Vincent T Gawronski
Biographic Data
| ID | 796905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent T Gawronski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent T |
| FAMILY NAME | Gawronski |
| SIGNATURE | GAWRONSKI V T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham–Southern College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2320-472X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
STEMMing the tide
This study evaluated early outcomes of STEMMing the Tide, a place-based STEM education initiative at Mobile County Training School (MCTS) in Africatown, Alabama, a historically Black, under-resourced community impacted by environmental injustice. The program integrated environmental justice themes into culturally responsive science and social studies middle school curricula aligned with state standards. Eight teachers from Mobile County Training …
Disasters and corruption
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially three out of 10 hypothetical truc…
From Disaster Risk Reduction to Policy Studies
Major conceptual and empirical advances over the past three decades have clarified how natural hazard events interact with community and human exposures and vulnerabilities to create risks that then become emergencies, disasters, or in the worst combinations, catastrophes. However, corresponding disaster risk reduction (DRR) knowledge and technology exist to significantly lessen the impacts of hazard events, but in many countries, including the U…
Disasters as Crisis Triggers for Critical Junctures? The 1976 Guatemala Case
This article focuses on the 1976 Guatemala earthquake disaster as a possible crisis trigger, in a relatively strict application of the critical juncture analytical approach. It expands to include the broader question of what conditions might cause disasters to trigger crises that open critical junctures for nation-states. The research concludes that the 1976 Guatemala disaster led to a high degree of community self-organizing and alliance-buildin…
Public Response to Disaster Response
A recent paper in this journal proposed that post-impact public evaluations of governmental disaster performance may be usefully understood and analyzed along six “5C+A” dimensions: capability, competence, compassion, correctness, credibility, and anticipation. Using post-disaster public opinion data from El Salvador in 2001 and Peru in 2007, we offer the first empirical tests of this 5C+A approach, finding that it cannot be disconfirmed at this …
From Disaster Event to Political Crisis
Journal Article From Disaster Event to Political Crisis: A "5C+A" Framework for Analysis Get access Richard Stuart Olson, Richard Stuart Olson Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent T. Gawronski Vincent T. Gawronski Birmingham-Southern College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 11, Issue 3, Au…
Cómo Están, Y'all?”
Alabama and the Birmingham metropolitan area have experienced a virtual explosion of Mexican migrants. Jefferson County, where Birmingham is located, has seen more than a 300 percent increase in the Latino population since 1990, and according to the 2000 Census, Latinos are the fastest growing, and now the largest, ethnic group in the United States, with Mexicans comprising 27 percent of the total immigrant population. Of course, most Mexican mig…
The Revolution is Dead. ¡Viva la revolución
Mexicans have long cherished their revolutionary heritage, but where does the Mexican Revolution now reside in collective memory, and does the idea of the Revolution still have any legitimating power? And what has been the relationship between the PRI's long sequence of legitimacy crises and the Mexican Revolution? Until procedural democracy provides significant substantive and psychological benefits, the recent democratic turn will not fully sup…
Normal’ versus ‘special’ time corruption
This essay examines the relationship between corruption and political stability, with particular emphasis on Mexico. Through careful analysis of public opinion surveys from 1997–1998, exploring the differential attitudes towards ‘normal time corruption’ and ‘special time corruption’ (e.g. in connection with disaster relief), the data highlights how attitudes to corruption are context‐dependent. Natural disasters constitute ‘special times’ with a …
Mexican Public Opinion and Perceptions of Instability
This article draws on two survey snapshots of Mexico taken at a most interesting time--starting with the historic 1997 mid-term elections and heading toward the all-important 2000 presidential elections. It advances the notion that Mexico is experiencing a social expectation-regime capability dilemma, which threatens the country's longstanding stability and invokes the theory of relative deprivation. Empirical evidence is combined with theoretica…
From Disaster Event to Political Crisis
Journal Article From Disaster Event to Political Crisis: A "5C+A" Framework for Analysis Get access Richard Stuart Olson, Richard Stuart Olson Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent T. Gawronski Vincent T. Gawronski Birmingham-Southern College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 11, Issue 3, Au…
Disasters as Crisis Triggers for Critical Junctures? The 1976 Guatemala Case
This article focuses on the 1976 Guatemala earthquake disaster as a possible crisis trigger, in a relatively strict application of the critical juncture analytical approach. It expands to include the broader question of what conditions might cause disasters to trigger crises that open critical junctures for nation-states. The research concludes that the 1976 Guatemala disaster led to a high degree of community self-organizing and alliance-buildin…
Public Response to Disaster Response
A recent paper in this journal proposed that post-impact public evaluations of governmental disaster performance may be usefully understood and analyzed along six “5C+A” dimensions: capability, competence, compassion, correctness, credibility, and anticipation. Using post-disaster public opinion data from El Salvador in 2001 and Peru in 2007, we offer the first empirical tests of this 5C+A approach, finding that it cannot be disconfirmed at this …
Disasters and corruption
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially three out of 10 hypothetical truc…
Normal’ versus ‘special’ time corruption
This essay examines the relationship between corruption and political stability, with particular emphasis on Mexico. Through careful analysis of public opinion surveys from 1997–1998, exploring the differential attitudes towards ‘normal time corruption’ and ‘special time corruption’ (e.g. in connection with disaster relief), the data highlights how attitudes to corruption are context‐dependent. Natural disasters constitute ‘special times’ with a …
Cómo Están, Y'all?”
