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Spatial and statistical predictors of voter purge rates in Michigan Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Richard C. Sadler, Thomas W. Wojciechowski, Eileen Hayes
ObjectiveVoter purges can protect election integrity by ensuring deceased or moved individuals are removed from election rolls. But they have been used to diminish voting power of marginalized groups, often by anti‐majoritarian forces seeking to undemocratically retain power. Little research has examined “who gets purged?” at the state level, especially with respect to local‐level differences.MethodsWe
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Explaining state efforts to create Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) agreements Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Martin K. Mayer, John C. Morris, Madeleine W. McNamara, Xiaodan Zhang
ObjectivesWith the rejuvenated emphasis on nonpoint pollution under the Water Quality Act (WQA) of 1987, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began to face an onslaught of lawsuits designed to pressure the EPA to enforce the requirements of Section 319 of the WQA to address nonpoint pollution. Known as Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) agreements, the purpose of these plans was to limit the amount of
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Does government response to natural disasters explain violence? The case of the Sendero Luminoso and conflict in Peru Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Elise Pizzi, Carly Millerd, Jeongho Choi
ObjectiveWe consider how the Peruvian government's responses to natural disaster events shaped political violence patterns from 1989 to 2020.MethodsWe gather data on government disaster response and compare the effect of positive disaster responses, such as reconstruction and regulation of domestic/international aid, and negative disaster responses, such as neglect or placing restrictions on movement
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Revealing loneliness: Disentangling the interaction of gender and community stigma Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Alexander Langenkamp, Janosch Schobin
ObjectiveThis study investigates whether the perceived stigma of loneliness is positively associated with the concealment of loneliness and whether this association varies by the gender of the individual and their conversation partner.MethodsUtilizing ordinal probit regression analysis on data from 1671 German survey participants with three‐way interactions, we analyze whether participants are more
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The reciprocal relationship between political participation and mental health in Germany: A random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel analysis Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Gabriele Prati
PurposePolitical participation has been identified as a predictor of mental health. Previous research studies have reported mixed results concerning the relationship between political participation and mental health. Moreover, findings have generally been confined to the between‐individual level. The few studies that investigated within‐person associations have not examined bidirectionality. In the
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Subsidizing a sports arena in a bankrupt city: Detroit's Little Caesars Arena Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Robert Sroka
ObjectivesThe potential for ancillary real estate transformation and downtown revitalization has moved to the forefront of sports venue subsidy arguments. Despite the City of Detroit being in the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history at the time, $324 million in public funding was directly provided to Little Caesars Arena, a new home for the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. Using the Detroit context
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The impact of acculturation and personal discrimination on Latinx public opinion Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Giovanny D. Pleites‐Hernandez, J. Robert Shrode
ObjectiveTo what extent does personal experience with discrimination moderate the effect of acculturation on policy preferences amongst Latinxs? Work on acculturation shows that acculturation is an important predictor of policy preferences in Latinxs—with more acculturated individuals generally holding attitudes closer to their non‐Latinx Anglo counterparts than less acculturated Latinxs. Substantively
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Tweet like Trump: Political branding and Twitter usage among congressional candidates in 2020 and 2022 Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Jennifer Horan, Jennifer Brubaker, Aaron King, Stephen Meinhold
ObjectiveWe examine how congressional candidates use social media such as Twitter (X) to promote a political brand and connect with voters during campaigns.MethodsUsing a mixed‐method, interdisciplinary approach, we first conduct a brand analysis using 22 candidates from 11 open‐seat races in 2020. We develop and test several hypotheses using our races from 2020 and the subsequent contests in these
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How men view stigma, shame, and blame in #MeToo Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Jennifer L. Huck, Megan Homer
ObjectiveThis study examined how men respond to #MeToo scenarios alongside perceptions of rape myths and gender equity. It examined social media post reactions of stigma, shame, fear repercussions, victim blaming, truth telling, and real assault belief.MethodsThe sample of 407 male survey participants responded to closed‐ and open‐ended questions in MTurk. Men responded to three #MeToo posts copied
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Understanding the adoption of military equipment by local law enforcement agencies in the United States Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Keith Baker, Joseph Cochran, Haci Duru
