Privacy and Identification Issues

• The High Cost of "Free" Voter Photo Identification Cards," Houston Institute, Harvard Law School, forthcoming 2013.
• New ID rules would threaten citizens' rights. Opinion, CNN.Com, June 13, 2013
• The Fourth Amendment Beyond Katz, Kyllo and Jones: Reinstating Justifiable Reliance as a More Secure Constitutional Standard for Privacy, coauthor, Public Interest Law Review, Winter 2013.
• "The Right to Travel, A Fundamental Right of Citizenship," co-author, Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy, Spring 2013
• "The Demeaning of Identity and Personhood under National Identification Schemes," Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 15: No. 2, Spring 2002.
"The Degradation of Political Identity under a National Identification System," Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law (Winter 2002)
 Debra L. DeLaet, "U.S. Immigration Policy in an Age of Rights," Political Science Quarterly, Winter 2001-02
 "Anti-terror campaign has wide support, even at the expense of cherished rights," Chicago Tribune, November 4, 2001
 "Immigration and Identification: Interviews with Alan Simpson," Migration World, Vol. XXIX: No. 3, 2001.

Works and Politics

• The White Collar Working Class: From Structure to Politics (Praeger, 1989)
• "The Politics of the White Collar Working Class," Research in Micropolitics, Vol. 4, 1994.
• "From Occupational Involvement to Political Participation: An Exploratory Analysis," Political Behavior, Vol. 15:4, December 1993.

Other

• "From Early Warning to Genocide Prevention: Contribution to Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities," Proceedings of the International Symposium: Holocaust, Genocide and Persecutions," Udine, Italy, December 2012 in temperanter, International Quarterly
  Journal, Vol. IX, No. 1/2, 2013.
• "Third World Literature as Revelation—A letter to Carew." Race and Class, Vol. 43 (3), pp. 64-71, Winter 2001.
• "A Colloquy with Jack Greenberg about Brown: Experiences and Reflections," Constitutional Commentary: Vol. 14: No 2. 1997
• "Linking Past and Present: Developing a Sense of Historical Context Through Newspaper Reading," in Using National Newspapers in the College Classroom, New York Times College Program', ed. by B. Barefoot and S. Knowlton., 2001.
• "Impeach Not Expediently, Lest You So Impeach Again," Chicago Tribune, December 17, 1998d.

Reviews

• The White Collar Working Class
  • Especially pertinent for political sociologists and political scientists, this text examines key social and political issues surrounding the white collar working class. The study is unique both in its coverage and elucidation of complex theories of white collar class and in incorporating structural class definition into the empirical investigation. The document examines current class situation, changes over time, and political outcomes. Specifically, it identifies a system of stratification within the working class, scrutinizes the proletarianization questions, and demonstrates the political consequences of structural class.
    
    The White Collar Working Class is a significant expansion of a study of white collar class at the beginning of the 1980s. Reflecting both traditional and Marxian sociological perspectives of class and stratification, chapters critique competing theories of white collar class situation and profile the changing white collar class structure. The final chapter explores the political implications of class, stratification, and white collar work.
  • "Any professor teaching organizations or occupations should find this book useful in introducing students to one of the most fascinating subjects in the study of contemporary social structure." The American Sociological Association Organization
  • ". . .makes a contribution to the understanding of social class and political behavior in the United States. It deserves the close attention of scholars everywhere concerned with the present and the future realities of class and politics. The book is a timely and carefully documented rise of the "new middle class" of white-collar employees in society." Perspectives on Political Science
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