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Margaret Levi is Professor of Political Science, the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. Levi has also been recognized as the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies for the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D from Harvard University.

Her research explores the phenomena of membership and the mechanisms determining the perceived legitimacy of government. She seeks to better understand how citizens view their government and how they decide to respect the laws of that government.

She was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002. She has been a long-time member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Political Science Association, for which she served as president from 2004 to 2005.

Most recently, Levi was honored with the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize, in recognition for her substantial contributions to political science. She is the former director of the CHAOS Center (Comparative Historical Analysis of Organizations and States) and was the Harry Bridges Chair (and Director) for the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.

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According to Wikipedia, Margaret Levi is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the origins and effects of trustworthy government.

Margaret Levi's Published Works

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Published Papers

Of Rule and Revenue (2053)
Political Trust and Trustworthiness (1263)
Social and Unsocial Capital: A Review Essay of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work (793)
A state of trust (598)
Consent, dissent, and patriotism (570)
Trust and Governance (485)
Conceptualizing Legitimacy, Measuring Legitimating Beliefs (478)
Cooperation Without Trust (279)
The Limits of Rationality (236)
Fair Trade: A Cup at a Time? (176)
Leadership: What It Means, What It Does, and What We Want to Know About It (167)
Legitimating beliefs: Sources and indicators (165)
The Predatory Theory of Rule (163)
Coalitions of Contention: The Case of the WTO Protests in Seattle (135)
The comparative analysis of ethnoregional movements (131)
The Analytic Narrative Project (128)
Why We Need a New Theory of Government (126)
The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System (86)
Examining Crowd Work and Gig Work Through the Historical Lens of Piecework (66)
Organizing Power: The Prospects for an American Labor Movement (64)
Union Democracy Reexamined (58)
In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism (56)
The Battles in Seattle (55)
Of Rule and Revenue (50)
Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science (49)
Whom Can We Trust?: How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible (48)
An analytic narrative approach to puzzles and problems (45)
In the Interest of Others (44)
Are there limits to rationality (44)
Provoking Preferences: Unionization, Trade Policy, and the ILWU Puzzle (42)
Measuring Government Effectiveness and Its Consequences for Social Welfare in Sub-Saharan African Countries (40)
Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts. (39)
The Institution of Conscription (39)
The Analytical Narrative Project (32)
Governing Global Supply Chains: What We Know (and Don't) About Improving Labor Rights and Working Conditions (32)
Labor standards in international supply chains : aligning rights and incentives (30)
When good defenses make good neighbours: a transaction cost approach to trust, the absence of trust distrust (28)
Analytic Narratives Revisited (28)
The Economic Turn in Comparative Politics (24)
Living‐Wage Campaigns and Laws (23)
The geography of rebellion (22)
Does Lustration Promote Trustworthy Governance? An Exploration of the Experience of Central and Eastern Europe (22)
The Reasons for Compliance with Law (22)
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: Frontmatter (21)
Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico and Turkey. By John Waterbury. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 342p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. (21)
Comparative Politics: RECONSIDERATIONS OF RATIONAL CHOICE IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS (18)
Functional redundancy and the process of professionalization: the case of registered nurses in the United States. (17)
Toward a Property-Rights Theory of Exploitation (16)
Capitalizing on Labor`s Capital (14)
Bureaucratic insurgency: The case of police unions (12)
Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States: Interpreting the comparative history of fiscal regimes (12)
Designing Democratic Government: Making Institutions Work (11)
Using Counterfactuals in Historical Analysis: (11)
Public Housing Managers: An Appraisal (10)
