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The Impact of Corruption on Social Trust
I test the impact of governmental corruption on generalized social trust. Based on prior research in comparative politics and criminology, I hypothesize that increasing governmental corruption leads to decreasing beliefs that others are trustworthy. To test my hypothesis, I combine aggregate state-level data on convictions for governmental corruption with American National Election Studies pane…
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- Vol. 38 no. 4, July 2010. pp. 676-690
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Counting Congress In: Patterns of Success in Judicial Nomination Requests by …
The power to nominate and confirm federal judges is shared by Congress and the president, yet few works explicitly address the role that Congress plays in shaping the preselection pool for judicial nominees. In this article, we illuminate this debate by exploring judicial nomination requests from Members of Congress to the Eisenhower and Ford Administrations. In explaining who is nominated, the…
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- Vol. 38 no. 4, July 2010. pp. 691-717
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Canvasser Affect and Voter Response: Results From National Focus Groups
The experimental literature on voter mobilization establishes the efficacy of canvassing as a tool of voter mobilization. However, the current literature gives scant attention to the question of whether some types of canvassers may be more effective than others. This article takes the first step toward developing a positive theory of effective or ineffective canvassing. Using descriptive, quali…
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- Vol. 38 no. 4, July 2010. pp. 718-758
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Sources of Economic News and Economic Expectations
This article considers the process by which local economic news coverage influences individual evaluations of the economy. We improve on prior research by capturing a wider range of news sources (including national network news, national newspapers, local television news, and local newspapers) and connecting the effects of this coverage on individual level attitudes. We find that current person…
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- Vol. 38 no. 4, July 2010. pp. 759-777
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New World Orders: Continuities and Changes in Latin American Migration
Although migration from Mexico to the United States is more than a century old, until recently most other countries in Latin America did not send out significant numbers of migrants to foreign destinations. Over the past thirty years, however, emigration has emerged as an important demographic force throughout the region. This article outlines trends in the volume and composition of the migrant…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1, July 2010. pp. 20-52
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Pioneers and Followers: Migrant Selectivity and the Development of U.S. Migra…
The authors present a method for dividing the historical development of community migration streams into an initial period and a subsequent takeoff stage with the purpose of systemically differentiating pioneer migrants from follower migrants. The analysis is organized around five basic research questions. First, can we empirically identify a juncture point in the historical development of comm…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1, July 2010. pp. 53-77
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U.S. Migration from Latin America: Gendered Patterns and Shifts
Since the second half of the twentieth century, studies have documented the presence of women and men among migrants to and from Latin America. This study analyzes gendered patterns of U.S. migration from a variety of nations south of the border and examines how the probabilities of migrating on a first U.S. trip shift over the life course and by legal status. Using life history data from the M…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1, July 2010. pp. 78-92
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Gender Differences between Mexican Migration to the United States and Paragua…
This article deals with the issue of gender and migration in a comparative manner. It aims at identifying factors that affect the gender composition of migratory streams, including family formation and children. It compares two contrasting streams: Mexican migration to the United States, which has traditionally been male-dominated; and Paraguayan migration to Argentina, which comprises a larger…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1, July 2010. pp. 93-113
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Transition Shocks and Emigration Profiles in Latin America
Scholars have long recognized the impact transformative political events have had on migration patterns in individual countries, but few have extended these ideas to the current period of political transition taking place across Latin America. Through analysis of data from the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP) and the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) from across Peru, Nicaragua, and the Me…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1, July 2010. pp. 116-136
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Search of Peace: Structural Adjustment, Violence, and International Migration
The authors analyze the effects of structural adjustment and violence on international migration from selected countries in Latin America by estimating a series of event history models that predicted the likelihood of initial migration to the United States as a function of the murder rate, economic openness, and selected controls in the country of origin. Although several theories posit a conne…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1, July 2010. pp. 137-161
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The Cumulative Causation of International Migration in Latin America
