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NAME: Alexander Michael Hicks

ADDRESS: Home: 2908 Greenbush Place Atlanta, Georgia 30345

Office: Department of Sociology Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322

TELEPHONE: Home: (404) 496-9880; Office: (404) 727-0832

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology(2007-2010)

Professor, Department of Sociology (1993 - present)

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology (1986-1993; Chair 1988-1991),

Associated Faculty, Department of Political Science, Emory University (1986- present).

Center for Urban Affairs and Public Policy, Northwestern University, Associate (1982-1983), Affiliate (1983-1985).

NIMH/NORC Post-doctoral Fellow, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago (1981-1982).

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology (adjunct), Northwestern University (1979-1986; Lecturer, 1978- 1979).

Instructor, "Organizations and Society," "Introduction to Sociology," and Teaching Assistant, "Multivariate Analysis for the Advancement of Sociologists," Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1974-1978).

Peace Corps Volunteer, Venezuela-Rural Education (1969-1971); President, Volunteer Advisory Council, Peace Corps Venezuela.

BIRTH: July 18, 1946, U.S.A.

FORMAL EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin M.S., Sociology (1973) Ph.D., Sociology (1979)

McGill University: 1965-1969 Montreal, Quebec, Canada B.A. (Honors), Sociology

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Winship Distinguished Research Professor (2007-2010)

Selected for list of “Great Scholars, Rreat Work.” Emory University (Provost’s office, December 2006)

"Varieties of Welfare Capitalism," Socio-Economic Review 1.(January, 2003) pp. 27-62 selected as one of “100 seminal

papers from Oxford Journals, 1906-2006” (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/centenary)

Luebbert Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association, for best book on comparative politics, 1998-99, for Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics.

Participant and Research Grant Recipient, Gustafson Faculty Seminar, Spring, 2002

Participant and Travel Grant, Halle Faculty Seminar, Spring, 1999.

Participant, Luce Faculty Seminar, Spring, 1993.

Grant from Swedish Information Service for participation in Conference on "Where is Sweden Headed?" November 8-9, 1991.

ASA/NSF "Problems of the Discipline" grant of $1500 for work on The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches (with Thomas Janoski, Department of Sociology, Duke University).

Grant from "Welfare State" section of International Sociological Association for attendance at conference on "The Welfare State in Transition," Bergen, Norway, August 23-26, 1989.

Grant for attendance at conference on "Political Order, Processes and Welfare", Mannheim, Federal Republic of German, March 21-26, 1988.

"Theodore Lowi" Article Award of the Policy Studies Organization for "Governmental Redistribution in Rich Capitalist Democracies" as the outstanding article published in 1984-85 in the Policy Studies Journal (see Publications below)

NIMH Traineeship, Social Organization Training Program, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin (1973-1976)

Ford Foundation Graduate Traineeship (1972-1973)

National Science Foundation Fellowship (1971-1972)

Citations: over 900.in Social Science Citation Index (over 1600 in Google Schoalr)

See “Invited Lectures/Seminars” below

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Political Sociology and Political Economy of Industrial Societies (Comparative American, Policy) Methodology, Statistics and Philosophy of Social Science Comparative Politics (General, Methods, Advanced Industrial Western Europe, Policy, Political Economy) Sociology of Culture (General, Ideology, Literature, Film)

INVITED LECTURES/SEMINARS AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS:

Seminar Presentation on “The U.S. and E.U. Welfare States in Comparative Perspective,” at ““The 27th annual Yale-Hopkins Summer Seminar”European Studies Council, MacMillan Center, Yale University, July 9, 2008.

"Organized Interests, Development Strategies and Social Policy in Taiwan: Lessons from Europe?" Proceedings of International Symposium on Globalization and the Future of the East-Asian Welfare Capitalism. National Chung- Chen University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan 29-30 May 2007.

"Varieties of Welfare Capitalism" and "Welfare Retrenchment," Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain, October, 2002,

“Globalization and welfare Retrenchment,” OSU, March 2000.

"Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism," Indiana University, October, 1999.

"Globalization and State Scale," Max Planck Institute, Koln, Germany, July, 1999

"Globalization and State Scale," Halle Institute Conference, Brussels, May, 1999

"Social Democratic Welfare Movement," NYU, March, 1999.

"Institutions and Political Economic Performance," Sociology, Cornell, March, 1998.

"Social Democratic Welfare Movement," Government, Cornell, March, 1998.

"How Politics Matters for Social Spending." Center for Urban Affairs and Public Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, January 15, 1990.

"Unions, Social Democracy, Welfare and Growth." Center for the Study of Ethics, Rationality and Society, University of Chicago, April 21, 1989.

"Macroeconomic Policy: Presidential Calculation in a Complex Environment." Department of Sociology, Columbia University, March, 1985.

"Political Economy of Welfare Expansion." Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, March, 1982.

"Political Economy of Redistribution." Departments of Sociology, Stanford University and Yale University, April, 1980.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Method and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis: the case of Employment Growth (c-editor with Lane Kenworthy) London and Mew York: Palgrave Press, 2008.

Handbook of Political Sociology, Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks and Mildred Schwartz (eds.). Cambridge University Press, New York (April 2005)

Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics. Cornell Univerity Press, 1999. (Winner Luebbert Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association, for best book on comparative politics, 1998-99)

The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches. Thomas Janoski and Alexander Hicks (eds.). Cambridge University Press, New York, 1994.

