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Professor of Sociology and Political Science
University of Arizona
lane.kenworthy@arizona.edu
Research
All papers, articles, and reports posted here are in pdf format. Data sets are in Excel.
Work in Progress (comments welcome)
Book: Rethinking Inequality and Poverty
Paper: "Americans' Social Policy Preferences in the Era of Rising Inequality"
with Leslie McCall
Paper: "Are Targeted Social Policies Inferior to Universal Ones?"
Paper: "Is High Inequality Offset by Mobility?"
with Markus Gangl and Joakim Palme
Paper: "Macroeconomic Performance and Poverty in the 1980s and 1990s: A State-Level Analysis"
with John Iceland and Melissa Scopilliti
Paper: "Reconsidering the Effect of Public Opinion on Social Policy Generosity in Affluent Countries"
Paper: "Rising Tides, Redistribution, and the Material Well-Being of the Poor"
with Jessica Epstein and Daniel Duerr
Paper: "The Democrats and Working-Class Whites"
with Sondra Barringer, Daniel Duerr, and Garrett Andrew Schneider
Chapter for edited volume: "Institutions, Wealth, and Inequality"
Chapter for edited volume: "Labor Market Activation"
Publications
Books
Jobs with Equality
Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008
Contents and introductory and concluding chapters
Egalitarian Capitalism
Russell Sage Foundation, 2004
Contents and introductory chapter
In Search of National Economic Success: Balancing Competition and Cooperation
Sage, 1995
Edited Volumes
Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (forthcoming)
Contents and introductory chapter
Articles and Book Chapters
"Introduction"
with Alexander Hicks
Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (forthcoming)
"Comparative Employment Performance: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis"
with Jessica Epstein, Daniel Duerr, and Charles Ragin
Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (forthcoming)
"Family Policies and Women's Employment: A Regression Analysis"
with Alexander Hicks
Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (forthcoming)
"Inequality, Public Opinion, and Redistribution"
with Leslie McCall
Socio-Economic Review 2008
"Who Should Care for Under-Threes?"
Institutions for Gender Egalitarianism: Creating the Conditions for Egalitarian Dual-Earner/Dual-Caregiver Families, Verso, 2008 (forthcoming)
"Inequality and Sociology"
American Behavioral Scientist, 2007
"Is Equality Feasible?"
Contexts, 2007
"Toward Improved Use of Regression in Macro-Comparative Analysis"
Comparative Social Research, 2007
"Germany's Employment Problem in Comparative Perspective"
Transformationen des Kapitalismus: Festschrift für Wolfgang Streeck zum sechzigsten Geburstag, Campus, 2006
"Institutional Coherence and Macroeconomic Performance"
Socio-Economic Review, 2006
"Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries"
with Jonas Pontusson
Perspectives on Politics, 2005
"Theories and Practices of Neo-Corporatism"
with Wolfgang Streeck
Handbook of Political Sociology, Cambridge University Press, 2005
"Rising Inequality Not a Surge at the Top"
Challenge, 2004
"Do Affluent Countries Face an Incomes-Jobs Tradeoff?"
Comparative Political Studies, 2003
"Quantitative Indicators of Corporatism"
International Journal of Sociology, 2003
"Varieties of Welfare Capitalism"
with Alexander Hicks
Socio-Economic Review, 2003
"Corporatism and Unemployment in the 1980s and 1990s"
American Sociological Review, 2002
"Social Capital, Cooperation, and Economic Performance"
Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective, University Press of New England, 2001
"Wage-Setting Measures: A Survey and Assessment"
World Politics, 2001
"Do Social-Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty? A Cross-National Assessment"
Social Forces, 1999
"Economic Integration and Convergence: A Look at the U.S. States"
Social Science Quarterly, 1999
"Gender Inequality in Political Representation: A Worldwide Comparative Analysis"
with Melissa Malami
Social Forces, 1999
"Cooperation and Political Economic Performance in Affluent Democratic Capitalism"
with Alexander Hicks
American Journal of Sociology, 1998
"Civic Engagement, Social Capital, and Economic Cooperation"
American Behavioral Scientist, 1997
"Cooperation and Economic Performance"
Policy Options, 1997
"Globalization and Economic Convergence"
Competition and Change, 1997
"Balancing Competition and Cooperation"
Challenge, 1996
"‘The More Things Change ...’: Business Litigation and Governance in the American Automobile Industry"
with Stewart Macaulay and Joel Rogers
Law and Social Inquiry, 1996
"Unions, Wages, and the Common Interest"
Comparative Political Studies, 1996
"Equality and Efficiency: The Illusory Tradeoff"
European Journal of Political Research, 1995
"What Do We Do Now?"
Peace Review, 1992
"Are Industrial Policy and Corporatism Compatible?"
Journal of Public Policy, 1990
"Labor Organization, Wage Restraint, and Economic Performance"
Review of Radical Political Economics, 1990
"What Kind of Economic System?"
Socialist Review, 1990
Reports
"Jobs and Equality in Germany: Which Way Forward?"
Prepared for the Economic Policy unit of the German Ministry of Economics, 2003
"Indicators of Social Dialogue: Concepts and Measurement"
with Bernhard Kittel
Prepared for the International Labour Organization (ILO), 2002
The World of Campaign Finance
with Shaila Lakhani
Center for a New Democracy/Center for Responsive Politics, 1993
Book Reviews
Review of James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
Journal of Politics, 2008
Review of Francis Green, Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy
Contemporary Sociology, 2007
Review of Bruce Western, Punishment and Inequality in America
Socio-Economic Review, 2007
Review of Jonas Pontusson, Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America
European Sociological Review, 2006
Review of J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Karl H. Muller, and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth, eds., Advancing Socio-Economics: An Institutionalist Perspective
Contemporary Sociology, 2004
Review of Franz Traxler, Sabine Blaschke, and Bernhard Kittel, National Labour Relations in Internationalized Markets
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2002
Review of Gosta Esping-Andersen and Marino Regini, eds., Why Deregulate Labour Markets?
American Journal of Sociology, 2001
Review of David P. Angel, Restructuring for Innovation: The Remaking of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
Contemporary Sociology, 1996