ObjectiveThis article examines the diffusion of paramilitary police units across the United States to consider the computational turn in social science.MethodsThe process of police diffusion is modeled by comparing traditional predictive models with agent‐based modeling (ABM) under constant and flexible binding conditions. The data are drawn from the Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies
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Religious freedom and welfare in Africa Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Muhamadu Awal Kindzeka Wirajing, Alang Ernest Wung, Tii N. Nchofoung, Armand Mboutchouang Kountchou
ObjectiveRegions with multi‐ethnicity like Africa benefit from religiosity and freedom for improved mental and physical well‐being. Although religious freedom in its original sense advocates for peace, there are questions about whether it results in making healthy decisions that are beneficial to one's well‐being. This argument is made in light of the crimes carried out globally in the name of religious
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Party identification as a mediating variable in the perception of governmental legitimacy in Israel during the coronavirus epidemic Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Erez Cohen
ObjectiveThe policy implemented in Israel with the purpose of eradicating the COVID‐19 pandemic restricted Israeli citizens’ individual freedom. During this period, Israel was suffering from government instability that led to recurring election campaigns within a short period. In addition, the prime minister was under legal investigation for suspicions of government corruption. This study examines
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The pew and the bench: The dynamics of religious affiliations of federal court judges Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Drew Noble Lanier, Mark S. Hurwitz
ObjectiveA critical area of study of the federal courts includes those who serve on the nation's highest tribunals. While most studies of judicial diversity address the crucial issues of race or gender, we examine the cross‐time dynamics of religious affiliations within the federal courts in the United States to more broadly encompass the concept of diversity.MethodsWe analyze over two centuries of
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Gender differences in the determinants of choking under pressure: Evidence from penalty kicks in soccer Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Ricardo Manuel Santos
ObjectiveIn this article, we aim to determine whether there are gender differences about the importance of psychological pressure at the time of the penalty kick event in soccer. Soccer is a formidable framework because it is easier to disentangle the psychological aspects from clearly observable actions, strategies, and outcomes. We are interested in identifying whether there is choking under pressure
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“The more official, the less I believe”: Using focus groups to explore public opinion formation in politically polarized contexts Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Isabel Pavez, Magdalena Saldaña, Cristian Cabalin, Andrés Scherman
IntroductionPublic opinion studies have traditionally relied on survey analyses. However, a qualitative approach is needed to address opinion formation's multidimensional and contextual nature. In this study, we argue that focus groups are a technique that addresses these unique challenges.MethodsWe test this argument by looking at the case of Chile, a country marked by a streak of eight elections
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The Twitter Blackout: Do congressional rules influence the cyberworld? Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Carlos Gutierrez‐Mannix, Thomas R. Gray
IntroCommunication is understood to be a pillar of democracy. Therefore, governments around the world enact laws which make it easier for politicians to communicate with their constituents. However, some governments also restrict this ability during campaign seasons as a way of unclogging the media. In the United States, congressional election blackout dates are periods in which politicians are not
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Institutional design and the stability of responsiveness in the American states Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Scott LaCombe
BackgroundThere is a significant body of research investigating how institutions moderate the relationship between public opinion and policy in the American States, but far less attention has been given to understanding the variance of policy change. Some states have remained relatively stable in their ideological trajectory, while other states tend to see large unstable swings in policy.ObjectivesI
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Are charitable donations a luxury good of the rich? Evidence from a survey and actual behavior in a superdiverse metropolis Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Jonas Elis, Sabrina Jasmin Mayer, Achim Goerres
ObjectivePrevious studies on charitable giving have emphasized the importance of socioeconomic status in explaining why individuals choose to donate or not to donate money. Other explanations, such as social capital or local contexts, have also been investigated, but these perspectives are rarely combined and tested against an actual behavioral outcome measure. We seek to compare the statistical importance
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Do firms with environmental, social, and governance reputational risk take into account board gender diversity? An analysis on a global scale Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Mai‐Minh‐Anh Tran, Ngoc‐Yen‐Chi Nguyen, Nguyen‐Khanh‐Ha Quyen, Phuong‐Nhu Tran, Nguyen‐Minh‐Thu Phan, Anh‐Tuan Le
ObjectiveThis article studies whether a firm's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reputational risk influences board gender diversity. Besides, we are also interested in the moderating role of gender equality and country development level toward the relationship between reputational risk and board gender diversity.MethodUsing a comprehensive sample of firms from 52 countries between 2007 and
