Curbside recycling programs grew fivefold betweeen 1988 and 1995, yet recycling as practical activity is contested on both ecological and economic criteria. This paper develops arguments at the intersection of organizational and social movements analysis to develop understanding of how broader...

This paper develops organizational field approaches to understand industry evolution. We address issues of how state activities, collective action, and institutional entrepreneurship shape competitive space and facilitate industry formation in the online database services industry. We test...

Explanations of organizational behavior provided by economic approaches such as transaction costs are often stretched to subsume situations that inherently contradict baseline economic assumptions. We argue that under conditions where there is little or no market discipline and high human asset...

The automation of trading markets has given rise to a variety of regulatory concerns. We briefly review the regulatory approach used by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in dealing with automation of equity markets and the growth of proprietary trade execution systems in these markets....

This paper examines the framing of social welfare programs in the opinion pages of two major elite newspapers that research shows are widely read by U.S. policymakers. In particular, it focuses on level of attention (salience) and level of support. The data consist of all editorials, op-ed...

For most social scientists, business associations are presumed to lobby for particular benefits and, if successful, associations thereby impede overall growth. While this presumption is warranted in many cases, this paper documents a wide range of empirical cases where associations enhance...

In "descriptive representation," representatives are in some sense typical of the larger class of persons to which they belong. When substantive interest representation is the aim, descriptive representation may accomplish those goals better than other forms in three contexts: 1)communication...

Democracy, according to most accounts, is supposed to involve policymakers paying attention to ordinary citizens. One way that policy elites might be expected to demonstrate their attention to the public is by explicitly acknowledging, mentioning, and discussing public opinion. In this paper we...

Lake Parc Place is an innovative mixed-income housing project administered by the Chicago Housing Authority. The central component of the project is the fifty-fifty composition of low-income and working-class residents. This paper examines the success of the program in terms of the recruitment...

This study investigated the agenda-setting influences on gubernatorial clemency decisions in four Illinois death penalty cases. It found that press coverage of the cases had a limited impact on the discretionary exercise of clemency power, even when a journalistic campaign for clemency mobilized...