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Michael K Miller

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ID139686
NAMEMichael K Miller
GIVEN NAMESMichael K
FAMILY NAMEMiller
SIGNATUREMILLER M K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nevada, Reno
ORCID0009-0004-4466-9176
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS84
TOTAL CITATIONS1123
AUTHOR COUNT84
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX15
  • Judges’ Perceptions of Systemic Racism in the Criminal Justice System

    Open Access•Mia Abboud Holbrook, Adam Dunbar et al.•ARTICLE•Race and Justice•2025

    Recognition of the causes and consequences of systemic racism, particularly related to the criminal justice system, has increased in recent years, in part because of the Black Lives Matter movement. Awareness of racism and how it intersects with the justice system is a first step to addressing it; thus, it is critical to understand the sentiment of justice employees regarding systemic racism. This content analysis assessed the sentiment of 632 ju…

  • If It Isn't White, It Isn't Right

    Open Access•Teyah S Giannetta, M Katie Cunius et al.•ARTICLE•Race and Justice•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 47

    Hate crimes (e.g., anti-Asian and antisemitic) continue to be a problem in the United States. Federal laws protect specific groups (i.e., race, color, national origin, religion, gender/sex, gender identity, disability, and sexual orientation) from victimization of bias-motivated crimes. There is little research investigating how laypeople "know" whether a hate crime has occurred, as well as who they believe are hate crime offenders and victims. T…

  • How Little and Meng’s Objective Approach Fails in Democracies

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2024•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    Little and Meng (L&M) (2023) question the prevailing narrative of widespread democratic backsliding by showing that various objective indicators of democracy are flat over time. However, because recent democratic decline is concentrated in democracies, the objective indicators can accurately test for backsliding only if they can track democratic quality within democracies. This response article shows that they cannot, for conceptual and empirical…

  • Black Dog Bias in the Courtroom

    Kylie Kulak, Christine M Mcdermott et al.•ARTICLE•Anthrozoös•2024•References: 19

    Because facility dogs can provide comfort to vulnerable testifying witnesses, they are beginning to become commonplace in some courtrooms. However, certain dogs (and by extension the witness they testify with) might be discriminated against because of their coat color. Known as "Black Dog Bias" (BDB), black dogs are often reported to be discriminated against in animal adoption centers, resulting in higher rates of euthanasia. Black dogs are often…

  • The Social Science of QAnon

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Joseph M Pierre et al.•BOOK•The Social Science of QAnon•2023

    QAnon has emerged as the defining conspiracy group of our times, and its far-right conspiracies are extraordinary for their breadth and extremity. Bringing together scholars from psychology, sociology, communications, and political science, this cutting-edge volume uses social science theory to investigate aspects of QAnon. Following an introduction to the 'who, what, and why' of QAnon, Part I focuses on the psychological characteristics of QAnon…

  • Elections in Hard Places

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2023

    Despite their long-held reputation as controlled affairs, autocratic elections continue to surprise. Recent years have seen turnovers in power or unexpected opposition gains in such far-flung places as Guinea-Bissau, Venezuela, Malaysia, and Bhutan. Of course, in many other dictatorships, ruling parties resoundingly win their elections and only increase their aura of dominance. Yet even when turnover is unlikely, elections can loom over autocrati…

  • How Authoritarian Governments Decide Who Emigrates

    Open Access•Julian Michel, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•International Organization•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 17

    Most autocracies restrict emigration yet still allow some citizens to exit. How do these regimes decide who can leave? We argue that many autocracies strategically target anti-regime actors for emigration, thereby crafting a more loyal population without the drawbacks of persistent co-optation or repression. However, this generates problematic incentives for citizens to join opposition activity to secure exit. In response, autocracies simultaneou…

  • Implementing the Montessori approach in an undergraduate marketing course

    Open Access•Angela K Murray, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Education•2022

    The objective of this case study is to offer a new perspective on innovation in higher education pedagogy by exploring how Montessori principles can be applied in an elective upper-level undergraduate marketing analytics course. Innovation in higher education is crucial for preparing students for the ever-changing challenges they will face in the workplace and in society. Montessori education offers a unique perspective for addressing many of the…

  • Categorical Preference of the Mind

    Michael K Miller, Michael Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Cognitive Science…•2022

