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Seminar In Institutional Analysis


About the Seminar

Reflecting recent trends in macrosociology, political sociology, organizational studies, and collective action, the Seminar in Institutional Analysis is designed to bring together faculty and graduate students in Sociology, Political Science, and related disciplines for a productive exchange of ideas and methods.
In this spirit, the SIA serves as a forum for the presentation of works in progress, research or conference papers, book chapters, and dissertation proposals.

Format: Papers are distributed in advance of the seminar, and two scholars are designated as discussants. At the seminar, the author or authors introduce the work and make few brief comments about the direction of the research; following this, the two discussants each provide commentary. Authors are invited to address some of the points raised by the commentators; subsequently the floor is opened for general discussion. Graduate student participation in the workshop is heartily encouraged. As a rule, a graduate student serves as one of the two designated discussants and is invited to speak first.

Details: The workshop typically meets for 90 minutes on Wednesday afternoons; check this page for the current schedule. Authors are required to submit their papers two weeks before the date of the workshop to allow time for the copying and distribution of the paper to participants. All interested scholars are invited to participate.

For more information: contact seminar organizer Trey Causey.



Seminar Papers

10/30/2009
TBA
Author/s: Kathleen Thelen
Discussants: TBA
Cosponsors: Center for West European Studies
Location: Parrington Forum
Time: 4:00 - 5:30

10/16/2009
Collective Action and Public Policy: How Americans Try to Influence Congress
Author/s: Paul Burstein
Discussants: Jake Rosenfeld ; Nika Kabiri
Location: Savery 409
Time: 3:00 - 4:30

5/8/2009
Measuring Government Effectiveness and Its Consequences for Social Welfare in African States
Author/s: Audrey Sacks ; Margaret Levi (Political Science, University of Washington)
Discussants: Gary Hamilton
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

4/17/2009
Hunger Strikes by Suffragettes and Irish Republicans, 1909-1923
Author/s: Michael Biggs (Sociology, St. Cross College, University of Oxford) (Sociology, St. Cross College, University of Oxford)
Discussants: TBA (TBA) ; TBA (TBA)
Cosponsors: Center for West European Studies
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

3/6/2009
Individual and Structural Explanations of Differential Political Participation
Author/s: David Pettinicchio ; Jacob Young
Discussants: TBA ; TBA
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

2/27/2009
TBA
Author/s: Neil Fligstein (Sociology, University of California, Berkeley)
Discussants: TBA ; TBA
Cosponsors: Center for West European Studies
Location: Condon 311
Time: TBA

2/11/2009
Hispanics and Organized Labor in the U.S., 1973-2007
Author/s: Jake Rosenfeld
Discussants: Paul Burstein ; Devin Kelly
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

12/5/2008
Taxation and the Worlds of Welfare
Author/s: Monica Prasad (Sociology, Northwestern)
Discussants: TBA
Cosponsors: CWES
Location: Condon 311
Time: 1:30-3:00

11/12/2008
A Cucumber for a Cow
Author/s: Jason Wollschleger ; Lindsey Beach (Sociology, SPU)
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Discussants: Edgar Kiser ; Danny Koski-Karell
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

10/7/2008
Principled Principals in the Founding Moments of the Rule of Law
Author/s: Margaret Levi (Political Science, University of Washington) ; Brad Epperly (Political Science, University of Washington)
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Discussants: Steve Pfaff (Sociology, UW) ; Trey Causey (Sociology, UW)
Location: Condon 311
Time: 12:00-1:30
Notes: Please note the different time for this SIA. We will be returning to our usual time for subsequent seminars.

6/9/2008
To Be Announced
Author/s: Mike Savage (Sociology, Manchester University)
Discussants: TBA
Cosponsors: CWES
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

5/28/2008
Trust, Heterogeneity and High-Risk Collective Action: A Study of Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740-1820
Author/s: Steve Pfaff ; Michael Hecther (Arizona State University)
Discussants: TBA
Location: Condon 311
Time: 1-2:30

5/21/2008
Emergence and change of Consumption Classes: an Examination of Douglas's and Isherwood's Consumption Patterns Model
Author/s: Sharon Raz (Visiting Scholar, Sociology, UW) (Visiting Scholar, Sociology, UW)
Discussants: Gary Hamilton ; Sabino Kornrich
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

5/14/2008
Explanations for Church Growth and Decline in the Pacific Northwest
Author/s: James Wellman (Comparative Religion, University of Washington) (Comparative Religion, University of Washington)
Discussants: TBA ; Jason Wollschleger
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

