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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Edwin Amenta is an American sociologist best known for his study of social policy, social movements and the New Deal. Career Through his Political Mediation Theory, developed as a consequence of studying the Townsend Plan, an organization demanding old-age pensions during the Great Depression, and other New Deal-era movements, Amenta has influenced how scholars conceptualize, study, and explain social movement impacts. He is also known for theorizing the role of political institutions in policy-making. Amenta's recent work includes the development of a newspaper coverage database that allows scholars to test theories of social movement impacts across 32 major social movementss.

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Edwin Amenta's Published Works

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The Political Consequences of Social Movements (2010) (515)
Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British, and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State. (1995) (481)
States and Social Policies (1986) (415)
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics (2000) (337)
A Hero for the Aged? The Townsend Movement, the Political Mediation Model, and U.S. Old-Age Policy, 1934-1950 (1992) (333)
Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age Policy (2005) (187)
Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy (1999) (178)
Stolen Thunder? Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth," Political Mediation, and the Second New Deal (1994) (169)
When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security (2006) (165)
All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, and Why SMO Families Appeared in the New York Times in the Twentieth Century (2009) (154)
The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State‐Oriented Challengers (2007) (122)
Where to Begin (1994) (121)
Wage wars : Institutional politics, WPA wages, and the struggle for U.S. social policy (2000) (118)
It Happened Here:Political Opportunity,the New nstitutionalism,and the Townsend Movement (1991) (111)
Social Politics in Context: The Institutional Politics Theory and Social Spending at the End of the New Deal (1996) (94)
US Social Policy in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Concepts, Images, Arguments, and Research Strategies (2001) (86)
Did Capitalists Shape Social Security (1985) (78)
Democratic States and Social Movements: Theoretical Arguments and Hypotheses (1999) (75)
The Formative Years of U.S. Social Policy: Theories of the Welfare State and Social Policies in the American States During the Great Depression (1988) (72)
The Strategies and Contexts of Social Protest: Political Mediation and the Impact of the Townsend Movement in California (1999) (59)
The State of the Art in Welfare State Research on Social Spending Efforts in Capitalist Democracies Since 1960 (1993) (58)
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences: WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL POLICY (2003) (58)
Conclusion: Second that Emotion?: Lessons from Once-Novel Concepts in Social Movement Research (2001) (47)
The Cultural Impacts of Social Movements (2019) (46)
Not for widows only : Institutional politics and the formative years of Aid to Dependent Children (1996) (42)
The Political Origins of Unemployment Insurance in Five American States (1987) (40)
Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism. By Stephanie L. Mudge. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi+525. $39.95. (2019) (34)
Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy. (1999) (33)
Making the Most of an Historical Case Study: Configuration, Sequence, Casing, and the US Old-age Pension Movement (2009) (30)
Making the Most of a Case Study: Theories of the Welfare State and the American Experience (1991) (28)
Capitalists Did Not Want the Social Security Act: A Critique of the "Capitalist Dominance" Thesis (1991) (26)
The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty.By Jill Quadagno. Oxford University Press, 1994. 254 pp. Cloth, $24.00 (1996) (14)
Bring Back the WPA: Work, Relief, and the Origins of American Social Policy in Welfare Reform (1998) (11)
Opportunity Knocks The Trouble with Political Opportunity and What You Can Do about It (2012) (11)
THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF U . S . SOCIAL SPENDING POLICIES : THEORIES OF THE WELFARE STATE AND THE AMERICAN STATES DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION (2008) (8)
All the Right Movements?: Mediation, Rightist Movements, and Why US Movements Received Extensive Newspaper Coverage (2017) (8)
Rich People's Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent. (2015) (8)
Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain.Desmond King (1996) (8)
Newspaper Coverage of Social Movement Organizations in the 20th Century (2005) (6)
Political Mediation Model (2013) (3)
Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizenship Protest (2015) (2)
America's Most Publicized Social Movement Organizations: A New Approach to Social Movements (2005) (2)
Redefining the New Deal: (2020) (2)
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy (review) (2006) (1)
Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park (2007) (1)
NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION, DEMOCRATIZATION, AND MOVEMENT RESPONSES* (2016) (1)
Book Review (1998) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
The Political Origins of Unemployment Insurance in Five American States (1987) (0)
Mann's big picture of US social citizenship: “Road to World Empire” with Bob Hope (2016) (0)
From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. By Sparrow Bartholomew H.. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 354p. $45.00. (1997) (0)
The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Ecomomic Change in America, 1929-1939.Michael A. Bernstein (1988) (0)
Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizenship Protest by Paul Almeida (2015) (0)
New from the American Sociological Association and The New Yorker's Cartoon Bank . . . . The Sociologist's Book of Cartoons (2008) (0)
Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State.Rhonda F. Levine (1989) (0)
Book Review:State Responsiveness and State Activism. Jerald Hage, Robert Hanneman, Edward T. Gargan (1991) (0)
Book Review:Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement. Dennis Chong (1992) (0)
Testing Social Movement Theories: Explaining the Newspaper Coverage of All U.S. SMOs Across the Twentieth Century (2009) (0)

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