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Political and Policy Analysis by Clarence Y. H. Lo

Abstract: This uncommonly coherent collection explains how Bill Clinton consolidated the conserva... more Abstract:
This uncommonly coherent collection explains how Bill Clinton consolidated the conservative economic and social agendas of the Reagan and bush administrations. Disputing arguments that Clinton was responding to an electorate that had shifted rightward, the collection argues that the disproportionate capacity of business elites to mobilize fiscal, institutional, legal, and ideological resources explains his conservatism.

Papers by Clarence Y. H. Lo

The American Historical Review, Nov 30, 2023

The post-World-War-II order has been shaped continually by crises. The global commitment of the U... more The post-World-War-II order has been shaped continually by crises. The global commitment of the United States to contain communism and defeat left wing insurgent movements, the Truman Doctrine, was proclaimed during a crisis sparked by the ending of English military aid to Greece and Turkey. The economic chaos in Europe during the winter of 1947-48, accompanied by the rising strength of the left, produced the Marshall Plan. The war in Southeast Asia was a response to one crisis after another. More recently, economic policies have originated in the energy crisis and the crisis of confidence in the dollar in 1971. Foreign policy has been traditionally shaped by crisis, and increasingly, domestic policy is managed through crisis. 147

Power in Modern Societies, 2019

Studying the Power Elite, 2017

"Clarence Lo, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director, Peace Studies, project co-leade... more "Clarence Lo, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director, Peace Studies, project co-leader ; Joanna Hearne, Associate Professor of English project co-leader ; Professor Mark Palmer, Assistant Professor of Geography project co-leader."

Perspectives on Politics, 2013

protected debtors. Fliter and Hoff highlight the differences between advocates of relief then and... more protected debtors. Fliter and Hoff highlight the differences between advocates of relief then and now. Collective action in response to foreclosure came from a wide network of farmers and workers in 1930s Minnesota; ACORN was the core of the political agitation in 2008. The authors also appeal to broader ideological shifts that have elevated the ethic of personal responsibility over the idea of public interest. In some ways, the authors embrace this perspective—concluding that “many of today’s victims created their own problems” (p. 187). This claim, like the broader ideological shift, echoes arguments from Sutherland’s dissenting opinion in Blaisdell that financial crisis is frequent, predictable, and regular, and that appropriate solutions are to be found in “self denial and painful effort” of borrowers rather than state intervention and relief. Overall, this is an interesting, timely piece of scholarship. The book (and the broader series, Landmark Law Cases and American Society) have a particular niche. If you are looking for formal-theoretic treatment of judicial decision-making or a statistical model of judicial choices, then you will be disappointed by this book. If you are in search of an original and fresh way to introduce politics and law in the Great Depression or to introduce students to broader tensions between individual rights and the public interest and historical controversies over the meaning of the Constitution, this book has a lot to offer.

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2019

The military strength of German National Socialism was based on the collaboration of large corpor... more The military strength of German National Socialism was based on the collaboration of large corporations with the Nazi state. Business provided capital, loans, taxes, managerial expertise and production for war industries. I elaborate four ideal-typical modes of business collaboration. Each mode is illustrated by a case study of a German corporation that acquires an Austrian firm: Krupp (traditional mode); the Reichswerke state conglomerate (coercive); Deutsche Bank (managerial nationalist); and IG Farben (competitive investment mode). The first and the last modes occurred when the state was highly dependent on large businesses for the economic requisites of war. The acquired firms in the Austrian semiperiphery contributed to Nazi war mobilization, as they exploited labor and resources from the peripheral regions of southeastern Europe. Patterns of the state's resource dependency on business led to bargaining interactions between state and business, over time shaping the mix between state and private ownership of war industry.

introduction Limited wars after World War II have produced a right rather than a left turn in the... more introduction Limited wars after World War II have produced a right rather than a left turn in the politics of the industrially advanced countries. During the Korean War, the Republican party articulated the Popular discontent about the war and captured the Presidency in 1952. Perhaps it is no surprise that the Korean War, accompanied by McCarthyism and MacArthur's demands for escalation, should lead to eight years of Eisenhower conservatism. Vietnam, however, created a strong left wing mobilization against the war; it is less obvious why Nixon was elected immzdiately afterwards. De Gaulle, another conservative, followed the French involvement in Algeria, which produced protests from both left and extreme right that brought France to the brink of a military coup and civil war. This paper explains why the leaders of conservative political parties were so successful in the aftermith of limited wars. Conservative parties are those parties whose constituency is large and small busin...

Research in Political Sociology, 2002

Annual Review of Sociology, 1982

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Politics & Society, 1976

Lucio Colletti. From Rousseau to Lenin. Monthly Review Press, 1972. This collection of essays by ... more Lucio Colletti. From Rousseau to Lenin. Monthly Review Press, 1972. This collection of essays by a contemporary Italian Marxist is a significant addition to Marxist political theory. Particularly interesting is the lead essay in which Colletti explicates Capital. He argues that Marx has succeeded in producing a &dquo;dynamic analysis&dquo; that, one, presents the objective factors of production simultaneously as subjective agents or social classes and that, two, demonstrates how to begin with the present in order to understand the past. In other essays, Colletti discusses the work of Hegel, Rousseau, Mandeville, Lenin, and Marcuse in relation to Marxian theory. In this light, he also offers a stunning critique of the Bemsteinian revisions.

Contemporary Sociology-a Journal of Reviews, 2010