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Legitimacy and Collective Action
(2017-08-16)
This is a revision of WP 84-4. The authors develop an explicit theoretical foundation for the common belief that legitimation is somehow important in mobilizing collective action. They distinguish validity of a rule ...
Status Conditions of Self-Evaluation
(2017-08-24)
This is a revision of TR#24. It expands the discussion of conditions for stability, adding the idea of cliques that support stable self-evaluations.
Expectation States Theory: The Status of a Research Program
(2015-08-15)
This technical report updates the theoretical developments and empirical research in the program since the review by Berger, Rosenholtz, and Zelditch (1980).
Decisions, Nondecisions, and Metadecisions
(2015-08-15)
Political decisions at all stages, from community to country,occur only after a process of agenda setting. Nondecisions result from failing to raise an issue to the appropriate decision-making body, and occur through ...
Status Organizing Processes
(2015-08-15)
The authors review theoretical and empirical work related to the theory of status characteristics and expectation states to this date,1980.
A Bibliography of Expectation States Research
(2015-08-15)
This bibliography is a revised and expanded version of working paper 100.
The Legitimacy of Redistributive Agendas
(2017-08-16)
a. The authors investigate the idea of nondecisions regarding redistributive political agenda. They focus on an idea that the greater the likelihood that a policy would redistribute resources, the less likely that policy ...
On the Balance of a Set of Ranks
(2015-07-13)
This theoretical paper addresses what was then called “status consistency” or “status crystallization.” Discrepant ranks on different characteristics such as income, occupational prestige, education, race, and religion ...
A Revised Bibliography of Expectation States Research
(2017-08-16)
As titled. This WP is a revision and expansion of TR#67. Berger, Wagner, and Webster (2014) provide a newer, although focused, view of the program.
Stability of Organizational Status Structures
(2015-07-14)
The authors develop theoretical foundation for ideas in earlier technical reports and elsewhere on status consistency, focusing on effects for organizations. When inconsistent ranks of individuals and jobs become salient, ...