5/9/2008
Even in Sweden: The Effect of Immigration on Support for Welfare State Spending
Author/s: Maureen Eger
Discussants: Becky Pettit ; Trey Causey
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

4/28/2008
Explaining Anglophone Exit from Quebec: 1971 to 1981
Author/s: David Pettinicchio
Discussants: Karl-Dieter Opp ; Blaine Robbins
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

4/16/2008
Tax protest in European welfare states
Author/s: Isaac Martin (Sociology, UCSD)
Discussants: TBA
Cosponsors: CWES
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

2/22/2008
Fractured Nationalism: Divisions Among Iraqi Kurds
Author/s: Nika Kabiri
Discussants: TBA ; Daniel Koski-Karell
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

2/5/2008
Theses on a Theory of Religion
Author/s: Martin Reisebrodt (Sociology and the Divinity School, Chicago) (Sociology and the Divinity School, Chicago)
Discussants: Steve Pfaff ; Katie Corcoran
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm
Notes: Martin Riesebrodt is a Professor in Sociology and Divinity at the University of Chicago. His academic interests are in social theory, the historical and comparative sociology of religion, and the relationship between religion, politics, and secular culture. Professor Riesebrodt has published on the theory of religion, its comparative history, and the foundations for a Weberian theory of religion. Presently, he is working on a book about how modernizing states and reforming bureaucracies have imagined and institutionalized religion.

2/4/2008
Regionalization and Retrenchment: The Impact of European Integration on the Welfare State
Author/s: Jason Beckfield (Harvard University) (Harvard University)
Discussants: TBA
Cosponsors: CWES
Location: Peterson Room in the Allen Library
Time: 1:00

1/25/2008
Institutional Competitiveness and the Global Economy: The Danish Miracle
Author/s: John Campbell (Dartmouth ) (Dartmouth )
Discussants: TBA
Cosponsors: CWES
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

1/7/2008
Legitimacy and the Rule of Law
Author/s: Tom Tyler (Psychology, NYU)
Discussants: TBA
Location: Condon 311
Time: 12:30-1:30

11/14/2007
Contracts and Production Networks
Author/s: Jane Winn, UW Law School
Discussants: Gary Hamilton ; Sabino Kornrich
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

10/31/2007
A Multifaceted No to Europe: Why the Dutch and the French Rejected the European Constitution
Author/s: Sylvain Brouard, Sciences Po Paris
Discussants: Jake Rosenfeld ; Maureen Eger
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm

10/26/2007
Norms of War: An Institutionalist Account
Author/s: Edgar Kiser ; Eric Gleave
Discussants: Ross Matsueda ; Trey Causey
Location: Condon 311
Time: 3:30 - 5:00

10/12/2007
Variety and Voice in the U.S. Advocacy Sector
Author/s: Debra Minkoff (Sociology, Barnard) (Sociology, Barnard)
Discussants: TBA
Location: 311 Condon
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm
Notes: Debra Minkoff is professor and chair of sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University. From 2000-2005, she was a member of the UW sociology department, during which she spent a year in Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship. Minkoff's work has explored the ecological dynamics of national social movements in the U.S., addressing such topics as the structure of protest cycles in the U.S., organizational change and survival, and the role of national social movements in American civil society. Her current research examines the field organizations operating on behalf of a broad range of domestic social movements in the U.S. (civil rights, feminist, peace, environmental, pro-choice, pro-life, and others). In collaboration with Jon Agnone (University of Washington), she is also completing a project on the impact of foundation support for social change organizations.


Seminar Archives


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The Unintended Consequences of Democratization: The Role of Cooperatives in Fueling Recent Protest Among Polish Farmers
Author/s: Sarah Valdez
Discussants:
Steve Hanson (Political Science, University of Washington); Devin Kelly

Technological Exploration: A Longitudinal Study of th eRole of Recombinatory Search and Social Capital in Alliance Networks
Author/s: Corey Phelps (School of Business, University of Washington) (School of Business, University of Washington)

Provoking Preferences by Changing Beliefs: In Unions and Other Voluntary Organizations
Author/s: Margaret Levi (Political Science) ; John Ahlquist (Political Science)
Discussants:
Evan Jewett; Edgar Kiser

CANCELLED
Author/s: Debra Minkoff (Sociology, Barnard) (Sociology, Barnard)