Papers: (Also see Work in Progress):

Social Science Papers,

“Can International NGOs Boost Government Services? The Case of Health?” (with Amanda Murdie), International Organization (forthcomig 2013)

“Ports in the Global Urban Hierarchy" (with Ryan Hicks), Kuniko Fujita (ed.) Cities and Crises: New Critical Urban Theory. San Jose,: California: Sage (forthcoming 2013) “Research Methods in the Study of Welfare States” (with Edwin Amenta). Chapter 7 in Obinger, Herbert and Chris Pierson, Frank Castles, and Stephan Leibfried, Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States (Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 2010).

“Political Scoiology.” International Encyclopedia of Political Science (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010)

”Keynesian macroeconomic theory and policy: ongoing and increasing relevance.” Socio-Economic Review ,Volume 7 (2009), pp. 343-347

“Pension Income Replacement: Permanent and Transitory Determinants.” (with Kendra Freeman). Journal of European Public Policy, 16: 129-143`(Winter, 2009)

“Introduction.” Method and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis: the Case of Employment Growth (co-editor with Lane Kenworthy) London and Mew York: Palgrave Press, 2008

“Family Policies and Women's Employment: A Regression Analysis.” Method and Substance in Macro- Comparative Analysis: the case of Employment Growth (co-editor with Lane Kenworthy) London and New York: Palgrave Press,

“Varieties of Neoliberalization: Freeing the Invisible Hand of Free Markets and Extending the Visible Hand of Market Power: A Review Essay on Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty, by Aihwa Ong, and The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, by Monica Prasad. for CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY 29: (2) pp. Jan. 2008

“What’s the “L” on Global Politics?” for States, Societies and Social Structures (Fall, 2006)“ The Spring-2006 symposium on Douglas Massey’s Return of the "L" Word : A Liberal Vision for the New Century States and Societies

“Free-Market and Religious Fundamentalists versus Poor Relief: A Comment on Somers and Block” American Sociological Review (2006) 71: 503-510

“Auteur Discourse and the Cultural Consecration of American Films” (with Velina Petrova). Poetics (2006) 34: 180-203

“Economic Globalization, the Macro Economy, and Reversals of Welfare Retrenchment in Affluent Democracies, 1978-1994” (with Christopher Zorn), International Organization, (2005): 631-652.

“Public/Social Choice Theory” (with Edgar Kiser), Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski,International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, Routledge, 2005.

"Welfare State And Economy" (with Velina Petrova, and Lane Kenworthy), Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski,International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, Routledge, 2005.

"Introduction" (with Thomas Janoski and Mildred Schwartz), Ch. 1 in Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks and Mildred Schwartz (eds.). Handbook of Political Sociology, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004)

"Introduction to the Comparative and Historical Political Sociology of the Welfare State," Alexander Hicks and Gosta Esping-Andersen. Ch. 21 in Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks and Mildred Schwartz (eds.). Handbook of Political Sociology, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004)

"Neo-Pluralism and Neo- Functionalism in Political Sociology,"Alexander Hicks and Frank Lechner, . Ch. 3 in Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks and Mildred Schwartz (eds.). Handbook of Political Sociology, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004

Back to the future? A review essay on US income concentration and politics," Socio-Economic Review 1: (May, 2003), pp. 271-288.

"Varieties of Welfare Capitalism," Alexander Hicks and Lane Kenworthy, Socio-Economic Review 1. (January, 2003) pp. 27-62.

"The Impact of Federalism and Neo-Corporatism on Economic Performance: An Analysis of 18 OECD Countries," Thomas D. Lancaster and Alexander Hicks. In Ute Wachendorfer-Schmidt (ed.) Federalism and Political Performance, Routledge, London and New York, 2000.

"Cooperation & Political Economic Performance in Affluent Capitalist Democracies," Alexander Hicks and Lane Kenworthy, American Journal Of Sociology (1998), pp. 1631-1672.

"Is Sociology Informed by the Relevant Work in Political Science?" Social Forces, 73 (1995), pp. 1219- 1229 "The Programmatic Emergence of the Social Security State." Alexander Hicks, Joya Misra and Tang Nah Ng. American Sociological Review, 57 (1995), pp. 329-349.

“Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Analytical Induction: the Case of The Emergence of the Social Security State.” Sociological Research and Methods 23 (1995): 86-113.

"Unionization and Catholicism." Joya Misra and Alexander Hicks. American Sociological Review, 56 (1994).

"Political Resources and the Growth of Welfare Effort," Alexander Hicks and Joya Misra, American Journal of Sociology, 99, 1993.

"State and Social and Economic Intervention," Seymour M. Lipsel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Democracy. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press (1995).

"Introduction to Pooling." Thomas Janoski and Alexander Hicks (eds), The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches, (1993).

"The Social Democratic Corporatist Model of Economic Performance in the Short- and Medium-Run." Thomas Janoski and Alexander Hicks (eds.), The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches, (1993).

"Introduction" and "Conclusion." Thomas Janoski and Alexander Hicks (eds.), The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches, (1993).

"Politics, Political Institutions and Welfare Policy." American Political Science Review, Vol. 86, (September, 1992).

