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CURRICULUM VITAE
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, and
Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. Professor of International Studies, Emeritus
Watson Institute for International Studies
Brown University, Box 1970
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
e-mail: [email protected]
Education
Studies in sociology, economics and law at the Universities of München and Köln
1953 Diplom-Volkswirt, Universitãt Köln
major field: economics
elective fields: social policy and sociology
1958 Dr. rer. pol., Universitãt Köln
major field: sociology
minor fields: economics and social policy
Dissertation on problems in the sociology of knowledge
1960-1961 Postdoctoral studies at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the University of
California at Berkeley.
Professional Appointments
Research Assistant, Sociological Research Institute, Universitãt Köln, 1953-1955
"Wissenschaftlicher Assistent", Seminar für Soziologie, Universitãt Köln, 1956-1962
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, 1962-1963
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, 1963-65
Associate Professor, University of Toronto, 1965-1966
Associate Professor, Brown University 1966-1971
Visiting Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1969
Professor of Sociology, Brown University, 1971- 2000
Chair, Department of Sociology, Brown University, 1975-1979
Director, Center for the Comparative Study of Development, Brown University, 1989 – 1997
Visiting Professor, Free University, Berlin, 1992
Research Director, Political Economy and Development, Watson Institute for International Studies,
Brown University, 1997-2002
Professor II (an arrangement for regular visits, lectures
and consultations) Department of Administration and
Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway,
1994 –1998
Professor of International Studies (Research), Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
2000 – 2005
Books and Monographs
Das Interview: Formen, Technik, Auswertung, R. König in collaboration with D. Rueschemeyer and E.K.
Scheuch, eds., 2nd ed., Köln 1957.
Probleme der Wissenssoziologie, doctoral diss., Köln 1958, printed for library distribution.
Talcott Parsons, Beiträge zur soziologischen Theorie, Neuwied 1964, edited by D. Rueschemeyer,
translated by Brigitta Heister in collaboration with the editor.
Lawyers and Their Society: A Comparative Study of the Legal Profession in Germany and in the United
States, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.
Reprints and translations:
Characteristics of the Legal Profession, in: L.
Friedman and St. Macaulay, eds., Law and the
Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, 1919-1925.
German edition: Juristen in Deutschland und den
USA: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung von
Anwaltschaft und Gesellschaft, Stuttgart: Enke,
1976.
Contrasting Value Orientations in the Two
Societies, in V.Gessner, A.Höland and C. Varga,
eds., European Legal Cultures. Aldershot, UK:
Dartmouth Publishers 1996, reprinted from pp. 8393.
Chinese translation scheduled for 2007
Bringing the State Back In, Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol, eds., New York:
Cambridge University Press 1985.
States Vs. Markets in the World System, Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Evelyne H. Stephens,
eds. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications 1985.
Power and the Division of Labour, Cambridge: Polity Press, and Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1986.
Reprint:
The Role of Efficiency and Power in Explanations of Division of Labour (chapter iii), in Jeffrey
Alexander, Raymond Boudon, and Mohamed Charkaoui, eds., The Classical Tradition in
Sociology: The American Tradition, vol. 3. London, Thousand Oaks, and New Delhi: Sage
Publications 1997, 345- 363.
Capitalist Development and Democracy, with Evelyne H. Stephens and John Stephens, Cambridge: Polity
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Press, and Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992.
Reprints and translations:
Kapitalizm i Demokracja w Krajach Rozwinietych, in: Jerzy Szczupaczynski, ed., Wladza i
Spoleczenstwo: Antologia Tekstow z Zakresu Socjologii Polityki (Power and Society). Warsaw:
Wydawnicto Naukowe SCHOLAR 1995, 50-87, reprinted from pp.80-103, 140-154.
Capitalist Development and Democracy, in Stephen K. Sanderson, ed., Sociological Worlds:
Comparative and Historical Readings on Society. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing 1995, 243-8,
reprint of chapter i.
Korean translation Seoul: Nanum Press 1997.
State and Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry? Louis Putterman and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds.,
Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner 1992.
State, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda
Skocpol, eds., Princeton: Princeton University Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996.
Participation and Democracy East and West: Comparisons and Interpretations, Dietrich Rueschemeyer,
Marilyn Rueschemeyer, and Björn Wittrock, eds., Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.Sharpe 1998
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds.,
New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003.