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Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked‐choice general elections affect political spending? Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Zachary Albert, Robert G. Boatright, Lane Cuthbert, Adam Eichen, Wouter van Erve, Raymond J. La Raja, Meredith Rolfe
ObjectiveRanked‐choice voting (RCV) is increasingly seen as a way to reduce political polarization and increase voter choice in elections, but little is known about its effect on candidate fundraising. In 2022, Alaska held its first election using a nonpartisan Top 4 primary followed by a ranked‐choice general election. We analyze the effect of this new system on campaign financing practices in state
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Measuring cultural identities in cultural theory survey research Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Branden B. Johnson, Brendon Swedlow
ObjectiveEfforts to measure cultural identities in survey research rely on self‐reported ethnic, racial, and national identities. We test how survey operationalization of grid–group cultural theory (CT) influences the classification of individuals’ (sub)cultural identities.MethodsA national online sample of Americans (n = 697 for current analyses) rated items from CT indices, CT statements, and cultural
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Comparing public support for digital surveillance policies in 50 countries Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Jing Jin, Yufan Guo, Jia Lu
ObjectiveThis article employs three theoretical approaches (cultural, institutional, and informational) to explain public willingness to support two major forms of digital surveillance policies—video surveillance and internet surveillance—in the countries with varying levels of political trust.MethodsUtilizing the data from World Values Survey (WVS) and the other sources, this study conducts a multi‐level
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Volatile pies: Modeling compositional volatility Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Abbie Eastman, Andrea Junqueira, Ali Kagalwala, Andrew Q. Philips, Guy D. Whitten
ObjectiveThe study aims to demonstrate the utility of modeling compositional volatility in substantive domains beyond budgeting.MethodsWe show how to model compositional volatility on its own or as a part of a system of equations in which the component parts of the compositional outcome variable are also modeled.ResultsUsing data on the volatility of support for German political parties, we demonstrate
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Revisiting the nexus between development aid, institutions, and growth: A global evidence Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Ömer Faruk Biçen, Mustafa Necati Çoban
ObjectiveThis study mainly focuses on the relationship between development aid and growth as well as examines the role of the institutional development levels of countries in this relationship and makes economic inferences.MethodsThe analysis is conducted for 64 countries receiving official development assistance in the 2000–2020 period. To provide robust estimates in these studies, the Driscoll and
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Exploring the influence of wealth on judicial decision making Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Banks Miller, Brett Curry
ObjectiveAttention to levels of socioeconomic inequality has given rise to work investigating its potential to influence political actors and, thus, policy outcomes. These studies have focused on elected actors in legislative contexts. Ours fills this gap by assessing the consequences of a judge's wealth on decision making.MethodsWe obtain data on federal appellate judges’ wealth and explore its influence
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A simple approach to dealing with partial contestation Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Ali Kagalwala, Thiago M. Q. Moreira, Guy D. Whitten
ObjectiveWe propose a simple approach to dealing with partial contestation in models of multiparty elections.MethodsOur proposed approach is to add a tiny value to the vote share of parties that do not contest a district and then to include dummy variables identifying those districts in which parties do not compete. We can then estimate a single system of equations using a seemingly unrelated regression
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Race differences in support for anti‐racism policies: Endorsements of anti‐black and anti‐white stereotypes Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Eric Silver, John Iceland, Kerby Goff
IntroductionSupport for anti‐racism policies such as mandatory diversity training and affirmative action varies by race. Research in the racial resentment and symbolic racism traditions focuses on whites’ endorsements of stereotypes that blame blacks for their unequal position in society, causing whites to be less supportive of anti‐racism policies. Systemic racism theory suggests an additional hypothesis:
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Beyond racial resentment: Systemic racism beliefs and public attitudes toward criminal justice institutions and reforms Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Eric Silver, John Iceland, Kerby Goff
IntroductionSystemic racism theory has become a central part of academic and public discussions about criminal justice institutions and reforms. Little, however, is known about the association between people's belief in the ubiquity of systemic racism and their attitudes toward criminal justice institutions and reforms.MethodsTo fill this gap, we examine the association between systemic racism beliefs
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When demography is (not) destiny: Exploring identity and issue‐cross‐pressures among Latino voters in the 2020 presidential election Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Álvaro J. Corral, David L. Leal