The theory of the cumulative causation of migration posits that as migratory experience grows within a sending community, the likelihood that other community members will initiate a migratory trip increases. This diffusion is expected to vary across time and place according to differences in the mechanisms guiding this behavior. The author compares the effect of the prevalence of migratory expe…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1. July 2010. pp. 162-177
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Determinants of Emigration: Comparing Migrants’ Selectivity from Peru and M…
Although Latin American migrants to the United States, particularly Mexicans, are typically portrayed as poor and uneducated, some, such as Peruvians, are disproportionately well educated compared to those who never left their countries. This article examines who emigrates and why by comparing migrants’ selectivity from Mexico and Peru. Using the Peruvian data of the Latin American Migration Pr…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1. July 2010. pp. 178-193
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Assessing Human Capital Transferability into the U.S. Labor Market among Lati…
Scholars have questioned whether international migrants from Latin America are able to transfer their levels of education into the U.S. labor market. In this article, the author examines the data from the Latin American Migration Project for Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua to observe the ability of each of the immigrant groups to convert prior education into occupational attainment…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1. July 2010. pp. 196-204
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To Send or Not to Send: Migrant Remittances in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Rep…
Despite their high out-migration rate, Puerto Ricans in the United States send less money than Dominicans and Mexicans to their relatives back home. One explanation for the low level of private transfers of Puerto Ricans is that public disbursements, especially for nutritional assistance, housing subsidies, and educational grants, may well be the safety net in Puerto Rico that remittances serve…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1. July 2010. pp. 205-223
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Migration, Remittances, and Children’s Schooling in Haiti
The authors examine the impact of remittances on the schooling of children in various Haitian communities with a high incidence of out-migration. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, they find that, in some communities, remittances raise school attendance for all children regardless of whether they have household members abroad. However, in other communities, this effect is o…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1. July 2010. pp. 224-244
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Occupational Mobility among Returned Migrants in Latin America: A Comparative…
This article draws on data from the Mexican Migration Project and the Latin American Migration Project to study patterns of occupational mobility among male migrant household heads who have returned from the United States to Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico. In general, migration to the United States increases the likelihood of upward mobility relative to nonmigrants if it begins …
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- Vol. 630 no. 1. July 2010. pp. 245-268
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Policy Shocks: On the Legal Auspices of Latin American Migration to the Unite…
This article compares the transition into legal permanent residence (LPR) of Mexicans, Dominicans, and Nicaraguans. Dominicans had the highest likelihood of obtaining such residence, mostly sponsored by parents and spouses. Mexicans had the lowest LPR transition rates and presented sharp gender differentials in modes: women were found to be mostly legalized through husbands, while men were spon…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1. July 2010. pp. 270-293
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Undocumented Migration from Latin America in an Era of Rising U.S. Enforcement
Available data have consistently pointed up the failure of U.S. policies to reduce undocumented migration from Latin America. To shed light on the reasons for this failure, we estimated a series of dynamic models of undocumented entry into and exit from the United States. Our estimates suggest that undocumented migration is grounded more in mechanisms posited by social capital theory and the ne…
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- Vol. 630 no. 1. July 2010. pp. 294-321
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The Measurement of Socio-economic Gender Inequality Revisited
The measurement of socio-economic gender inequality has not received much attention from the development literature despite its great relevance and important policy implications. In this article we present two new indices to measure gender inequalities that overcome some of the limitations inherent in the UNDP gender-related indices and other indices presented in the literature. The proposed ne…
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- Volume 41 Issue 3, May 2010. Pages 375 - 399
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Post-Conflict Ambon: Forced Migration and the Ethno-Territorial Effects of Cu…
In post-conflict contexts characterized by large-scale migration and increasing levels of legal pluralism, customary land tenure risks being deployed as a tool of ethno-territorialization in which displaced communities are denied return and secure land rights. This thesis will be illustrated through a case study of the Indonesian island of Ambon where a recognition of customary tenure — also ca…
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- Volume 41 Issue 3, May 2010. Pages 401 - 419
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