Browsing by Author "Hochschild, Jennifer"
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Ambivalence About Equality in the United States or, Did Tocqueville Get it Wrong and Why Does that Matter?
Hochschild, Jennifer L. (Springer Verlag, 2006)Alexis de Tocqueville believed that “democratic peoples’... passion for equality is ardent, insatiable, eternal, and invincible.” This article examines whether and under what conditions residents of the United States ... -
Americans' Belief in Linked Fate: Does the Measure Capture the Concept?
Gay, Claudine; Hochschild, Jennifer L.; White, Ariel (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016)For decades, scholars have attributed Black Americans' unified political and policy views, despite growing internal class and status differences, to a strong perception of linked fate. In recent years, the concept has been ... -
Challenging Group-based Segregation and Isolation: Whether and Why
Hochschild, Jennifer; Weitz, Shanna (Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2017-04)Liberal polities are as committed to ending segregation and isolation in principle as they are engaged in maintaining them in practice. That contradiction is partly explained by the perennial gap between ideals and practices; ... -
Commentary on “Bordering by Law” by Judith Resnik
Hochschild, Jennifer (NYU Press, 2017-01-17)Judith Resnik’s “Bordering by Law” has three major themes. First, the United States is strongly and increasingly criminalizing immigration and stigmatizing immigrants, to the detriment of everyone. Second, the United ... -
Destabilizing the American Racial Order
Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Weaver, Vesla; Burch, Traci (MIT Press, 2011)Are racial disparities in the United States just as deep-rooted as they were before the 2008 presidential election, largely eliminated, or persistent but on the decline? One can easily find all of these pronouncements; ... -
Dimensions of Liberal Self-Satisfaction: Civil Liberties, Liberal Theory, and Elite-Mass Differences
Hochschild, Jennifer L. (University of Chicago Press, 1986) -
Divided Regions: Race, Political Segregation, and the Fragmentation of American Metropolitan Policy
Einstein, Katherine (2013-02-20)Since the 1980s, the American federal government has devolved a wide array of crucial policy decisions - from transportation to welfare initiatives - to the state and local levels. With a decrease in federal aid and an ... -
Essays on Causality, Race, and the Law
Sen, Maya (2012-07-26)Making causal inferences about race is difficult because no means exist to manipulate units into treatment and control groups. Chapter 1 addresses this predicament. First, I argue that race should be defined as a composite ... -
Genetic Determinism, Technology Optimism, and Race: Views of the American Public
Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Sen, Maya (SAGE Publications, 2015)We begin with a typology of Americans’ understanding of the links between genetic inheritance and racial or ethnic groups. The typology has two dimensions: one running from genetic determinism to social construction, and ... -
Grade Inflation as a Tragedy of the Commons
Hochschild, Jennifer L. (Harvard Education Press, 2016) -
Identity and Policymaking: The Policy Impact of Gender Quota Laws
Weeks, Ana Catalano (2016-04-20)Does politician identity matter to policy outcomes? Political scientists tend to be skeptical of the idea because of the strong role of electoral incentives. Yet the argument for greater diversity in public office often ... -
If Democracies Need Informed Voters, How Can They Thrive While Expanding Enfranchisement?
Hochschild, Jennifer L. (Mary Ann Liebert, 2010)Three uncontroversial points sum to a paradox: 1) Almost every democratic theorist or democratic political actor sees an informed electorate as essential to good democratic practice. Citizens need to know who or what they ... -
Immigration Regimes and Schooling Regimes: Which Countries Promote Successful Immigrant Incorporation?
Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Cropper, Porsha Quiana (SAGE Publications, 2010)While Canada is often described as the most and France as one of the least successful countries in the realm of immigrant incorporation, the question remains unresolved of how to evaluate a country’s policies for dealing ... -
Is School Desegregation Still a Viable Policy Option?
Hochschild, Jennifer L. (Cambridge University Press, 1997) -
Latino Identities in Context: Ethnic Cues, Immigration, and the Politics of Shared Ethnicity
Cropper, Porsha (2012-10-29)This dissertation is a collection of three essays examining the relationship between immigrant political rhetoric and identity among Latinos in the United States. To achieve this task, this study uses empirical evidence ... -
Left Pessimism and Political Science
Hochschild, Jennifer (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-03)I examine why contemporary social scientists on the political left are relatively pessimistic about the public arena and its trajectory. To develop an answer, I explore subsidiary questions: What is the evidence of social ... -
Looking Ahead: Racial Trends in the United States
Hochschild, Jennifer L. (MIT Press, 2005) -
Making Blackness, Making Policy
Geller, Peter (2012-09-12)Too often the acknowledgment that race is a social construction ignores exactly how this construction occurs. By illuminating the way in which the category of blackness and black individuals are made, we can better see how ... -
Making White Americans and Excluding Nonwhite Americans Through Immigration Laws
Hochschild, Jennifer L. (Cambridge University Press, 2001) -
On the Social Science Wars
Hochschild, Jennifer L. (MIT Press, 2004)