    Fundamental to the traditional, Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) mind-based model is that the human mind perceives the world through the use of ontological categories. These categories are often defined as templates, which are associated with the recognition of basic ontological categories organized hierarchically due to evolutionarily sourced strategic connections: PERSON > ANIMAL > PLANT > ARTIFACT > OBJECT. If the field of CSR is to use suc…

  • Emigration and Political Contestation

    Open Access•Mary Eleanor Peters, Margaret E Peters et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2022•Cited by: 18•References: 56

    How does migration affect global patterns of political violence and protest? While political scientists have examined the links between trade and conflict, less attention has been paid to the links between migration and conflict. In this paper, we show that greater emigration reduces domestic political violence by providing exit opportunities for aggrieved citizens and economic benefits to those who remain. Emigration also reduces non-violent for…

  • Shock to the System

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•BOOK•Shock to the System•2021

    How do democracies emerge? This book presents a novel theory of democratization that focuses on how events like coups, wars, and elections disrupt autocratic regimes and trigger democratic change. The book demonstrates that more than nine in ten transitions since 1800 occur in one of two ways: countries democratize following a major violent shock or an established ruling party democratizes through elections and regains power within democracy. Thi…

  • Shock to the System

    Michael K Miller•BOOK•Shock to the System•2021

    How violent events and autocratic parties trigger democratic changeHow do democracies emerge? Shock to the System presents a novel theory of democratization that focuses on how events like coups, wars, and elections disrupt autocratic regimes and trigger democratic change. Employing the broadest qualitative and quantitative analyses of democratization to date, Michael Miller demonstrates that more than nine in ten transitions since 1800 occur in …

  • The Social Mind-set Model potentially explains varying societies’ responses to social and criminal behavior

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Monica Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Oñati Socio-legal Series•2021•References: 2

    Many countries face similar social issues, but adopt dramatically different solutions. This variation could be because countries have different social mind-sets (SMS), which explain why a certain policy response is adopted. The Social Mind-set Model (“SMS Model”) is a modest addition to the frameworks of Blumer (1971) and Kingdon (2003), who explain how and when the policy process begins. The SMS Model proposes six factors that influence the SMS …

  • A Republic, If You Can Keep It

    Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2021•Cited by: 13•References: 32

    What leads elites to break their democratic commitments? How do the partisan loyalties and democratic values of citizens influence these choices? This article formally analyzes incumbent abuse in democracies, the most common modern initiator of democratic breakdown. If an incumbent attempts to consolidate power, the opposition can try to rally protest but can also cry wolf without incumbent abuse. In a democratic equilibrium, incumbents avoid abu…

  • Don't Call It a Comeback

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2021•Cited by: 26•References: 55

    When autocratic ruling parties accede to democratization, they do not always fade away into history. Following forty-one transitions since 1940, including those in Mexico, Taiwan, Bulgaria and Ghana, the ruling party survived and won power after democratization. Why do some former autocratic parties prosper under democracy while others quickly dissolve? What effect does this have on democratic survival? This article uses original data to predict …

  • Judgments about sexual assault vary depending on whether an affirmative consent policy or a “no means no” policy is applied

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Journal of Aggression Conflict…•2020•References: 11

    Purpose Affirmative consent (AC) policies require potential sexual partners to clearly and positively confirm that they want to engage in sexual behavior – in contrast to standard “no means no” policies, which typically define consent through resistance. AC policies might not be effective because they do not align well with typical scripts of how consent is given in practice. This study aims to compare participants’ judgments as to what constitut…

  • The Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2020•Cited by: 23•References: 32

    How do autocratic ruling parties gain power? What predicts their durability and how they fall? This article introduces the Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset, the first comprehensive data set on the founding origins, modes of gaining and losing power, ruling tenures, and other characteristics of autocratic ruling parties. It covers all ruling parties in the world from 1940 to 2015. Contrary to common assumptions, most ruling parties are not create…

  • The Strategic Origins of Electoral Authoritarianism

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2020•Cited by: 27•References: 90

    Why do autocrats hold multiparty elections? This article argues that transitions to electoral authoritarianism (EA) follow a strategic calculus in which autocrats balance international incentives to adopt elections against the costs and risks of controlling them. It tests this hypothesis with a multinomial logit model that simultaneously predicts transitions to EA and democracy, using a sample of non-electoral autocracies from 1946–2010. It finds…

