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Occasional papers available online

The CSES Working Papers Series is a timely and effective outlet for papers prior to their hardcopy publication. The series is co-edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg, editor of the acclaimed Handbook of Economic Sociology.

Submissions may be sent by hardcopy to the CSES main office or, preferably, by e-mail attachment (Word or .pdf file) to Richard Swedberg at rs328@cornell.edu.

CONTRIBUTIONS

  • 68. Victor Nee and Sonja Opper
    “Markets and Institutional Change in China”
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  • 67. Todd Arthur Bridges
    “Governing Shades of Grey: The Emergence of Market Governance in the Absence of a Formal Institutional Environment”
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  • 66. Victor Nee and Hilary Holbrow
    “Why Asian Americans are Becoming Mainstream”
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  • 65. Victor Nee and Michael Siemon
    “State Structures”
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  • 64. Sonja Opper, Stefan Brehm, and Victor Nee
    “The Institutional Basis of Leadership Recruitment in China: Factions versus Performance”

  • 63. Richard Swedberg
    “The Role of Confidence in the European Debt Crisis”
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  • 62. Michael Spiller, Annette Bernhardt, Jason Perelshteyn, and Douglas Heckathorn, et. al.
    “Sampling, Fielding, and Estimation in the 2008 Unregulated Work Survey”
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  • 61. Jun Ando
    “Dual-Earner Couples’ Housework Behavior in Japan: Exchange, Display, or 'Her Money'?”
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  • 60. Håkan Holm, Victor Nee & Sonja Opper
    “Entrepreneurs Under Uncertainty: An Economic Field Experiment”
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  • 59. Jun Ando
    “Husbands' Housework Sharing Behavior in Japan: Field Experiments on Identity and Gender Display”
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  • 58. Richard Swedberg
    “The Household Economy: A Complement or Alternative to the Market Economy?”
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  • 57. Christopher Yenkey
    “Building Markets from Ethnically Fractionalized Networks: Recruiting New Investors into Kenya’s Nairobi Stock Exchange”
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  • 56. Richard Swedberg
    “The Role of the Senses and Signs in the Economy: More on the Centrality of Materiality”
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  • 55. Francesco Ramella and Carlo Trigilia
    “Firms and Territories in Innovation: Lessons from the Italian Case”
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  • 54. Richard Swedberg
    “The Role of Confidence in Finance”
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  • 53. Victor Nee and Sonja Opper
    “Endogenous Institutional Change and Dynamic Capitalism”
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  • 52. Douglas Savitsky
    “Is Plea Bargaining a Rational Choice? Differential Subjective Decision Making as an Engine of Racial Stratification in the United States Prison System”
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  • 51. Richard Swedberg
    "The Economic Sociologies of Pierre Bourdieu"
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  • 50. Richard Swedberg
    "The Structure of Confidence and the Collapse of Lehman Brothers"
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  • 49. Victor Nee and Sonja Opper
    "Political Capital in a Market Economy"”
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  • 48. Victor Nee
    "Bottom-up Economic Development and the Role of the State”
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  • 47. Victor Nee
    "The New Institutionalisms in Economics and Sociology"
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  • 46. Victor Nee and Richard Alba
    "Assimilation as Rational Action"
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  • 45. Victor Nee, Jeong-Han Kang and Sonja Opper
    "A Theory of Innovation: Market Transition, Property Rights,and Innovative Activity in China"
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  • 44. Victor Nee and Sonja Opper
    "On Politicized Capitalism"
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  • 43. Victor Nee and Sonja Opper
    "Bringing Market Transition Theory to the Firm"
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  • 42. Victor Nee and Sonja Opper
    "Bureaucracy and Financial Markets"
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  • 41. Jared Peifer
    "Religious Giving as a Response to Community"
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  • 40. Arnout van de Rijt
    "The Matthew Effect in Immigrant Assimilation"
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  • 39. Christopher Yenkey
    "Morality, Rationality, and the Social Meaning of Information: The Institutionalization of Transparency in U.S. Securities Markets"
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  • 38. Laura Ford
    "Max Weber on Property: An Effort in Interpretive Understanding"
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  • 37. Douglas Heckathorn
    "Extensions of Respondent-Driven Sampling: Analyzing Continuous Variables and Controlling for Differential Recruitment Using Dual-Component Sampling Weights"
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  • 36. Jeong-han Kang
    "A Typology of Organizational Behavior and Its Application to Diversification: U.S. Venture Capital Firms, 1980–2004"
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  • 35. Victor Nee, Sonja Opper, and Sonia Wong
    "Developmental State and Corporate Governance in China"
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  • 34. Li Ma
    "Deinstitutionalization of the Hukou System and Social Change in China"
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  • 33. Edward Carberry
    "The Use of Employee Stock Options in India: The Institutionalization of Compensation Practices in the Global Technology Sector"
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  • 32. Edward Carberry
    "The Symbolic Use of Stock Option Accounting: Defending Organizational Legitimacy after Enron"
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  • 31. Richard Swedberg
    "Max Weber's Contribution to the Economic Sociology of Law"
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  • 30. Richard Swedberg
    "The Centrality of Materiality: Economics and Technology from Xenophon and Onwards"
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  • 29. Richard Swedberg
    "Interpretive Economic Sociology/Verstehende Wirtschaftssociologie: On the Relationship between Max Weber's "Basic Sociological Terms" and his Economic Sociology"
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  • 28. Richard Swedberg
    "Hope and Economic Development: The Case of 18th-Century Sweden"
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  • 27. Mabel Berezin and Juan Diez-Medrano
    "Distance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support for European Integration"
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  • 26. David Stark
    "Tools of the trade: The socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room"
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  • 25. Min-Dong Paul Lee and Sunghoon Kim
    "From Cost to Resource: The Transformation and Diffusion of Corporate Social Responsibility"