When Elites Meet: Decentralization, Power-Sharing, and Public Goods Provision in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone (10)
Globalizing Resistance: (10)
A Weapon against War: Conscientious Objection in the United States, Australia, and France (10)
In Whom Can We Trust? (7)
The Limits of Rationality (7)
Flash of green: are environmentally driven stock returns sustainable? (7)
Theories of Historical and Institutional Change (7)
Reflections for the future. (7)
Review: The Analytical Narrative Project (6)
Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture: Producing an analytic narrative (6)
A Conversation with Robert A. Dahl (6)
Can Nations Succeed? (6)
The Transformation of Agrarian Institutions: An Introduction and Perspective (6)
Analytic Narratives, Case Studies, and Development (5)
Poor People Against the State (5)
European Politics and Society (5)
Conflict and collusion : police collective bargaining (5)
ESR: Ethics and Society Review of Artificial Intelligence Research (5)
Trust, Sociology of (5)
Douglass North’s Theory of Politics (4)
Trustworthy Government and Legitimating Beliefs (4)
A General Theory of Exploitation and Class. By Roemer John E.. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. 298 + xiii. $27.50.) (4)
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: THE CONTINGENCIES OF CONSENT (4)
STRIKES! Past and Present—And The Battles in Seattle (4)
The Who, What, and Why of Performance-based Legitimacy (3)
Analytic Narratives Revisited (3)
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: GONE FOR A SOLDIER (3)
Collective bargaining as a power resource for professional goals (3)
The international framework for labor standards (3)
Women in "The Working Man's Paradise": Sole Parents, the Women's Movement, and the Social Policy Bargain in Australia (3)
Consent, dissent, and patriotism: A summary (3)
Police politics: A comparative study of three cities: by Leonard Ruchelman. Ballenger Publishing Company (17 Dunston Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138), 1974, 118 pp., hardcover—$10.00. (3)
A Rational Choice Approach to the Rise and Decline of Ethnoregional Political Parties (2)
ROUGH DRAFT : Levi and Ahlquist LABOR POWER AND MOBILE CAPITAL THE MARKET GEOGRAPHY OF SOLIDARITY (2)
Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts.By Carol Heimer, University of California Press, 1985. 273 pp. $30.00 (2)
Cooperation without Law or Trust [2005] (2)
Rulers, rebels, and regions, 1500 to 1700 (2)
Political and Economic Interactions in Economic Policy Reform . Edited by Robert H. Bates and Anne O. Krueger. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993. 481p. $59.95. (2)
Synergistic interactions among growing stressors increase risk to an Arctic ecosystem (2)
Opening Access, Ending the Violence Trap: Labor, Business, Government and the National Labor Relations Act (2)
Learning to live with dialysis: Part I. (2)
Living on the edge. (2)
Capitalism: what has gone wrong? how can it be fixed? (2)
Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons: A Discussion of Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (2)
Alternatives to Social Science One (2)
Ensuring Brand Responsibility: The Power of Institutional Purchasers in the Apparel Industry (1)
Policy, Power and Order: The Persistence of Economic Problems in Capitalist States . By Kerry Schott. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. ix + 206. $20.00, cloth). (1)
Modeling Complex Historical Processes with Analytic Narratives 1 (1)
American Political Science Association (K2). (1)
Achieving Government Legitimacyand Good Government (1)
Decentralization, Power-Sharing, and Public Goods Provision in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone (1)
The New Economic Institutionalism in Historical Perspective (1)
Remodeling the House of Labor (1)
The ReASONS FOR COMPLIANCe WITh The LAW Working Paper (1)
Quality time. (1)
Theories of Power, Poverty, and Law: In Commemoration of the Contributions of Peter Bachrach (1)
Twentieth Century America as a Developing Country: Conflict, Institutional Change, and the Evolution of Public Law (1)
Ending a Century of Violent Labor Conflict: A New Perspective on Unionization and the National Labor Relations Act (1)
Conscription:: The Price of Citizenship (1)
Book Review:Individual Interests and Collective Action: Selected Essays. James S. Coleman, Jon Elster, Gudmund Hernes (1)
Conflict, Institutions, and Public Law: Reflections on the United States as a Developing Country (0)
Introduction (0)
Book Reviews (0)
Introduction (0)
Antidemocracy in America (0)
Chapter 6. Provoking Preferences (0)
Books in Review (0)
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF COMPLIANCE (0)
Fiscal Limits of Absolutism: Taxation in Early Seventeenth-Century France.James B. Collins (0)
Review Index (0)
Nobelist Series Continues in New York (0)
