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Bruce Western - Publications

Affiliations: 
1993-2007 Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 
 2007-2018 Sociology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 
 2018- Sociology Columbia University, New York, NY 
Area:
Political and comparative sociology; stratification and inequality; methodology
Website:
https://www.brucewestern.org/
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Year Citation  Score
2021 Pullen-Blasnik H, Simes JT, Western B. The population prevalence of solitary confinement. Science Advances. 7: eabj1928. PMID 34826243 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj1928  0.209
2021 Western B, Davis J, Ganter F, Smith N. The cumulative risk of jail incarceration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. PMID 33846257 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2023429118  0.353
2019 Western B, Simes JT. Drug use in the year after prison. Social Science & Medicine (1982). 235: 112357. PMID 31221441 DOI: 10.1016/J.Socscimed.2019.112357  0.375
2019 An W, Western B. Social capital in the creation of cultural capital: Family structure, neighborhood cohesion, and extracurricular participation. Social Science Research. 81: 192-208. PMID 31130196 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ssresearch.2019.03.015  0.462
2019 Western B, Sirois C. Racialized Re-entry: Labor Market Inequality After Incarceration Social Forces. 97: 1517-1542. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/Soy096  0.433
2019 Western B. RACE, POVERTY, AND JUSTICE REFORM Du Bois Review: Social Science Research On Race. 16: 177-180. DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x19000225  0.386
2018 Western B, Smith N. Formerly Incarcerated Parents and Their Children. Demography. PMID 29770923 DOI: 10.1007/S13524-018-0677-4  0.401
2018 Western B. Poverty police: Down, out, and under arrest: policing and everyday life in Skid Row, by Stuart Forrest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $19.00 paper. ISBN: 9780226370811 Contemporary Sociology. 47: 22-26. DOI: 10.1177/0094306117744801A  0.382
2018 Western B. Comment: Bayes, Model Uncertainty, and Learning from Data: Sociological Methodology. 48: 39-43. DOI: 10.1177/0081175018799095  0.325
2018 Desmond M, Western B. Poverty in America: New Directions and Debates Review of Sociology. 44: 305-318. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Soc-060116-053411  0.449
2017 Western B. Alexes Harris, A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor Theoretical Criminology. 21: 247-252. DOI: 10.1177/1362480617693706  0.403
2016 Western B, Braga A, Hureau D, Sirois C. Study retention as bias reduction in a hard-to-reach population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113: 5477-85. PMID 27162332 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1604138113  0.438
2016 Western B, Bloome D, Sosnaud B, Tach LM. Trends in Income Insecurity Among U.S. Children, 1984-2010. Demography. 53: 419-47. PMID 26942945 DOI: 10.1007/S13524-016-0463-0  0.7
2016 Winship C, Western B. Multicollinearity and Model Misspecification Sociological Science. 3: 627-649. DOI: 10.15195/V3.A27  0.631
2015 Western B, Braga AA, Davis J, Sirois C. Stress and Hardship after Prison. Ajs; American Journal of Sociology. 120: 1512-47. PMID 26421345 DOI: 10.1086/681301  0.434
2015 Western B. Lifetimes of Violence in a Sample of Released Prisoners Rsf: the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 1: 14-30. DOI: 10.7758/Rsf.2015.1.2.02  0.411
2014 Rich JD, Chandler R, Williams BA, Dumont D, Wang EA, Taxman FS, Allen SA, Clarke JG, Greifinger RB, Wildeman C, Osher FC, Rosenberg S, Haney C, Mauer M, Western B. How health care reform can transform the health of criminal justice-involved individuals. Health Affairs (Project Hope). 33: 462-7. PMID 24590946 DOI: 10.1377/Hlthaff.2013.1133  0.623
2014 Western B. Incarceration, Inequality, and Imagining Alternatives Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 651: 302-306. DOI: 10.1177/0002716213503107  0.416
2013 Western B, Muller C. Mass Incarceration, Macrosociology, and the Poor Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 647: 166-189. DOI: 10.1177/0002716213475421  0.478
2012 Pager D, Western B. Identifying Discrimination at Work: The Use of Field Experiments. The Journal of Social Issues. 68: 221-237. PMID 24163481 DOI: 10.1111/J.1540-4560.2012.01746.X  0.414
2012 Western B, Bloome D, Sosnaud B, Tach L. Economic insecurity and social stratification Annual Review of Sociology. 38: 341-359. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Soc-071811-145434  0.488
2012 Western B, Rosenfeld J. Workers of the world divide: The decline of labor and the future of the middle class Foreign Affairs. 91.  0.336
2011 Geller A, Garfinkel I, Western B. Paternal incarceration and support for children in fragile families. Demography. 48: 25-47. PMID 21318455 DOI: 10.1007/S13524-010-0009-9  0.48
2011 Western B. Poverty politics and crime control in Europe and America Contemporary Sociology. 40: 283-286. DOI: 10.1177/0094306110404514D  0.483
2011 Western B, Rosenfeld J. Unions, norms, and the rise in u.s. wage inequality American Sociological Review. 76: 513-537. DOI: 10.1177/0003122411414817  0.764
