Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The structural discontinuity between workplace structure and kinship needs has created a “stalled revolution.” One avenue for addressing this disjuncture has been a push for greater father involvement in the lives of children and caring for kin. This paper poses the question: Can fathers fix it? Can individuals resolve a rupture in social and economic structures? The paper discusses ways that families have attempted to finesse the care gap and points to social, economic, community and kinship avenues for change in the future.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Sociologists know very little about the conditions under which people working in organizations make mistakes. Here I analyze published corrections and editors’ notes in the New York Times as a study in the sociology of mistakes, using data on all articles published for a twenty-six year period, and focusing on causal factors related to organizational temporality. Hybrid logistic regression analysis, which models both within-person and between-person effects, reveals that a reporter is more likely to write an article requiring a correction when the reporter recently changed desks, when the time since his/her last article was longer, when he/she wrote more than one article that day, when he/she is more experienced, and when the paper as a whole is exceptionally busy (in terms of number of articles printed). An editors’ note, which is a more serious indictment of journalistic misjudgment, is less likely to be required when the paper as a whole is busy, when the author was hired a long time ago, and when the author frequently writes multiple articles on a given day, but is more likely when the (first) author frequently co-authors, when he/she frequently changes desks, and when he/she generally takes longer to write consecutive articles.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to revise and analyze the profile prevalent in the academia that explains the cultural values and behaviors of Mexicans. The main assumption of this paper is that the complexities of the changing world and power differences have not been incorporated sufficiently into the study of cultural interactions. Most studies on Mexican culture tend to be based on fixed profiles of national cultures.
In this paper I propose a simple idea about a very complex topic: the nature of the Mexican culture related to work and the transformations that have been occurring during the last twenty years. The first part provides the theoretical framework on which this study is based. The second part provides a brief introduction to the predominant narratives in the academic discourse regarding the values and behaviors of Mexicans. Thereafter, there is an analysis of some changes that have taken place in Mexican society. The last part provides some elements that can be incorporated to understand better the complexities of Mexican cultural identity and everyday practices.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper presents a series of time series cross section
regressions which suggest that governments in developed countries
have increased their use of counter-cyclical fiscal policy since
the mid-1990's up through 2001 when compared to the 1980's and
early 1990's. Countries with loose floating exchange rates and a
high number of legislative districts appear to be more fiscally
reactive than countries with other other mixes of economic and
political institutions . These results run counter to both the
growing general consensus regarding the relative economic
ineffectiveness of fiscal policy, and political economic theories
concerning the impact of institutions on macroeconomic policy. We
argue that this finding points to the possibility that
counter-cyclical fiscal policy has become less of stimulative tool
and more of a political mechanism geared towards achieving
distributive goals.