Social Science Quarterly articles from September 2000

Social Science Quarterly archives from September 2000

Racial residential segregation by level of socioeconomic status *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Several explanations have been offered for the persistence of residential segregation between blacks and whites in American metropolitan areas. One is that socioeconomic status (SES) differences between blacks and whites are the cause (Farley...

The indigenous influence theory of American democracy *.
September 1, 2000... Scholars, mainly historians (Grinde, 1977, 1988, 1993; Johansen, 1982; Grinde and Johansen, 1991, 1996), theorize that indigenous societies influenced the formation of certain key aspects of American democratic thought and institutions. (1)...

Pathways in the periphery: tourism to indigenous communities in Panama *.
September 1, 2000... Governments across the developing world are decreasing social spending and opening their economies to international market forces. Surprisingly, the poorest of the poor--indigenous peoples--may have an advantage over their fellow citizens in...

Does judge gender matter? Decision making in state supreme courts *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Introduction As of 1980, there were only fourteen women serving as state supreme court (1) judges (Curriden, 1995). Thus, early studies of the potential effects of gender on judicial voting were hampered by the small number of women...

The effect of place on legislative roll-call voting: the case of central-city Representatives in the U.S. House *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Introduction Does place make a difference in the way representatives vote? By place we do not mean the specific constituency a member represents, but the type of place or, more accurately, settlement pattern--central city, suburban, or...

Moving into adulthood: family residential mobility and first-union transitions *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Family sociologists have long believed that mobility interferes with normal family processes and introduces additional stressors into child and family development. Burgess, Locke, and Thomes (1963) argue that mobility introduces family...

Opinion assignment and the Chief Justice: 1888-1940 *.
September 1, 2000... The ability to assign the Opinion of the Court has long been considered the keystone of the Chief Justice's power, especially on the modern Court (see, for example, Brenner, 1990; Rohde, 1972; Slotnick, 1979). A strategic Chief Justice can...

School racial composition and adolescent racial homophily *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... A number of studies suggest that the racial composition of schools has important consequences for students, and some of these consequences persist into adulthood. Students who attend racially integrated schools have more positive feelings...

Political culture in Canada and the United States: Comparing social trust, self-esteem, and political liberalism in major Canadian and American cities *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Introduction The persistence of differences in the Canadian and U.S. political cultures has been a subject of intense debate for quite some time. This paper presents the results of an empirical analysis of the degree to which the...

Does changing the rules change the players? the effect of all-mail elections on the composition of the electorate *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... The special Senate election in Oregon, held during January 1996, was the first time in which a federal election was held using an all-mail format. Controversy has swirled around all-mail elections for numerous reasons. Individual arguments...

Choice, charter schools, and household preferences *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... One of the persistent grounds for opposing school choice has been the belief that it will increase school segregation (Smith and Meier, 1995; Henig, 1994, 1996, 1998; Ascher, Fruchter, and Berne, 1996). One argument is that simple racial...

Across the page and down the dial: media usage and evaluations of the Christian Coalition *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Inhabitants of the late twentieth century suffer from a glut of information. The media remedy this malady by functioning as latter-day "huntergatherers," for they constantly collect, evaluate, compress, and communicate information to the...

Measuring the gender gap on the internet *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... The Internet has a reputation in some quarters for being biased toward the interests and styles of men. Speculative reasons for this reputation abound, including gender inequality in the professions and industries producing the technologies...

The distribution of environmental justice: a comment *.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Early environmental justice studies from the 1970s suggested that low-income groups and nonwhites were exposed to disproportionately high levels of air pollution. Hird and Reese (1998), hereafter HR, recently examined the relationship between...

Congressional elections beyond the year of the woman: a research update *.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... In a previous article in this journal, Gaddie and Bullock (1995) explored the impact of various candidate factors on the advancement of women, through the venue of open seats, and with particular attention paid to the performance of women in...

Response to Downey: environmental injustice: is race or income a better predictor? *.
September 1, 2000... Although we have some disagreements with Mr. Downey's article on environmental justice (1998), we find that his and similar articles and special issues of Social Science Quarterly (1996) are of central importance to the continued development...

Response to comments by William M. Bowen and Kingsley E. Haynes *.(response to article in this issue, p. 885)
September 1, 2000... In their response to my 1998 article, Bowen and Haynes (2000) imply that my research lacks scientific credibility. According to them, I (1) do not "give appropriate and systematic consideration to space" (2000:887); (2) move from a smaller...

The debate over environmental justice *.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... One of the problems in doing research in the environmental justice area is sensitivity to criticism that often draws more heat than light. Let us begin by clearing the air. In general, we feel that there are important issues in environmental...

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... Edmund Morris. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. New York: Random House, 1999. 874 pages. $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-394-55508-2). Few books have been as anxiously awaited by presidential scholars as Edmund Morris' biography of Ronald...

Political Thought and Political Thinkers and Redeeming American Political Thought. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... Judith N. Shklar. Political Thought and Political Thinkers, edited by Stanley Hoffmann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 402 pages. $60.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-22675344-1), $21.00 paperback (0-226-75346-8). Judith N. Shklar,...

The American Presidency under Siege. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... Gary L. Rose. The American Presidency under Siege. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 231 pages. $56.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-7914-3337-4), $19.95 paperback (0-7914-3338-2). The modern American presidency, Gary L. Rose writes,...

Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... Yanick St. Jean and Joe R. Feagin. Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism. Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 231 pages. $19.95 paperback (ISBN 1-56324-944-8). Social-scientific accounts of contemporary America have...

Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... Mark E. Brandon. Free in the World:American Slavery and Constitutional Failure. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.248 pages. $39.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-691-01581-3). In the preface to Free in the World, Mark Brandon denies...

The Environmental Crusaders: Confronting Disaster and Mobilizing Community. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... Penina Migdal Glazer and Myron Peretz Glazer. The Environmental Crusaders: Confronting Disaster and Mobilizing Community. University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 256 pages. $50.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-271-01775-9), $18.95...

Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-1940. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... William Wyckoff. Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-1940. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press. $30.00 paperback (ISBN 0-30-007118-3). Historical geographer William Wyckoff begins the book...

The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorenson. The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. 275 pages. ISBN 0-292-75213-X. Texas is well-known...

Challenges for Work and Family in the Twenty-first Century. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... Dana Vannoy and Paula J. Dubeck, eds. Challenges for Work and Family in the Twenty-first Century. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine de Gruyter, 1998. 245 pages. $43.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-202-30567-8), $21.95 paperback (ISBN 0-202-30568-6). This...

Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2000... Philip Green. Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. 262 pages. $55.00 hardcover (ISBN 1-5584-9119-8). Philip Green declares his purpose, his perspective, and his...