Macroprocesses from Microfoundations (0)
Comment on Root's “Typing the King's Hands” (0)
Nominating Committee Offers Slate for 2003–2004 Officers and Council Members (0)
Book reviews (0)
The solace of a dream. (0)
Thirty Years of Yolngu in Yirrkala (0)
The social sources of financial power: domestic legitimacy and international financial orders - By Leonard Seabrooke (0)
7. Compliance with the Commonwealth Income Tax in Australia (0)
WORKING PAPERS IN LABOR STUDIES Institutionalizing Conflict : The Transaction Costs of Ameliorating Labor-Management Distrust (0)
Bringing Pinocchio to Life@@@Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. (0)
Analytic Narratives (0)
Apparel production in Bangladesh: opportunity amidst tragedy? (0)
Political Power in Poor Neighborhoods . By Curt Lamb. (New York: Halsted, 1975. Pp. xxii + 315. $19.50, cloth; $9.50, paper.) (0)
"After all these years". Reflections on returning to dialysis. (0)
Apparel production in Honduras: a case of cross-cluster alignment (0)
The United States in the struggle for labor standards (0)
THE MARKET GEOGRAPHY OF SOLIDARITY (0)
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: A WEAPON AGAINST WAR: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, AND FRANCE (0)
Learning to live with dialysis; Part II. Dialysis vs. transplant to each his own. (0)
Chapter 1. Beyond Economism (0)
University of Washington Establishes Donald R. Matthews Fund (0)
The Devastated House of Labor (0)
Book Reviews (0)
A Moral Political Economy (0)
Chapter 5. Managing Heterogeneity (0)
An antidote for renal insufficiency--a memory. (0)
The Lenin Problem: Leadership, Organizational Cultures, and Beliefs (0)
Chapter 8. Signaling Solidarity (0)
Recalling the past to prepare for the future. (0)
The world brands create (0)
Chapter 3. Pork, Perks, and Predation (0)
Medicine--a two-way process. (0)
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: GIVING AND REFUSING CONSENT: CITIZEN RESPONSE IN THE CANADIAN CONSCRIPTION CRISES (0)
An analytic narrative of conscription: Cases, contexts, and causes (0)
2. The Theory of Predatory Rule (0)
On Happiness, Cultural Conflict, and Trust@@@Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology@@@Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict@@@Trust and Governance (0)
Competition and Cooperation: A Conversation with Several Nobelists on Economics and Political Science (0)
The Limits of Rationality. (0)
APSA Contributors (0)
Chapter 9. Conclusions and Implications (0)
The Power of Beliefs (0)
The psychological dilemmas confronting the adolescent transplant patient. (0)
Labor resistance and local government – supplier collusion in post-1986 China (0)
Work ( s ) : Analytic Narratives by (0)
Volume Information (0)
Chapter 2. Building an Encompassing Community of Fate and Winning Consent (0)
The Political Economy of Public-Employee Unionism (0)
State, Power, and Socialism. By Nicos Poulantzas. Translated by Patrick Camiller. London: Verso Paperbacks, 1980; Pp. 269. $8.75 paper (0)
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Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: THE PRICE OF CITIZENSHIP (0)
Letting doc off the hook. (0)
Book Reviews (0)
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: HISTORY AS POLITICS (0)
United States and Canada - Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919 . By Paul A. C. Koistinen. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. xii, 391. $45.00. (0)
6237 SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY 24:4 (0)
Aligning interests across global supply chains: an analytic framework (0)
5. France and England in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (0)
Colomer 2011 Constitutions , Elections , Governance (0)
Selection criteria for transplantation? (0)
Labor standards around the world: a quantitative examination (0)
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: Titles in the series (0)
Ethics and society review: Ethics reflection as a precondition to research funding (0)
Conscription, Policy of (0)
Impact assessment of mosquito larvicides on nontarget organisms in a saltmarsh community and on selected listed species of marsh and shore birds of the southwest Florida coast. Final report for the period July 1, 1989 to September 30, 1990. (0)
Appendix: Bringing People Back into the State. A Bibliographical Essay (0)
Analytic Narratives by Bates, Greif, Levi, Rosenthal, and Weingast: A Review and Response Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition (0)
Bureaucratic Insurgency: The Case of Police Unions@@@A Critical History of Police Reform (0)
Government Hurts the Economy More Than It Helps (0)
Chapter 4. An Injury to Anyone Is an Injury to All (0)
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism: THE INSTITUTION OF CONSCRIPTION (0)

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