"Unions, Social Democracy, Welfare and Growth." Alexander Hicks, Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 5, (1990).

"On the Robustness of Left Corporatist Models of Economic Growth." Alexander Hicks and William D. Patterson, Journal of Politics, 51 (August, 1989), pp. 168-181.

"Welfare Expansion Revisited." Alexander Hicks, Duane Swank, Martin Ambuhl, European Journal of Political Research (June, 1989), pp. 131-153.*

"National Collective Action and Economic Performance: On Corporatism, Planning and Free Markets in Katzenstein and Zysman." InternationalStudies Quarterly, (June, 1988) pp. 131-174.

"Social Democratic Corporatism and Economic Growth." Journal of Politics, 50 (August, 1988) pp. 667-704.

"Capitalism, Socialisms and Democracy: On Present Political Economic Trade-offs." Valerie Bunce and Alexander Hicks. Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 6, 1987 pp. 89-132.

"Class Influences on Redistributive Policy: The Case of U.S. State Governments, 1950-1961. Alexander Hicks. Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 14 (Spring, 1986), pp. 91-114.

"Political Economy of Welfare Spending: Causes and Consequences of Welfare Outlays in the 1960's and 1970's." Duane H. Swank and Alexander Hicks. In pp. 113-149 Norman J. Vig and Steven E. Schier's (eds.) Political Economy in Advanced Industrial Societies. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985.

"Governmental Redistribution in Rich Capitalist Democracies." Alexander Hicks and Duane Swank. Policy Studies Journal, 10 (December, 1984), pp. 264-287.* Winner of 1985 Article Award of Policy Studies Organization (see Honors and Awards).

"Theoretical Insights and Oversights in 'Methodological Problems'." Alexander Hicks and Alex Mintz. American Journal of Sociology, 91 (September, 1985), pp. 379-384. (Comment)

"On the Political Economy of Welfare Expansion: A Comparative Analysis of 18 Advanced Capitalist Democracies." Alexander Hicks and Duane H. Swank. Comparative Political Studies, 17 (April, 1984), pp. 81-119.

"Military Keynesianism in the United States, 1949-1976: Disaggregating Military Expenditures and Their Determination." Alex Mintz and Alexander Hicks. American Journal of Sociology, 90 (September, 1984), pp. 411-417.

"Elections, Keynes, Bureaucracy and Class: Explaining U.S. Budget Deficits, 1961-1978." Alexander Hicks. American Sociological Review, 49 (April, 1984), pp. 165-182.

"Reevaluating the Uses of Status: The Case of Earnings Determination." Alexander Hicks and Neil Fligstein. Social Science Research, 13 (March, 1984), pp. 90-110.*

"Civil Disorders, Relief Mobilization, and AFDC Caseloads: A Reexamination of the Piven and Cloward Thesis." Alexander Hicks and Duane H. Swank. American Journal of Political Science, 27 (November, 1983), pp. 695-716.

"Militancy, Need, and Relief: The Piven and Cloward AFDC Thesis Revisited." Duane H. Swank and Alexander Hicks. In Richard Ratcliff (ed.) Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1983), pp. 1-29.

"Toward a Theory of Income Determination." Neil Fligstein, Alexander Hicks and Phillip Morgan. Sociology of Work and Occupations, (August, 1983), pp. 289-306.

"Values and Social Science: A Typology of Principal Statements." Alexander Hicks. Ch. 3 in John N. Paden (ed.) Proceedings and Background Papers, Symposiums in Values and Social Science: Crosscutting Issues and Modes of Discourse. (Evanston, Illinois: Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1979).

"The Political Economy of Redistribution in the American States, 1929- 1961." Alexander Hicks in Maurice Zeitlin (ed.) Classes, Class Conflict and the State: Empirical Studies in Class Analysis. (Cambridge: Winthrop, 1980), pp. 217-226.

"Class Power and State Policy: The Case of Large Business Corporations, Labor Unions and Governmental Redistribution in the American States." Alexander Hicks, Roger Friedland and Edwin Johnson. American Sociological Review, 43 (June, 1978), pp. 302-315.* Reprinted in Mayer N. Zald and George T. Martin (ed.) Social Welfare in Society. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981), pp. 131-146.

"Big Business Versus Organized Labor: Class Conflict and Governmental Redistribution in the United States." Alexander Hicks, Roger Friedland and Edwin Johnson in Maurice Zeitlin (ed.) American Society, Incorporated, Second Edition. (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1977), pp. 539- 543.

Humanities Papers:

“The Mailerian Narrative; A Structural Poetics of the Novels of Norman Mailer,” The Mailer Review 3 (2009): 396-413.

“Harlot''s Ghosts: Bildungsroman, Masculinity and Hemingway,"The Mailer Review 4 (2011): 462-470..

REVIEWS AND INCIDENTAL PIECES:

A review of Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press. P. 472 + xv. $80.00 (cloth); 29.95 (paper). , 2010 (forthcoming, American Journal of Sociology).

A 25th Anniversary Toast". The Mailer Review (2008) 2, 128-130.

