Dylan Riley
Assistant Professor

University of California
Department of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall (1980)
Berkeley, California 94720-1980

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Dr. Riley (who received his Ph.D. from UCLA in September 2002) is a comparative and historical sociologist whose substantive interests range from class formation to the sociology of knowledge. His work reframes the classic problem of state/society relations in political sociology by focusing on the sphere of non-market and non-state social relations, often called civil society. Breaking with both the society centered and state centered traditions of political sociology he shows how this intermediate sphere explains three kinds of outcomes: political regimes, class structures, and knowledge production. He is currently working on a book proposing a Gramscian alternative to neo-Tocquevillian theories of civil society and democracy. The central argument is that strong civil societies were a precondition for fascist regimes in inter-war Europe. He is also working on four further projects. The first is a book (under contract with the Rose monograph series of the ASA) on the historical construction of official statistics (with Rebecca Emigh and Patricia Ahmed). The second is a study of within country income inequality with Michael Mann of UCLA. The third is an essay with (Juan Fernandez of UCB) which investigates the relationship between authoritarian party formation, and post-authoritarian political mobilization. The fourth is an essay (with Manali Desai) on the relationship between civil society and politics in India and Italy. He has a forthcoming article on civic associationism and authoritarianism in Spain and Italy in the American Sociological Review. In addition he has published on class formation in eighteenth century Lombardy in Comparative Studies in Society and History and (with Rebecca Emigh of U.C.L.A.) he has published on Italian colonialism in Comparative Sociology.

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