2026 Sanford F. Schram: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	36	666	607	361	314	196	9693

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Political Science

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Overview

Sanford F. Schram is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences, with a particular concentration in sociology, political science, and public administration.

Their notable research topics include:

Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Social and Cultural Dynamics
Race, History, and American Society
Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Social Work Education and Practice
History of Science and Medicine

Sanford F. Schram has contributed to several prominent publication venues. The venues where Schram's work has appeared include:

Perspectives on Politics
Polity
The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics
Journal of Political Power
International Review of Public Policy

They have authored several papers, with a focus on race, politics, and social work. Some recent publications include:

"Racial Liberalism Resurgent: Connecting Multi-Racial Protests and Electoral Politics Today" (2020, The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics)
"Dissenting social work: critical theory, resistance and pandemic" (2022, Journal of Political Power)
"The Biden Racial Justice Policy Agenda: Combating Systemic Racism with Targeting within Universalism" (2022, International Review of Public Policy)

Other relevant papers connected to their network include:

"Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections" (2022, Polity)
"Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos. By Mark D. Ramirez and David A. M. Peterson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 238p." (2021, Perspectives on Politics)

Sanford F. Schram has published a book titled After Welfare (2022) through New York University Press eBooks.

Their frequent co-authors include:

Richard C. Fording
Joe Soss
Brian Caterino

Best Publications

Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

Joe Soss;Richard C Fording;Sanford F Schram

1408
Citations
A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback

Joe Soss;Sanford F. Schram

732
Citations
Setting the terms of relief: Explaining state policy choices in the devolution revolution

Joe Soss;Sanford F. Schram;Thomas P. Vartanian;Erin O'Brien

693
Citations
Real social science: Applied phronesis

Bent Flyvbjerg;Todd Landman;Sanford Schram

634
Citations
Deciding to Discipline: Race, Choice, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform

Sanford F. Schram;Joe Soss;Richard C. Fording;Linda Houser

447
Citations
Words Of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty

Sanford Schram

430
Citations
The organization of discipline: From performance management to perversity and punishment

Joe Soss;Richard Fording;Sanford F. Schram

372
Citations
After Welfare: The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy

Sanford Schram

315
Citations
Making political science matter : debating knowledge, research, and method

Sanford Schram;Brian Caterino

261
Citations
The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control

Joe Soss;Richard C. Fording;Sanford F. Schram

257
Citations
Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform

Sanford F. Schram;Joe Brian Soss;Richard Carl Fording

253
Citations
The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queenby Ange-Marie Hancock

Sanford F. Schram

220
Citations
Success Stories: Welfare Reform, Policy Discourse, and the Politics of Research

Sanford F. Schram;Joe Soss

197
Citations
Devolution, Discretion, and the Effect of Local Political Values on TANF Sanctioning

Richard C. Fording;Joe Soss;Sanford F. Schram

195
Citations
Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance and Globalization

Sanford Schram

192
Citations
The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy

Sanford F. Schram

179
Citations
The third level of US welfare reform: governmentality under neoliberal paternalism

Sanford F. Schram;Joe Soss;Linda Houser;Richard C. Fording

151
Citations
Postmodern policy analysis: Discourse and identity in welfare policy

Sanford F. Schram;Sanford F. Schram

139
Citations
In the Clinic: The Medicalization of Welfare

Sanford F. Schram

139
Citations
Praxis for the Poor: Piven and Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social Welfare

Sanford Schram

115
Citations
Deciding to Discipline: Race, Choice, and Punishment on the Frontlines of Welfare Reform

Sanford F. Schram;Joe Soss;Richard Fording;Linda Houser;Linda Houser

22
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard C. Fording University of Alabama

Joe Soss University of Minnesota

Bent Flyvbjerg University of Oxford

Todd Landman University of Nottingham

Paul E. Peterson Harvard University

Kenneth Scheve University of Notre Dame

External Links

Personal website of Sanford F. Schram

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