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THOMAS JANOSKI

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Tom Janoski
Associate Professor of Sociology 
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1986

Email: tjanos@email.uky.edu



Research

Professor Janoski's interests include political sociology, immigration and naturalization, citizenship and civil society, lean production and the sociology of work, comparative political economy and social policy, complex organizations and industrial relations, and comparative and historical methodology. 

Selected Publications

Professor Janoski has co-authored:

  • The Handbook of Political Sociology, which is an 800 page volume that came out in May of 2005 with Cambridge University Press (to be translated into Turkish).
  • The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State with Alex Hicks. (Cambridge, 1994)
He has written monographs including:

  • Citzenship and Civil Society (Cambridge, 1998, and translated into Chinese)
  • The Political Economy of Unemployment (University of California Press, and translated into Spanish).
Dr. Janoski's most recent work appears in Citizenship for Aliens by Atsushi Konda and Charles West, The Handbook of Citizenship Studies by Engin Isin and Bryan Turner, Models of Capitalism by Evelyn Huber, The International Handbook of Labor Market Policy and Evaluation by Gunther Schmid, and Migration, Citizenship, and Ethno-National Identities in the European Union by Marco Martinelli.

He has also written articles for numerous journals including Social Forces, The Sociological Forum, Sociology of Religion, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, and Comparative Social Research.

Professor Janoski is currently conducting studies on immigration and naturalization in twenty advanced industrialized countries.

In the Summer of 2006, Dr. Janoski finished the first draft of a book called The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization Policies in Advanced Industrialized Countries. This work involves a comparative historical study of naturalization rates in 20 OECD countries along with case study comparisons selected groups of  countries.  It is based on a two year National Science Foundation Grant.

A future project focuses on stress and strains under mature lean production, which involves a study of employees in three Japanese transplants and three American automobiles companies.