A review of Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects) by Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller and Judith Teichman New York, Cambridge University Press. Pp. 300. $61.80 (cloth); 34:99 (paper) January 2009, AJS

"A Review of John A.Hall and Ralph A. Schneider (co-ed.) The Anatomy of Power. for CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY 28: (2) 182-183 mar, 2007

Societal Welfare and Welfare States World-wide: A review essay (on Ian Gough and Geof Wood, with A. Barrientos, P Bevan, P. David and R. Room, Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts. Cambridge University Press, 2004; Miguel Glatzer and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005; and Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka, The Decline of the Welfare State: Demography and Globalization. MIT Press, 2005.

"A Review of Evelyn Huber and John D. Stephens, Development and crisis of the welfare state: Parties and policies in global markets. American Political Science Review 96 (2): 441-442.June 2002

"A Review of Sanford M. Jacoby's Modern manors: Welfare capitalism since the new deal. Work and Occupations 28 (2): 273-275 May 2001

" A Review of David Held et al.'s Global transformations: Politics, economics and culture" for Social Forces.78: (4) 1571-1573 June 2000

"A Review of Bruce Western's Between class and market: Postwar unionization in the capitalist democracies" for CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY 28: (2) 182-183 MAR 1999

"A Review of Geoffrey Garrett's Partisan politics in the global economy" for JOURNAL OF POLITICS 61: (3) 889-891 AUG 1999

"A Review of Bruce Western's Between class and market: Postwar unionization in the capitalist democracies" for JOURNAL OF POLITICS 61: (3) 891-892 AUG 1999

"A Review of Steven Teles' Whose welfare? AFDC and elite politics." For AMERICAN JOURNAL SOCIOLOGY 104: (6) 1829-1831 MAY 1999

"A Review of D. Rueschemeyer and T. Skocpol's T he origins of social knowledge and the origins of modern Social policy for POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 111: (3) 559-560 FAL 1996

" A Review of William Gallenson's Trade union growth and decline: An international study for CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY 25: (1) 66-67 JAN 1996

"A Review of J. B. Williamson and F. C. Pampel's OLD-AGE SECURITY IN COMPARATIVE for the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 100: (2) 543-544 SEP 1994

"A Review of Gary Marks and Larry Diamond (eds.), Reexamining Democracy: Essay in Honor of Seymour Martin Lipset, Newbury Park, California: Sage, for Contemporary Sociology, 1993.

"A Review of Robert E. Kapsis, Hitchcock: the Making of a Reputation." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Contemporary Sociology, 1993.

"A Review of Jon Eiving Kolberg (ed.), The Study of Welfare State Regimes" Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, American Journal of Sociology, August, 1993.

"A Review of John R. Freeman, Democracy and Markets." Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Contemporary Sociology, 1992.

"A Review of Norman K. Denzin, Hollywood Shot by Shot: Alcoholism in American Cinema," New York: Aldine de Gruyter, American Journal of Sociology, 1992.

"A Review of Gosta Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism." Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990, Alexander Hicks, Contemporary Sociology, (March, 1991).

"A Review of Fred C. Pampel and John B. Williamson, Age, Class, Politics and the Welfare State." New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989, in American Journal of Sociology, 1991 (September, 1990).

"Review Essay on Robert Erikson and Rune Auberg, Welfare in Transition: A Swedish Survey, 1968-1981," (London: Oxford), Norman Johnson; The Welfare State in Transition, (Amherst, MA: Univeristy of Massachusetts Press), Brian Abel Smith and Kay Titmuss; and, Selected Writings of Richard M. Titmuss, (London: Allen and Unwin), Alexander Hicks, Contemporary Sociology, (February, 1989).

"Review Essay on Stewart Clegg, Paul Boreham and Geoff Dow, Class, Politics and the Economy." (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.) Alexander Hicks, Contemporary Sociology, 17 (September, 1987).

"A review of Robert Alford and Roger Friedland, Powers of Theory: Capitalism the State and Democracy." (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985). American Journal of Sociology, 92 (February, 1987).

"A Review of Manuel Carballo and Mary Jo Bane (ed.), The State and the Poor in the 1980s." (Boston: Auburn House, 1984.) Alexander Hicks, Contemporary Sociology, 15 (May, 1985).

"A review of L. J. Sharpe and K. Newton (eds.), Does Politics Matter? The Determinants of Public Policy." (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.) Alexander Hicks, Contemporary Sociology 15 (January, 1985).

"A Review of Manuel Castells, The Economic Crisis and American Society." (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980). Alexander Hicks, American Political Science Review 35 (May, 1981), pp. 489.490.

"A review of John R. Stephens, The Transition to Socialism." (New York: Humanities Press, 1979.) Alexander Hicks, Contemporary Sociology, 14 (January, 1984), pp. 97-98.

"A review of "Apocalypse Now," Social Practice 3 (Winter, 1980), pp. 24-32.

"A review of The Deer Hunter." Social Practice 2 (Summer, 1979), pp. 32-39.

"A review of Roderick Martin's, The Sociology of Power. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, Boston, 1977.) Alexander Hicks, Sociology and Social Research, 62, pp. 635-637.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Papers:

Alexander Hicks (2011). “Ports and the Urban Hierarchy”. (Submitted)

Accepted by volume editor Kuniko Fugita (Muchigan State University); to be submitted for review by Sage this Spring.

