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Wendy Nelson Espeland

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Publications

29

Citations

8.9K

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23

Active since

1984

Affiliations

Northwestern University(Current)

University of Iowa

Northwestern University

University of Chicago

Wendy Nelson Espeland is an author at Northwestern University specializing in social sciences, law, and public policy.

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Social SciencesLawPublic PolicyBusinessEducationSociologyPoliticsAccountingSocial ChangeEnvironmental Policy

Publications per year

1984–2020

29

Publications

29

Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds

Wendy Nelson Espeland, Michael Sauder · American Journal of Sociology · 2007 · 2.2K citations · Full text

Commensuration as a Social Process

Wendy Nelson Espeland, Mitchell L. Stevens · Annual Review of Sociology · 1998 · 1.9K citations

Social Process, Sociological Method, Social Theory +16

A Sociology of Quantification

Wendy Nelson Espeland, Mitchell L. Stevens · European Journal of Sociology · 2008 · 1.1K citations

Social Phenomena, Sociological Method, Social Theory +11

The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change

Michael Sauder, Wendy Nelson Espeland · American Sociological Review · 2009 · 997 citations · Full text

Bureaucracy, Organizational Communication, Organizational Structure +15

Accounting for Rationality: Double-Entry Bookkeeping and the Rhetoric of Economic Rationality

Bruce G. Carruthers, Wendy Nelson Espeland · American Journal of Sociology · 1991 · 598 citations

Economic Accounting, Economics, Business History +12

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