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Religion, Secularism, and a Democratic Politics of "As If"
"The religious" and "the secular" are often posed as a divide; a narrative which poses religion and secularism as antagonists. This long-standing habit of thought remains active in the contemporary United States, polarizing public debates and generating misunderstanding. Are there other ways of talking about and enacting the relations between "religion" and "secularism" that can avoid balkaniza…
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- Volume 76, Number 4 Winter 2009 Pages: 1345 - 1350
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- 0037783x
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly
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Money and State Legislative Elections: The Conditional Impact of Political Co…
This study builds on existing literature demonstrating the conditional effects of contextual and conversion factors on the relationship between money and votes in state legislative elections. A conditional theory of the impact of spending in state legislative campaigns is developed, emphasizing that the effectiveness of expenditures should vary according to the number of “up for grabs” voters i…
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- Vol. 38 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 399-424
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- 1532673x
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- American Politics Research
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Mobilizing the Mobilized: The Electoral Recruitment Paradox
The campaign mobilization literature argues that contacting will have the most influence on individuals who are socioeconomically or politically disadvantaged. Yet evidence persistently shows that the advantaged are disproportionately contacted. This paradox is explained once one recognizes that contacting during elections serves divergent goals that are tied to the election cycle and to electi…
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- Vol. 38 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 425-442
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- 1532673x
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- American Politics Research
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Deracializing Obama: White Voters and the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Race
Using the unique circumstances of the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate election, we report findings from survey data from a probability sample of White voters conducted in Illinois during the course of the 2004 election. In an experimental manipulation embedded in the survey, we tested four distinctive framings of Barack Obama by systematically altering the degree and content of his racialization as a…
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- Vol. 38 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 443-470
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- American Politics Research
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Racial Environment and Political Participation
How does the racial environment influence mass political participation? The power—threat hypothesis predicts that a larger out-group population in the surrounding environment increases citizen participation, whereas the relational goods hypothesis predicts that it decreases participation. I attempt to reconcile these conflicting arguments into a single hypothesis positing that citizens’ decisio…
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- Vol. 38 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 471-501
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- 1532673x
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- American Politics Research
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Do Voters Perceive Negative Campaigns as Informative Campaigns?
We argue that citizens distinguish the tone of a campaign from the quality of information that it provides and that evaluations on each dimension respond differently to positive and negative political advertising. We test these claims using survey and advertising data from the 2000 presidential campaign and two 1998 gubernatorial races. In each race, citizens separate judgments about the tone o…
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- Vol. 38 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 502-530
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- 1532673x
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- American Politics Research
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Black-Latino Political Relationships: Policy Voting in the U.S. House of Repr…
Political relations between racial/ethnic groups in America have (a) been commonly examined in terms of the degree of “cooperation” or “conflict” and (b) have most frequently been studied in the arena of urban politics; this has been especially so in the case of Hispanics/Latinos and African Americans. This article represents the first effort to pose and to systematically assess the question of…
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- Vol. 38 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 531-562
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- 1532673x
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- American Politics Research
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Candidate Quality and the Election of Republican Governors in the South, 1950…
Following the Civil War, the Democratic Party enjoyed almost complete dominance in southern electoral politics. Democratic hegemony was particularly acute in gubernatorial elections: In most southern states, more than a century elapsed before the first Republican governor was elected. Gubernatorial electoral success is a fundamental question, given the prominence of governors in state politics …
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- Vol. 38 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 563-585
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- 1532673x
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- American Politics Research
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Evolutionary Perspectives on Workplace Gossip: Why and How Gossip Can Serve G…
Gossip in the workplace has generally been ignored by researchers and often criticized by practitioners. The authors apply a transdisciplinary evolutionary approach to argue that gossip is a natural part of social organizations and that certain conditions can encourage socially-redeeming gossip. They draw on case studies involving cattle ranchers, members of a competitive rowing team, and airli…
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- Vol. 35 no. 2 April 2010 pp. 150-176
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- 10596011
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- Group Organization Management
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A Social Network Analysis of Positive and Negative Gossip in Organizational Life
The authors use social network analysis to understand how employees’ propensity to engage in positive and negative gossip is driven by their underlying relationship ties.They find that expressive friendship ties between employees are positively related to engaging in both positive and negative gossip, whereas instrumental workflow ties, which are less trusting than friendship ties, are related …