ObjectiveScholars have struggled to understand Donald Trump's surprising levels of Latino support in two consecutive presidential elections. We test three hypotheses to better understand the strength and weakness of Trump, Biden, and both political parties.MethodsWe conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses of pre‐ and post‐election surveys to identify sources of support (beyond national origin differences)
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Presidents and nonprofits: Illustrating compositional modeling of the U.S. nonprofit sector Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Samantha Zuhlke
ObjectivesNonprofits sit at the intersection of policy and politics. Compositional modeling presents an opportunity for nonprofit scholars to investigate trade‐offs within the nonprofit sector.MethodsUsing U.S. nonprofit and political data from 1993 to 2013, I employ a dynamic pie modeling strategy to illustrate how federal politics affect the composition of the nonprofit sector.ResultsU.S. federal
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The effects of immigrant generational status on the likelihood of misreporting turnout Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Dan Qi
ObjectiveThis article explores the effects of immigrant generational status on the likelihood of misreporting turnout. I contend that varied levels of immigrant status affect individuals’ misreporting turnout in different ways due to social desirability and assimilation level concerns.MethodsUsing data from 2016 and 2020 Cooperative Election Study data sets, which include questions on respondents’
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Personalism and purges: Are personalist dictators more likely to engage in elite purges? Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 John Ishiyama, Marijke Breuning, Taekbin Kim
ObjectiveIn this article, we empirically examine the relationship between personalism and employing purging or cooptation as regime elite management techniques. Much of the literature suggests that there is a close relationship between personalism and the use of violence to maintain power, and thus suggests a connection between personalism and violent purges.MethodsUsing data from 109 autocracies from
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Timing and responsiveness in American political advertising campaigns Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Kevin K. Banda
ObjectiveThough candidates for political office use their campaigns to appeal to voters, they are unable to do so uninterrupted. Prior research suggests that they must respond to the advertising strategies employed by their opponents when determining their own strategies. How does this responsiveness vary across the campaign cycle?MethodsI test how general election television advertising responsiveness
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Partisanship is why people vote in person in a pandemic Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Seo‐Young Silvia Kim, Akhil Bandreddi, R. Michael Alvarez
ObjectiveThe choice of voting methods has increasingly become a politicized, partisan issue. We ask: Can a nationalized partisan rhetoric cast doubt on vote‐by‐mail (VBM) despite years of experience and a raging pandemic?MethodUsing 2020 general election records in Colorado, an established all‐mail voting state, we analyze first the general choice of voting methods using supervised machine learning
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Wakanda forever! Consistency in correlates of black nationalist tendencies Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Tony N. Brown, Quintin Gorman, Autumn Raynor, Asia Bento, Julian Culver, Jauhara Ferguson
Objective:This study investigates correlates of black nationalist tendencies, defined as endorsing sentiments consistent with black nationalism. Black nationalism is an ideology that advocates for cultural, economic, political, and social separatism, and/or community autonomy and self‐reliance as survival tactics. Warrant for this study arises from the opinion black nationalism is an anachronism—a
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State attachment and gubernatorial approval Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Jonathan Winburn, Daniel J. Fudge, Joseph Murphy, Bailey Griffin
ObjectiveThe purpose of this article is to examine what drives individual attitudes toward their governor with a focus on the role of place attachment as a means of diffuse support.MethodsUsing original surveys from March and May 2020, we test the role of place attachment in explaining gubernatorial approval.ResultsWe find state or place attachment is a strong predictor of gubernatorial approval especially
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Are women politicians outperformed by men? The impact of gender on legislative activity in Japan Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Yue Yin
ObjectivesGiven the distinct political landscape of Japan, this study aims to explore the impact of gender on the parliamentary behavior of Japanese legislators.MethodsUtilizing a self‐constructed data set covering the 44th–48th Diets (2005–2021), this study examines the individual‐level parliamentary activities of male and female legislators in Japan. Key metrics analyzed include the frequency of
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From fear to hate: Sources of anti‐Asian sentiment during COVID‐19 Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Yaoyao Dai, Jingjing Gao, Benjamin J. Radford
ObjectiveThis paper seeks to explain and empirically test how a public health crisis, such as the COVID‐19 pandemic, might lead to discriminatory attitudes and behaviors against marginalized groups.MethodWe identify four causal mechanisms that may account for the increase in anti‐Asian racism during COVID‐19. Using a large data set of geolocated COVID‐19‐related tweets in the U.S., we examine the spatiotemporal
