Edwin Amenta

Best Publications

• The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations

  Peter A. Hall

  2857
  Citations

• The Political Consequences of Social Movements

  Edwin Amenta;Neal P Caren;Elizabeth Chiarello;Yang Su

  1073
  Citations

• States and Social Policies

  Theda Skocpol;Edwin Amenta

  949
  Citations

• Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British, and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State.

  Edwin Amenta;Sven Steinmo

  516
  Citations

• Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy

  Edwin Amenta

  499
  Citations

• A Hero for the Aged? The Townsend Movement, the Political Mediation Model, and U.S. Old-Age Policy, 1934-1950.

  Edwin Amenta;Bruce G. Carruthers;Yvonne Zylan

  453
  Citations

• When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security

  Edwin Amenta

  404
  Citations

• Stolen Thunder? Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth," Political Mediation, and the Second New Deal

  Edwin Amenta;Kathleen Dunleavy;Mary Bernstein

  303
  Citations

• Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age Policy

  Edwin Amenta;Edwin Amenta;Neal Caren;Sheera Joy Olasky

  271
  Citations

• All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, and Why SMO Families Appeared in the New York Times in the Twentieth Century

  Edwin Amenta;Neal Caren;Sheera Joy Olasky;James E. Stobaugh

  262
  Citations

• The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State‐Oriented Challengers

  Edwin Amenta;Neal Caren

  253
  Citations

• It Happened Here:Political Opportunity,the New nstitutionalism,and the Townsend Movement

  Edwin Amenta;Yvonne Zylan

  228
  Citations

• Where to Begin A Survey of Five Approaches to Selecting Independent Variables for Qualitative Comparative Analysis

  Edwin Amenta;Jane D. Poulsen

  200
  Citations

• Wage wars : Institutional politics, WPA wages, and the struggle for U.S. social policy

  Edwin Amenta;Drew Halfmann

  175
  Citations

• US Social Policy in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Concepts, Images, Arguments, and Research Strategies

  Edwin Amenta;Chris Bonastia;Neal Caren

  170
  Citations

• The Cultural Impacts of Social Movements

  Edwin Amenta;Francesca Polletta

  138
  Citations

• WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL POLICY

  Unknown

  123
  Citations

• Social Politics in Context: The Institutional Politics Theory and Social Spending at the End of the New Deal

  Edwin Amenta;Jane D. Poulsen

  120
  Citations

• Democratic States and Social Movements: Theoretical Arguments and Hypotheses

  Edwin Amenta;Michael P. Young

  116
  Citations

• The Formative Years of U.S. Social Policy: Theories of the Welfare State and Social Policies in the American States During the Great Depression

  Edwin Amenta;Bruce G. Carruthers

  108
  Citations