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Margaret Weir

Margaret Weir is Wilson Professor of Public and International Affairs and Political Science at Brown University. She has written and edited numerous articles and volumes on social policy, race, and employment in the United States. Most recently, Weir codirected the Working Group on Distribution in the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program and, with Frances Rosenbluth, coedited the group’s joint study, Who Gets What? The New Politics of Insecurity (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She is currently completing a book titled, The New Metropolis: The Politics of Spatial Inequality in Twenty-First Century America.

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The Pandemic and the Production of Solidarity

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In this contribution to our “Covid-19 and the Social Sciences” series, Margaret Weir explores how social solidarity manifests across differing contexts. She makes three points of contrast between the United Kingdom and the United States: pre-existing healthcare institutions, economic stimulus strategies, and public leadership on racial and ethnic differences. Weir argues that these three areas explain why social solidarity has been maintained in the United Kingdom compared to the United States despite similar national attempts to confront the Covid-19 pandemic.

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May 28, 2020

The Politics of Spatial Inequality

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In the United States, the study of inequality has long been closely linked to the social geography of the city. For over a century, divisions of class, ethnic background, and race have given rise to distinctive spatial politics, first across neighborhoods; later, spanning the jurisdictional boundaries that segmented metropolitan America. In this memo, I briefly […]

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June 26, 2014
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