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Biography
Alexander M. Hicks (born 1946 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a sociologist who principally studies the causes and consequences of social democracy, corporatism, and the welfare state. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Emory University, where he has been since 1986 (as Chair of Sociology 1988‑91, as Full Professor 1993-2017, as Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology 2007-10).[1] He has been married to Nancy Ellen Traynor Hicks (in corporate communications 1975-2015) since 1971; they have a son, Ryan, working in New York City in the nonprofit promotion of affordable housing.
Education
Hicks attended public, parochial, and private primary and secondary schools in Weehawken, NJ, Rye, NY, Santiago, Chile, Manhattan, and Arlington, VA. He graduated from McGill University with honors in Sociology in 1969. He received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979.
Major works
Books
- Hicks, Alexander M. 1999. Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801485565; ISBN 0801485568. Winner of the Luebbert Award for best book on comparative politics, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 2000.
Edited volumes
- Janoski, Thomas and Alexander M. Hicks, eds. 1994. The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521436021; ISBN 0521436028.
- Janoski, Thomas, Robert R. Alford, Alexander M. Hicks, and Mildred A. Schwartz, eds. 2004. The Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521526203; ISBN 0521819903.
- Kenworthy, Lane and Alexander M. Hicks, eds. 2008. Method and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0230202573; ISBN 0230202578.
Articles
- Hicks, Alexander M. and Duane H. Swank. 1984. "Governmental Redistribution in Rich Capitalist Democracies." Policy Studies Journal. doi:10.1111/j.1541-0072.1984.tb00339.x.
- Hicks, Alexander M. and Duane H. Swank. 1984. "On the Political Economy of Welfare Expansion: A Comparative Analysis of 18 Advanced Capitalist Democracies, 1960-1971." Comparative Political Studies. doi:10.1177/0010414084017001003.
- Hicks, Alexander M. 1988. "Social Democratic Corporatism and Economic Growth." Journal of Politics. doi:10.2307/2131463.
- Hicks, Alexander M. and Duane H. Swank. 1992. "Politics, Institutions, and Welfare Spending in Industrialized Democracies, 1960–82." American Political Science Review. doi:10.2307/196412.
- Hicks, Alexander M. and Joya Misra. 1993. "Political Resources and the Growth of Welfare in Affluent Capitalist Democracies, 1960-1982." American Journal of Sociology. doi:10.1086/230320.
- Hicks, Alexander M., Joya Misra, and Tang Nah Ng. 1995. "The Programmatic Emergence of the Social Security State." American Sociological Review. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2096417.
- Hicks, Alexander M. and Lane Kenworthy. 1998. "Cooperation and Political Economic Performance in Affluent Democratic Capitalism." American Journal of Sociology. doi:10.1086/231403.
- Hicks, Alexander M. and Lane Kenworthy. 2003. "Varieties of Welfare Capitalism." Socio-Economic Review. doi:10.1093/soceco/1.1.27.
- Hicks, Alexander M. 2006. “Free-Market and Religious Fundamentalists versus Poor Relief.” American Sociological Review. doi:10.1177/000312240607100309.
- Hicks, Alexander M. and Velina Petrova. 2006. "Auteur Discourse and the Cultural Consecration of American Films." Poetics. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2006.01.001.
- Murdie, Amanda and Alexander M. Hicks. 2013. “Can International Nongovernmental Organizations Boost Government Services? The Case of Health.” International Organization. doi:10.1017/S0020818313000143.
- Li, Xue and Alexander M. Hicks. 2016. “World Polity Matters: Another Look at the Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001." American Sociological Review. doi:10.1177/0003122416641371.
- Hicks, Alexander M. 2016. “A Lot of Balzac: Norman Mailer and the Early French Realists.” The Mailer Review. ISSN 1936-4679.