Globalization and the Future of Welfare States, Miguel Glatzer and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds.,
Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press 2005
States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance, Matthew Lange and Dietrich
Rueschemeyer, eds., New York and London: Palgrave/Macmillan 2005
Chapters in Books
An Instrument to Measure Social Stratification in Western Germany, collaborating with E.K. Scheuch, in:
Transactions of the Third World Congress of Sociology, London 1957, VIII, 185-189.
Mentalität und Ideologie, in: René König, ed., Soziologie. Das Fischer Lexikon, No. X, Frankfurt 1958,
180-184.
Translations:
Spanish edition: Buenos Aires 1963,
Italian edition: Milano 1964.
Religion, in: R. König, ed., Soziologie, op. cit., 240-244.
Wissen, in: R. König, ed., Soziologie, op. cit., 320-327.
Interview, in: Staatslexikon: Recht, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, 8 vols., Freiburg 1957 ff., IV, 436-439.
Meinungsforschung, with E.K. Scheuch, in: Staatslexikon, op. cit., V, 642-647.
Religion und Gesellschaft, in: Staatslexikon, op. cit., VI, 824-828.
Ergebnisse der soziologischen Vorurteilsforschung, in: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, ed., Überwindung von
Vorurteilen. Bonn 1960, 31-40.
Politische und rassische Vorurteile in unserer Zeit, in: Hessische Hochschulwochen für
staatswissenschaftliche Fortbildung, XXVII, Bad Homburg 1960, 143-154.
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Introductory essay for: Talcott Parsons, Beiträge zur soziologischen Theorie, Neuwied 1964, 9-29.
Freie und akademische Berufe, in: W. Bernsdorf, ed., Wörterbuch der Soziologie, 2nd ed., Stuttgart: Enke
1969, 301-305.
Interaktion (und soziale Beziehung), in: W. Bernsdorf, ed., Wörterbuch der Soziologie, op. cit., 479-487.
Kleingruppen, in: W. Bernsdorf, ed., Wörterbuch der Soziologie, op. cit., 557-565.
Partielle Modernisierung, in: W. Zapf, ed., Theorien des sozialen Wandels, Köln: Kiepenheuer und Witsch
1969, 382-396.
Professions: Historisch und kulturell vergleichende Überlegungen, in: G. Albrecht, H. Daheim and F. Sack,
eds., Soziologie (Festsschrift für René König), Köln and Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1973, 250-260.
Partial Modernization, in: J.J. Loubser, R.C. Baum, A. Effrat, and V.M. Lidz, eds., Explorations in General
Theory in the Social Sciences: Essays in Honor Talcott Parsons, New York: Free Press 1976, 756-772.
Ideology and Modernization, in: J.J. Loubser et al., eds., op. cit., 736-755.
Ueber sozialökonomische Entwicklung und Demokratie, in: R. Levy, ed., Weltgesellschaft und
Sozialstruktur (Festschrift für Peter Heintz), Diessenhofen, Switzerland: Ruegger 1980, 211-230.
Professional Autonomy and the Control of Expert Services, in: R. Dingwall and P. Lewis, eds., The
Sociology of the Professions, London: Macmillan 1983, 38-58.
Theoretical Generalization and Historical Particularity in the Comparative Sociology of Reinhard Bendix,
in: Theda Skocpol, ed., Vision and Method in Historical Sociology, New York: Cambridge University Press
1984, 129-169.
The State and Economic Transformation: Toward an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective
Intervention, with Peter Evans, in: P. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer and Th. Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State
Back In, New York: Cambridge University Press 1985, 44-77.
On the Road Toward a More Adequate Understanding of the State, with Peter Evans and Theda Skocpol,
in: P. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer and Th. Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In, New York: Cambridge
University Press 1985, 347-366.
Introductory essay, with Peter Evans and Evelyne H. Stephens, in: P. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer and E.H.
Stephens, eds. States Vs. Markets in the World System, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications 1985, 1130.
Spencer and Durkheim über Arbeitsteilung und Differenzierung: Kontinuität oder Bruch? in: Niklas
Luhmann, ed., Soziale Differenzierung. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1985, l63-180.
Bourgeoisie, Staat und Bildungsbürgertum: Idealtypische Modelle für die vergleichende Erforschung von
Bürgertum und Bürgerlichkeit, in: Jürgen Kocka, ed., Bürger und Bürgerlichkeit im neunzehnten
Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987, 101-120.
Progress in the Distribution of Power: Gender Relations and Women's Movements as a Source of Change,
with Marilyn Rueschemeyer, in: J. Alexander and P. Stzompka, eds., Rethinking Progress. London and
New York: Unwin Hyman 1990, 106-122.
