
The Diffusion of Exclusion
Scales of violence
Domains of Diffusion
India's green revolution
Policy-planning organizations
The Transnational Capitalist Class
Silent Revolution
Private Power, Public Law
Behind the Development Banks
Hypocrisy Trap
The World Bank and Africa
Constructing World Culture
From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk
Political Economy and the Changing Global Order
World Society
American Foundations
Development and Democracy in India
Neverending Wars
A Theory of Global Capitalism
Information Feudalism
A quarter century of neoliberal thinking in education
Hegemony and Humanitarian Norms
Nongovernmental Organizations, Democracy, and Deforestation
Do Commercial Debt‐for‐Nature Swaps Matter for Forests? A Cross‐National Test of World Polity Theory 1
Ideas, interest and institutions in policy change
The Transnational Organization of Production and Uneven Environmental Degradation and Change in the World Economy
The Institutionalization of Human Rights and its Discontents
Politics and IMF Conditionality
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection
Norms, culture, and world politics
Between Faith and Science
The Iron Cage Revisited
The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century
Seeds of Change
Trustees of development from conditionality to governance
Expulsions
Human Rights and the Triumph of the Individual in World Culture
The World Bank, contradictory lending, and forests
The Global Diffusion of Public Policies
World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor
Stanford School on Sociological Institutionalism
World Economy, World Society, and Environmental Harms in Less-Developed Countries
The Typical Tools for the Job
The 'Actors' of Modern Society
The Sacralization of the Individual
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
World Society and the Nation-State
Decoupling reconsidered
Individual environmental concern in the world polity
Institutional conditions for diffusion
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |