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Harold Wilensky

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According to Wikipedia, Harold L. Wilensky was an American organizational sociologist, noted among other things for his pioneering work on organizational intelligence. He was Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the author of 13 books and 70 articles.

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Harold Wilensky's Published Works

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The Professionalization of Everyone? (1964) (2150)
The Welfare State and Equality: Structural and Ideological Roots of Public Expenditures (1975) (790)
Industrial Society and Social Welfare (1958) (479)
Work, careers and social integration. (1960) (461)
Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance (2002) (366)
Orderly careers and social participation: The impact of work history on social integration in the middle mass. (1961) (313)
Organizational Intelligence: Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry (1968) (157)
Mass society and mass culture : interdependence or independence (1964) (147)
Psychological consequences of brain lesions and ablations. (1954) (115)
The Uses Of Sociology (1967) (107)
The Uneven Distribution of Leisure: The Impact of Economic Growth on “Free Time” (1961) (81)
Delaying capacity, fantasy and planning ability: a factorial study of some basic ego functions. (1956) (81)
Women's Work: Economic Growth, Ideology, Structure (1968) (68)
Life Cycle Squeeze and The Morale Curve (1978) (65)
Comparative social policy : theories, methods, findings (1985) (64)
THE SKIDDER: IDEOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENTS OF DOWNWARD MOBILE WORKERS * (1959) (61)
The moonlighter : a product of relative deprivation (1963) (61)
Industrial society and social welfare;: The impact of industrialization on the supply and organization of social welfare services in the United States, (1958) (59)
Intellectuals in labor unions (1956) (48)
Varieties of work experience (1964) (44)
Social science and the public agenda: reflections on the relation of knowledge to policy in the United States and abroad. (1997) (37)
Democratic Corporatism and Policy Linkages: The Interdependence of Industrial, Labor-Market, Incomes, and Social Policies in Eight Countries (1987) (33)
FROM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY TO OCCUPATIONAL GROUP: STRUCTURAL ASSIMILATION AMONG PROFESSORS, LAWYERS, AND ENGINEERS * (1967) (29)
Study of the placebo effect with a placebo test. (1968) (28)
Rorschach developmental level and social participation of chronic schizophrenics. (1959) (25)
The role of redistribution in social policy (2001) (19)
A clinical evaluation of meprobamate therapy in a chronic schizophrenic population. (1957) (18)
3 – Political Legitimacy and Consensus: Missing Variables in the Assessment of Social Policy1 (1983) (16)
Intellectuals in labor unions : organizational pressures on professional roles (1957) (15)
Interests of doctoral students in clinical psychology in work with older adults. (1966) (15)
Personnel Counseling: The Hawthorne Case (1951) (14)
Nothing Fails Like Success: The Evaluation‐Research Industry and Labor Market Policy (1985) (13)
Leftism, Catholicism, and Democratic Corporatism: : The Role of Political Parties in Recent Welfare State Development (2017) (11)
Problem Areas in the Development of a Therapeutic Community (1966) (11)
Problems of role definition in the therapeutic community. (1966) (10)
Characteristics of untestable chronic schizophrenics. (1960) (9)
The performance of schizophrenic and normal individuals following frustration. (1952) (9)
Aggression in children in an urban clinic. (1976) (9)
Careers, Life-Styles, and Social Integration (2017) (8)
The Nation-State, Social Policy, and Economic Performance (1991) (8)
Trade-Offs in Public Finance: Comparing the Well-Being of Big Spenders and Lean Spenders (2006) (6)
Social Policy: Is There a Crisis of the Welfare State? (2006) (6)
A controlled Rorschach investigation of hypnotic age regression. (1968) (6)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective (2012) (6)
Careers, Counseling, and the Curriculum (1967) (6)
Syllabus of Industrial Relations: A Guide to Reading and Research. (1955) (5)
Item difficulty of the WAIS information subtest for a chronic schizophrenic sample. (1961) (5)
Active Labor-Market Policy: Its Content, Effectiveness, and Odd Relation to Evaluation Research (1990) (5)
The Great American Job Creation Machine in Comparitive Perspective (1991) (5)
Facing reality in psychotherapy with the aging. (1977) (4)
Four Observation Categories for Rating Teacher Behavior (1967) (4)
Postindustrialism and postmaterialism? A critical view of the new economy, the information age, the high tech society and all that (2003) (4)
The Labor Vote: A Local Union's Impact on the Political Conduct of Its Members (1956) (4)
Can Social Science Shape the Public Agenda? (2005) (4)
Intelligence in Industry: The Uses and Abuses of Experts (1970) (3)
Video in Mental Health Practice: An Activities Handbook. (1984) (3)
U.S. Health Care and Real Health in Comparative Perspective: Lessons from Abroad (2009) (3)
Migration and politics: Explaining variation among rich democracies in recent nativist protest (1998) (2)
The welfare mess (1976) (2)
A factorial study of behavioral and psychological measures of anxiety. (1957) (2)
Harold L. Wilensky, Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Performance, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002, xxx + 891 pp., 29.95 pbk, 59.00 hbk (2003) (1)
10. TAX-WELFARE BACKLASH: HOW TO TAX, SPEND, AND YET KEEP COOL (2019) (1)
A psychotherapeutic approach to emotional problems of the elderly. (1978) (1)
Risk and SafetyAmerican Mayhem in Comparative Perspective (2002) (1)
GlobalizationDoes It Subvert Job Security, Labor Standards, and the Welfare State? (2002) (1)
Intellectuals in Labor Unions: Organizational Pressures on Professional Roles.@@@Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860-1900. (1957) (1)
Measures and Effects of Social Mobility (2018) (1)
Comment on Zald's Review of the Welfare State and Equality (1977) (1)
Book Review:Industrial Society: The Emergence of the Human Problems of Automation. Georges Friedmann (1956) (1)
The Organizational Revolution: A Study of the Ethics of Economic Organization.Kenneth E. Boulding , Reinhold Niebuhr (1954) (1)
APPENDIX G: MEASURES OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE (2019) (0)
Book Review:Reader in Bureaucracy. Robert K. Merton, Ailsa P. Gray, Barbara Hockey, Hanan C. Selvin (1953) (0)
4. THEORIES OF THE POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY (2019) (0)
Problems of the Middle-Aged (1966) (0)
Types of Political Economy, Regulatory Regimes, and the Environment (2002) (0)
8. THE AMERICAN WELFARE MESS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (2019) (0)
APPENDIX C: SOCIAL SPENDING, GNP, TAX EXPENDITURES, AND HOUSING EXPENDITURES (2019) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Policy Implications for the United States (2012) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1965) (0)
Diagnosis in Old Age (1978) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: The Impact of “Globalization” (2012) (0)
9. BUREAUCRATIC EFFICIENCY AND BLOAT (2019) (0)
3. MASS SOCIETY, PARTICIPATION, AND THE MASS MEDIA (2019) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Retrenchment of the Welfare State? (2012) (0)
1. CONVERGENCE THEORY (2019) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Notes (2012) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Preface and Introduction (2012) (0)
Poetry into Prose. (1984) (0)
Technology, Work and Leisure : Reflections on the Gains and Costs of Abundance (1967) (0)
Sociology: LOREN BARITZ. The Servants of Power: A History of the Use of Social Science in American Industry. Pp. xii, 273. Mid dletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1960. $4.50 (1961) (0)
FOUR OBSERVATIONAL CATEGORIES FOR DESCRIBING TEACHER BEHAVIOR. (1967) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1957) (0)
Appendix: Methods (2019) (0)
5. THE WELFARE STATE: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE (2019) (0)
The Welfare StateConvergence and Divergence (2002) (0)
APPENDIX H: MEASURES OF CENTRAL BANK AUTONOMY (2019) (0)
Reflections on Disability Based on a Comparison of 19 Rich Democracies (2018) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Bibliography (2012) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: The Welfare State as the Center of Public Finance and Political Conflict (2012) (0)
11. ARE POLITICAL PARTIES DECLINING? AN ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL VARIATION IN DEALIGNMENT (2019) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Energy Policy and Performance (2012) (0)
Science and the Social Order.Bernard Barber (1954) (0)
6. SECTOR SPENDING AND PROGRAM EMPHASIS (2019) (0)
18. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS (2019) (0)
Security and Alternative Career Possibilities in Other Organizations (2017) (0)
Book Review:Last Man In: Racial Access to Union Power. Scott Greer (1960) (0)
APPENDIX I: MAYHEM INDEX, MOBILITY-MERITOCRACY INDEX, AND MINORITY-GROUP CLEAVAGES (2019) (0)
Book Review:Interpreting the Labor Movement. George W. Brooks, Milton Derber, David A. McCabe, Philip Taft (1953) (0)
APPENDIX D: SECTOR SPENDING CORRELATIONS (2019) (0)
Book Review:Money and Motivation: An Analysis of Incentives in Industry. William F. Whyte (1956) (0)
2. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY (2019) (0)
12. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, SPENDING, TAXING, AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE (2019) (0)
13. THE GREAT AMERICAN JOB MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (2019) (0)
The Road from Information to Knowledge (1971) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: What Trade-Offs Are Good and Bad for the Economy? (2012) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Appendix (2012) (0)
16. HEALTH PERFORMANCE: AFFLUENCE, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND PUBLIC POLICY AS SOURCES OF REAL HEALTH (2019) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Low Road vs. High Road (2012) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Frontmatter (2012) (0)
APPENDIX B: CONCEPTS AND MEASURES OF LEFT AND CATHOLIC PARTY POWER (2019) (0)
7. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, PARTY IDEOLOGY, AND FAMILY POLICY: CONTRASTING GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO A COMMON PROBLEM (2019) (0)
Sociology (1961) (0)
APPENDIX J: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (2019) (0)
APPENDIX E: FAMILY POLICY (2019) (0)
The Mental Health Interview (Book) (1980) (0)
American Political Economy in Global Perspective: Pensions Converge, U.S. Health Care Remains Unique (2012) (0)
The Retail Clerks.Michael Harrington (1964) (0)
Wildcat Strike.Alvin W. Gouldner (1955) (0)

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