Social Science Quarterly articles from June 2004

Social Science Quarterly archives from June 2004

Work life and social fulfillment: does social affiliation at work reflect a carrot or a stick? *.
June 1, 2004... Objectives. Work life and home life appear to be in increasing competition for scarce time and attention. Does the workplace offer a social haven for people? And if so, for whom is it most attractive? Or does the increasing affiliation with...

Social construction and policy implementation: inmate health as a public health issue *.
June 1, 2004... Objectives. This article develops and tests a concise multi-stage approach for assessing the impact of social construction on the implementation of public programs designed to benefit negatively constructed groups. The framework suggests that...

Nice to know you? Testing contact, cultural, and group threat theories of anti-black and anti-Hispanic stereotypes *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. Many racial/ethnic policies in the United States--from desegregation to affirmative action policies--presume that contact improves racial/ethnic relations. Most research, however, tests related theories in isolation from one...

Religion and presidential politics in Florida: a list experiment *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. Although national surveys indicate that Americans have become more accepting of the prospect of a Jewish presidential candidate, this could reflect some voters' desire to be seen as having socially correct opinions. The present...

The context for political corruption: a cross-national analysis *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. How do we explain variations across nations in the incidence of political corruption? Recent theoretical work locates the causes for corruption in a combination of institutional conditions: monopoly power, little accountability,...

American Indian ethnic identity: tribal nonresponse in the 1990 census *.
June 1, 2004... Objectives. About 11 percent of American Indians did not report their tribal affiliation on the 1990 U.S. Census form. I use several theoretical perspectives as tools to explore the reasons behind this surprising omission. Method. Logistic...

Federal defense spending and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan disparities in economic growth in the southeast *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. This study examines how defense spending in the 1980s and early 1990s affected economic growth in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties in the southeast. Methods. Using county-level Census and other government data, the study...

Deciding where to retire: intended retirement location choices of formerly undocumented Mexican migrants *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. I use transnational theory to address how transnational relationships, behavior, and context influence retirement location choices of recently legalized immigrants. I also account for the relationship between assimilation and...

Status seeking and social welfare: is there virtue in vanity? *.
June 1, 2004... Objectives. This article examines how social status rewards can affect social welfare outcomes in the presence of positive and negative externalities. Method. A rational choice approach is used to characterize how individuals respond to...

Second-generation immigrants? The "2.5 generation" in the United States *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. This article takes issue with the way that second-generation immigrants have been traditionally defined. In most studies, respondents are considered to he "second generation" if they are born in the United States and if at least...

Lies, damned lies, and campaign promises? Environmental legislation in the 105th Congress *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. The extent to which candidates for elected office keep their campaign promises holds great interest for citizens and has important consequences for the quality of democracy. However, we know very little about whether candidates...

Waiting to inhale: the demographics of toxic air release facilities in 21st-century California *.
June 1, 2004... Objectives. We examine the spatial distribution of toxic air releases and residential demographics in California using 2000 Census data and coeval information from the Federal Toxic Release Inventory for evidence of disproportionate exposure....

Who lives on the wrong side of the environmental tracks? Evidence from the EPA's risk-screening environmental indicators model *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. We analyze the social and economic correlates of air pollution exposure in U.S. cities. Methods. We combine 1990 Census block group data for urbanized areas with 1998 data on toxicity-adjusted exposure to air pollution. Using a...

Living in the moment: lags, leads, and the link between legislative agendas and interest advocacy *.
June 1, 2004... Objectives. Based on sharply divergent interpretations about the nature of the politics of organized interests, three competing perspectives imply that organized interests variously lead, lag, or are contemporaneous with legislative agendas....

Party and personal preference in post-Soviet legislatures *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. Initial studies of post-Soviet legislative behavior have concluded that parties can affect legislative behavior; however, the methods used by these studies failed to distinguish between the effects of party and personal...

Ideological centrism and the electoral fortunes of U.S. Senate candidates *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. The Downsian model of electoral competition with its individual-level assumption of proximity voting by individuals implies that candidates in two-party systems should perform better in elections when they adopt platforms more...

What price nondisclosure? The effects of nondisclosure of real estate sales prices *.
June 1, 2004... Objective. Only a select set of states still do not require mandatory public disclosure of real estate sales prices. In this article we examine the possible public-sector consequences of failing to make real estate sales prices publicly...