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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, Michael Hechter is an American sociologist and Foundation Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. He is also Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. Hechter first became known for his research in comparative-historical analysis. His book Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966 presented a social structural analysis of nationalism – in contrast to then-popular cultural explanations of the phenomenon—and was one of the first such studies to employ multivariate statistical analysis. It was deemed one of the best books of the 20th century by the International Sociological Association.

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Michael Hechter's Published Works

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Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development (1978) (990)
Principles of Group Solidarity. (1988) (975)
Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966. (1975) (572)
A theory of the value of children (1994) (353)
Group Formation and the Cultural Division of Labor (1978) (310)
The Role of General Theory in Comparative-Historical Sociology (1991) (306)
SOCIOLOGICAL RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY (1997) (268)
The contribution of rational choice theory to macrosociological research (1988) (235)
The Dynamics of Secession (1992) (189)
The Debate on Historical Sociology: Rational Choice Theory and Its Critics1 (1998) (170)
The comparative analysis of ethnoregional movements (1979) (133)
The Origin of Values (1994) (131)
From Class to Culture1 (2004) (113)
The Role of Values in Rational Choice Theory (1994) (111)
Regional Modes of Production and Patterns of State Formation in Western Europe (1980) (94)
A Theory of Ethnic Collective Action 1 (1982) (94)
The Political Economy of Ethnic Change (1974) (89)
The Insufficiency of Game Theory for the Resolution of Real-World Collective Action Problems (1992) (86)
Should Values Be Written out of the Social Scientist's Lexicon? (1992) (83)
Nationalism and Rationality (2000) (83)
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War Revisited (2004) (83)
Sixth nations and nationalism debate: Henry E. Hale's the foundations of ethnic politics: separatism of states and nations in Eurasia and the world (2008) (82)
Explaining Nationalist Violence (1995) (81)
Political Consequences of Minority Group Formation (2001) (74)
Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations: Rational choice theory and the study of race and ethnic relations (1986) (66)
Nationalism as group solidarity (1987) (60)
What have we learned about the emergence of social norms (2005) (60)
The Microfoundations of macrosociology (1985) (58)
Legitimacy in the Modern World (2009) (57)
Introduction: Reflections on Historical Prophecy in the Social Sciences (1995) (55)
The Attainment of Solidarity in Intentional Communities (1990) (55)
Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics (2011) (54)
When Actors Comply: Monitoring Costs and the Production of Social Order (1984) (47)
Grievances and the Genesis of Rebellion (2016) (47)
Towards a Theory of Ethnic Change' (1971) (45)
Do Values Matter?An Analysis of Advance Directives for Medical Treatment (1999) (45)
A Theory of the Value of Grandchildren (2008) (39)
Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century. (1973) (39)
Alien Rule and Its Discontents (2009) (34)
Karl Polanyi's Social Theory: A Critique (1981) (32)
Theories of social order : a reader (2003) (30)
Nineteenth-Century Society: Essays in the Use of Quantitative Methods for the Study of Social Data. (1976) (30)
Ethnicity, class, and civil war: the role of hierarchy, segmentation, and cross-cutting cleavages (2016) (30)
Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories (2014) (27)
Prediction Versus Explanation in the Measurement of Values (2005) (26)
The Problem of Solidarity in Insurgent Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797 (2016) (25)
Norms in the Evolution of Social Order (2018) (23)
Attaining Social Order in Iraq (2008) (23)
Group Solidarity and Social Order in Japan (1993) (22)
A Theory of the State and of Social Order (2019) (22)
The rise and fall of normative control (2008) (21)
Cultural legacies and political preferences: the failure of separatism in the Swiss Jura (2015) (18)
A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism. Vol. 2, The Nation-State and Violence.Anthony Giddens (1987) (18)
The differential demand for indirect rule: evidence from the North Caucasus (2013) (17)
British History: A Plea for a New Subject: Comments (1975) (17)
Threat, Deterrence, and Penal Severity: An Analysis of Flogging in the Royal Navy, 1740–1820 (2018) (17)
Center-Periphery Bargaining in the Age of Democracy (2016) (17)
National self-determination: The emergence of an international norm (2005) (15)
Principles of Group Solidarity (2019) (14)
Social and political movements (1972) (14)
The Persistence of Regionalism in the British Isles, 1885-1966 (1973) (14)
Nationalism Redux@@@Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. (1993) (13)
8. The Comparative Advantages of Rational Choice Theory (1990) (12)
Nationalism and Direct Rule (2006) (11)
The attainment of global order in heterogeneous societies (1992) (11)
Resistance to alien rule in Taiwan and Korea (2009) (11)
Theories of the value of children: a new approach. (1999) (10)
Theoretical implications of the demise of state socialism (1994) (10)
On the Emergence of Social Norms@@@Social Norms (2002) (9)
Agenda for Sociology at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (2000) (9)
Regional Inequality and National Integration: The Case of the British Isles (1971) (9)
Containing Nationalism: Culture, Economics and Indirect Rule in Corsica (2020) (8)
On Separatism and Ethnicity: A Response to Sloan's ‘Ethnicity or Imperialism?’ (1979) (8)
Response to Cohen: Max Weber on Ethnicity and Ethnic Change (1976) (8)