Jeffrey Chwieroth (LSE), Alexander Hicks and Diogo Pinheiro (GATech) (2011). New Institutionalism and Economic Globalization: The Case of Capital Account Liberalization in Latin America . Social Forces (Submitted)

Amanda Murdie and Alexander Hicks (2011). INGOs and State Health Spending in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East Asia. International Organization

(Submitted as requested revision and resubmission)

“Social Spending in Latin America,” (with Diogo Pinheiro)

“Beyond Bartels: Positive Sum Presidents, Zero-Sum Representatives and Unions, and Income Inequality in the New Gilded Age”

“Jeffrey Chwieroth, Alexander Hicks, and Diogo L. Pinheiro and "The Institutional Construction of Neoliberal Globalization in Latin America" (Under requested revision for leading sociological journal)

“Getting Back to Business: Historical Institutional Origins of Coordinated Market Economies”

House and Evangelical Brooks and Manza (2004) present important findings on religious voting trends in A paper on IMF Agreements and Interbnatinal political economy” with James Vreeland

“Political Sociology” for the International Encyclopedia of Political Science (IEPS), edited by George T. Kurian. CQ Press. (3,000)

“Welfare Systems” for ”Oxford Handbook on Comparative Institutional Analysis (with Colin Crouch, Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley, Ove Pedersen, and Peer Hull Kristensen(8,000 words)

Method and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis: the case of Employment Growth” Lane Kenworthy and Alexander Hicks (co-ds.) Under review at Palgrave Press.

"Simple Reflection Theory: British and French Bildungsromanen and Social History"

"Taking Film History (i.e., Sarris) Seriously: Auteurs and Master Hacks in AFI and NFR Canonization

"Partisan Government, Labor Organization and Welfare Policy, 1958-1998: Getting it Right," Alexander Hicks and Duane Swank.

"Social Democrats in Traditionalist Shackles: Democrats, Dixiecrats and U.S. Social Policy, 1926-1996"

"Simple Reflection Theory: British and French Bildungsromanen and Social History"

"Taking Sarris Seriously: Auteurs and Master Hacks in AFI and NFR Canonization"

PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONS:

Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 1984-1986, 2001-2004, 2010-2014

Social Forces (20011-2014) Role: Editorial Board Member

Inaugural Co-Editor, "Socio-Economies Review," Quarterly Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics and Oxford University Press (www.ser.oupjournals.org), 2002-2006

Program Committee, for 2003 Annual meetings of the American Sociological Association.

Executive Council, SASE, 1997-1999, 2000-2002.

Chair, Political Sociology Section, ASA, 1999-2000. Coordinator, Research Network on "Rethinking the Welfare State," 1997-Present (33 Sections Organized)

Member, Distinguished Publication Award Selection Com., 1998 - 2000, Chair for 1999and 2000 awards.

Council Member, Council of Political Sociology Section of American Sociological Association, 1991 -

Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology, American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, National Science Foundation, Political Science and Sociology, Social Forces.

Member, American Sociological Association, Southern Sociological Society, International Sociological Association, American Political Science Association.

Organized 13 sessions (of 50 papers) for 2011 Madrid Meetings of SASE

Organized 5 sessions (of 18 papers) for 2010 Philadelphia Meetings of SASE

Organized 4 sessions (of 16 papers) for 2009 San Francisco Meetings of ASA Society for Advancement of Socioeconomics (SASE) (2008-2009)

Organized 16 sessions (of 62 papers) for 2009 Paris Meetings of SASE

Organized 8 sessions (of 29 papers) for 2008 Meetings of SASE, San Juan, Costa Rica.

“ASA Thematic Session on Religion and Politics in the U.S. (co-organized with Fred Block, UC- Davis. Pinheiro) ASA Meetings, New York, New York, August 14, 2007

Organizer of 8 sessions for Annual Meetings of the Society for The Advancement of Socio-Economics, Annual Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Trier, Germany June 29-July 2, 2006

Organizer of 9 sessions for Annual Meetings of the Society for The Advancement of Socio-Economics, Annual Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio- Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30-July 3, 2007

Organizer of 9 sessions for Annual Meetings of the Society for The Advancement of Socio- Economics, Annual Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio- Economics, Budapest, June 30-July 3, 2005

Organizer of 9 sessions for Annual Meetings of the Society for The Advancement of Socio- Economics, Annual Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio- Economics, Washington DC., July 1-4, 2004

Organizer, session on Welfare States for 2004 Meetings of the Amrican political Science Association.

Co-Organizer with Robert Alford, Thomas Janoski and Mildred Schwartz of Conference on "Theoretical Perspective in Political Sociology, (re Handbook of Political Sociology), NYU, March 15, 2003 (Funded by NSF grant)

Organizer of 6 sessions for Annual Meetings of the Society for The Advancement of Socio- Economics, Annual Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio- Economics, Aix-au Province, France, June, 2003

Organizer, Two sessions, Annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August. 2003

Organizer and Presider, 3 Session on "Comparative Perspectives on Rethinking the Welfare State." Annual Meetings of Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, July, 2002.

Organizer and Presider, 9 Session on "Comparative Perspectives on Rethinking the Welfare State." Annual Meetings of Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam the Netherlands, July, 2001.

Organizer and Presider, 9 Session on "Comparative Perspectives on Rethinking the Welfare State." Annual Meetings of Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, LSE-London, July 11-14, 2000.

