Publications

2000
Dobbin, F, and T Dowd. 2000. “The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions, 1825-1922”. American Sociological Review 65:635-657. pdf
Dobbin, F, and E Kelly. 2000. “The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions, 1825-1922”. American Journal of Sociology 105(2):455-492. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2000. “Review of Edwin Amenta, Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy”. Sociological Forum 15:173-175. pdf
1999
Kelly, E, and F Dobbin. 1999. “Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies”. American Journal of Sociology 105:455-492. pdf
Dobbin, F. 1999. “A Market is a Market is a Market?: Institutional Conditions for the Construction of Market Mechanisms”. BISS Public (Berlin) 27:53-72. pdf
Dobbin, F, and T Boychuk. 1999. “National Employment Systems and Job Autonomy: Why Autonomy is High in the Nordic Countries and Low in the U.S., Canada, and Australia”. Organization Studies 20:257-291. pdf
Dobbin, F. 1999. “Review of Albert Schram, Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century”. The Economic History Review 52:181-182. pdf
Dobbin, F. 1999. “Review of John F. Mahon and Richard A. McGowan, Industry as a Player in the Political and Social Arena: Defining the Competitive Environment”. Administrative Science Quarterly 44:195-197. pdf
Dobbin, F. 1999. “Review of Wendy Nelson Espeland, The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest”. American Journal of Sociology 105:137-138. pdf
1998
Kelly, E, and F Dobbin. 1998. “How Affirmative Action Became Diversity Management: Employer Response to Antidiscrimination Law, 1961-1996”. American Behavioral Scientist 41:960-984. pdf
Revised version published in Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration and Civil Rights Options for America. Pp. 87-117. Edited by John Skrentny. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001.
Dobbin, F. 1998. “Review of Erhard Friedberg and Emoretta Yang, Local Orders: The Dynamics of Organized Action”. Contemporary Sociology 27:600-601. pdf
Dobbin, F. 1998. “Review of William G. Roy, Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America”. Contemporary Sociology 27:61-62. pdf
Dobbin, F, and J Sutton. 1998. “The Strength of a Weak State: The Employment Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Division”. American Journal of Sociology 104:441-476. pdf
Reprinted: The Legal Lives of Private Organizations, Edited by Lauren Edelman and Mark Suchman, Ashgate, 2007.
1997
Christensen, S, P Karnoe, JS Pedersen, F Dobbin, and Editors. 1997. “Actors and Institutions”. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 40(4).
Christensen, S, P Karnoe, JS Pedersen, and F Dobbin. 1997. “Actors and Institutions: Editors' Introduction”. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 40(4):392-396. pdf
Dowd, T, and F Dobbin. 1997. “The Embedded Actor and the Invention of Natural Economic Law: Policy Change and Railroader Response in Early America”. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 40(4):478-489. pdf
Dobbin, F, and T Dowd. 1997. “How Policy Shapes Competition: Early Railroad Foundings in Massachusetts”. Administrative Science Quarterly 42:501-529. pdf
Pedersen, JS, and F Dobbin. 1997. “The Social Invention of Collective Actors: On the Rise of the Corporation”. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 40(4):431-443. pdf
1996
Dobbin, F. 1996. “Public Policy and the Rise of Private Pensions: The U.S. Experience Since 1930”. P. 104-135 in The Privatization of Social Policy? Occupational Welfare and the Welfare State in America, Scandinavia and Japan, Michael Shalev. New York: Macmillan. Website pdf
Dobbin, F. 1996. “Review of Hilton L. Root, The Fountain of Privilege: Political Foundations of Markets in Old Regime France and England”. Contemporary Sociology 25:212-213. pdf

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