People
Salvatore Babones, PhD
The Johns Hopkins University, 2003
Title: Assistant Professor
Campus Address: 2409 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7582
E-mail: sbabones@pitt.edu
Web Page: www.pitt.edu/~sbabones
Fields
Political Economics; World-Systems Sociology; Mathematical Sociology; Social Statistics
Teaching
Inequality;Development and Quantitative Methods
Selected Publications
2003 "Global Inequality." Salvatore J. Babones and Jonathan Turner. Chapter 7 in Handbook of Social Problems, George Ritzer, ed. Sage Publications.
2003 "The Political Economy of Polarization: The Italian Case, 1963-1987." Riccardo Pelizzo and Salvatore J. Babones. Politics and Policy 31: 54-78.
2002 "Population and Sample Selection Effects in Measuring International Income Inequality." Salvatore J. Babones. Journal of World-Systems Research 8: 7-28.
2001 "The Determinants of Legislative Effectiveness: The Italian Case." Riccardo Pelizzo and Salvatore J. Babones. Quaderni di Scienza Politica 8: 301-323.
2000 "Il Voto Economico in Italia: Pro-DC o Anti-Sistema?." Riccardo Pelizzo and Salvatore J. Babones. Quaderni di Scienza Politica 7: 273-294.
Honors/Awards
2003-ongoing. Associate Editor of Journal of World-Systems Research.
2003. Principal Investigator, "Spatial Probability Mapping from Behavioral Objective Functions." Research grant funded by the Office of Naval Research.
2001-ongoing. Non-resident Fellow, Institute for Research on World-Systems (IROWS), University of California at Riverside.
1998-2000. Dissertation Improvement Grant, "Economic Development in the Liberal State: Commercial Credit in the Scottish Industrial Revolution." Sociology Program, National Science Foundation
Projects
Evolution of the global income distribution, 1960-2000
National mobility in the post-war world-economy
Economic voting and the rise of European fascism
Random graph techniques for social network analysis
Goodness of fit in structural equation models