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Trends in political television fiction in the UK: Themes, characters and narr…
British television has a long tradition of broadcasting ‘political fiction’ if this is understood as telling stories about politicians in the form of drama, thrillers and comedies. We identify and discuss three genres in which UK political TV fiction has been shaped throughout the decades: comedy, thriller and drama. We examine the characters, themes and narratives in these genres and assess wh…
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- Volume 34 Number 3 April 2012, p. 263-279
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- 0163-4437
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- p. 263-279
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- Media Culture & Society
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Constructing the public at the royal wedding
This article examines the way ordinary members of the public, who were present at the celebrations for the 2011 UK royal wedding, were constructed in the televised coverage of the event on the BBC and ITV. It draws on theories of media events and on theories of the mediated construction of the views of ordinary citizens, and focuses on the way vox-pop interviews and inferences about what the pu…
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- Volume 34 Number 3 April 2012, p. 296-311
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- 0163-4437
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- p. 296-311
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- Media Culture & Society
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At the crossroads of migrant workers, class, and media: a case study of a mig…
This article examines Migrant Workers’ Television (MWTV) in Korea, exploring relationships between migration, media, and class. Existing studies on migrants have mainly focused on the ethnic and media consumption sides of migration. However, MWTV provides a unique picture of migrants, who joined together across diverse ethnic backgrounds and started a media production NGO with shared class inte…
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- Volume 34 Number 3 April 2012, p. 312-327
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- 0163-4437
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- p. 312-327
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- Media Culture & Society
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Alan Freed still casts a long shadow: the persistence of payola and the ambig…
Despite the enormous changes in the music industry in recent years, some things have persisted. Payola, the exchange of money or promotional consideration for radio airplay, has persisted if not increased over the past decade in the United States. This is due to the corresponding persistence of a series of contradictory social relationships between broadcasters, their sponsors and the audiences…
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- Volume 34 Number 3 April 2012, p. 328-342
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- 0163-4437
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- p. 328-342
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- Media Culture & Society
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The life cycle of iconic sound bites: politicians’ transgressive utterances…
Politicians in contemporary societies constantly appear in and talk to the media. While media appearances constitute opportunities to communicate ideas and images, politicians can damage their own reputation through making statements that transgress political and/or cultural norms. Politicians’ transgressive utterances not only attract negative media coverage – they may also be recycled in medi…
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- Volume 34 Number 3 April 2012, p. 343-358
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- p. 343-358
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A Life in Political Science
Political science has been a central part of my life for over half a century. This essay records thoughts about the discipline, what it has given me, and what I hope I have given it. It records my entrance into the field and the direction of my work, and offers a personal view of the nature of political science. Using my own work as the examples, it traces the evolution of comparative survey re…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. i - xv
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- 10942939
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- p. i - xv
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Leadership: What It Means, What It Does, and What We Want to Know About It
Leaders are part of virtually all organized political life. There have been important recent advances in modeling “leaders” as well as clever and innovative empirical studies. We review recent contributions from the political science, economics, and management literatures. We discuss the extent to which these new works represent advances over the major classic works on leadership and organizati…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 1-24
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- 10942939
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- p. 1-24
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Studies of the New Immigration: The Dangers of Pan-Ethnic Classifications
After a prolonged period during which studies of immigration and crime virtually disappeared from the literature, the topic has reemerged as a central theme of contemporary criminology. However, unlike the classic immigration studies that appeared in the first half of the twentieth century, most modern studies combine the various countries of origin into broad pan-ethnic groupings (such as Hisp…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 247-267
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- 0002-7162
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- p. 247-267
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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The Limits of Spatial Assimilation for Immigrants’ Full Integration: Emergi…
Residential integration with the dominant native-born population is believed to be a crucial stage in immigrants’ overall assimilation process. It is argued that without residential integration it would be difficult, if not impossible, for immigrants to achieve full incorporation into the host society. This article compares the sociospatial experiences of African immigrants in the United States…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 220-246
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- p. 220-246
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Immigrants and Social Distance: Examining the Social Consequences of Immigrat…