From Class to Culture (2019) (7)
Does Rational Choice Theory Suffice? Response to Adam 1 (1984) (7)
Lineages of the Capitalist State (1977) (7)
Notes on Marxism and sociology in the USA (1979) (7)
Asymmetrical Federal Systems: Self-determination, Cultural Identity, and Political and Fiscal Decentralization (2007) (6)
Solidarity, Sociology of (2015) (6)
A comparative institutional analysis in the arts: the theater. (1990) (5)
Grievances and the Genesis of Rebellion: Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740 to 1820 (2019) (5)
Why Economists Should Pay Heed to Sociology (2015) (5)
Centralization through decentralization? The crystallization of social order in the European Union (2019) (5)
SOCIAL RANK AND NATIONALISM: SOME AFRICAN DATA (1970) (3)
The Legitimacy of Alien Rulers (2016) (3)
National polarization and international agreements (2021) (3)
On the 2004 presidential election (2005) (3)
Industrialization and National Development in the British Isles (2018) (2)
The Genesis of Rebellion (2020) (2)
REPLY to Heribert Adam (1983) (2)
Foreword: Language loyalty in theoretical perspective (1977) (2)
Group Formation and the Cultural Division of Labour (2019) (2)
Internal Colonialism Revisited (2020) (2)
Alien Rule in the Longue Durée: A Response to Coakley, Roeder and Roshwald (2010) (2)
Modernity of Nationalism (2013) (2)
STARK AND BAINBRIDGE, DURKHEIM AND WEBER: THEORETICAL COMPARISONS (2016) (2)
A Rational Choice Approach to the Rise and Decline of Ethnoregional Political Parties (2020) (2)
Legitimating Alien Rule (2010) (2)
The Dilemma of Social Order in Iraq (2009) (1)
Motivating grandparental investment (2010) (1)
The sociology of alien rule (2008) (1)
Rational Choice Sociology (2019) (1)
Rational Choice Theory About Real Life@@@Principles of Group Solidarity. (1989) (1)
Dynamics of Military Occupation (2011) (1)
Religious Legacies, Political Preferences and Intergroup Bargaining: The Case of Jura (2014) (1)
SYMPOSIUM ON PREDICTION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Introduction: Reflections on Historical Prophecy in the Social Sciences1 (2010) (1)
Homage to Fredrik Barth (2018) (1)
The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics.Amitai Etzioni (1989) (1)
The Emergence of Cooperative Social Institutions (2018) (1)
Reply to Lehrer, Shechtman and Leasure (1996) (1)
Causes of Nationalism (2001) (0)
BOOK SYMPOSIUM (2012) (0)
« The limits of indirect rule: internal colonialism, non-state revenue and nationalism in Corsica » (2016) (0)
The Limits of Ethnographic History@@@Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error. (1980) (0)
Reply to Lehrer Shechtman and Leasure [on "A Theory of the Value of Children"]. (1996) (0)
Social Order and the Genesis of Rebellion: A Study of Mutiny in the Royal Navy (2009) (0)
Brexit and the Resurgence of Nationalism in the United Kingdom (2016) (0)
Alien Rule: Introduction (2013) (0)
Principles of Group Formation and Varieties of Violent Conflict (2011) (0)
The Consequences of Political Incorporation (2017) (0)
Towards a Sociological Rational Choice Theory (2017) (0)
25. Principles of Group Solidarity (2009) (0)
From Class to Culture 1 (2004) (0)
The Consequences of Mutiny (2020) (0)
Violence Tamed (2012) (0)
The rise and fall of normative control q (2008) (0)
Book Reviews: Hardin, R. (2005). Indeterminacy and Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2007) (0)
Territorial Politics and the Logic of Secession (2015) (0)
Social Order and the Genesis of Rebellion: Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740-1820 (2014) (0)
Conclusion: Center-Periphery Bargaining in the Age of Democracy (2016) (0)
The Failure of Legitimate Rule in Iraq (2013) (0)
The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi: Lives and Livelihood By Stanfield J. R.. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. vii, 162. $25.00 (1988) (0)
Reading Denzin (1990) (0)
Volume Information (1983) (0)
Solidarity and High-risk Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797 (2012) (0)
Response to Murray (1994) (0)
Secession vs. Federalism: Successes and Failures of Intergroup Bargaining for Cultural Identity (2015) (0)
The Persistence of Sectionalism, 1885–1966 (2017) (0)
Threat, Deterrence, and Penal Severity: Flogging in the Royal Navy, 1740-1820 (2016) (0)
Response to Dickie-Clark (1984) (0)
Twentieth-Century Celtic Nationalism (2017) (0)
Nationalism and Internationalism in Liberalism , Marxism and Islam (2020) (0)
Internal Colonialism, Alien Rule, and Famine in Ireland and Ukraine (2021) (0)
Comment on Cornell (1995) (0)
Book reviews (1992) (0)
Alien Rule: Bibliography (2013) (0)
Other Types of Nationalism (2001) (0)
978-1107-19373-4 — The Genesis of Rebellion (0)
Using Sociological Rational Choice Theory to Explain Social Institutions@@@Social Institutions: Their Emergence, Maintenance, and Effects. (1991) (0)
Alien Rule: Resistance to Alien Rule in Taiwan and Korea (2013) (0)
The Production of Social Order in the Royal Navy (2012) (0)
Servitor Imperialism and National Development in an Age of Empire (2017) (0)
Alien Rule: Preface (2013) (0)
State‐Building Nationalism (2001) (0)
The Anglicization of the Celtic Periphery, 1851–1961 (2017) (0)
The Expansion of the English State (2017) (0)
Review of Degenerations of Democracy (2023) (0)
Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society. By Dennis Chong. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xiii+292. $45.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). (2000) (0)
Industrialization and Regional Economic Inequality, 1851–1961 (2017) (0)
The Demand for Sovereignty and the Emergence of Nationalism (2001) (0)
The Future of Rational Choice Theory and its Relationships to Quantitative Macro-sociological Research (2019) (0)
Indirect Rule and the Absence of Nationalism (2001) (0)
Book Review:Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Adam Przeworski (1992) (0)
The Salience of National Identity (2001) (0)

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