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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Political Science D-index 38 Citations 24,386 113 World Ranking 242 National Ranking 146

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Capitalism
  • Social science

Erik Olin Wright mainly investigates Class, Social class, Politics, Demographic economics and Wright. His Class research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Class analysis and Marxist philosophy. His Social class research focuses on Social psychology and how it connects with Working class.

His Politics study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Legislature, Public policy and Public administration. Erik Olin Wright has included themes like Deliberative democracy, Stakeholder, Decentralization and Dilemma in his Public administration study. His research in Wright intersects with topics in State, Power, Relevance, Social science and New class.

His most cited work include:

  • Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (1087 citations)
  • Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (741 citations)
  • Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (669 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Erik Olin Wright mostly deals with Social class, Epistemology, Wright, Marxist philosophy and Capitalism. The various areas that he examines in his Social class study include Social psychology, Social change, Class consciousness, Development economics and Distribution. Erik Olin Wright focuses mostly in the field of Epistemology, narrowing it down to matters related to Social science and, in some cases, Politics.

He has researched Politics in several fields, including Power and State. As part of one scientific family, Erik Olin Wright deals mainly with the area of Marxist philosophy, narrowing it down to issues related to the Class, and often Economic inequality. His Capitalism research incorporates elements of Socialism, Basic income, Socialist mode of production, Economic system and Neoclassical economics.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Social class (17.39%)
  • Epistemology (13.66%)
  • Wright (13.04%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2019)?

  • Wright (13.04%)
  • Capitalism (11.80%)
  • Social science (11.18%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Erik Olin Wright spends much of his time researching Wright, Capitalism, Social science, Democracy and Politics. His Capitalism study incorporates themes from Variety, Welfare state, Neoclassical economics and Socialism. His Social science research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Epistemology and Statism.

The Democracy study combines topics in areas such as Legislature, Deliberation and Law and economics. His Politics research integrates issues from Economic Justice and Labour economics. He combines subjects such as Class analysis, Mode of production, Class conflict, Class consciousness and Social class with his study of Social theory.

Between 2011 and 2019, his most popular works were:

  • Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias (113 citations)
  • Foundations of a neo-Marxist class analysis (93 citations)
  • Is the Precariat a Class (29 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Capitalism

His primary scientific interests are in Law and economics, Social science, Epistemology, Marxist philosophy and Immunology. His Law and economics study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Wright, Art history, Deliberation, Set and Democracy. His Social science study combines topics in areas such as Flourishing, Class analysis, Social structure and Capitalism.

His work carried out in the field of Epistemology brings together such families of science as Mode of production, Ideology, Class conflict, Class consciousness and Social class. His Marxist philosophy research includes themes of Development economics, Working class, Neoclassical economics and Precarity. His Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and Multiple sclerosis study in the realm of Immunology connects with subjects such as In vivo, Macrophage and Genetically modified mouse.

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Best Publications

The Gender Gap in Workplace Authority: A Cross-National Study.

Erik Olin Wright;Janeen Baxter;Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund.
American Sociological Review (1995)

524 Citations

THE GLASS CEILING HYPOTHESIS: A Comparative Study of the United States, Sweden, and Australia

Janeen Baxter;Erik Olin Wright.
Gender & Society (2000)

496 Citations

The Fall and Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie: Changing Patterns of Self-Employment in the Postwar United States

George Steinmetz;Erik Olin Wright.
American Journal of Sociology (1989)

370 Citations

Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History

Daniel Little;Erik Olin Wright;Andrew Levine;Elliott Sober.
(1992)

345 Citations

Gender equality : transforming family divisions of labor

Janet C. Gornick;Marcia Meyers;Barbara R. Bergmann;Erik Olin Wright.
(2009)

256 Citations

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