Ueber Entdifferenzierung, in: W. Glatzer ed., Die Modernisierung moderner Gesellschaften, 25. Deutscher
Soziologentag, Sektion Soziologische Theorien. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1991, 378-381.
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State and Market in Development, with Louis Putterman, in: L. Putterman and D. Rueschemeyer, eds.,
State and Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry? Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner 1992, 1-6.
Conclusion: Synergy or Rivalry? with Louis Putternman, in: L. Putterman and D. Rueschemeyer, eds.,
State and Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry? Boulder Col.: Lynne Rienner 1992, 243-62.
Social Policy, Democratization and State Structure: Reflections on Late Nineteenth-Century Britain and
Germany, with Johan DeDeken, in: R. Torstendahl, ed., State Theory and State History, Beverly Hills:
Sage Publications 1992, 93-117.
Civil Society after the Collapse of Communism: Implications of the East German Experience for North
Korea, with Marilyn Rueschemeyer and Sang-In Jun, in: Korean Political Science Association, ed., A
Search for New Order in Unified Korea, Seoul: Korean Political Science Association 1993, 354-79, 381.
Capitalism, in Seymour M. Lipset, ed., The Encyclopedia of Democracy. Washinton, D.C.: Congressional
Quarterly Books 1995, vol. I, 166-171.
States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies (introductory and concluding
chapters), with Theda Skocpol, in: D. Rueschemeyer and Th. Skocpol eds., States, Social Knowledge, and
the Origins of Modern Social Policies, Princeton: Princeton University Press and New York: Russell Sage
Foundation 1996, 3-13, 296-310.
The Verein für Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant
Knowledge, with Ronan van Rossem, in: D.Rueschemeyer and Th. Skocpol, eds, States, Social Knowledge,
and the Origins of Modern Social Policies, Princeton: Princeton University Press and New York: Russell
Sage Foundation 1996, 117-162.
The Development of Civil Society in Eastern Europe After the Collapse of State Socialism. Trutz von
Trotha, ed., Politischer Wandel, Gesellschaft und Kriminalitätsdiskurse. Festschrift für Fritz Sack. Baden
Baden: Nomos Verlag 1996, 33-50. An earlier version was published as The Development of Civil Society
after Authoritarian Rule, Working Paper of LOS-Senteret (The Norwegian Research Center in
Organization and Management), Bergen, 1992.
In Hindsight - as in a Glass Darkly. In Christian Fleck, ed., Wege zur Soziologie nach 1945: Biographische
Notizen (autobiographies of German sociologists who began after the Nazi time). Opladen: Leske &
Budrich, 1996, 327-337.
State, Capitalism, and the Organization of Legal Counsel: Examining an Extreme Case - the Prussian Bar,
1700 - 1914. In Terence Halliday and Lucien Karpik, eds., Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political
Liberalism: Europe and North America from the 18th to the 20th Centuries. Oxford University Press, 1997,
207-27.
The Self-Organization of Society and Democratic Rule: Specifying the Relationship, in: D.Rueschemeyer,
M.Rueschemeyer, and Björn Wittrock, eds., Participation and Democracy East And West: Comparisons
and Interpretations, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.Sharpe 1998, 9-25.
Introduction: Participation and Democracy in East and West, with M. Rueschemeyer and B. Wittrock, in:
D.Rueschemeyer, M.Rueschemeyer, and B. Wittrock, eds., Participation and Democracy East and West:
Comparisons and Interpretations, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.Sharpe 1998, 3-8.
Conclusion: Contrasting Patterns of Participation and Democracy, with M. Rueschemeyer and B. Wittrock,
in: D. Rueschemeyer, M. Rueschemeyer, and B. Wittrock, eds., Participation and Democracy East and
West: Comparisons and Interpretations, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.Sharpe 1998, 266-84.
Left Parties and Policies in Eastern Europe after Communism: An Introduction. In: Linda J. Cook, Mitchell
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A. Orenstein, and Marilyn Rueschemeyer, eds., Left Parties and Social Policy in Postcommunist Europe.
Boulder, Col.: Westview Press 1999, 1-9
Reflexiones sobre la democracia formal y systantiva. In: Ilan Bizberg and Marcin Fybres, eds.,
Transiciones a la Democracia: Lecciones para Mexico. Mexico City: Ediciones Cal y Arena 2000, 119151.