Organizer and Presider, Plenary Session on "Comparative Perspectives on Rethinking the Welfare State." Annual Meetings of Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 15-9, 1999.

Organizer and Presider, Plenary Session on "Comparative Perspectives on Rethinking the Welfare State." Annual Meetings of Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, Vienna, Austria, July 10-14, 1998.

Organizer and Presider, Plenary Session on "Comparative Perspectives on Rethinking the Welfare State." Annual Meetings of Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, Montreal, July 5-7, 1997.

Chair and discussant, Panel on "Economic Sociology, Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1995.

Critic, Authors meet Critics Session on Dietrich Reuschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens. Capitalist Development and Democracy. Meetings of American Sociological Association, Miami, August, 1993.

Discussant, Panel on "Gender and the Welfare State," Committee 19 (Welfare State) of International Sociological Association, Bremen, Germany, September, 1992.

Organizer, Roundtables in Political Sociology (11 roundtables, 29 papers). 1992 Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 20-24, 1992.

Discussant, Panel on "Methodology in Comparative Research," Southern Sociology Society Meetings, Louisville, Kentucky, March 26-28, 1990.

Chair, Panel on "Economic Sociology" 1989 annual meetings of American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August.

Discussant, Panel on "Welfare State" 1989 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August.

Discussant, Panel on "Politics of Economic Performance," 1989 annual meetings of American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September.

Organizer/Chair, Panel on "Public Policy: Micro and Macro Explanations," Political Sociology section of the 1987 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August.

Organizer/Chair, Panel on "Macroeconomics and Policy: Performance, Ideas or Politics," 1987 annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.

Participant, Round Table on "Governments, Markets and Economic Performance," 1986 annual meeting of Association of Public Policy and Management, Austin, TX, November.

Discussant, Panel on "Political Economy of Regulatory and Economic Policy," 1986 meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.

Discussant, Panel on "Executive and Congressional Budgetary Priorities," Organizer/Chair and Panel on "Politics of Monetary Policy, 1985 meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.

Organizer/Chair, Panel on "Comparative Politics: Politics and Economics of the Advanced Welfare State," 1984 meetings of American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September.

Organizer/Chair/Discussant, Panel on "Fiscal Policy in the 1980s." 1984 meetings of Conference Group on Political Economy of Industrialized Nations, Washington, DC, September.

Organizer/Chair/Co-Discussant, Panel on "Fiscal Sociology: Theoretical Approaches to Budgetary and Macroeconomic Policy." 1984 meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April.

Organizer/Chair, Panel on "The Political Economy of Advanced Capitalism." 1984 meetings of the Midwest Sociological Association, Chicago, April.

Discussant, Participant in Roundtable on "Public Choice Theory and Marxism." 1983 meetings of American Political Science Association, Chicago.

Discussant, Panel on "State and Economy in Advanced Capitalism." 1983 meetings of the Midwest Sociological Association, Kansas City.

Organizer/Chair, Panel on "Keynesian Fiscal Policy" for 1982 meetings of Conference Group on Political Economy of Advanced Industrial Societies, Meetings of American Political Science Association, Denver.

Chair/Discussant, Session on "Dual and Segmented Labor Markets." 1981 Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Denver.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

“Social Spending in Latin America,” (with Diogo Pinheiro) 2009Annual Meetings of ASA: San Francisco, August 13.

“Constructing Globalization:The IMF and Neoliberalism in the World and in Latin America” (with Diogo Pinheiro) ASA Meetings, New York, New York, August 12, 2007.

“Constructing Globalization:The IMF and Neoliberalism in the World and in Latin America” (with Diogo Pinheiro) SASE Meetings, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1, 2007

Alexander Hicks, Some Sociological New Directions in the Comparative Political Economy of Health, Conference on The Effects of Inequality on Physical and Mental W: Emory University, March 29, 2007

“Political Partisanship and Pension: Long-run and Short-run Determinants” (with Kendra Freeman), SASE Meetings, Trier, Germany, June 3, 2006

“Political Partisanship and Pension: Long-run and Short-run Determinants” ” (with Kendra Freeman), ASA Meetings, Montreal, Canada, August2, 2006.

“Economic Globalization, the Macro Economy, and Reversals of WelfareExpansion in Affluent Democracies, 1978- 1994” (with Christopher Zorn), SASE meetings, Budapest;

“Auteur Discourse and the Cultural Consecration of American Films” (with Velina Petrov). paper presented at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 16, 2005

"Welfare Retrenchment and the 'New Politics': Explaining Reversals of Welfare Expansion," Alexander Hicks and Christopher Zorn, paper presented at annual meetings of Annual Meetings of Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, Aix-au Province, July 1-3, 2003.

"Varieties of Welfare Capitalism," Alexander Hicks and Lane Kenworthy, Paper presented at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Mass., September, 2002

"Welfare Retrenchment and the 'New Politics': Explaining Reversals of Welfare Expansion," Alexander Hicks and Christopher Zorn, paper presented at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois, August, September, 2002

"Varieties of Welfare Capitalism," Alexander Hicks and Lane Kenworthy, Paper presented at annual meetings f the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois, August, September, 2002

"'Worlds and Dimensions of Welfare Capitalism," . Paper presented at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September, 2000.