  • Restraining the Huddled Masses

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Mary Eleanor Peters et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2020•Cited by: 46•References: 72

    What determines citizens’ freedom to exit autocracies? How does this influence global patterns of migration and democratization? Although control over citizen movement has long been central to autocratic power, modern autocracies vary considerably in how much they restrict emigration. This article shows that autocrats strategically choose emigration policy by balancing several motives. Increasing emigration can stabilize regimes by selecting a mo…

  • Exploring the boundaries of societally acceptable bias expression toward Muslim and atheist defendants in four mock-juror experiments

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Monica K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•The Social Science Journal•2019•References: 16

    Religious minorities have experienced bias in many domains including the criminal justice system. The Normative Window of prejudice model posits that some bias expression is societally acceptable, while other bias expression is unacceptable and thus suppressed. Four mock-juror studies test the boundaries of normative expression of bias toward religious minorities. Participants expressed bias against (i.e., prejudice) Muslim defendants who commit …

  • Social Mobility and Democratic Attitudes

    Open Access•Christian Houle, Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2019•Cited by: 14•References: 64

    How does intergenerational social mobility affect support for democracy? Although a large literature examines how personal income and inequality influence regime change and democratic attitudes, there has been little work on social mobility. We employ individual level data from the Afrobarometer and Latinobarometer, covering 33 democracies and nondemocracies, to provide the first analysis of how personal experiences of intergenerational mobility …

  • Justification-Suppression and Normative Window of Prejudice as Determinants of Bias Toward Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexual Adoption Applicants

    Alicia Devault, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Homosexuality•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 31

    Despite gains in equality for lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (LGB), these couples still face discrimination in adoption scenarios. Guided by the normative window of prejudice and the justification-suppression model, participants read about a suitable or unsuitable couple applying to adopt a child. Participants indicated whether the couple should be allowed to adopt the child and how committed the couple is to being parents. Heterosexuals were perc…

  • Relationships between religious characteristics and response to legal action against parents who choose faith healing practices for their children

    Trevor D Shields, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Religion and…•2018

  • Trauma-Informed

    Open Access•Victoria A Knoche, Alicia Summers et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Child & Adolescent…•2018

  • Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness

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  • A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800–2007

    Open Access•Carles Boix, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2013•Cited by: 383•References: 87

    This article updates and describes a widely used data set on democracy. Covering 1800–2007 and 219 countries, it represents the most comprehensive dichotomous measure of democracy currently available. We argue that our measure’s distinguishing features—a concrete, dichotomous coding and a long time span—are of critical value to empirical work on democracy. Inspired by Robert Dahl, we define a country as democratic if it satisfies conditions for b…

  • Elections, Information, and Policy Responsiveness in Autocratic Regimes

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2015•Cited by: 118•References: 71

    The responsiveness of policy to election results is a central component of democracy. Do the outcomes of autocratic elections also affect policy choice? Even when the threat of turnover is low, I argue that autocratic elections influence policy by allowing citizens to signal dissatisfaction with the regime. Supplementing existing work, this study explains how this opposition is communicated credibly and then shows that ruling parties use this inf…

  • Electoral Authoritarianism and Human Development

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2015•Cited by: 68•References: 90

    Do autocratic institutions matter for the welfare of average citizens? Despite the large literature comparing democracies and autocracies, we know little about how human development outcomes differ among autocratic types. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this article argues that contested autocratic elections promote human development by improving state accountability and capacity. Using an instrumental variables setup, I show that the presence a…

  • Democratic Pieces

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2015•Cited by: 62•References: 62

    This article overviews the history of autocratic elections since 1815 and then tests how a country's experience with autocratic elections influences both democratization and democratic survival. To comprehensively capture this history, the study employs original measures of Robert Dahl's electoral dimensions of contestation and participation. First, it shows that autocratic elections have been common for centuries, but that their character has ch…

  • Economic Development, Violent Leader Removal, and Democratization

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2012•Cited by: 56•References: 84

    This article argues that autocratic regime strength plays a critical mediating role in the link between economic development and democracy. Looking at 167 countries from 1875 to 2004, I find that development strengthens autocratic regimes, as indicated by a reduced likelihood of violent leader removal. Simultaneously, greater development predicts democratization, but only if a violent turnover has occurred in the recent past. Hence, development c…

  • Restraining the Huddled Masses

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Mary Eleanor Peters et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2020•Cited by: 46•References: 72