Democracy and Social Inequality, in: Richard Ericson and N. Stehr, eds., Governing Modern Societies.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2000, 242-58.
Welfare States and Democratic Citizenship, in: Edward Broadbent, ed., Democratic Equality: What Went
Wrong? Toronto: Toronto University Press 2001, 79-95.
Class. In: Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought. Paul Barry Clarke and Joe Foweraker, eds., London and
New York: Routledge 2001, 71-74.
Comparative-Historical Analysis: Achievements and Agendas. With James Mahoney, in: Comparative
Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., New York
and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003.
Can One or a Few Cases Yield Theoretical Gains? In: Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social
Sciences, James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., New York and Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press 2003.
An Introduction to the Problem. With Miguel Glatzer, in: Globalization and the Future of Welfare States,
Miguel Glatzer and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press 2005
Conclusion: Politics Matters. With Miguel Glatzer, in: Globalization and the Future of Welfare States,
Miguel Glatzer and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press 2005.
States and Development: An Introduction. With Matthew Lange, in: States and Development: Historical
Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance, Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., New York and
London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005, 3-25.
Building States: Inherently a Long-Term Process? An Argument from Theory. In: States and Development:
Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance, Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., New
York and London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005, 143-164.
States and Development: What Insights did we Gain? With Matthew Lange, in: States and Development:
Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance, Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., New
York and London: Palgrave/Macmillan 2005, 239-28.
Assessing Inequality. In: Assessing the Quality f Democracy, Larry Diamond and Leonardo Morlino, eds.,
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press 2005, 47-61 (first in Journal of Democracy, 15, 4, 2004).
Why and How Ideas Matter. In: Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, Robert E. Goodin and
Charles Tilly, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Democracy. In: International Encyclopedia of Social Policy, Tony Fitzpatrick et al., eds, London and New
York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, forthcoming
Articles in Refereed Journals*
Doctors and Lawyers: A Comment on the Theory of the Professions, in: Canadian Review of Sociology and
Anthropology, I, 1, 1964, 17-30.
*
Separated according to a rough guess as to which journals sent papers to outside referees.
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Reprinted in:
Vilhelm Aubert, ed., Sociology of Law, Penguin
Modern Sociology Readings, 1969.
J. Lorber and E. Freidson, eds., Medical Men and
Their Work, New York: Atherton 1972.
R.M. Pavalko, ed., Readings in the Sociology of
Occupations, Itasca, Ill.: Peacock 1972.
Th. Luckmann and W.M. Sprondel, eds.,
Berufssoziologie, K”ln: Kiepenheuer and Witsch
1972.
Sociology of Law in Germany, in: Law and Society Review, V. 2, 1970, 225-237.
Reflections on Structural Differentiation, in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, III, 3 (June 1974), 279-294.
Die Entwicklung der Wissenschaft im Modernisierungsprozess (review essay on J. Ben-David, The
Scientist's Role in Society), in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für historische Sozialforschung, 2,
4 (1976), 501-513.
Structural Differentiation, Efficiency and Power, in: American Journal of Sociology, 83, 1 (July 1977), 125.
The Legal Profession in Comparative Perspective, in a special issue of Sociological Inquiry, 47, 3/4 (1977);
republished as H.M. Johnson, ed., The Social System and Legal Process, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 1978,
97-127.
Professionalisierung: Theoretische Probleme für die vergleichende Geschichtsforschung, in: H.U. Wehler,
ed., Professionalisierung in historischer Perspektive, special issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft:
Zeitschrift für historische Sozialforschung, 6, 3 (1980), 311-325.
Sollen wir heute noch Durkheim lesen? (Review essay on occasion of the publication of the first German
translation of E. Durkheim, De la division du travail social), in: Soziologische Revue, 4 (1981), 237-242.
On Durkheim's Explanation of Division of Labor, in: American Journal of Sociology, 88, 2 (1982), 579589.
Comparing Legal Professions Cross-Nationally: From a Professions-Centered Approach to a StateCentered Approach, American Bar Foundation Research Journal, Summer 1986, 415-446;
A revised version was reprinted in:
Richard L. Abel and Philip S. Lewis, eds., Lawyers
in Society, vol. III: Comparative Theories.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, 289-321.
Planning Without Markets: Knowledge and State Action in East German Housing Construction,in: Eastern
European Politics and Societies, 4,3 (1990), 557-579. An earlier version was published as Working Paper
Nr. 17, Center for Research on Politics and Social Organization, Harvard University, November 1988.
