Research
All Together Now, One By One: Building Capacity for Urban Education Reform in Promise Neighborhoods
James M.
Recognizing Domestic Workers, Regulating Domestic Work: Conceptual, Measurement, and Regulatory Challenges
This article examines the conceptual, measurement, and regulatory challenges of promoting decent work for domestic workers.
Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces
The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised
I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years ago, in 1978.
Gender Quotas and Female Leadership: A Review
Despite significant advances in education and political participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in politics and business across the globe.
The Challenge of Change: Edward Brooke, the Republican Party, and the Struggle for Redemption
This essay is an exploration of the political rise of politician Edward W. Brooke and his impact on the Republican Party and the black community throughout the 1960s.
Understanding the Emergence and Persistence of Concentrated Urban Poverty
Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume.
Obama's Joblessness Dilemma: Fighting Minority Unemployment is Good Economics but Tough Politics
The nation is plagued with one of the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression. Not only have rates of joblessness risen significantly, but long-term joblessness has increased as well.
America's Grace: How a Tolerant Nation Bridges Its Religious Divides
David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam ask how America can simultaneously be religiously devout, religiously diverse, and religiously tolerant.
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