    What determines citizens’ freedom to exit autocracies? How does this influence global patterns of migration and democratization? Although control over citizen movement has long been central to autocratic power, modern autocracies vary considerably in how much they restrict emigration. This article shows that autocrats strategically choose emigration policy by balancing several motives. Increasing emigration can stabilize regimes by selecting a mo…

  • Safeguarding Democracy

    Open Access•Benjamin At Graham, Benjamin A T Graham et al.•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2017•Cited by: 36•References: 69

    Democracy is often fragile, especially in states recovering from civil conflict. To protect emerging democracies, many scholars and practitioners recommend political powersharing institutions, which aim to safeguard minority group interests. Yet there is little empirical research on whether powersharing promotes democratic survival, and some concern that it limits electoral accountability. To fill this gap, we differentiate between inclusive, dis…

  • Gender Differences in Video Game Characters’ Roles, Appearances, and Attire as Portrayed in Video Game Magazines

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Monica K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Sex Roles•2007•Cited by: 29•References: 5

  • The Strategic Origins of Electoral Authoritarianism

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2020•Cited by: 27•References: 90

    Why do autocrats hold multiparty elections? This article argues that transitions to electoral authoritarianism (EA) follow a strategic calculus in which autocrats balance international incentives to adopt elections against the costs and risks of controlling them. It tests this hypothesis with a multinomial logit model that simultaneously predicts transitions to EA and democracy, using a sample of non-electoral autocracies from 1946–2010. It finds…

  • Don't Call It a Comeback

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2021•Cited by: 26•References: 55

    When autocratic ruling parties accede to democratization, they do not always fade away into history. Following forty-one transitions since 1940, including those in Mexico, Taiwan, Bulgaria and Ghana, the ruling party survived and won power after democratization. Why do some former autocratic parties prosper under democracy while others quickly dissolve? What effect does this have on democratic survival? This article uses original data to predict …

  • The Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2020•Cited by: 23•References: 32

    How do autocratic ruling parties gain power? What predicts their durability and how they fall? This article introduces the Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset, the first comprehensive data set on the founding origins, modes of gaining and losing power, ruling tenures, and other characteristics of autocratic ruling parties. It covers all ruling parties in the world from 1940 to 2015. Contrary to common assumptions, most ruling parties are not create…

  • Emigration and Political Contestation

    Open Access•Mary Eleanor Peters, Margaret E Peters et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2022•Cited by: 18•References: 56

    How does migration affect global patterns of political violence and protest? While political scientists have examined the links between trade and conflict, less attention has been paid to the links between migration and conflict. In this paper, we show that greater emigration reduces domestic political violence by providing exit opportunities for aggrieved citizens and economic benefits to those who remain. Emigration also reduces non-violent for…

  • For the Win! The Effect of Professional Sports Records on Mayoral Elections

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Social Science Quarterly•2013•Cited by: 18•References: 44

    Objective Voters are more likely to reelect incumbents when political outcomes are positive. Although most scholars assume this is because voters explicitly credit politicians for good outcomes, this article investigates whether some voters simply opt for the status quo when they feel happy. Methods To distinguish these two voting models, I propose professional sports records as a proxy for electorate happiness unrelated to political performance.…

  • The Patron’s Dilemma

    Open Access•Michael K Mckoy, Michael Mckoy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2012•Cited by: 18•References: 50

    We analyze an understudied mode of democratization in which the acquiescence of an autocratic regime’s foreign ally, or patron, is pivotal to the success of a democratic movement. Although a democratic patron may prefer having democracy in its dependent allies, regime change threatens the economic and security benefits associated with the alliance. We formalize this dilemma through a repeated principal-agent model and demonstrate that the critica…

  • Are Coups Really Contagious? An Extreme Bounds Analysis of Political Diffusion

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Margaret F Joseph et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 58

    Protests and democratic transitions tend to spread cross-nationally. Is this true of all political events? We argue that the mechanisms underlying the diffusion of mass-participation events are unlikely to support the spread of elite-led violence, particularly coups. Further, past findings of coup contagion employed empirical techniques unable to distinguish clustering, common shocks, and actual diffusion. To investigate which events diffuse and …

  • Citizen Forecasts of the 2008 U . S . Presidential Election

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Guanchun Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Politics & Policy•2012•Cited by: 15•References: 36

