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 Jonathan Kelley

Jonathan Kelley is Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, the University of Melbourne. He was previously Senior Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies, the Australian National University and has been visiting Professor at Brown University and at Stanford University. 

He is a graduate of Cambridge University (BA) and the University of California (PhD). He is currently studying inequality, social mobility, religion and bio-ethics, together with a participant observation study of twins (with Evans). 

He has published widely in academic journals in Australia (Australian Economic Review; Journal of Sociology); Britain (Sociology; British Journal of Sociology); Europe (International Social Science Journal; International Journal of Public Opinion Research; Social Indicators Research; Quality and Quantity); and USA (American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review; American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy; Journal of Stem Cell Research and Development; Comparative Politics; Public Opinion Quarterly; Sociological Methods and Research; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility).  

He has won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Prize for Behavioral Science Research (with Herbert S. Klein) and the World Association for Public Opinion Research’s Worcester Prize (with MDR Evans).  

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Selected books and papers

Australian Economy and Society 2002: Religion, Morality, and Public Policy in International Perspective, 1984-2002   MDR Evans and Jonathan Kelley. Sydney: Federation Press, 2004.  Pps xii + 375.  (Hardback/ ISBN 1862874514).    Table of contents.     Introduction (160k PDF)

Australian Economy and Society 2001: Education, Work and Welfare. MDR Evans and Jonathan Kelley
Sydney: Federation Press, 2002. Pps vi + 330.  (Hardback/ ISBN 1862873887).   Table of contents

National Pride: Survey Data from the USA and 23 Other Nations  M.D.R. Evans and Jonathan Kelley. 2002 International Journal of Public Opinion Research 14(3): 303-338.  Abstract   This paper won  The World Association for Public Opinion Research's Worcester Prize for 2003.

"Class and Class Conflict in Six Western Nations". Jonathan Kelley and M.D.R. Evans. 1995. American Sociological Review, 60 (April): 157-178.

"The Legitimation of Inequality: Norms on Occupational Earnings in Nine Nations". Jonathan Kelley and M.D.R. Evans. 1993. American Journal of Sociology, 99: 75-125.

"Images of Class: A Comparative Analysis of Public Perceptions in Hungary and Australia". M.D.R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley and Tamas Kolosi. 1992. American Sociological Review, 57 (1992): 461-482. 

"Prejudice, Discrimination and the Labor Market: Attainments of Immigrants in Australia". M.D.R. Evans and Jonathan Kelley. 1991. American Journal of Sociology, 97: 721-759.

"The Decline of Class Revisited: Class and Party in England, 1964-1979". Jonathan Kelley, Ian McAllister and Anthony Mughan. 1985. American Political Science Review. 79: 719-737.

Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: A Theory Applied to the National Revolution in Bolivia. Jonathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein. 1982. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Pp. xiv + 279. This book won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Prize for Behavioral Science Research.

"Social Context and Electoral Behaviour in Britain." Jonathan Kelley and Ian McAllister. 1985.  American Journal of Political Science. 29:564-586.

"Decomposing Differences between Groups: A Cautionary Note on Measuring Discrimination." F.L. Jones and Jonathan Kelley. 1984. Sociological Methods and Research. 12:323-343.

"Class as Conceived by Marx and Dahrendorf: Effects on Income Inequality and Politics in the United States and Great Britain." Robert V. Robinson and Jonathan Kelley. 1979. American Sociological Review 44:38-57.

"Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: A Theory of Stratification in Postrevolutionary Society." Jonathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein. 1977. American Journal of Sociology 83:78-99.

"Causal Chain Models for the Socioeconomic Career." Jonathan Kelley. 1973. American Sociological Review, 38:481-493.

Selected work in progress

"Economic Change and the Legitimation of Inequality: The Transition From Socialism to the Free Market in Poland and Hungary, 1987-1994." Jonathan Kelley and Krzysztof Zagorski. forthcoming. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. (Vol. 22).

"Varieties of Capitalism and Class Conflict: Public Perceptions in 22 Nations." M.D.R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley and Francis Castles. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 2004. R & R, American Journal of Sociology.

"Family Background and Education: China in Comparative Perspective". Jonathan Kelley, M.D.R. Evans, and Juhua Yang.  Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 2004.

"The Role of Scholarly Resources in Educational Attainment: Data from 26 Nations" M.D.R Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Joanna Sikora, and Donald J. Treiman. Revised and extended version of a paper presented to the World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane.

"Social Mobility in India: Comparison with 28 Other Nations." Jonathan Kelley


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