Social Science Quarterly articles from December 2000

Social Science Quarterly archives from December 2000

The effects of visual images in political ads: experimental testing of distortions and visual literacy *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Introduction Since political advertising on television has become the dominant form of communication between candidates and voters (Devlin, 1997; Jamieson, 1996; Kaid, 1981), scholars and media observers alike have bemoaned the deleterious...

The myth of legality and public evaluation of the Supreme Court *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... There has been long-standing interest in the mythology that surrounds the Supreme Court (see, e.g., Lerner, 1937; Mason, 1959, 1962; Miller, 1965; Stumpf, 1966; Levinson, 1980; Fiscus, 1991). While most of the scholarly discussion of judicial...

The costs of representation in state legislatures: explaining variations in campaign spending *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Introduction The amount of money spent by candidates to win and hold elective office has grown rapidly in recent years (Alexander, 1992), and state legislative races are no exception to this general trend (Moncrief, 1992, 1998). Some...

Media impacts on suicide: a quantitative review of 293 findings *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Recent research has often replicated and developed Phillips' (1974) imitation theorem that widely publicized suicide stories trigger copycat suicides (for bibliographic reviews, see Lester, 1992; Phillips, 1989; Phillips, Lesyna, and Paight,...

Survivalist entrepreneurship among urban Blacks during the Great Depression: a test of the disadvantage theory of business enterprise *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... The disadvantage theory of business enterprise suggests that entrepreneurship is a common response by minorities to blocked opportunity in the economic mainstream. Specifically, the theory argues that disadvantage in the labor market (i.e.,...

Testing the Survivalist Entrepreneurship model *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Introduction A clear understanding of the relationship between labor market disadvantage and African American self-employment is extremely important when considering the complex nexus between blocked employment opportunities and...

Conceptual and analytical issues in testing the hypothesis of survivalist entrepreneurship: a response to Fitch and Myers.(response to article by Fitch and Myers in this issue, p. 985)
December 1, 2000... My response to Fitch and Myers affords me the opportunity to clarify several conceptual and analytical issues that bear on my test of the hypothesis that labor market disadvantage increased Blacks' rate of entrepreneurship during the Great...

Judging not only by color: ethnicity, nativity, and neighborhood attainment *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Introduction Residential integration is one important dimension of the adaptation of immigrant groups into the host society. The relationship between the spatial position and social conditions of immigrants and natives has been a topic of...

"They cannot master abstractions, but they can often be made efficient workers": Race and class in the intelligence testing of Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas during the 1920s *.
December 1, 2000... The performance of minorities such as Mexican Americans and African Americans became a central preoccupation of the American scientific community in the early twentieth century. During the 1920s the state educational establishment of Texas and...

Symbolic racism in the 1995 Louisiana gubernatorial election *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... In his seminal work on Southern politics, V. O. Key, Jr. (1949:665), noted that "in the final analysis the peculiarities of southern white politics come from the impact of the black race." Since the mid-1960s, Key's observation has also been...

Class, race, and job matching in contemporary Urban labor markets *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Over a quarter century of research has confirmed that social networks play a vital and widespread role in shaping labor market outcomes (for a review, see Granovetter, 1995). In the present study I advance this line of research by examining a...

From Latin American immigrant to "Hispanic" citizen: the role of social capital in seeking U.S. citizenship *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... U.S. citizenship applications rose from roughly 200,000 in fiscal year (FY) 1991 to over 1.6 million in FY 1996 (U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS], 1997). Much of this growth is attributable to increased petitions by recent...

The politics of bilingual education expenditures in urban school districts *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Introduction This article investigates which factors shape the money spent by urban school districts on bilingual education programs. It represents a step forward in the research on urban politics and school policy making because it...

Fertility of Mexican immigrant women in the U.S.: a closer look *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Introduction Mexican immigrant women in the U.S. average more children during their lifetime than most other immigrant and native-born groups, and have done so for decades (Bustamente et al., 1998; Ford, 1990; Stephen, 1989). The...

The labor of sisyphus?: women's and men's reactions to housework *.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Household labor, viewed until recent decades as marginal to social science, has become central to the analysis of gender inequality for several reasons. First, it consumes significant amounts of time for many American adults (Spain and Bianchi,...

Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Edited by Fred M. Shelley Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1999. 186 pages. $19.95 paperback (ISBN 1-56802-392-8). As I was writing this...

Voting Rights and Redistricting in the United States. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Mark E. Rush, ed. Voting Rights and Redistricting in the United States. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. 314 pages hardcover (ISBN: 0-313-29948-X). Every so often, a book comes along that touches on all angles of a timely and...

Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan. Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 198 pages. $42.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-472-10942-1). For nearly a century, scholars have questioned the...

Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Frederic L. Pryor and David L. Schaffer. Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 300 pages. $34.95 hardback (ISBN 0-521-65152-2)....

Radon's Deadly Daughters: Science, Environmental Policy, and the Politics of Risk. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Michael R. Edelstein and William J. Makofske. Radon's Deadly Daughters: Science, Environmental Policy, and the Politics of Risk. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. 359 pages. $72.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-8476-8333-8), $25.95 paperback (ISBN...

Housing and Community Development in New York City: Facing the Future. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Michael H. Schill, ed. Housing and Community Development in New York City: Facing the Future. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 277 pages. $22.00 paperback (ISBN 0-7914-4040-0). New York City hosts the nation's largest...

The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Blake Gumprecht. The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 369 pages. $39.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-80186047-4). Since the beginning of history, humanity has placed great...

The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Odd S. Lovoll. The Promise Fulfielled: A Portarait it of Norwegian Americans Today. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. xv + 299 pages, illus., diagrams, map, notes, index. $29.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-8166-2832-7). With The...

The Meaning of Europe: Geography and Geopolitics. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Michael Hefferman. The Meaning of Europe: Geography and Geopolitics. London: Arnold, 1998. 294 pages. $24.95 hardcover (ISBN: 0-340-58018-6). The concept of a federal United States of Europe based on the idea of a federal United States of...

The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2000... Alex F. Dowlah and John E. Elliot. The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism. Westport, Coon.: Praeger, 1997. 283 pages + index. $65.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-2759-5629-6). This book brings a detailed analysis to the history of Soviet "Socialism."...