On the cross road of polity, political elites and mobilization / edited by Barbara Wejnert, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA ; Paolo Parigi, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
How did the Irish Americans become Irish? Gaelic sports and the organization of Irish ethnicity in New York City / Dan Lainer-Vos -- Sanctified mobilization: how political activists manage institutional boundaries in faith-based organizing for immigrant rights / Marion Coddou -- National identity and governmental authority: the intersection of national identity, immigration policy, and the child welfare system in the United States / Joanna Kaftan -- Revisiting mothers' pensions: a critique of a social science classic and a new analysis / Sheera Joy Olasky and David F. Greenberg -- Essential contestants, essential contests / John Markoff -- Elites, policy, and social movments / David Pettinicchio -- The militarization theory in post-Soviet Russia: dispelling the pathological look at political and administrative elites / Victor Violier -- Changing political fortunes: race, class, and "black power" in the rise and fall of a black urban regime in Oakland / Eric S. Brown -- The strength of civil society ties: explaining party change in America's bluest state / Johnnie Lotesta
Summary
This volume discusses the various interrelations that exist within and between social and political phenomena
