Margaret Alicia Levi

Margaret Levi

Margaret Levi (born 1947) is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the ...

Designing Democratic Government: Making Institutions Work

What are the essential elements of a democracy? How can nations ensure a political voice for all citizens, and design a government that will respond to those varied voices? These perennial questions resonate strongly in the midst of ongoing struggles to defend democratic institutions around the worl...

Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science

What can the disciplines of political science and economics learn from one another? Political scientists have recently begun to adapt economic theories of exchange, trade, and competition to the study of legislatures, parties, and voting. At the same time, some of the most innovative and influential...

Whom Can We Trust?: How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible (The Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust)

Conventional wisdom holds that trust is essential for cooperation between individuals and institutions—such as community organizations, banks, and local governments. Not necessarily so, according to editors Karen Cook, Margaret Levi, and Russell Hardin. Cooperation thrives under a variety of circum-...

The Limits of Rationality

Prevailing economic theory presumes that agents act rationally when they make decisions, striving to maximize the efficient use of their resources. Psychology has repeatedly challenged the rational choice paradigm with persuasive evidence that people do not always make the optimal choice. Yet the pa...

Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

This book explains why citizens sometimes comply with and sometimes disobey the demands of democratic governments. It argues that citizens are more likely to comply and even give active consent when they perceive government as procedurally fair in both decisionmaking and implementation processes an...

Labor Standards in International Supply Chains: Aligning Rights and Incentives

The authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key groups, including brands, suppliers, governme...

Cooperation Without Trust? (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust (Numbered))

Some social theorists claim that trust is necessary for the smooth functioning of a democratic society. Yet many recent surveys suggest that trust is on the wane in the United States. Does this foreshadow trouble for the nation? In Cooperation Without Trust? Karen Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret ...

Trust and Governance (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust)

An effective democratic society depends on the confidence citizens place in their government. Payment of taxes, acceptance of legislative and judicial decisions, compliance with social service programs, and support of military objectives are but some examples of the need for public cooperation with ...

The Limits of Rationality

The Limits of Rationality

Of Rule and Revenue

Of Rule and Revenue

Consent, Dissent and Patriotism

Bureaucratic Insurgency: The Case of Police Unions

Women in the Working Man's Paradise: Sole Parents, the Women's Movement, and the Social Policy Bargain in Australia

Democracy At Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation And What We Can Do About It