The Comparative Analysis of Competing Capitalisms and their Change
Author/s: Richard Whitley (University of Manchester Business School) (University of Manchester Business School)

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEORY AND HISTORY IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: A MODEL FOR HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY?
Author/s: Edgar Kiser
Discussants:
Gary Hamilton; Erin Powers

CANCELLED: Spirit of the Usenet: The Ultimate Community, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Collective Action
Author/s: Blaine Robbins

Weberian Methodological Individualism
Author/s: Steve Hanson (Political Science, University of Washington) (Political Science, University of Washington)
Discussants:
Steve Pfaff; Heather Evans

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Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder
Author/s: Dan Chirot
Discussants:
Steve Pfaff; Melissa Comenduley

Accounting for Global-Institutional Change: World Polity Transformations and the Status of Indigenous Peoples, 1500-2000
Author/s: Wade Cole (Sociology, Stanford University)
Discussants:
Edgar Kiser; Audrey Sacks

Judicial Pioneers: Litigants in the Moscow Theater Hostage Case
Author/s: Debra Javeline (Political Science, University of Notre Dame ) ; Vanessa Baird (presenter) (Political Science, University of Colorado-Boulder)
Discussants:
Paul Burstein; Erin Powers

Constituting Innovative Industries: Networking Events and the Formation of the Internet Industry
Author/s: Gina Neff (Communication, University of Washington)
Discussants:
Katherine Stovel; Christine Fountain

The Evolution of the Modern State: The Case of Sweden
Author/s: Sven Steinmo (Political Science, University of Colorado-Boulder)
Discussants:
Christine Ingebritsen (Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington); Sarah Valdez

Equality Versus Efficiency? Structural Reform, Inequality, and Economic Performance in Western Europe
Author/s: Mark Blyth (Political Science, Johns Hopkins University) (Political Science, Johns Hopkins University)

Mergers and Mobility: Organizational Growth and the Origins of Career Migration
Author/s: Katherine Stovel

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Why We Need a New Theory of Government - APSA Presidential Address
Author/s: Margaret Levi (Political Science, University of Washington)
Discussants:
Katherine Stovel; Maureen Eger

Practice Job Talk
Author/s: Ted Welser

Explaining Norm Enforcement
Author/s: Christine Horne (Sociology, Washington State University)
Discussants:
Ross Matsueda; Maureen Eger

Birds of Moderately Different Feathers: Bandwagon dynamics and the threshold heterogeneity of network neighbors
Author/s: Yen-Sheng Chiang
Discussants:
Steve Pfaff; Nika Kabiri

A Theory of the Value of Grandchildren
Author/s: Debra Friedman; Michael Hechter ; Derek Kreager
Discussants:
Becky Pettit; Yen-Sheng Chiang

Enacting state persecution: the Police and anti-Semitic policy in France, 1940-1944
Author/s: Ivan Ermakoff (Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Where Do Cultures Come From?
Author/s: Satoshi Kanazawa (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Discussants:
Edgar Kiser; Sean Cunningham

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Retailers as Global Market Makers
Author/s: Gary Hamilton; Misha Petrovic

The Influence of Taxation, Population, Prices, and Signalling on High Risk Collective Action: Evidence from Early Modern Europe
Author/s: Eric Gleave
Discussants:
Kate Stovel; Nika Kabiri

The Origins of Social Zeal
Author/s: Ted Welser
Discussants:
Steve Hanson (Political Science, University of Washington); Sarah Valdez

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Right-Wing Violence and the Public Sphere in Germany: The Dynamics of Discursive Opportunities
Author/s: Susan Olzak (Stanford University) ; Ruud Koopmans (Stanford University)
Discussants:
Steve Pfaff; Jen Edwards

The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism, Confessionalization and State Formation in early modern Europe
Author/s: Phil Gorski (Sociology, University of Wisconsin) (Sociology, University of Wisconsin)

The Origins of Status Hierarchies
Author/s: Roger Gould

State-Making by Imitation: A Case Study of the Administrative Reforms of Peter the Great
Author/s: Edgar Kiser; Michael Abel
Discussants:
Steve Hansson (Political Science, University of Washington); Josh Kane

Exit-Voice Dynamics in Collective Action: An Analysis of Emigration and Popular Protest in the East German Revolution
Author/s: Steve Pfaff; Hyojoung Kim
Discussants:
Edgar Kiser; Matthew Archibald

Multicultural Democracy: Can It Work
Author/s: Pierre van den Berghe

A Global Justice Game
Author/s: William Gamson (Sociology, Boston University)

