Edwin Amenta - Publications

Affiliations: 
New York University, New York, NY, United States 
Area:
General, United States History

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2019 Amenta E, Elliott TA, Shortt N, Tierney AC, Türkoğlu D, Vann B. MAKING GOOD NEWS: WHAT EXPLAINS THE QUALITY OF COVERAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT* Mobilization: An International Quarterly. 24: 19-37. DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-24-1-19  0.486
2019 Amenta E, Polletta F. The Cultural Impacts of Social Movements Annual Review of Sociology. 45: 279-299. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Soc-073018-022342  0.603
2019 Amenta E, Elliott TA. What Drives Progressive Policy? Institutional Politics, Political Mediation, Policy Feedbacks, and Early U.S. Old‐Age Policy Sociological Forum. 34: 553-571. DOI: 10.1111/Socf.12514  0.494
2019 Amenta E. Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism. By Stephanie L. Mudge. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi+525. $39.95. American Journal of Sociology. 124: 1850-1852. DOI: 10.1086/704023  0.447
2017 Amenta E, Elliott TA, Shortt N, Tierney AC, Türkoğlu D, Vann B. From bias to coverage: What explains how news organizations treat social movements Sociology Compass. 11: e12460. DOI: 10.1111/SOC4.12460  0.442
2016 Amenta E. Thinking about the Influence of Social Movements on Institutions. Canadian Review of Sociology = Revue Canadienne De Sociologie. 53: 356-60. PMID 27528000 DOI: 10.1111/Cars.12116  0.567
2016 Amenta E. Raising the Bar for Scholarship on Protest and Politics Contemporary Sociology: a Journal of Reviews. 45: 566-570. DOI: 10.1177/0094306116664523B  0.537
2016 Elliott TA, Amenta E, Caren N. Recipes for Attention: Policy Reforms, Crises, Organizational Characteristics, and the Newspaper Coverage of the LGBT Movement, 1969–2009 Sociological Forum. 31: 926-947. DOI: 10.1111/Socf.12290  0.8
2015 Amenta E. Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizenship Protest American Journal of Sociology. 121: 632-634. DOI: 10.1086/682157  0.333
2014 Amenta E. How to Analyze the Influence of Movements Contemporary Sociology. 43: 16-29. DOI: 10.1177/0094306113514536  0.371
2012 Amenta EA, Gardner BG, Tierney AC, Yerena AY, Elliott TA. A story-Centered approach to the newspaper coverage of high-profile smos Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. 33: 83-107. DOI: 10.1108/S0163-786X(2012)0000033007  0.493
2012 Amenta E, Caren N, Stobaugh JE. Political reform and the historical trajectories of u.s. social movements in the twentieth century Social Forces. 90: 1073-1100. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/Sos067  0.808
2012 Amenta E. What we know about the development of social policy: Comparative and historical research in comparative and historical perspective Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. 91-130. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511803963.004  0.513
2012 Amenta E. Historical Institutionalism The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. 47-56. DOI: 10.1002/9781444355093.ch5  0.434
2010 Amenta E, Caren N, Chiarello E, Su Y. The political consequences of social movements Annual Review of Sociology. 36: 287-307. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Soc-070308-120029  0.787
2009 Amenta E, Caren N, Olasky SJ, Stobaugh JE. All the movements fit to print: Who, what, when, where, and why SMO families appeared in the New York Times in the twentieth century American Sociological Review. 74: 636-656. DOI: 10.1177/000312240907400407  0.75
2007 Amenta E. Softball and the Social Scientist Contexts. 6: 40-45. DOI: 10.1525/Ctx.2007.6.2.40  0.483
2007 Amenta E. Five Days in Philadelphia: 1940, Wendell Willkie, and the Political Convention that Freed FDR to Win World War IIby Charles Peters Political Science Quarterly. 122: 174-175. DOI: 10.1002/J.1538-165X.2007.Tb01606.X  0.449
2007 Amenta E, Caren N. The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State-Oriented Challengers The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. 461-488. DOI: 10.1002/9780470999103.ch20  0.684
2006 Amenta E. The Social Security Debate, Now and Then Contexts. 5: 18-22. DOI: 10.1525/Ctx.2006.5.3.18  0.564
2006 Amenta E. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy By Kenneth T. Andrews University of Chicago Press, 2004. 265 pages. $50 (cloth); $21 (paper) Social Forces. 84: 1846-1847. DOI: 10.1353/Sof.2006.0043  0.349
2005 Amenta E, Caren N, Olasky SJ. Newspaper Coverage of Social Movement Organizations in the 20th Century Contexts. 4: 48-49. DOI: 10.1525/Ctx.2005.4.3.48  0.77
2005 Amenta E, Caren N, Olasky SJ. Age for leisure? Political mediation and the impact of the pension movement on U.S. old-age policy American Sociological Review. 70: 516-538. DOI: 10.1177/000312240507000308  0.787
2001 Amenta E, Hicks AM. Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics Contemporary Sociology. 30: 384. DOI: 10.2307/3089775  0.599
2001 Critchlow DT, Amenta E. Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy The American Historical Review. 106: 194. DOI: 10.2307/2655335  0.628
2001 Amenta E, Halfmann D. Who Voted with Hopkins? Institutional Politics and the WPA Journal of Policy History. 13: 251-287. DOI: 10.1353/Jph.2001.0001  0.776