Alabama and the Birmingham metropolitan area have experienced a virtual explosion of Mexican migrants. Jefferson County, where Birmingham is located, has seen more than a 300 percent increase in the Latino population since 1990, and according to the 2000 Census, Latinos are the fastest growing, and now the largest, ethnic group in the United States, with Mexicans comprising 27 percent of the total immigrant population. Of course, most Mexican mig…
The Revolution is Dead. ¡Viva la revolución
Mexicans have long cherished their revolutionary heritage, but where does the Mexican Revolution now reside in collective memory, and does the idea of the Revolution still have any legitimating power? And what has been the relationship between the PRI's long sequence of legitimacy crises and the Mexican Revolution? Until procedural democracy provides significant substantive and psychological benefits, the recent democratic turn will not fully sup…
Normal’ versus ‘special’ time corruption
This essay examines the relationship between corruption and political stability, with particular emphasis on Mexico. Through careful analysis of public opinion surveys from 1997–1998, exploring the differential attitudes towards ‘normal time corruption’ and ‘special time corruption’ (e.g. in connection with disaster relief), the data highlights how attitudes to corruption are context‐dependent. Natural disasters constitute ‘special times’ with a …
Mexican Public Opinion and Perceptions of Instability
This article draws on two survey snapshots of Mexico taken at a most interesting time--starting with the historic 1997 mid-term elections and heading toward the all-important 2000 presidential elections. It advances the notion that Mexico is experiencing a social expectation-regime capability dilemma, which threatens the country's longstanding stability and invokes the theory of relative deprivation. Empirical evidence is combined with theoretica…
The Revolution is Dead. ¡Viva la revolución
Mexicans have long cherished their revolutionary heritage, but where does the Mexican Revolution now reside in collective memory, and does the idea of the Revolution still have any legitimating power? And what has been the relationship between the PRI's long sequence of legitimacy crises and the Mexican Revolution? Until procedural democracy provides significant substantive and psychological benefits, the recent democratic turn will not fully sup…
Cómo Están, Y'all?”
Alabama and the Birmingham metropolitan area have experienced a virtual explosion of Mexican migrants. Jefferson County, where Birmingham is located, has seen more than a 300 percent increase in the Latino population since 1990, and according to the 2000 Census, Latinos are the fastest growing, and now the largest, ethnic group in the United States, with Mexicans comprising 27 percent of the total immigrant population. Of course, most Mexican mig…
From Disaster Event to Political Crisis
Journal Article From Disaster Event to Political Crisis: A "5C+A" Framework for Analysis Get access Richard Stuart Olson, Richard Stuart Olson Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent T. Gawronski Vincent T. Gawronski Birmingham-Southern College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 11, Issue 3, Au…
Public Response to Disaster Response
A recent paper in this journal proposed that post-impact public evaluations of governmental disaster performance may be usefully understood and analyzed along six “5C+A” dimensions: capability, competence, compassion, correctness, credibility, and anticipation. Using post-disaster public opinion data from El Salvador in 2001 and Peru in 2007, we offer the first empirical tests of this 5C+A approach, finding that it cannot be disconfirmed at this …
Disasters as Crisis Triggers for Critical Junctures? The 1976 Guatemala Case
This article focuses on the 1976 Guatemala earthquake disaster as a possible crisis trigger, in a relatively strict application of the critical juncture analytical approach. It expands to include the broader question of what conditions might cause disasters to trigger crises that open critical junctures for nation-states. The research concludes that the 1976 Guatemala disaster led to a high degree of community self-organizing and alliance-buildin…
From Disaster Risk Reduction to Policy Studies
Major conceptual and empirical advances over the past three decades have clarified how natural hazard events interact with community and human exposures and vulnerabilities to create risks that then become emergencies, disasters, or in the worst combinations, catastrophes. However, corresponding disaster risk reduction (DRR) knowledge and technology exist to significantly lessen the impacts of hazard events, but in many countries, including the U…
Disasters and corruption
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially three out of 10 hypothetical truc…
STEMMing the tide
This study evaluated early outcomes of STEMMing the Tide, a place-based STEM education initiative at Mobile County Training School (MCTS) in Africatown, Alabama, a historically Black, under-resourced community impacted by environmental injustice. The program integrated environmental justice themes into culturally responsive science and social studies middle school curricula aligned with state standards. Eight teachers from Mobile County Training …
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)