2011 Bloome D, Western B. Cohort change and racial differences in educational and income mobility Social Forces. 90: 375-395. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/Sor002  0.469
2010 Western B, Pettit B. Incarceration and social inequality. Daedalus. 139: 8-19. PMID 21032946 DOI: 10.1162/Daed_A_00019  0.436
2010 Wildeman C, Western B. Incarceration in fragile families. The Future of Children / Center For the Future of Children, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. 20: 157-77. PMID 20964136 DOI: 10.1353/Foc.2010.0006  0.702
2010 Loury GC, Western B. The challenge of mass incarceration in America Daedalus. 139: 5-7. DOI: 10.1162/Daed_E_00018  0.316
2010 Western B. Decriminalizing poverty Nation. 291: 12-14.  0.34
2010 Western B. Retrenching civil rights: Mass imprisonment in America The Next Twenty-Five Years: Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa. 144-151.  0.338
2009 Pager D, Western B, Sugie N. Sequencing Disadvantage: Barriers to Employment Facing Young Black and White Men with Criminal Records. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 623: 195-213. PMID 23459367 DOI: 10.1177/0002716208330793  0.458
2009 Pager D, Western B, Bonikowski B. Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment. American Sociological Review. 74: 777-799. PMID 20689685 DOI: 10.1177/000312240907400505  0.464
2009 Western B. Interview with Bruce Western Social Thought & Research. DOI: 10.17161/Str.1808.5697  0.417
2009 Western B. Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor Contemporary Sociology. 38: 71-72. DOI: 10.1177/009430610903800143  0.365
2009 Western B, Wildeman C. The black family and mass incarceration Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 621: 221-242. DOI: 10.1177/0002716208324850  0.466
2009 Western B, Bloome D. Variance function regressions for studying inequality Sociological Methodology. 39: 293-326. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9531.2009.01222.X  0.454
2008 Western B, Percheski C, Bloome D. Inequality among American families with children, 1975 to 2005 American Sociological Review. 73: 903-920. DOI: 10.1177/000312240807300602  0.502
2008 Western B. Criminal Background Checks And Employment Among Workers With Criminal Records Criminology and Public Policy. 7: 413-417. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9133.2008.00518.X  0.408
2008 Wallerstein M, Western B. Unions in decline? what has changed and why Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: the Political Economy of Inequality, Unions, and Social Democracy. 212-238. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511619793.011  0.413
2007 Western B. The prison boom and the decline of American citizenship Society. 44: 30-36. DOI: 10.1007/S12115-007-9000-5  0.438
2007 Western B. Mass imprisonment and economic inequality Social Research. 74: 509-532.  0.298
2007 Western B. The penal system and the labor market Barriers to Reentry?: the Labor Market For Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America. 335-359.  0.44
2006 Western B, Kleykamp M, Rosenfeld J. Did falling wages and employment increase U.S. imprisonment? Social Forces. 84: 2291-2311. DOI: 10.1353/Sof.2006.0114  0.757
2006 Western B, Lopoo L, Pettit B. Punishment and inequality in America Punishment and Inequality in America. 1-247.  0.294
2005 Lopoo LM, Western B. Incarceration and the formation and stability of marital unions Journal of Marriage and Family. 67: 721-734. DOI: 10.1111/J.1741-3737.2005.00165.X  0.464
2005 Western B, Pettit B. Black-white wage inequality, employment rates, and incarceration American Journal of Sociology. 111: 553-578. DOI: 10.1086/432780  0.463
2005 Uggen C, Wakefield S, Western B. Work and family perspectives on reentry Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America. 209-243. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511813580.008  0.367
2004 Lynch SM, Western B. Bayesian Posterior Predictive Checks for Complex Models Sociological Methods and Research. 32: 301-335. DOI: 10.1177/0049124103257303  0.629
2004 Pettit B, Western B. Mass imprisonment and the life course: Race and class inequality in U.S. incarceration American Sociological Review. 69: 151-169. DOI: 10.1177/000312240406900201  0.469
2004 Western B, Kleykamp M. A Bayesian change point model for historical time series analysis Political Analysis. 12: 354-374. DOI: 10.1093/Pan/Mph023  0.407
2004 Western B, Kleykamp M, Rosenfeld J. Crime, punishment, and American inequality Social Inequality. 771-796.  0.296
2003 Western B. At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective. By Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002. Pp. xi+314. $34.95. American Journal of Sociology. 109: 772-774. DOI: 10.1086/381997  0.401
2002 Western B. The impact of incarceration on wage mobility and inequality American Sociological Review. 67: 526-546. DOI: 10.2307/3088944  0.481
2002 Western B, Pettit B. Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality Contexts. 1: 37-43. DOI: 10.1525/Ctx.2002.1.3.37  0.434
2002 Farber HS, Western B. Ronald Reagan and the politics of declining union organization British Journal of Industrial Relations. 40: 385-401. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8543.00240  0.418
2001 Western B, Kling JR, Weiman DF. The labor market consequences of incarceration Crime and Delinquency. 47: 410-427. DOI: 10.1177/0011128701047003007  0.489