This project studied the effect of immigrant in-mobility on the trajectory of socioeconomic change in neighborhoods. The authors suggest that immigrant inflows may impact neighborhoods due to the consequences of residential mobility and the extent to which these new residents differ from the current residents. The authors use Southern California over a nearly 50-year period (1960 to 2007) as a …
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 192-219
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- p. 192-219
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Extending Immigration and Crime Studies: National Implications and Local Sett…
One of American society’s enduring debates centers on the immigration and violent crime relationship. This classic debate is revisited using data for individual homicide incidents and census-tract-level homicides in Miami, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas, in the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. The article starts with these two comparative cases because they mirror the immigration influx, Latino …
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 174-191
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- p. 174-191
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Why Some Immigrant Neighborhoods Are Safer than Others: Divergent Findings fr…
Contrary to popular opinion, scholarly research has documented that immigrant communities are some of the safest places around. Studies repeatedly find that immigrant concentration is either negatively associated with neighborhood crime rates or not related to crime at all. But are immigrant neighborhoods always safer places? How does the larger community context within which immigrant neighbor…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 148-173
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- 0002-7162
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- p. 148-173
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Are Immigrant Youth Less Violent? Specifying the Reasons and Mechanisms
In this article, the authors present an overview of the relationship between immigrant households and crime and violence, drawing on sociological and public health literature. They present a critique of popular culture perspectives on immigrant families and youth violence, showing that crime and violence outcomes are if anything better for youth in immigrant families than one would expect given…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 125-147
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- p. 125-147
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Crime and Enforcement in Immigrant Neighborhoods: Evidence from New York City
Immigration and crime have received much popular and political attention in the past decade and have been a focus of episodic social attention for much of the history of the United States. Recent policy and legal discourse suggests that the stigmatic link between immigrants and crime has endured, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. This study addresses the relationship between immigra…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 99-124
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- p. 99-124
The Paradox of Law Enforcement in Immigrant Communities: Does Tough Immigrati…
Frustrated by federal inaction on immigration reform, several U.S. states in recent years have proposed or enacted laws designed to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States and to facilitate their removal. An underappreciated implication of these laws is the potential alienation of immigrant communities—even law-abiding, cooperative individuals—from the criminal justice system…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 79-98
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- p. 79-98
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Seeing Immigrants : Institutional Visibility and Immigrant Incorporation in N…
Since the 1990s, immigrant settlement has expanded beyond gateway cities and transformed the social fabric of a growing number of American cities. In the process, it has raised new questions for urban and migration scholars. This article argues that immigration to new destinations provides an opportunity to sharpen understandings of the relationship between immigration and the urban by explorin…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 58-78
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- p. 58-78
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Can Immigration Save Small-Town America? Hispanic Boomtowns and the Uneasy Pa…
In the often polarized discussions over immigration, the point is sometimes missed that immigration often brings immediate and tangible benefits. Nowhere is this truer than in the hollowing-out parts of America. Many nonmetropolitan counties in America have seen net out-migration for decades. While young people have always left small towns, the loss of this group comes at a time when opportunit…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 38-57
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- 0002-7162
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- p. 38-57
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Immigration Enforcement Policies, the Economic Recession, and the Size of Loc…
This article relies on local area variation in immigration policies, specifically the local implementation of the 287(g) program, and economic conditions to estimate their impact on changes in the size of local Mexican immigrant populations between 2007 and 2009. The author also investigates the impact of the 287(g) program on the employment prospects of low-skilled native black and white worke…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 16-37
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- p. 16-37
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The World in a City: Immigration and America’s Changing Social Fabric
The United States in 2012 faces unprecedented challenges brought on by economic crisis and the unrelenting pace of globalization and technological change. We are perhaps unique as a nation, however, in the changes wrought by continuing population diversification and foreign immigration from countries across the globe. Indeed, the United States is currently one of the most diverse nations on ear…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 6-15
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- p.6-15
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Examining the electoral connection across time
Mayhew's (1974) thesis regarding the “electoral connection” and its impact on legislative behavior has become the theoretical foundation for much of the research on the contemporary U.S. Congress. Recently, scholar To assess these claims more systematically, we consider four conditions that serve as the bus have begun to suggest that the Mayhewian electoral incentive may apply to politics in ea…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 25-46
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- 10942939
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- p. 25-46
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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