Different Methods - Contradictory Results? Research on Development and Democracy, in a special issue
of: International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 32, 1/2 (1991), 9-38; republished as Ch. Ragin, ed.,
Issues and Alternatives in Comparative Methodology, Leiden and New York: E.J.Brill 1991, 9-38. First
published as Working Paper Nr. 13, Center for the Comparative Study of Development, Brown University,
September 1990.
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The Impact of Economic Development on Democracy, with Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens, in:
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7,3 (1993), 71-85.
Reprinted in:
Classes and Elites in Democratization and Democracy, ed. by Eva Etzioni-Halevy, New York:
Garland Publishers 1997, a selection titled “Economic Development and Democracy - the Role of
Subordinate Classes”, 142-9.
Democracy Sourcebook, ed. by Robert Dahl, Ian Shapiro, and Jose Antonio Cheibub. Cambridge:
MIT Press, forthcoming; a selection.
Variations on Two Themes in Durkheim's Division du Travail: Power, Solidarity and Meaning in Division
of Labor, in: Sociological Forum, vol.9, no. 1, 1994, 59 - 71.
Comparing Historical Sequences - A Powerful Tool for Causal Analysis. A Reply to John Goldthorpe's
"Current Issues in Comparative Macro-Sociology, with John D. Stephens, in: Comparative Social
Research, 16, 1997, 55-72.
The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social Dimensions, with Evelyne
Huber and John D. Stephens, in: Comparative Politics, April 1997, 323-42.
Reprinted in:
Transitions to Democracy, ed. by Lisa Anderson. New York: Columbia University Press 1999,
168-192
A Neo-Utilitarian Theory of Social Class? with James Mahoney, American Journal of Sociology, 105.6,
May 2000, 1583-1591.
Assessing Inequality. Journal of Democracy, a special issue on the quality of democracy, Larry Diamond
and Leonardo Morlino, eds., 15, 4, October 2004, 76-90.
Articles in Non-Refereed Journals**
Neuere Literatur über Jugendfragen, review article in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und
Sozialpsychologie, VII, 2, l955, 303-310.
Soziologie und Statistik, with E.K. Scheuch, in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie,
VIII, 2, 1956, 272-291.
Reprinted in:
Ernst Topitsch, ed., Logik der Sozialwissenschaften, Köln and Berlin 1965.
Zur Soziologie der 'unterentwickelten Gebiete', review article in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und
Sozialpsychologie, IX, 1, 1957, 136-142.
Aus der neueren soziologischen Literatur, review article on postwar developments in sociology, in:
Schweizer Monatshefte, XXXVIII, 8, 1958, 705-712.
Kritik und Vorurteil, with P. Heintz, in: Studium Generale. XII, 7, 1959, 396-403.
Scaling Social Status in Western Germany, with E.K. Scheuch, in: British Journal of Sociology, XI, 2,
1960, 151-168.
Rekrutierung, Ausbildung und Berufsstruktur. Zur Soziologie der Anwaltschaft in den Vereinigten Staaten
und in Deutschland, in: David V. Glass and René König, eds., Soziale Schichtung und soziale Mobilität
(Sonderheft 5 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie), 1962, 122-144.
Japanese translation:
**
Including articles in journals of which I do not know whether articles were sent to outside referees.
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Bengoshi no hokyu yosei to shokugyo kozo--beikoku
to doitsu to no hikaku, in: Zensuke and R. Kaei,
eds., Ho shakaigaku kyozai (Readings in the
Sociology of Law), Tokyo: Tokyo University Press
1976, 92-108.
Modernisierung und die Gebildeten im kaiserlichen Deutschland, in: P.C. Ludz, ed., Soziologie und
Sozialgeschichte, (Sonderheft der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Nr. 16), 1972,
515-529.
Zur Nicht-Rezeption von Karl Mannheims Wissenssoziologie in der amerikanischen Soziologie, in: Kölner
Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, special issue nr. 23 (1981), 414-426.
Bildung und Ungleichheit: Zur Politik der Hochschulexpansion in der Bundesrepublik, in: Frankfurter
Hefte, 37, 1 (1982), 37-45.
On the Power of Knowledge (review essay on Eliot Freidson, Professional Powers), in: Contemporary
Sociology, 16,4 (1987), 461-463.
A World Political Economy (review essay on Robert W, Cox, Production, Power, and World Order: Social
Forces in the Making of History, and Jeffrey Harrod, Power, Production, and the Unprotected Worker), in:
Contemporary Sociology, 18,5 (1989), 693-696.
