作者：Stanford University
摘要：This address urges Americanists to take the post-World War II era on board as economic history, using the Civil Rights Revolution to set an example. The speed and sweep of the movement's success illustrates the dynamics of an unanticipated revolution as analyzed by Timur Kuran, to be grouped with famous historical surprises such as the triumph of British antislavery and the fall of Soviet communism. The evidence confirms that the breakthroughs of the 1960s constituted an economic as well as a ...
作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Few systematic studies of the effects of patronage on public-sector employees' wages and working conditions exist. Exploiting a sample of nearly 90,000 workers, this article provides systematic evidence: Where patronage was widespread, state and local employees earned 40 percent more per hour; worked 16 to 17 percent fewer hours; and earned 22 percent more per week than comparable private-sector workers. Public-sector wage premia varied; low-skilled workers, and workers in Baltimore and New Yo...
作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Queens University - Canada
作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
作者：California State University System; California State University Northridge
作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者：University of London; King's College London