    We analyze individual probabilistic predictions of state outcomes in the 2008 U . S . presidential election. Employing an original survey of more than 19,000 respondents, we find that partisans gave higher probabilities to their favored candidates, but this bias was reduced by education, numerical sophistication, and the level of O bama support in their home states. In aggregate, we show that individual biases balance out, and the group's predict…

  • Social Mobility and Democratic Attitudes

    Open Access•Christian Houle, Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2019•Cited by: 14•References: 64

    How does intergenerational social mobility affect support for democracy? Although a large literature examines how personal income and inequality influence regime change and democratic attitudes, there has been little work on social mobility. We employ individual level data from the Afrobarometer and Latinobarometer, covering 33 democracies and nondemocracies, to provide the first analysis of how personal experiences of intergenerational mobility …

  • A Republic, If You Can Keep It

    Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2021•Cited by: 13•References: 32

    What leads elites to break their democratic commitments? How do the partisan loyalties and democratic values of citizens influence these choices? This article formally analyzes incumbent abuse in democracies, the most common modern initiator of democratic breakdown. If an incumbent attempts to consolidate power, the opposition can try to rally protest but can also cry wolf without incumbent abuse. In a democratic equilibrium, incumbents avoid abu…

  • Reanalysis

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Research & Politics•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 6

    Several recent studies find that coups in autocracy raise the ensuing likelihood of democratization. In a recent critique (“Are coups good for democracy?”), Derpanopoulos et al. dispute this link. This paper shows that their modeling approach, which includes fixed effects for each autocratic regime spell, suffers from severe bias. A reanalysis that applies similar models to the data without this bias recovers significant effects of coups and coup…

  • Democracy by Example? Why Democracy Spreads When the World's Democracies Prosper

    Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 4

  • The Effect of Religious Concentration and Affiliation on County Cancer Mortality Rates

    Jeffrey W Dwyer, Leslie L Clarke et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Health and Social…•1990•Cited by: 12

    Previous research has documented lower cancer mortality rates among religious groups characterized by doctrinal orthodoxy and behavioral conformity. In addition, there is evidence that the general population in an area with a high concentration of religious participants may experience health benefits resulting from diminished exposure to or increased social disapproval of behaviors related to cancer mortality. This research examines the effect of…

  • Assessing the Importance of Family Structure in Understanding Birth Outcomes

    Stan L Albrecht, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•1994•Cited by: 11

    Stan L. Albrecht, Michael K Miller, Leslie L. Clarke, Assessing the Importance of Family Structure in Understanding Birth Outcomes, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Nov., 1994), pp. 987-1003

  • From Damsels in Distress to Sexy Superheroes

    Alicia Summers, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 19

    Video games are an important form of media that have the potential to impact gender role attitudes. Sexist portrayals of characters may affect gender behaviors and attitudes. As such, it is important to discover how characters, particularly females, are portrayed in video games. The current study examined video game magazines analyzing the portrayal of female video game characters and how this portrayal has changed in the last twenty years. Resul…

  • Structural Determinants of Infant Mortality in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America1

    Open Access•Leslie L Clarke, Leslie Clarke et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•1994•Cited by: 9•References: 22

    A conceptual model of the impact of structural advantage and disadvantage on infant mortality rates is developed and fitted to countylevel data. This model includes mediating endogenous constructs representing medical care availability, the incidence of teenage childbearing, and low birthweight rates and is estimated for three residence categories. Both direct and indirect effects of social structure and teenage childbearing on infant mortality v…

  • Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research

    Harry H Hiller, William E Snizek et al.•ARTICLE•Social Forces•1980•Cited by: 9

  • Health Status, Health Resources, and Consolidated Structural Parameters

    Michael K Miller, C Shannon Stokes•ARTICLE•Journal of Health and Social…•1978•Cited by: 3

    Michael K. Miller, C. Shannon Stokes, Health Status, Health Resources, and Consolidated Structural Parameters: Implications for Public Health Care Policy, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Sep., 1978), pp. 263-279

  • An operational framework for policy modeling in the social sciences

    Open Access•Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Social Indicators Research•1979•Cited by: 1•References: 15

  • Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research

    Leon H Warshay, William E Snizek et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1980•Cited by: 4

  • Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research

    Harry H Hiller, William E Snizek et al.•ARTICLE•Social Forces•1980•Cited by: 9

  • An Examination of an Ecological Model of Neighborhood Change, Which Employs a Biased Estimation Technique

    Open Access•William A Schwab, Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•1983•References: 20

    The problems created by multicollinearity when estimating a single equation least squares model are well-known. This problem is particularly troublesome in ecological research because of the heavy reliance of this field on census data and other secondary data sources. This paper explores one solution to the problem of multicollinearity in ecological research-ridge regression. Using census-tract data from Cleveland, Ohio for the years 1960-1970, a…

  • Teenage fertility, socioeconomic status and infant mortality

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, C Shannon Stokes•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•1985

    The paper examines the relationship between infant mortality and a complex measure of socioeconomic status for evidence of diminution. In data on counties in the United States with a minimum of 20 infant deaths over the 5-year period 1971–75, no evidence of a declining relationship between socioeconomic status and infant mortality was found. Both level of community affluence and racial composition of the population exerted direct effects on level…

  • The Economic Costs and Benefits of Adding Medical Manpower to Rural and Urban Communities

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Bruce L Dixon et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Rural Health•1986

    For health planners to be able to me scarce resources efficiently and effectively to improve health, it is necessary for them to have reliable information on the productivity of the major categories of health producing expenditures. The present study utilizes a human capital perspective to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of medical manpower to communities in the West South Central United States. The results of the study suggest that beyo…

  • Social conservatism

    Open Access•A E Luloff, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•1986•Cited by: 1•References: 5

  • A Comparison of the Rural‐Urban Mortality Differential for Deaths From All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, C Shannon Stokes et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Rural Health•1987

    Using a nine category continuum of residence ranging from major metropolitan counties of one million or more to isolated rural counties with las than 2,500 residents, the data presented indicate that although ruralurban differentials in mortality narrowed over the decade of the 1970s, by 1980 non‐metropolitan counties continuedto have crude death rates that were significantly higher than metropolitan counties for deaths from all causes, cardiovas…

  • The effect of legalization and public funding of abortion on neonatal mortality

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, C Shannon Stokes et al.•ARTICLE•Population Research and Policy…•1988•References: 28

  • Determinants of the Uncompensated Care Burden of Rural and Urban Hospitals in Florida

    Open Access•R Paul Duncan, Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•The Journal of Rural Health•1989

    It has been projected that over the next decade as many as 700 hospitals will close due to financial pressures created at least in part by the problem of uncompensated care. Many analysts contend that smaller, rural hospitals will be disproportionately represented among those which close. This investigation uses data collected from over 14,000 inpatient records from 130 representative hospitals in Florida to examine the degree to which rural hosp…

  • Determinants of Primary Caregiver Stress and Burden

    Open Access•Jeffrey W Dwyer, Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•The Journal of Rural Health•1990

    This research examines the association among characteristics of the caregiving network, primary caregiver stress and burden, and area of residence. The purpose is two‐fold: to determine whether the structure of the relationship between the caregiving network, and stress and burden is uniform across rural, small city, and urban samples; and, to assess whether stress and burden are explained by a similar set of variables within area of residence ca…

  • Rural America in the 1980s

    Open Access•Raymond T Coward, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Rural Health•1990

    The decade of the 1980s was a roller coaster ride for many rural Americans, rural health care providers, and scholars of rural life. The “rural renaissance” of the late 1970s and early 1980s was followed by the economic “farm crisis” of the mid‐1980s and, in the late 1980s, by a resurgence of interest and policy making related to small towns and rural communities. It was a tempestuous time. Perhaps such fluctuations in national attention and conc…

  • The Effect of Religious Concentration and Affiliation on County Cancer Mortality Rates

    Jeffrey W Dwyer, Leslie L Clarke et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Health and Social…•1990•Cited by: 12

    Previous research has documented lower cancer mortality rates among religious groups characterized by doctrinal orthodoxy and behavioral conformity. In addition, there is evidence that the general population in an area with a high concentration of religious participants may experience health benefits resulting from diminished exposure to or increased social disapproval of behaviors related to cancer mortality. This research examines the effect of…

  • Consequences of Differential Residence Designations for Rural Health Policy Research

    Open Access•Frank L Farmer, Leslie L Clarke et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Rural Health•1993