The Dynamics of Social Stability: Gender Inequality in the Labor Market in West Germany, 1975-1995
Author/s: Hannah Brueckner (Sociology, Yale University) (Sociology, Yale University)

Organizational Dependence and Knowledge Acquisition in Interfirm Alliances
Author/s: Justin Baer
Discussants:
Gary Hamilton; Gillian Murphy

From Class to Culture
Author/s: Michael Hechter
Discussants:
Katherine Stovel; Ted Welser

A Double-Edged Sword : Coalitions and the Development of the Global Environmental Movement
Author/s: Gillian Murphy
Discussants:
Margaret Levi (Political Science, University of Washington)

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Secular Competitors in Religious Markets
Author/s: Paul Froese
Discussants:
Edgar Kiser; Michael Abel

Insincere Public Discourse, Reputation Effects, and Implications for Ethnic-Religious Trust and Conflict
Author/s: Murat Somer (Jackson School of International Studies, UW)
Discussants:
Steve Pfaff

The Radical Right Gender Gap
Author/s: Terri E. Givens (Political Science, University of Washington)
Discussants:
Debra Minkoff

How Does the Transformation Process Affect Political Protest? The Example of East Germany
Author/s: Karl-Dieter Opp (Institute of Sociology, University of Leipzig)

Density-Dependent Competition in Founding and Disbanding Rates Among Self-Help/Mutual-Aid Organizations, 1955-2000
Author/s: Matthew Archibald
Discussants:
Katherine Stovel; Gillian Murphy

Regime Type, Diffusion and Democracy
Author/s: Steve Hanson (Political Science, University of Washington)
Discussants:
Edgar Kiser; Elif Andac

The Strategy of Interfirm Alliances in the Biotechnology Industry
Author/s: Justin Baer
Discussants:
Katherine Stovel

The Politics of Regret: Analytical Frames
Author/s: Jeffrey K. Olick (Department of Sociology, Columbia University) ; Brenda Coughlin (Department of Sociology, Columbia University)

When Do Islamic Movements Turn Violent? Political and Economic Inclusiveness And Violent Oppositions
Author/s: Elif Andac
Discussants:
Hyojoung Kim; Ted Welser

Spanish for Americans? A Tipping Model for Bilingualism among Hispanics in the U.S.
Author/s: April Linton
Discussants:
Katherine Stovel

The Political Origins of Religious Liberty: Initial Sketch of a General Theory
Author/s: Anthony Gill (Political Science, University of Washington)
Discussants:
Steve Pfaff; Paul Froese

The Bureaucratization of States: Towards an Analytical Weberianism
Author/s: Edgar Kiser; Justin Baer
Discussants:
Steve Hanson (Political Science, University of Washington); Jennifer Edwards

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Love, Anger and Shame in Collective Action
Author/s: Hyojoung Kim
Discussants:
Steve Pfaff; Gillian Murphy

The Emergence of Hybrid Organizational Forms: Combining Identity-Based Service Provision and Political Action
Author/s: Debra Minkoff
Discussants:
Katherine Stovel; Matthew Archibald

The Influence of Political Parties, Social Movement Organizations and Interest Groups on Policy Change
Author/s: Paul Burstein; April Linton
Discussants:
Dan Chirot; Sean Bauldry

Explaining Variations in Political Trust in Sweden
Author/s: Ylva Noren (Political Science, Gothenburg University, Sweden)
Discussants:
Paul Burstein

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Getting a Broader Perspective on Central European Balkan Nightmares in the Twentieth Century
Author/s: Dan Chirot
Discussants:
Katherine Stovel; Paul Froese

The Impact of Strategic Voting on the Success of Radical Right Parties
Author/s: Terri Givens (Political Science, University of Washington)
Discussants:
Michael Hechter; Justin Baer

Hungary for Religion: Analyzing the Religious Revival in Post-Communist Hungary
Author/s: Paul Froese
Discussants:
Susan Pitchford; Aaron Laing

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Historical Anniversaries as Symbolic Resources of Collective Action: Protest Mobilization in Eastern Europe and China in 1989
Author/s: Steve Pfaff; Guobin Yang (Sociology, U Hawaii-Manoa)
Discussants:
Edgar Kiser; April Linton

Combining Theory and History: A Comparison of Historical Sociology and Evolutionary Biology
Author/s: Edgar Kiser; Ted Welser
Discussants:
Steve Pfaff; Josh Kane

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