Author Archives: Jennifer Dudley

The 3×1 Program for migrants and vigilante groups in contemporary Mexico

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Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz & Lauren Duquette-Rury. 2019. “The 3×1 Program for migrants and vigilante groups in contemporary Mexico.”Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1623345

What explains the emergence of armed vigilante groups in Mexico over the past decade? This article links the recent emergence of armed vigilante organisations to United States-Mexico migration. Drawing on an original dataset collected from 2352 Mexican municipalities between 2002 and 2013, we find that a given community’s participation in programmes through which migrant organisations called hometown associations (HTAs) produce public goods in collaboration with sending state authorities is associated with a higher probability of observing an armed vigilante group. More specifically, armed vigilante groups are more likely to operate in those municipalities where HTAs repeatedly participate in the formal co-provision of public goods with government authorities. Contrary to our theoretical expectations, we also find that the presence of vigilante groups does not appear to be driven by HTA’s desire to protect their collective investments. We are not more likely to observe vigilante groups in those communities in which HTAs invest the most money. We argue that the positive relationship between frequent HTA participation in programmes where government authorities and migrants co-produce public goods obtains because the processes that this collaboration entails enable community members to act collectively to provide self-help forms of security and justice for their communities.

Racial Arithmetic: Ethnoracial Politics in a Relational Key

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Rodríguez-Muñiz, Michael. 2019. “Racial Arithmetic: Ethnoracial Politics in a Relational Key.” Pp. 278-295 in Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice, edited by Natalia Molina, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and Ramón Gutiérrez. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Societies invested in the quantification of race are rarely, if ever, free of racial arithmetic, that is, the practice of using statistics to legitimate and justify political decisions along categories of race and ethnicity. Despite this, scholars have tended to focus on the production rather than the use of ethnoracial statistics. This paper argues that the study of racial arithmetic—an understudied feature of contemporary politics—requires a relational approach. To illustrate the purchase of this approach, this paper presents an analysis of Chicago’s most recent bout of aldermanic redistricting. In this case, racial arithmetic rested on the ubiquitous juxtaposition of “Latino” and “Black” demographics, as captured in the 2010 census. By casting Black and Latinx political power as a zero-sum game, this juxtaposition helped longstanding white overrepresentation on the City Council escape public scrutiny.

Call for Nominations: 2020 Political Sociology Section Awards

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You are invited to submit your nominations for the 2020 Political Sociology Section Awards. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2020. The winners will be notified and announced prior to the ASA meetings.

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Please be aware that for the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for an Article or Chapter Award for Political Sociology submissions must have a 2019 (NOT 2018) publication date.

For the Best Graduate Student Paper Award Persons who were graduate students at any time during calendar year 2019 (NOT 2018) are invited to submit published or unpublished papers for this award.

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The Distinguished Career Award in Political Sociology

The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2020.

The Distinguished Career Award recognizes and celebrates a lifetime of contributions to the area(s) of political sociology. Nominations will be judged on the depth and breadth of the scholar’s impact on political sociology over the course of their career. Nominees must be at least a quarter of a century beyond graduating with their Ph.D.  Section members may nominate a distinguished scholar by sending:

  1. A letter (PDF or MSWord) of nomination, which outlines the candidate’s scholarly contributions to the field and provides assurance of the candidate’s willingness to be nominated;
  2. A copy of the candidate’s most recent curriculum vitae, and
  3. The full contact information for the nominee (including email address), to the nominating committee below.

The Distinguished Career Award Committee:
Richard Lachmann, University at Albany-SUNY (Chair) RL605@albany.edu
Rebecca Emigh, UCLA emigh@soc.ucla.edu
Jeff Goodwin, New York University jeff.goodwin@nyu

The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA meetings.

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award in Political Sociology

The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2020.

This award is given annually to the outstanding recent book in political sociology (we will not consider edited books for this award). To be eligible, the book must have a 2019 copyright date. The selection committee encourages self-nominations or suggestions of work by others. Nominations from publishers will not be accepted. To nominate a book for this award:

  1. Send a short letter (via e-mail) nominating the book to each committee member below and
  2. Have a copy of the book sent to each committee member, at the addresses below.

Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan (Chair) genez@umich.edu
Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
500 S. Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042

David Brady david.brady@ucr.edu
School of Public Policy
INTS 4151
900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92521
University of California, Riverside 2021 

Isaac Martin iwmartin@ucsd.edu
University of California, San Diego
Isaac Martin, #0517
Social Sciences, Room 315
7835 Trade St., Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92121

The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA meetings allowing presses to advertise the prize-winning book.

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for an Article or Chapter Award for Political Sociology 

The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2020.

This award is offered annually for the outstanding recently published article or chapter in political sociology. To be eligible, submissions must have a 2019 publication date. The selection committee encourages either self-nominations or suggestions of work by others. (Please note that each author may have only one article nominated.) Please submit the following to the selection committee at their email addresses listed below:

  1. A brief nomination letter and
  2. A copy of the article or chapter.

The Best Article or Book Chapter Award Committee:

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“States of Exception?” Political Sociology Mini-Conference

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STATES OF EXCEPTION?

Political Conflict, Cultural Change, and Democratic Threat in the 21st Century

Friday, August 9, 2019

Ingersoll Hall, Brooklyn College

Brooklyn, NY

Organized by:

Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky

Richard Lachmann, SUNY Albany

Carlos de la Torre, University of Kentucky

Bart Bonikowski, Harvard University

Delia Baldassarri, New York University

Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya, Brooklyn College

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, and the María E. Sánchez Center for Latino Studies, Brooklyn College

The mini-conference, organized by the Political Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, will consist of twelve regular panels and a plenary session on themes related to contemporary radical politics. Please visit the pages below for more information.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

  • Complete this form by July 25, 2019: https://forms.gle/9PRGWgQHHWefrfxR8
  • Pay the $25 registration fee in advance via PayPal (instructions below) or bring a check to the conference payable to Stephanie Mudge (the section Treasurer)

 PayPal instructions: by direct link (copy and paste into web browser), paypal.me/stephaniemudge , or via PayPal.com to the following email address: mudge@ucdavis.edu. Please make sure to select “sending to a friend,” or else PayPal will charge you a processing fee.

2019 Mini-Conference Main Page

2019 Mini-Conference Schedule

2019 Mini-Conference Panel Descriptions