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31
Citations
9787
World Ranking
1046
National Ranking
538

Overview

Paul Burstein is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on multiple subfields including Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Communication, and Demography.

Their scholarly contributions explore topics such as Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, Public Policy and Administration Research, Policy Transfer and Learning, Social Media and Politics, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Jewish Identity and Society, and Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies.

Burstein's publication record includes work appearing predominantly in Harvard Dataverse and Perspectives on Politics, as well as other venues such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Contemporary Jewry, and arXiv (Cornell University). Notable recent papers include:

  • Testing Theories about Advocacy and Public Policy, 2020, Perspectives on Politics
  • 3 Burstein theory testing hypotheses data set - Copy.tab, 2020, Harvard Dataverse
  • Theory testing data collection protocol - Copy.wpd, 2020, Harvard Dataverse
  • Burstein table 2 data theory by hypothesis by impact - Copy.tab, 2020, Harvard Dataverse
  • 4 Burstein theory testing article data set - Copy.tab, 2020, Harvard Dataverse

The research collaborations of Paul Burstein include partnerships with coauthors such as DatologyAI, Pratyush Maini, Vineeth Dorna, and Parth Doshi, among others.

Best Publications

  • The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains

    Edward O. Laumann;David Knoke

  • The Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy: A Review and an Agenda:

    Paul Burstein

  • The Impact of Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Social Movement Organizations on Public Policy: Some Recent Evidence and Theoretical Concerns

    Paul Burstein;April Linton

  • Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States Since the New Deal

    Paul Burstein

  • Policy Domains: Organization, Culture, and Policy Outcomes

    Paul Burstein

  • Bringing the Public Back In: Should Sociologists Consider the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy?

    Paul Burstein

  • Legal Mobilization as a Social Movement Tactic: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity

    Paul Burstein

  • The Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy: A Review and an Agenda

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  • Changing Public Policy: The Impact of Public Opinion, Antiwar Demonstrations, and War Costs on Senate Voting on Vietnam War Motions'

    Paul Burstein;William Freudenburg

  • Why Estimates of the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy are Too High: Empirical and Theoretical Implications

    Paul Burstein

  • Public Opinion, Demonstrations,and the Passage of Antidiscrimination Legislation

    Paul Burstein

  • Interest organizations, information, and policy innovation in the U.S. congress

    Paul Burstein;C. Elizabeth Hirsh

  • American Public Opinion, Advocacy, and Policy in Congress: What the Public Wants and What It Gets

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  • Representatives and represented: Bases of public support for the American legislatures

    Paul Burstein;Samuel C. Patterson;Ronald D. Hedlund;G. Robert Boynton

  • Equal Employment Opportunity and the Mobilization of Law

    Paul Burstein;Kathleen Monaghan

  • Policy alternatives and political change: work, family, and gender on the congressional agenda, 1945-1990

    Paul Burstein;R. Marie Bricher;Rachel L. Einwohner

  • Is the Welfare State a Bad Idea?@@@After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State.

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  • Problem Definition and Public Policy: Congressional Committees Confront Work, Family, and Gender, 1945–1990

    Paul Burstein;Marie Bricher

  • Jewish Educational and Economic Success in the United States: A Search for Explanations:

    Paul Burstein

  • Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Democracy

    Paul Burstein

  • Equal employment opportunity : labor market discrimination and public policy

    Paul Burstein

  • Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation and the Income of Women and Nonwhites.

    Paul Burstein

  • Attacking Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market: A Study in Law and Politics

    Paul Burstein

  • Social Structure and Individual Political Participation in Five Countries.

    Paul Burstein

  • Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States since the New Deal

    James L. Thompson;Paul Burstein

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. Freudenburg
William R. Freudenburg University of California, Santa Barbara

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