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Civility norm violations and political accountability Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Drew Cagle, Nicholas T. Davis
IntroductionThis short article investigates how violations of civility norms by politicians affect attitudes about the importance of norms and demand for political accountability after wrongdoing.ResultsOur main findings are twofold: (1) support for norms and (2) demand for punishing norm‐breaking increases when parties hold political officials accountable for their actions—especially in the case of
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Walking an extra mile: Determinants of organizational citizenship behavior—An exploratory study in faith‐based organizations Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Jerin Jose, Arun Antony Chully, Nobin Thomas
ObjectiveOur study is intended to explore the factors that promote organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) in faith‐based organizations, which has the potential to extend the scholarly conversation around a previously unexplored context.MethodsOur study used a purposive, homogeneous sampling technique in selecting the participants. We interviewed 30 employees who have at least 5 years of experience
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The institutionalization of “serial personalization” in Argentina's Peronist Party, 1983–2023 Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Andres Malamud, Leiv Marsteintredet
ObjectiveThe purpose of this article is to explain how Peronism, an allegedly personalist party, has managed to institutionalize its internal power struggles and its succession procedures since democratization in 1983.MethodsThe authors employ the common conceptual framework developed for this special issue. Evidence is drawn from public media, scholarly sources, and participant observation. A two‐tier
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Personalization and de‐institutionalization: Our common conceptual framework Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Robert Harmel, Lars Svåsand, Hilmar Mjelde
Though parties serving as “personalist vehicles” have been known to exist for some time in less well-established democracies, they are certainly less commonplace in well-institutionalized democracies where parties are normally expected to make decisions by routinized, democratic procedures and maintain substantial value in their own right. And yet, even highly institutionalized parties in such settings
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Bad times keep us together: Policy priorities and economic shocks Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Christine S. Lipsmeyer, Andrew Q. Philips, Amanda Rutherford, Guy D. Whitten
ObjectiveWe analyze how economic shocks affect the partisan nature of budgetary trade‐offs and use data from the U.S. Census Annual Survey of Government Finance to illustrate it.MethodsWe propose a compositional approach to model trade‐offs among 10 budgetary categories across both time and space in U.S. states.ResultsWe find support for the notion that partisanship drives the allocation of budgetary
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Since you put it that way… Gender norms and interruptions at Supreme Court oral arguments Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Shane A. Gleason
ObjectiveAt U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments, female attorneys are more likely to be interrupted than their male counterparts under some conditions. This makes it difficult for women to effectively construct a narrative and substantively impact case law. While existing work conceptualizes gender as a binary, I draw on recent work stressing gender is performative to deesentialize gender and explore
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Public sector corruption is fertile ground for conspiracy beliefs: A comparison between 26 Western and non‐Western countries Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Laurent Cordonier, Florian Cafiero
ObjectiveResearch on conspiracy theories has mainly focused on psychosocial and sociodemographic factors associated with conspiracy beliefs. Little is known about factors at the nation level that provide a breeding ground for conspiracist thinking. However, an interesting finding emerges from recent international comparisons: people living in countries with a highly corrupt public sector seem to be
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Look over there. Where? A compositional approach to the modeling of public opinion on the most important problem Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Steven Jokinsky, Christine S. Lipsmeyer, Andrew Q. Philips, Laron K. Williams, Guy D. Whitten
ObjectiveThis study aims to test whether the American public is polarized and/or parallel in its assessments of the most important problem.MethodsWe use compositional time series models and new data on public opinion to test for differences between subgroups.ResultsWe find inconsistent evidence of polarization for some issue areas but not others and remarkably robust evidence of parallel reactions
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Individual legal action as minority activism: Romani Germans in 1950s West Germany Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Claire Greenstein
ObjectivesSocial movement theory argues that activist movements emerge when the political opportunity structure is favorable. This article contributes to the literature on social movements and minority activism by showing that individual‐level activism happens even without a favorable opportunity structure.MethodsThe legal journal Rechtsprechung zum Wiedergutmachungsrecht (Case Law on Reparations Legislation)
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Achieving electoral equity after Brnovich: A case study of Native activism in Nevada Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Jean Schroedel, Joseph Dietrich, David Lindgren, Melissa Rogers