On Benign and Disastrous State Action (review essay of James C. Scott, Seeing like a State: How Certain
Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed), in: International Studies Review, vol. 1, 1, Spring
1999, 105-9.
Recent Invited Lectures and Talks
Reframing the Puzzle: Assessment of the Research Done. Rights, Representation and the Poor: Latin
America and India. A workshop convened by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, at
the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, July 21-22, 2005.
What Can We Expect After 50 Years of Social Science Research? INTAS Social and Human Sciences
Workshop, July 10-11, 2005. ( INTAS is the European Research Council for the countries of the former
Soviet Union, funded by the European commission.)
Toward a New Comprehensive Social Science. Contribution to a semi-plenary session on Sociology and
Political Science at the Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, July 9, 2005.
Comments on Three Papers on Legal Professions in China. “The Professions and Professionalism in China”
Harvard Law School and the Harvard University Asia Center, January 28-30, 2005.
On Democratic Equality. Department of Political Science. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 17,
2004.
What Theoretical Gains Can We Expect from a Few Cases? Department of Sociology, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, March 15, 2004.
From Failed State to Democracy? Working Group on Civil Society, Social Science Research Center Berlin
(WZB), November 27, 2003.
Economic Globalization and Social Protection, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), November
18, 2003.
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Economic Protection and Globalization, Division of Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin,
November 17, 2003.
Theoretical Conclusions Based on One or a Few Cases? Division of Social Sciences, Humboldt University
Berlin, November 17, 2003.
Quality of Democracy: Equality. Conference on the Quality of Democracy, Stanford University, October
10/11, 2003.
Social Protection in the Third World. Workshop on Social Protection in Developing and Transition
Economies. Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, May 30, 2003
A Comparative Look at Professions (and Legal Professions in Particular). East Asian Legal Studies,
Harvard Law School, 26 November 2002
After State Failure: Some Hypotheses and Guesses. Conference on Democratization After War, Watson
Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 4-5 April 2002
What Theoretical Gains Can We Expect from a Few Cases? Department of Sociology, Brown University,
19 March 2002.
Politics Matters: Globalization and the Future of Welfare States. Department of Sociology, SUNY Stony
Brook, 28 November 2001
Effective and Defective States. Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, March 21,
2001
Globalization and the Future of Welfare States. Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown
University, March 12, 2001
Politics Matters: Globalization and the Future of Welfare States. Department of Sociology, University of
Umea, December 8, 2000.
Politics Matters: Globalization and the Future of Welfare States. Institute for Administration and
Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Monday, November 27, 2000
Can One or a Few Cases Yield Theoretical Gains? Second Conference on Comparative Historical Analysis,
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 11, 2000
On Cultural Explanation in Macro Sociology. Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social
Sciences, Uppsala, November 16, 2000
Politics Matters: Globalization and the Future of Welfare States. Sociology Days, Stockholm, Friday,
October 13, 2000
What Do Markets Do? And What To Do About Markets. Conference on Markets and Modernities, Swedish
Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, October 11, 2000
Research in Progress
A long-term project is a book on analytic tools for social research tentatively titled Usable Theory.
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Academic Honors and Awards
Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1960-1961
Research Fellowship of the Canada Council, 1966
Faculty Fellowship of the Ford Foundation. 1968-1969
Academic Visitor, Nuffield College, Oxford, February-July 1979
Academic Visitor, Wolfson College, Oxford, February-July 1982
Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study Berlin, 1987-88
Foreign Franqui Chair of Belgium, Free University of Brussels, October-November 1987
Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spring 1990
Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Fall 1992
Torgny T. Segerstedt Professorship of the Swedish Council for Studies in Higher Education, Fall 1992
1991-1992 Outstanding Book Award, The American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section,
for D.Rueschemeyer, E.H.Stephens and J.D.Stephens, Capitalist
Development and Democracy, Chicago University Press 1992,
August 1993. The book was featured in "Author Meets Critics"
Panel, Meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Miami Beach 1993.
Guest of the President, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Social Science Research Center Berlin), June 1994
Academic Visitor, Nuffield College, Oxford, February - June 1997
Asa Messer Professor, Brown University, 1995 - 1998
Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. Professor of International Studies, Brown University, 1998 to 2000
Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala. Fall 2000
Guest, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), November 2003
2004 Giovanni Sartori Award for the best book in qualitative methods, American Political Science
Association, Section for Qualitative Methods, for J. Mahoney and D. Rueschemeyer, eds.,
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press 2003.
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