Working Papers

email: fweil@lsu.edu
  • Post-Hurricane Katrina Research
    • “Can Citizens Affect Urban Policy? Blight Reduction in Post-Katrina New Orleans.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 31, 2012, here.
    • A First Draft Summary of the Research, here.
    • See a separate website, here for working papers and articles, along with fuller description of the work

  • "Party Realignment in America since World War II: An Outline" (Prepared for presentation at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 13, 2000, Washington, DC) - Pdf version

  • "Diffusion, Nostalgia, and Performance: Democratic Legitimation in Unified Germany" (a version given at a conference at Frankfurt-Oder, Germany, May, 26th - 28th 2000) here

  • "Antisemitism in the Context of Intergroup Relations: A Comparative-Historical View" (A 1983 draft [unfinished] for a large research project.  Includes a summary, a 1983 paper delivered at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association)
  • "Mediations: Critical Theories of Consciousness and Praxis in Lukacs, Horkheimer, and Habermas" (A seminar paper I wrote as a first-year graduate student in 1975! Posted just for fun!) here