Fall Quarter 2004-2005: Join our weekly meetings on Thursdays at 12:30PM in Encina East 008.

Papers presented in the previous meetings

John W. Meyer and Evan Schofer: "The Expansion of Higher Education."  paper

Marc Ventresca: "When States Count: Conflicts and Settlements in Organized International Attention to the Modern Census, 1853-1945"  paper

Wade Cole: "Accrediting Culture: Legitimacy Pressures and Resource Exigencies at Tribal Colleges and Universities"  paper

Keiko Inoue and Gili Drori: "From Charity to Right: Global and National Level Analyses of the Institutionalization of Health."  paper

Wade Cole: "Politics, Profit, Propriety, or Propinquity? Predicting State Ratification of the International Human Rights Covenants." paper

Miriam Abu Sharkh: "Why Do Countries Ratify Labor Conventions despite Incurring Competitive Disadvantages?"  paper

Christine Min Wotipka and Francisco O. Ramirez: An Event Analysis of CEDAW ratification.  paper

Michael Elliot: "A Cult of the Individual for a Global Society: The Development and Worldwide Expansion of Human Rights."  paper

Colin J. Beck: "The Islamic Compromise: Religious Movements in the Modern Middle East."  paper

Francisco Ramirez, Rose Luo, Evan Schofer, and John W. Meyer: Student Achievement and Economic Growth. paper

Francisco Ramirez and John W. Meyer, "National Curricula: World Models and Historical Legacies" paper

Georg Krücken "Sociological neo-institutionalism: from a European point of view" paper

Seth Chaiklin "The Historical Origins of Mass Education in Europe and the Rise of the Individual: A Project Proposal" paper

Francisco Ramirez "Eyes Wide Shut: University, State, and Society" paper

Miriam Abu Sharkh "History and Results of Labor Standard Initiatives" paperreference

Kiyo Tsutsui and Christine Min Wotipka "Bleeding Hearts, Bleeding Hands: The Expansion of International Nongovernmental Human Rights Organizations."paper

David John Frank, "The Composition of University Knowledge: Changes in Faculty Makeup over Time" Book Prospectus

David John Frank, "Criminal Sex: Global Trends and Cross-National Variations in Laws Regulating Sexual Activity" Book Prospectus

Christine Min Wotipka and Chiqui Ramirez "Institutionalizing Women's Studies: United States, England, and Germany" paper

Hokyu Hwang "Planning Development" paperfigures

Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Christine Min Wotipka "Global Human Rights and State Sovereignty: Nation-States' Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties 1966-2000." paper