Book Chapters



“Making the Most of An Historical Case Study: Configuration, Sequencing, Casing and the U.S. Old-Age Pension Movement.” Forthcoming in The Handbook of Case-Oriented Methods, edited by Charles C. Ragin and David Byrne. Sage: forthcoming.

“The Political Consequences of Social Movements.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006.

 “Political Contexts, Strategies, and Challenger Mobilization: The Impact of the Townsend Plan.” Chapter 2 in Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy, edited by Helen Ingram, Valerie Jenness, and David S. Meyer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.


“State-Centered and Political Institutional Theories in Political Sociology: Retrospect and Prospect.” Chapter 4 in The Handbook of Political Sociology, eds. Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, Thomas Janoski, and Mildred A. Schwartz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

“The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State-Oriented Challengers.” Chapter 20 in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.


“What We Know about the Development of Social Policy: Comparative and Historical Research in Comparative and Historical Perspective.” Chapter 3 in Comparative and Historical Analysis, eds. Dietrich Rueschemeyer and James Mahoney. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

“Second that Emotion? Lessons from Once-Novel Concepts in Social Movements.” “Conclusion” to Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements, eds. Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, Francesca Polletta. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

“Making an Impact: The Conceptual and Methodological Implications of the Collective Benefits Criterion.” Chapter 2 in How Movements Matter: Theoretical and Comparative Studies on the Consequences of Social Movements, eds., Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

“Taking Exception: Explaining the Distinctiveness of American Public Policies in the Last Century.” Chapter 8 in The Comparative History of Public Policy, ed. Francis G. Castles. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.


“Redefining the New Deal: World War II and Public Social Provision in the United States.” Chapter 2 in The Politics of Social Policy in the United States, eds. Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff, and Theda Skocpol. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. (Reprinted in Social Policies in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective, ed. Theda Skocpol. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.)