"Social Democrats in Traditionalist Shackles: Democrats, Dixiecrats and U.S. Social Policy, 1926-1996," . paper presented at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September,2000.

"'Worlds and Dimensions of Welfare Capitalism," . Paper presented at annual meetings of Annual Meetings of Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, LSE-London, July 11-14, 2000.

"The Ascent of Social Democracy," paper presented at Annual Meetings of Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, Vienna, Austria, July 10-14, 1998.

"Welfare Retrenchment: Explaining Reversals of Welfare Expansion," paper presented at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Ga., September, 1999.

"The Ascent of Social Democracy," paper presented at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, August, 1995.

"Political Resources and the Growth of Welfare Effort," Alexander Hicks and Joya Misra. Paper to be presented at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1993.

"Emergence of the Income Maintenance State," paper for presentation at session of Robin Styker on "New Direction in Welfare State Research" for meetings of Midwest Sociological Association, Chicago, April, 1993. "Waning Socialist Fortunes: The Politics of Short-Term Growth in Capitalist Democracies" (with David Patterson) for meetings of Society for Study of Socioeconomics, New York, March, 1993.

"The Social Democratic Impact on Income Security and Growth." Paper accepted for presentation at Conference on "The Development and Future of the Welfare State" of the section on "Welfare, Equality and the State" of the International Sociological Association," Helsinki, Finland, August, 1991.

"Catholicism and Unionization in the Post-War Democracies." Joya Misra and Alexander Hicks. Paper accepted for presentation at 1991 meetings of American Sociological Association, August, Cincinnati, Ohio.

"The Long-run Politics of Economic Growth in Rich Capitalist States, 1960- 1986." Paper accepted for presentation at 1991 annual meetings of the Midwestern Political Science Association, April, Chicago, IL.

"Pooled and Cross-Sectional Analyses of State Policy Interventions." Paper to be presented at Conference on The New Compass of the Comparativist, Duke University, April, 1991.

"Class, Industrialism and the State: Explaining Pension Spending." Paper to be presented at the Annual Meetings of the International Sociological Association, Madrid, Spain, July, 1990.

"Class, Industrialism and the State: Program-Specific Explanations of Democratic Capitalist Social Spending." Paper to be presented at Annual Meetings of American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1990.

"Political Institutions and Pension Spending in Capitalist Democracies, 1962-1982." Paper to be presented at bi-annual meetings of International Sociological Association, Madrid, Spain, July 8-13, 1990.

"Class, Industrialism and Statist Theories of Welfare Outputs: Which, Where and When." Paper presented at conference on "The Welfare State in Transition," Bergen, Norway, August 24-27, 1989.

"Politics of Economic Growth: Unions, Parties Economics and Growth in Rich Capitalist Democracies, 1960-1986." Paper to be presented at 1989 annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September.

"Polyarchy and Social Democracy." Paper prepared for presentation at 1988 annual meetings of American Sociological Association, August, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Politics, Pensions and Old Age." Alexander Hicks and Duane Swank. Paper prepared for presentation at 1988 annual meetings of American Sociological Association, August, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Welfare Expansion Revisited: Welfare Policy Routines and Their Mediation by Party, Class and Macroeconomic Epoch, 1957-1982." Paper presented at the 1986 meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August, and at the 1986 Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, New York.

"Governmental Redistribution in Rich Capitalist Democracies." Alexander Hicks and Duane H. Swank. Paper presented at 1983 meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August.

"Keynes, Elections and Class: Toward a Theory of U.S. Budget Deficits." Alexander Hicks and Phillip Hanratty. Paper presented at 1982 meetings of Midwest Political Science Association, Milwaukee. Revision presented at 1982 meetings of Conference Group on Political Economy of Advanced Industrial Societies, 1982 meetings of American Political Science Association, Denver, and at Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research.

"State Policy Determination: Structure cum Choice." Paper presented at the 1981 meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.

"Collective Behavior and Public Policy." Alexander Hicks. Paper presented at 1981 meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto.

"Paying Off the Poor: The Piven and Cloward AFDC Thesis Revisited." Alexander Hicks and Duane H. Swank. Paper presented at 1981 meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto.

"Class Power and Public Policy: Labor, Business, and State Labor Market Policies." Edwin Johnson, Alexander Hicks, and Roger Friedland. Paper presented at the 1980 meetings of Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York.

"Capitalism, Socialisms, and Democracy: Beyond Present Political Economic Trade-offs." Valerie Bunce and Alexander Hicks. Paper presented at the 1980 meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.

"Class Power, History and State Policy: The Determination of Redistributive Policy in the American State, 1929-1961." Paper presented at the 1980 meetings of the American Sociological Association and at the 1980 meetings of Conference Group on Political Economy of Advanced Industrial Societies, Washington, DC.

"Values and Social Science: A Typology of Principal Statements." Alexander Hicks. Presented at the Symposium on Values and Social Science, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, September, 1979. (Listed above under "Published Papers.")

"Explaining Income: A Critique of Status Attainment, Human Capital and Structurally Oriented Approaches." Neil Fligstein, Alexander Hicks, and Phillip Morgan. Presented at the 1979 meetings of the American Sociological Association. Atlanta.

