Robin Stryker
Professor and Scholar of the College (2004-2007)
Faculty Affiliate, Law School
Ph.D. 1986 University of Wisconsin
Room 1144 Social Sciences
tel.: 612-624-9085
email: stryker@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
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Interest Areas
Law and Society; Political Sociology; Economic Sociology; Comparative and Historical Sociology, Theory, Stratification, Historical Methods, Culture.
Current Research
“Social Science in Government Regulation of Equal Employment Opportunity.” Funded by National Science Foundation, Sociology Program, 2005-08.
Recent Publications
“The Welfare State, Family Policies and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Complementary Fuzzy-Set and Compliers’ Average Causal Effects Analyses,” with Scott Eliason and Eric Tranby. In press. Chapter in Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis, Lane Kenworthy and Alex Hicks, eds. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
“Half Empty, Half Full or Neither? Law, Inequality and Social Change.” In press, 2007. Annual Review of Law & Social Science, 3.
“Law and Economy,” with Lauren Edelman. 2005. Pp. 527-551 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, 2nd edition, Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg, eds. Princeton: Princeton University.
“The Strength of a Weak Agency: Early Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity,” with Nicholas Pedriana. 2004. American Journal of Sociology, 110: 709-760.
“Mind the Gap: Law, Institutional Analysis and Socio-Economics.” 2003. Socio-Economic Review 1: 335-367.
“A Political Approach to Organizations and Institutions.” 2002. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 19:171-193.
“Legitimacy Processes as Institutional Politics: Implications for Theory and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.” 2000. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 17:179-223.
“Political Culture Wars 1990s Style: The Drum Beat of Quotas in Media Framing of the Civil Rights Act of 1991,” with Martha Scarpellino and Mellisa Holtzman. 1999. Social Stratification and Mobility, 17:33-106.
“Political Culture Wars 1960s Style: Equal Employment Opportunity-Affirmative Action Law and the Philadelphia Plan,” with Nicholas Pedriana. 1997. American Journal of Sociology, 103: 633-691.