Keith Bentele
Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 144/31
Telephone: 617-287-4056
Email: keith.bentele@umb.edu
Research
Stratification, Inequality, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Quantitative Methods, Welfare States and Policies, Policy Change
Representative Publications
King, Brayden G, Keith G. Bentele, and Sarah A. Soule. 2007. “The Ecology of Congressional Agenda-Setting: Civil and Political Rights Hearings, 1960-1986.” Social Forces 86:137-164.
Professional Presentations
Sager, Rebecca & Keith G. Bentele. “State Faith-Based Practices and the Dual Cultural Processes of Desecularization and Devolution of the Public Sector.” Paper presented at Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management annual meeting in November 2008, Los Angeles, CA.
Bentele, Keith G & Lisa Theibaud. “Ending Access as We Know It? Determinants of State Welfare Benefit Coverage in the TANF Era” Paper presented at American Sociological Association annual meeting in August 2008, Boston, MA.
Bentele, Keith G. “Distinct Paths to Higher Inequality? Earnings Inequality in the United States, 1980-2005” Paper presented at American Sociological Association annual meeting in August 2008, Boston, MA.
Bentele, Keith G. “The Dynamics of Systemic and Regional Income Inequality in U.S. States, 1970-2000.” Paper presented at American Sociological Association annual meeting in August 2007, New York, NY