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Replication Data for: Inequality in the Social Mind: Social Comparison and Support for Redistribution
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Replication Data for The effects of partisan framing on COVID-19 attitudes: experimental evidence from early and late pandemic
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Replication Data for: Inequality in the Social Mind: Social Comparison and Support for Redistribution
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Book Review of \u3cem\u3eTaking Aim at Attack Advertising: Understanding the Impact of Negative Campaigning in U.S. Senate Races\u3c/em\u3e, By Kim L. Fridkin and Patrick J. Kenney. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 266p. 27.95 paper.
Get PDFReview of \u3cem\u3eThe Obligation Mosaic: Race and Social Norms in Political Participation\u3c/em\u3e by Allison P. Anoll
No full textAlthough the disparity in voting participation rates between Black Americans and non-Hispanic White Americans has shrunk considerably over the last six decades, Latino and Asian American turnout continues to lag. In The Obligation Mosaic, Allison Anoll takes up the question of these racialized patterns of participation. Building upon previous work on how norms and social pressure motivate political behavior, she offers a compelling new theory of how norms that are widely held across racial groups can produce racial group differences in political engagement due to racial segregation and distinct group histories
Considering Constituencies Contributing to Lead-Water Discussions in Milwaukee: A Three Article Dissertation
No full textWhile lead-based paint has long been considered the primary source of lead exposure in Milwaukee, activists and community organizers have been vocal in their belief that aging lead-water infrastructure has been and continues to be a significant source of environmental lead. As such, grassroots coalitions have formed to advocate for allocation of substantial resources in order to remediate lead-water infrastructure in the city. This dissertation follows a three-article format to explore understanding of, and engagement in, lead water concerns in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The introductory chapter provides a brief overview including the purpose of this study, background information on the dangers of lead, and the regulation of lead-water infrastructure as well as the theoretical frameworks that guide analysis. Chapter two examines how bureaucratic insiders and outsiders use science to perceive risk and considers issues of shared responsibility in mitigating this public health risk. Chapter three explores how grassroots coalitions engage in the policy-making process as it relates to lead in water concerns, as well as whose contributions are considered legitimate in the policy forums. Chapter four considers how scientific knowledge is utilized and/or produced to engage in deliberative or activist methods of engagement in socio-political contexts. Holistically, this dissertation explores how the complex intersections of risk perception, scientific literacy, public understanding of science, and civic engagement activities occur in the lives of stakeholders. The findings demonstrate a correlation between participatory governance and influence. Implications for public engagement in policy-making, scientific literacy and risk perception are discussed
Civic Life in the Divided Metropolis: Social Capital, Collective Action, and Residential Income Segregation
Get PDFSocial capital is presumed to help individuals who lack financial or human capital achieve collective action through their social ties and networks of relationships. But does it help individuals overcome their socioeconomic disadvantages relative to their wealthier neighbors, or does the accumulation of social capital merely reproduce socioeconomic disparities, particularly in economically segregated places? Leveraging data from the Current Population Survey, I test whether residential income segregation is associated with larger income differences in social capital investments and collective action. I find that in more economically segregated places, wealthier residents are more likely to be members of neighborhood organizations and report working with other community members to address local issues. These results are robust to the inclusion of other potential confounders, including income inequality, racial context, and racial residential segregation. This research has implications for policy makers and stakeholders interested in building a more inclusive civic arena
Inequality in the Social Mind: Social Comparison and Support for Redistribution
Get PDFIncome inequality is fundamentally relational in nature, but research on the American public’s response to it tends to examine individuals in isolation, concluding that support for redistribution is unresponsive to inequality. We focus instead on perceptions of relative socioeconomic position, which we manipulate experimentally through imagined social interactions with high- or low-status others. We find that subjects who make social comparisons between themselves and someone who is socioeconomically advantaged perceive their own status as lower, assess their own socioeconomic status more accurately, and become more supportive of social welfare spending, even though we provide no factual information about the income distribution to subjects in the experiment. Our findings demonstrate that Americans respond with support for redistribution when conditions facilitate upward social comparison. We argue for a shift in scholarly attention to the structural factors that keep rising upper-tail inequality socially invisible
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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