  • 24. Victor Nee and Paul Ingram
    "Embeddedness and Beyond: Institutions, Exchange, and Social Structure"
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  • 23. Richard Swedberg
    "Tocqueville and the Spirit of American Capitalism"
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  • 22. Richard Swedberg
    "The Toolkit of Economic Sociology"
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  • 21. Mabel Berezin
    "Re-Asserting the National: The Paradox of Populism in Transnational Europe"
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  • 20. Victor Nee and Yang Cao
    "Market Transition and the Firm: Institutional Change and Income Inequality in Urban China"
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  • 19. Neil Fligstein and Taekjin Shin
    "Shareholder Value and the Transformation of the American Economy: 1984-2001"
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  • 18. Michael Lounsbury and Edward Carberry
    "From King to Court Jester: Weber's Fall from Grace in Organizational Theory"
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  • 17. David Strang and Chang Kil Lee
    "The International Diffusion of Public Sector Downsizing"
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  • 16. Debin Ma
    "Industrial Revolution in the Prewar Lower Yangzi Region of China: A Quantitative and Institutional Interpretation"
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  • 15. Hirokazu Miyazaki
    "Economy of Dreams: The Production of Hope in Anthropology and Finance"
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  • 14. Siegwart Lindenberg
    "Institutional Design and its Discontent: Coleman's Neglect of Social Rationality"
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  • 13. Oliver Williamson
    "Transaction Cost Economics and Economic Sociology"
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  • 12. Mabel Berezin
    "Emotions and the Economy"
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  • 11. Paul Ingram
    "The Intergovernmental Network of World Trade: IGO Connectedness, Governance and Embeddedness"
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  • 10. Douglas Heckathorn and Joan Jeffri
    "Networks and Jazz"
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  • 9. Richard Swedberg
    "Principles of Economic Sociology"
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  • 8. AnnaLee Saxenian
    "Brain Circulation and Capitalist Dynamics: The Silicon Valley-Hsinchu-Shanghai Triangle"
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  • 7. Gerald Davis and Christopher Marquis
    "The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance"
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  • 6. James N. Baron and Michael T. Hannan
    "The Economic Sociology of Organizational Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies"
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  • 5. Richard Swedberg (Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell)
    "The Economic Sociology of Capitalism: An Introduction and Agenda"
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  • 4. Victor Nee (Goldwin Smith Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell)
    "The New Institutionalism in Economics and Sociology"
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  • 3. Francis Fukuyama (Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University)
    "Still Disenchanted? The Modernity of Postindustrial Capitalism"
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  • 2. Richard Swedberg (Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell)
    "On the Conflicts of Interest in the Corporate Scandals of 2001-2002"
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  • 1. Victor Nee (Goldwin Smith Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell)
    "Economic Sociology of Institutional Change: Politicized Capitalism in China"
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