2001 Western B. Bayesian thinking about macrosociology American Journal of Sociology. 107: 353-378. DOI: 10.1086/323639  0.389
2001 Western B. Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss. By Miriam A. Golden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 194p. $59.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. American Political Science Review. 95: 748-749. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055400500367  0.387
2001 Farber HS, Western B. Accounting for the decline of unions in the private sector, 1973-1998 Journal of Labor Research. 22: 484-485. DOI: 10.1007/S12122-001-1017-8  0.45
2001 Western B. Race to Incarcerate Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 20: 575-576. DOI: 10.1002/Pam.1012  0.391
2000 Western B, Pettit B. Incarceration and racial inequality in men's employment Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 54: 3-16. DOI: 10.1177/001979390005400101  0.5
2000 Western B. Race, Labor and Punishment in the New South.By Martha A. Myers. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp. 335. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). American Journal of Sociology. 106: 544-546. DOI: 10.1086/316987  0.408
1999 Hicks A, Western B. Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies Contemporary Sociology. 28: 182. DOI: 10.2307/2654863  0.401
1999 Western B. Bayesian Analysis for Sociologists Sociological Methods & Research. 28: 7-34. DOI: 10.1177/0049124199028001002  0.385
1999 Western B. Guest Editor's Introduction to the Special Issue on Bayesian Methods in the Social Sciences Sociological Methods & Research. 28: 3-6. DOI: 10.1177/0049124199028001001  0.376
1999 Morris M, Western B. Inequality in earnings at the close of the twentieth century Annual Review of Sociology. 25: 623-657. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Soc.25.1.623  0.489
1999 Western B, Healy K. Explaining the OECD wage slowdown: Recession or labour decline? European Sociological Review. 15: 233-249. DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Esr.A018262  0.732
1999 Western B, Beckett K. How unregulated is the U.S. labor market? The penal system as a labor market institution American Journal of Sociology. 104: 1030-1060. DOI: 10.1086/210135  0.478
1999 Western B. Bayesian analysis for sociologists: An introduction Sociological Methods and Research. 28: 7-34.  0.289
1998 Western B. Causal heterogeneity in comparative research: A Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach American Journal of Political Science. 42: 1233-1259. DOI: 10.2307/2991856  0.425
1997 Western B, Chaison GN, Gallie D, Penn R, Rose M. Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View from Five Countries@@@Trade Unionism in Recession Contemporary Sociology. 26: 708. DOI: 10.2307/2654629  0.417
1997 Western B, Kitschelt H, McGann AJ. The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis. Contemporary Sociology. 26: 29. DOI: 10.2307/2076581  0.33
1996 Western B. Vague theory and model uncertainty in macrosociology Sociological Methodology. 26: 165-192. DOI: 10.2307/271022  0.38
1996 Western B. The puzzle of Australian union decline Journal of Sociology. 32: 41-43. DOI: 10.1177/144078339603200104  0.484
1995 Berk RA, Western B, Weiss RE. Reply to Bollen, Firebaugh, and Rubin Sociological Methodology. 25: 481. DOI: 10.2307/271077  0.361
1995 Berk RA, Western B, Weiss RE. Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations Sociological Methodology. 25: 421. DOI: 10.2307/271073  0.386
1995 Western B. Concepts and Suggestions for Robust Regression Analysis American Journal of Political Science. 39: 786. DOI: 10.2307/2111654  0.385
1995 Western B. A Comparative Study of Working-Class Disorganization: Union Decline in Eighteen Advanced Capitalist Countries American Sociological Review. 60: 179-201. DOI: 10.2307/2096383  0.332
1995 Western B, Freeman RB. Working under Different Rules. Contemporary Sociology. 24: 248. DOI: 10.2307/2076898  0.346
1994 Western B, Jackman S. Bayesian Inference For Comparative Research American Political Science Review. 88: 412-423. DOI: 10.2307/2944713  0.45
1994 Western B. Institutional mechanisms for unionization in sixteen OECD countries: An analysis of social survey data Social Forces. 73: 497-519. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/73.2.497  0.486
1994 Western B. Unionization and labor market institutions in advanced capitalism, 1950-1985 American Journal of Sociology. 99: 1314-1341. DOI: 10.1086/230413  0.486
1993 Western B. Postwar Unionization in Eighteen Advanced Capitalist Countries American Sociological Review. 58: 266. DOI: 10.2307/2095970  0.497
1992 Berk RA, Campbell A, Klap R, Western B. The Deterrent Effect of Arrest in Incidents of Domestic Violence: A Bayesian Analysis of Four Field Experiments American Sociological Review. 57: 698-708. DOI: 10.2307/2095923  0.404
1992 Berk RA, Campbell A, Klap R, Western B. A Bayesian Analysis of the Colorado Springs Spouse Abuse Experiment Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology. 83: 170-200. DOI: 10.2307/1143828  0.363
1991 Western B. A Comparative Study of Corporatist Development American Sociological Review. 56: 283. DOI: 10.2307/2096104  0.486
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