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- Vol. 35 no. 2 April 2010 pp. 177-212
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- Group Organization Management
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Experiencing Gossip: The Foundations for a Theory of Embedded Organizational …
This article presents findings on the nature and operation of gossip that emerged from an empirical study of organizational communication during a chief executive officer (CEO) succession process. By studying gossip within the context of a broader study of change-related communication, new insights were gained that extend, and in some respects challenge, commonly accepted views of the nature of…
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- Vol. 35 no. 2 April 2010 pp. 213-240
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- 10596011
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- Group Organization Management
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Perceived Teacher Acceptance, Parental Acceptance, and the Adjustment, Achiev…
Drawing stimulus from parental acceptance-rejection theory (PARTheory) and associated measures, articles in this special issue attempt to assess the relative contribution of perceived teacher and parental (maternal and paternal) acceptance and behavioral control to the psychological adjustment, school conduct, and academic achievement of school-going youths (boys and girls) within six nations c…
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- Vol. 44 no. 3 August 2010 pp. 211-221
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- 10693971
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- Cross-Cultural Research
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Relationships Between Perceived Teachers’ and Parental Behavior and Adolesc…
This study addresses relationships between perceived maternal, paternal, and teacher acceptance and behavioral control, and adolescents’ psychological adjustment, school conduct, and academic achievement in Estonia. A total of 224 sixth graders respond to 3 self-report measures. Adolescents’ school conduct and grade point average (GPA) are reported by teachers. Study findings show that girls’ p…
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- Vol. 44 no. 3 August 2010 pp. 222-238
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- 10693971
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- Cross-Cultural Research
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The Relationship Between Perceived Teacher and Parental Acceptance, School Co…
This study explored the relationship between students’ perceptions of their teachers’ and parents’ (mothers’ and fathers’) acceptance, and teachers’ reports of the students’ conduct in school as well as students’ reports of their own psychological adjustment. The study was conducted on a sample of 200 high school students in Bangladesh. Results showed that, on average, Bangladeshi students perc…
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- Vol. 44 no. 3 August 2010 pp. 239-252
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- 10497315
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- Cross-Cultural Research
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Perceived Teacher and Parental Acceptance and Behavioral Control, School Cond…
This study explored the relationship between Indian adolescents’ perceptions of their teachers’ and parents’ (mothers’ and fathers’) acceptance and behavioral control, students’ conduct in school, and students’ psychological adjustment. A sample of 217 high school students in India was enrolled in the study. Results showed that the students perceived their teachers, mothers, and fathers to be w…
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- Vol. 44 no. 3 August 2010 pp. 253-268
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- 10693971
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- Cross-Cultural Research
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Perceived Teachers’ Acceptance, Parental Acceptance, Behavioral Control, Sc…
The goal of this research was to explore the relationship between Kuwaiti students’ perceptions of their teachers’ and parents’ (mothers’ and fathers’) acceptance and behavioral control and students’ conduct in school, and psychological adjustment. A sample of 205 middle school students in Kuwait was enrolled in the study. Results showed that both boys and girls perceived their parents and teac…
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- Vol. 44 no. 3 August 2010 pp. 269-282
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- 10693971
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- Cross-Cultural Research
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Perceived Teacher Acceptance, Parental Acceptance, Academic Achievement, and …
This study investigated the effects of perceived teacher acceptance as well as perceived maternal and paternal acceptance on the academic achievement and school conduct of 362 seventh-grade adolescents in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States. Results showed a significant correlation between perceived teacher acceptance and boys’ (but not girls’) overall grade point average (GPA). P…
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- Vol. 44 no. 3 August 2010 pp.283-294
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- 10693971
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- Cross-Cultural Research
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Influence of Perceived Teacher Acceptance, Self-Concept, and School Attitude …
This study investigated the influence of perceived teacher acceptance, children’s self-concept, and children’s attitude toward school on children’s academic achievement. The sample included 223 fifth-grade students in Istanbul, Turkey. The Teacher Acceptance-Rejection/Control Questionnaire, Piers-Harris Self-Concept Scale, and School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised were utilized in data coll…
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- Vol. 44 no. 3 August 2010 pp. 295-309
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- 10693971
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- Cross-Cultural Research
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The Uses of Divided Power
The 2010 presidential election shows that Ukraine is both a surprisingly stable electoral democracy and a disturbingly corrupt one. The corruption, moreover, may have a lot to do with the stability.
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- Vol. 20, No. 3, July 2010, pp. 84-98
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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Regional governance and hazard information: the role of co-ordinated risk ass…
With the threat of wildfire hanging over many communities in the Western and Southern United States, wildfire mitigation is evolving into a significant public responsibility for rural and urban edge county governments. Regional governance is an important piece of the effort to reduce wildfire risks although still weakly developed as a policy arena. This project explores two dimensions in which …
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- Volume 53, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 1 - 21
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- 09640568
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- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
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