    In 1991, members of the rural caucus proposed numerous bills designed to attenuate the rural‐urban differences in health care delivery and health status. Implicit in the legislative process is the assumption that “rural America” differs systematically from “urban America.” However, research has consistently demonstrated that there is not a single rural America but rather, those areas outside of the major metropolitan areas represent a complex mos…

  • Assessing the Importance of Family Structure in Understanding Birth Outcomes

    Stan L Albrecht, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•1994•Cited by: 11

    Stan L. Albrecht, Michael K Miller, Leslie L. Clarke, Assessing the Importance of Family Structure in Understanding Birth Outcomes, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Nov., 1994), pp. 987-1003

  • Structural Determinants of Infant Mortality in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America1

    Open Access•Leslie L Clarke, Leslie Clarke et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•1994•Cited by: 9•References: 22

    A conceptual model of the impact of structural advantage and disadvantage on infant mortality rates is developed and fitted to countylevel data. This model includes mediating endogenous constructs representing medical care availability, the incidence of teenage childbearing, and low birthweight rates and is estimated for three residence categories. Both direct and indirect effects of social structure and teenage childbearing on infant mortality v…

  • The Interactive Effects of Race and Ethnicity and Mother's Residence on the Adequacy of Prenatal Care

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Leslie L Clarke et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Rural Health•1996

    Adequate prenatal care is known to reduce the risks of low birth weight and neonatal death, yet nearly one quarter of all women giving birth in the United States receive delayed, inadequate or no prenatal care. This suboptimal use of prenatal care has contributed to rates of low birth weight and neonatal mortality higher than those in most other industrialized nations. This paper examines the relationships among race/ethnicity, residence, materna…

  • Hispanic subgroup differences in prenatal care

    Stan L Albrecht, Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Biodemography and Social Biology•1996•Cited by: 1•References: 42

    Within SES categories in the United States, racial and ethnic minorities generally fare less well on a variety of health-related indicators than do majority groups. Important differences exist within subgroups, however, and at present, these differences are poorly understood. In this paper we address Hispanic subgroup (Cuban American, Mexican American. Puerto Rican, and Central/South American) differences in utilization of prenatal care. Data fro…

  • The Hollow Years

    Michael K Miller, Michael T Miller et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Modern History•1996

  • The Role of Race and Residence in Determining Stage at Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

    Open Access•Cheryl H Amey, Michael K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Rural Health•1997

    Breast cancer kills more than 46,000 women each year. Previous research has found that minorities and those who reside in geographically remote settings are particularly vulnerable. However, virtually no research has been done on the potential “double jeopardy” faced by rural minority women. This research examines (1) the extent to which racial and residential differences contribute to differences in stage at diagnosis; (2) the existence of an in…

  • Community, Family, and Race/Ethnic Differences in Health Status in Rural Areas1

    Open Access•Stan L Albrecht, Leslie L Clarke et al.•ARTICLE•Rural Sociology•1998•Cited by: 7

    Many race-specific differences in health outcomes that have been observed in previous research have been attributed to class and racebased group differences which either facilitate or constrain health opportunities and behaviors. These include such variables as different rates of poverty, health insurance coverage, and access to medical care. However, these relationships have been inadequately examined in rural communities where minority status m…

  • Poverty as a cause of wars

    M Miller, Michael K Miller•ARTICLE•Interdisciplinary Science Reviews•2000•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    During this last century war has taken more lives and wrought more damage than in all of human history. Its persistence - with over a hundred armed conflicts on the scale of ‘war’ raging in the last decade - prompts a search for causes, since diagnosis comes before a cure. Many fingers point to the stress of poverty as a major contributing factor, but both anecdotal and modelling approaches reveal that poverty has not been and is not now a signif…

  • Through the Eyes of a Father

    Michael K Miller, Monica K Miller•ARTICLE•International Journal of Law…•2006•References: 1

    Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), new laws have been enacted that focus on reducing single-parent families’ reliance on state assistance by collecting child support from non-custodial parents (typically fathers). These laws pressure fathers to pay child support through stricter penalties for non-payment, but do not help fathers overcome barriers (eg, unstable employment) that prevent payment. In a…

  • Gender Differences in Video Game Characters’ Roles, Appearances, and Attire as Portrayed in Video Game Magazines

    Open Access•Michael K Miller, Monica K Miller et al.•ARTICLE•Sex Roles•2007•Cited by: 29•References: 5

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