"Class Power and the Political Economy of Policy." Alexander Hicks, Roger Friedland, and Edwin Johnson. Presented at the 1979 meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York.

"The Political Economy of Redistribution in the American States: National Corporate Capital, Organized Labor and Electoral Politics." Alexander Hicks, Roger Friedland, and Edwin Johnson. Presented at the 1975 meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

THESES:

"The Political Economy of Redistribution: The Case of the American States, 1929-1961." Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979.

"James C. Davies' J-Curve Explanation of Political Violence: An Empirical Test." M.S. Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 1973.

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE (Emory, Department of Sociology):

Chair, Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, Department of Sociology, 2004-present

Chair, Department of Sociology, 1988-1991

Member, Preliminary Examination Committee (Political Economy, Social Organization, Culture -- virtually annual)

Search Committee, Organizations, Fall, 2001

Search Committee, Social 0rganization and Stratification, Fall, 1999

Search Committee, Gender and Development, Fall 1997

Search Committee, Comparative and Historical, Fall, 1994

Chair, Senior Professor Recruitment Committee, 1988-1989

Member, Social Psychology Recruitment Committee, 1988-1990

Member, Joint Search Committee, Women's Studies/Sociology, 1988-1989, 1990-1991

Teaching:

Ph.D. Theses

In Progress: Number of Committees, 4 (Chair 1)

Masters Theses

Completed Theses: Number of Committees, 6 (Chair, 4) Theses In Progress: Number of Committees, 8 (Chair, 3)

Northwestern University: Number of Committees, 10; times as Chair, 5.

Dissertations

Northwestern University: Number of Committees, 12; 6 times as Chair, 1. Including those of: Louis-Marie Imbeau, "Foreign Aid Giving of Rich Capitalist Democracies." 1984. Assistant Professor, Laval University, Quebec, Canada (Chair) Duane H. Swank, "The Capitalist Democratic Welfare State: A Comparative Analysis of its Ascent and Decline."1984, Professor, Marquette University. (Chair) Desmond King, "Statist Theory of Public Policy," Instructor, Nuffield College Oxford University Len Hirsch, "Dependency and Dependency Reversal." 1980. Director of International Research, The Smithsonian Institution (Chair). Emory University, including Joya Misra, "Family Assistance: A Comparative, Gendered Analysis." Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts -Amherst (Chair). John Brueggemann, "Interracial Solidarity in the Great Steel Strikes." Assistant Professor, Skidmore College. Diane Jones, "Social Support and Illness" Center for Disease Contro" (Chair) Tang-nah, Ng, "Globalization and Social Insurance Spending in the Semi-Periphery," University of Singapore (Chair) Lisa Meyer, "Globalization and Women's Progress," SUNY-Genoeses.(Chair) Alma Idiart, "Neo-Liberalism and Infant-Maternity Programs in Argentina and Chile," Fundacion Antorcha, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

TEACHING (incomplete):

Department of Sociology, Emory University Courses Taught 1986-2000 "Advanced Regression Analysis" (701) "Comparative Socioeconomic Policy" (378) "Freshman Seminar: Sociology of Film" (190h) "Introduction to Sociology" (101) "Political Sociology" (311,520) "Public Policy and the Welfare State" (522) "Research Methods" (501) "Sociology of Culture" (321 and 719) "Sociology of Film" (325 "Research Methods" (501), "Comparative Socioeconomic Policy (378) "Sociology of Film" (325), "Sociology of Arts" (522)

Department of Political Science, Northwestern University Courses Taught

"Introduction to Political Science" (D01), "Intermediate Pollitometrics" (D05), "Logic of Political Inquiry" (C26), "Public Policy" (C50) "Introduction to Political Science" (D01) "Political Economy of Industrial Society" (D08)

Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1978-Spring "Introduction to Sociology" (Sociology 210) 1977-Fall Lecturer, "Organization and Society" (Sociology 250) 1974-Fall Teaching Assistant, "Multivariate Statistics for the Sociologist" (Sociology 362), with H. Andrew Michener UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE SERVICE:

Member, Graduate Executive Council (GSAS),1995-1998, 2003-2006 (Social Science Chair, 1996-1997, 2004-2005

Member, College Admissions Committee, 2000-2003.

Participant, Gustafson Faculty Seminar, Spring, 2002

Participant, Halle Faculty Seminar on International Relations, Spring, 1999

Member, University Executive Council, 1997-1998

Member, University Research Committee, 1994-present; Chair for Social Sciences, 1995-1996.

Member, Graduate Executive Committee, 1995-1998; Chair, Soc Sci, 1996-97.

Member, Faculty Council, Emory College, 1996-1998; Chair, 1997-1998

Chair, Departmental of Sociology, 1988-1991

Member, Preliminary Examination Committees, Comparative Western European Politics, Political Economy, Department of Political Science, 1988-present

Member, Preliminary Examination Committee, Political Economy, Department of Political Science, 1988-1992

Member, Woodruff Graduate Fellowship Committee, 1990-1991

Member, Search Committee Women's Studies/Sociology, 1988-1989, 1990-1991

Participant, Luce Faculty Seminar, Spring, 1993

Member, University Research Committee, 1994-present; Chair for Social Sciences, 1995-present.

Member, Graduate Executive Committee, 1995-1998

Member, Advisory Committee on Planning and Budget, 1994-present.