ObjectiveWe examine the role of local election officials in voter suppression of Native Americans and opportunities for legal redress using state law.MethodsWe present a case study of the Shoshone and Paiute Tribal leaders, Native activists, and lawyers in Elko County, Nevada, to provide electoral access on the Duck Valley Reservation.ResultsWe document the successful legal strategy against Elko County
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How Latinos’ perceptions of environmental health threats impact policy preferences Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Edward D. Vargas, Barbara Gómez‐Aguiñaga, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Matt A. Barreto
ObjectiveThis article examines the relationship between environmental health threats, personal experiences with climate change, and their association with attitudes toward global warming and willingness to pay for clean energy.MethodsUsing a nationally representative survey of Latino adults (n = 1200), we use categorical regressions to examine the relationship between environmental health threats and
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The prosecutor gender gap in Texas death penalty cases Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 David Niven, Mallory Rock
ObjectiveWe examine the degree to which sentencing patterns in Texas capital cases vary by the gender of the prosecutor. In so doing, we explore the possibility that a factor unrelated to the crime influences whether the death penalty is sought and whether it is imposed.MethodsAcross more than 14,000 capital cases prosecuted in Texas between 1978 and 2018, we use bivariate data and logistic regression
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Public opinion on reforming U.S. primaries Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Robert G. Boatright, Caroline J. Tolbert, Nathan K. Micatka
ObjectiveFew studies have measured public attitudes about reform proposals for changing direct primaries. Despite strong public support over the past century for holding primaries, does the public want to change the direct primary, given its very low voter turnout and its potential role in fostering political polarization?MethodUsing a unique nationally representative survey of 3000 U.S. adults conducted
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The impact of voter confusion in ranked choice voting Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Lonna Rae Atkeson, Eli McKown‐Dawson, Jack Santucci, Kyle L. Saunders
ObjectivesElection observers have expressed concerns about voter “confusion” under ranked choice voting (RCV) since the 1890s. What is the meaning of “confusing,” and how does it affect behavior? We argue (with much of the literature) that ranking candidates for public office is a cognitively complex task because of a lack of information.MethodsWe explore some observable implications of this perspective
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The Dynamics of Inequality and Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis of the Spanish Income Tax Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Juan Ignacio Martín‐Legendre, Pablo Castellanos‐García, José Manuel Sánchez‐Santos
ObjectiveThis article aims to analyze the evolution of income inequality and mobility in Spain during the period 1999–2011 by exploiting data from personal income tax returns.MethodsTo assess the evolution of inequality over the period analyzed, we have used some of the many metrics developed for this purpose, each of which offers a different approach depending on the segment of the income distribution
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Evaluating the pinnacle of football match key statistics as in‐play information for determining the match outcome of Europe's foremost leagues Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Fan Xiaoyu, Wang Shasha
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the pinnacle of football match key statistics as in‐play information for determining the match outcome of Europe's foremost leagues, namely those in England, Scotland, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Greece. The study analyzed a sample of 98,849 matches across all sports leagues from the 2002/2003 to 2023/2024
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Challenges and promising practices in background check systems for firearm purchases Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Rose Kagawa, Ayush Patel, Alex Kwong, Garen Wintemute
AimThe U.S. prohibits firearm purchase among individuals with specific risk factors. These prohibitions are operationalized using background checks for firearm purchase. Despite these restrictions, prohibited persons have obtained firearms after passing background checks, sometimes with devastating effects.Materials and MethodsWe conducted a mixed‐methods, descriptive study of the records and record‐keeping
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Impact of opponents’ race, gender, and party on U.S. congressional fundraising Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Dennis Halcoussis
ObjectiveA donation for a candidate can be motivated by support for that candidate or by opposition to the candidate's opponent. This study tests the impact that race, gender, and party affiliation of the candidate and the candidate's opponent have on the candidate's fundraising.MethodsThis study uses data from the 2016, 2018, and 2020 U.S. congressional elections to estimate a regression model where
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The normatively troubling impact of attitudes toward the role of money in politics on external political efficacy Social Science Quarterly (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Katherine Haenschen, Jessica R. Collier, John C. Tedesco
ObjectiveWe explore whether Americans’ attitudes about the role of money spent on political campaigns and separately their attitudes about the influence of corporations impact their external political efficacy (EE) or perception that the government is responsive to them.MethodsWe conduct three independent sample surveys (total N = 2789) to measure individuals’ attitudes toward the role of money in