Research

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Refereed Articles

• Sarah Gaby and Neal Caren. Forthcoming. “Occupy Online: How cute old men and Malcolm X Recruited 400,000 U.S. Users to OWS on Facebook.” Social Movement Studies.
  
• Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren and James Stobaugh. Fothcoming. “Political Reform and the Trajectories of U.S. Social Movements in the Twentieth Century.” Social Forces.
  
• Neal Caren, Kay Jowers and Sarah Gaby. 2012. “A Social Movement Online Community: Stormfront and the White Nationalist Movement.” Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change. 33:163 – 193.
  
• Neal Caren, Raj Andrew Ghoshal and Vanesa Ribas. 2011. “A Social Movement Generation: Trends in Protesting and Petition Signing, 1973-2006.” American Sociological Review. 76: 125-151. Online supplement.
  
• Andrew J. Perrin, Steven J. Tepper, Neal Caren, and Sally Morris. 2011. “Cultures of the Tea Party.” Contexts. 10:74-75.
  
• Kenneth T. Andrews and Neal Caren. 2010. “Making the News: Movement Organizations, Media Attention, and the Public Agenda.” American Sociological Review. 75:841-846.
  
• Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, Elizabeth Chiarello, and Yang Su. 2010. “The Political Consequences of Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology. 36: 287-307.
  
• Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, Sheera Olasky, and James E. Stobaugh. 2009. “All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, and Why SMO Families Appeared in the New York Times in the Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review, 74:636-656.
  
• Neal Caren. 2007. “Big City, Big Turnout? Electoral Participation in American Cities” Journal of Urban Affairs, 29:31-46.
  
• Neal Caren and Aaron Panofsky. 2005. “TQCA: A Technique for Adding Temporality to Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” Sociological Methods & Research,
  34:147-172.
  
• Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, and Sheera Olasky. 2005. “Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age Policy.” American Sociological Review, 70:516-538.
  
  
  
  • Winner, Best Published Article Award, Collective Behavior/Social Movements Section of the ASA
    
  • Reprinted in David Snow and Doug McAdam. 2009. Social Movements: Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, Dynamics, and Impact, Second Edition. Oxford University Press.
    
  • Reprinted in David Snow and Doug McAdam. 2009. Social Movements: Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, Dynamics, and Impact, Second Edition. Oxford University Press.
    
  • Reprinted in Malcolm P. Cutchin, Candace L. Kemp, and Victor W. Marshall. 2012. Researching Social Gerontology. Sage Publications
    

• Michael Armato and Neal Caren. 2002. “Mobilizing the Single-Case Study: Doug McAdam’s Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970.” Qualitative Sociology, 25: 93-103.
  
• Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, Tina Fetner and Michael Young. 2002. “Challengers and States: Toward a Political Sociology of Social Movements.” Research in Political Sociology, 10:47-83.
  
• Edwin Amenta, Chris Bonastia and Neal Caren. 2001. “U.S. Social Policy in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Concepts, Images, Arguments and Research Strategies.” Annual Review of Sociology, 27: 213-234.
  

Other Publications

• Neal Caren and Sarah Gaby. 2011. “Occupy Online: Facebook and the Spread of Occupy Wall Street.” Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1943168.
  
  
  
  • More than 1,000 PDF downloads in the first four months.
    
  
  
• Neal Caren. 2006. “Political Process Theory.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer, Editor. New York: Blackwell.
  
• Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren. 2006. “Political Consequences of Social Movements.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer, Editor. New York: Blackwell.
  
• Neal Caren. 2005. Book review of The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers by Jane E. Miller. Sociological Methods & Research 33: 574-577.
  
• Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, and Sheera Olasky. 2005. “Just the Facts: Newspaper Coverage of Social Movement Organizations in the 20th Century.” Contexts, 4(3): 48-49.
  
• Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren. 2004. “The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State-Oriented Challengers.” The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter
  Kriesi. Pages 461-488.
  
• Neal Caren. 2000. “Factor Analysis,” “Income Distribution,” “Mathematical Sociology,” “Path Analysis,” “Social Science Research Council,” and “Type II Error.” World of Sociology. Joseph M. Palmisano, editor. Detroit : Gale Group.

Working Papers

• Neal Caren, Sarah Gaby and Catherine Herrold. “Bringing Adversity Back In: Economic Breakdown and the Pace of Collective Action.”
  Being revised for resubmission to American Sociological Review.
  
• Neal Caren and Tuneka Tucker. “Economic Hardship, Racial Threat and Support for the Tea Party Movement.”
  Being revised for resubmission to Social Problems.
  
• Neal Caren and Tuneka Tucker. “Local Environmental Justice Movements: Tactics, Organizations and Outcomes.”
  Being revised for resubmission to Mobilization.
  
• Neal Caren. “The centrality of social movements to US politics, 2008-2011.” Punchline