2001 Amenta E, Bonastia C, Caren N. US social policy in comparative and historical perspective: Concepts, images, arguments, and research strategies Annual Review of Sociology. 27: 213-234. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Soc.27.1.213  0.794
2000 Amenta E, Halfmann D. Wage wars: Institutional politics, WPA wages, and the struggle for U.S. social policy American Sociological Review. 65: 506-528. DOI: 10.2307/2657380  0.817
1999 Amenta E, Young MP. Democratic states and social movements: Theoretical arguments and hypotheses Social Problems. 46: 153-168. DOI: 10.2307/3097250  0.569
1999 Hooks G, Amenta E. Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy. Social Forces. 78: 808. DOI: 10.2307/3005580  0.56
1999 Levine RF, Amenta E. Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy Contemporary Sociology. 28: 458. DOI: 10.2307/2655335  0.56
1999 Amenta E, Halfmann D, Young M. The Strategies and Contexts of Social Protest: Political Mediation and the Impact of the Townsend Movement in California Mobilization: An International Quarterly. 4: 1-23. DOI: 10.17813/maiq.4.1.y66180053qg16252  0.52
1998 Amenta E. Book ReviewThe Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States.By Christopher Howard. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii+250. $39.50. American Journal of Sociology. 104: 948-950. DOI: 10.1086/210115  0.506
1998 Amenta E, Benoit E, Bonastia C, Cauthen NK, Halfmann D. Bring back the WPA: Work, relief, and the origins of American social policy in welfare reform Studies in American Political Development. 12: 1-56. DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X98001291  0.756
1996 Cauthen NK, Amenta E. Not for widows only: Institutional politics and the formative years of aid to dependent children American Sociological Review. 61: 427-448. DOI: 10.2307/2096357  0.312
1996 Amenta E. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty.By Jill Quadagno. Oxford University Press, 1994. 254 pp. Cloth, $24.00 Social Forces. 75: 371-372. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/75.1.371  0.349
1996 Amenta E, Poulsen JD. Social politics in context: The institutional politics theory and social spending at the end of the new deal Social Forces. 75: 33-61. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/75.1.33  0.626
1996 Amenta E. Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain.Desmond King American Journal of Sociology. 101: 1763-1765. DOI: 10.1086/230895  0.498
1995 Amenta E, Steinmo S. Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British, and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State. Contemporary Sociology. 24: 216. DOI: 10.2307/2076871  0.366
1994 Amenta E, Dunleavy K, Bernstein M. Stolen Thunder? Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth," Political Mediation, and the Second New Deal American Sociological Review. 59: 678. DOI: 10.2307/2096443  0.579
1994 Amenta e, Poulsen JD. Where to Begin: A Survey of Five Approaches to Selecting Independent Variables for Qualitative Comparative Analysis Sociological Methods &Amp; Research. 23: 22-53. DOI: 10.1177/0049124194023001002  0.35
1993 Amenta E. The State of the Art in Welfare State Research on Social Spending Efforts in Capitalist Democracies Since 1960 American Journal of Sociology. 99: 750-763. DOI: 10.1086/230322  0.562
1992 Amenta E. Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement.Dennis Chong American Journal of Sociology. 98: 393-395. DOI: 10.1086/230016  0.367
1992 Amenta E, Carruthers BG, Zylan Y. A Hero for the Aged? The Townsend Movement, the Political Mediation Model, and U.S. Old-Age Policy, 1934-1950. American Journal of Sociology. 98: 308-339. DOI: 10.1086/230010  0.583
1991 Amenta E, Parikh S. Capitalists Did Not Want the Social Security Act: A Critique of the "Capitalist Dominance" Thesis American Sociological Review. 56: 124. DOI: 10.2307/2095678  0.477
1991 Amenta E. Making the most of a case study: Theories of the welfare state and the American experience International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 32: 172-194. DOI: 10.1163/002071591X00096  0.357
1991 Amenta E, Zylan Y. It Happened Here:Political Opportunity,the New nstitutionalism,and the Townsend Movement American Sociological Review. 56: 199-233. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23747-0_10  0.556
1988 Amenta E, Carruthers BG. The Formative Years of U.S. Social Policy: Theories of the Welfare State and Social Policies in the American States During the Great Depression American Sociological Review. 53: 661-678. DOI: 10.2307/2095814  0.563
1987 Amenta E. Compromising Possessions: Orwell's Political, Analytical, and Literary Purposes in Nineteen Eighty-Four Politics &Amp; Society. 15: 157-188. DOI: 10.1177/003232928701500203  0.363
1987 Amenta E, Clemens ES, Olsen J, Parikh S, Skocpol T. The Political Origins of Unemployment Insurance in Five American States Studies in American Political Development. 2: 137-182. DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X00001747  0.761
1986 Skocpol T, Amenta E. States and social policies Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 12, 1986. 131-157. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.So.12.080186.001023  0.756
1985 Skocpol T, Amenta E. Did Capitalists Shape Social Security American Sociological Review. 50: 572. DOI: 10.2307/2095440  0.655
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