Dr Salvatore Babones

Current Position: Senior Lecturer

Other offices held:

• 2012-[current]: Associate Fellow, Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Riga
• 2011-[current]: Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington
• 2012-2014: Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past-Chair (3-year cycle), Section on Political Economy of the World-System, American Sociological Association
• 2011-2014: Vice President, Research Committee 02 - Economy and Society, International Sociological Association

Research interests

Dr. Babones is the author or editor of eight books and more than two dozen academic research articles. His academic research focuses on income inequality, economic development, and statistical methods for comparative social science research. He writes a weekly column for the Inequality.org website and contributes to progressive websites and newsletters across America.

Current teaching

• SCLG1001 Introduction to Sociology 1
• SCLG1002 Introduction to Sociology 2

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

• 2010-2012: "Globalisation and the Global Income Distribution in Times of Stability and in Times of Crisis." Australian Research Council (AUD 125,000)
• 2006-2008: "Globalization and the World-Economy," United States National Science Foundation Sociology Program (USD 41,144)
• 2005-2006: "Pitt International Conference on Inequality, Health, and Society," University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh (USD 20,000)
• 2004-2006: "Global Income Allocation," Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh (USD 13,575)

Major Publications

Books

• Salvatore J. Babones. Forthcoming 2013. Methods for Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Gustavo Esteva, Salvatore J. Babones, and Philipp Babcicky. Forthcoming 2013. The Future of Development. Bristol: The Policy Press.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. The International Structure of Income: Its Implications for Economic Growth. Saarbruecken: VDM Publishing. 204 pages.

Edited Books

• Salvatore J. Babones (ed.). 2013. Applied Statistical Modeling (4 vols.). London: Sage Publications.
• Salvatore J. Babones (ed.). Forthcoming 2013. Regression Fundamentals (4 vols.). London: Sage Publications.
• Salvatore J. Babones and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.). 2012. Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis. Oxford: Routledge.
• Salvatore J. Babones (ed.). 2009. Social Inequality and Public Health. Bristol: The Policy Press. 276 pages.
• Christopher K. Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones (eds.). 2006. Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 384 pages.

Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Salvatore J. Babones. Forthcoming 2013. "Austerity Economics and the Threat to Human Infrastructure." Accepted for publication in Peace Review.
• Salvatore J. Babones. Forthcoming 2013. "A Structuralist Approach to the Economic Trajectories of Russia and the Countries of East-Central Europe since 1900." Accepted for publication in Geopolitics.
• Salvatore J. Babones, Philipp Babcicky, and Pablo Guillen. Forthcoming 2013. "Fairness in the Social Regulation of Labor Markets: Reasons for Hope?" Accepted for publication in Comparative Sociology.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2012. "The Revival of Militarist Language in the US." Peace Review 24:84-91.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2012. "A Structuralist Perspective on Economic Growth in China and India: Anticipating the End Game." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 32:29-41.
• Salvatore J. Babones and Robin M. Farabee-Siers. 2012. "Indices of Trade Partner Concentration for 183 Countries, 1980-2008." Journal of World-Systems Research 18:266-277.
• Salvatore J. Babones, Robin M. Farabee-Siers, and Francisco J. Morales. 2011. "Dependency Trends in the Globalization Era: Evidence from Export Partner Concentration." Population Review 50:134-149.
• Salvatore J. Babones and Philipp Babcicky. 2010. "The Globalization Challenge to Population Health." International Review of Modern Sociology 36:101-120.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2010. "Income, Education, and Class Gradients in Health in Global Perspective." Health Sociology Review 19:131-144.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2010. "Trade Globalisation, Economic Development, and the Importance of Education-as-Knowledge." Journal of Sociology 46:45-61.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. "The Consistency of Self-Rated Health in Comparative Perspective." Public Health 123:199-201.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. "Modeling Error in Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research." Journal of World-Systems Research 15:86-114.
• Salvatore J. Babones and Dorian C. Vonada. 2009. "Trade Globalization and National Income Inequality – Are They Related?" Journal of Sociology 45:5-30.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2008. "Income Inequality and Population Health: Correlation and Causality." Social Science & Medicine 66:1614-1626.
• Salvatore J. Babones and Xi Zhang. 2008. "Heterogeneity in the Global South in the Relationship between Income Inequality and Foreign Trade." International Review of Modern Sociology 36:95-108.
• Salvatore J. Babones, Kandi Felmet, and Jackie Hwang. 2007. "A Research Note: Investigating the Lag Structure of the Education - Income Inequality Relationship." Michigan Sociological Review 21:179-191.
• Salvatore J. Babones and Maria Jose Alvarez-Rivadulla. 2007. "Standardized Income Inequality Data for Use in Cross-National Research." Sociological Inquiry 77:3-22.
• Riccardo Pelizzo and Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "The Political Economy of Polarized Pluralism." Party Politics 13:53-67.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2005. "The Country-Level Income Structure of the World-Economy." Journal of World-Systems Research 11:29-55.
• Riccardo Pelizzo and Salvatore J. Babones. 2003. "The Political Economy of Polarization: The Italian Case, 1963-1987." Politics & Policy 31: 54-78.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2002. "Population and Sample Selection Effects in Measuring International Income Inequality." Journal of World-Systems Research 8: 7-28.
• Riccardo Pelizzo and Salvatore J. Babones. 2001. "The Determinants of Legislative Effectiveness: The Italian Case." Quaderni di Scienza Politica 8: 301-323.
• Riccardo Pelizzo and Salvatore J. Babones. 2000. "Il Voto Economico in Italia: Pro-DC o Anti-Sistema? Quaderni di Scienza Politica 7: 273-294.
• Suezanne T. Orr, C. Arden Miller, Salvatore J. Babones, and Sherman A. James. 2000. "Unintended Pregnancy and Preterm Birth." Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 14: 309-313.

Chapters in Academic Books

• Salvatore J. Babones. Forthcoming 2013. "Investigating the Degree of Structure in the World-Economy Using Concepts From Entropy Theory." Accepted for publication in Structures of the World Political Economy and Future Global Conflict and Cooperation. Zurich: World Society Foundation.
• Salvatore J. Babones. Forthcoming 2013. "An Orientation to Applied Statistical Modeling in the Social Sciences." Accepted for publication in Applied Statistical Modeling (4 vols.), edited by Salvatore J. Babones. London: Sage Publications.
• Salvatore J. Babones. Forthcoming 2013. "An Orientation to Fundamentals of Regression Modeling in the Social Sciences." Accepted for publication in Regression Fundamentals (4 vols.), edited by Salvatore J. Babones. London: Sage Publications.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2012. "Position and Mobility in the Contemporary World-Economy: A Structuralist Perspective." Pp. 327-335 in Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis, edited by Salvatore J. Babones and Christopher Chase-Dunn. Oxford: Routledge.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2010. "Global Development Studies." Pp. lxiii-lxxxi in International Studies Encyclopedia, edited by Robert A. Denemark. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. "Inequality and Health: Models for Moving from Science to Policy." Pp. 185-197 in Social Inequality and Public Health, edited by Salvatore J. Babones. Bristol: The Policy Press.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. "What the Public Needs to Know about Social Inequality and Public Health." Pp. 231-235 in Social Inequality and Public Health, edited by Salvatore J. Babones. Bristol: The Policy Press.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "Studying Globalization: Methodological Issues." Pp. 144-161 in The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, edited by George Ritzer. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
• Salvatore J. Babones. 2006. "Conducting Global Social Research." Pp. 8-30 in Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Christopher K. Chase Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Jonathan H. Turner and Salvatore J. Babones. 2006. "Global Inequality: An Introduction." Pp. 109-134 in Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Christopher K. Chase Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Salvatore J. Babones and Jonathan H. Turner. 2003. "Global Inequality." Pp. 101-120 in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.