Valentina A Bali
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1073178 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Valentina A Bali |
| NOMBRES | Valentina A |
| APELLIDO | Bali |
| FIRMA | BALI V A |
| AFILIACIONES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0643-3590 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 156 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Diverging Collective Goals
Public education in the U.S. has traditionally aimed to balance both individual success, by fostering academic and personal growth, and collective benefits, by cultivating a responsible, tolerant, and skilled citizenry. Increasingly, these collective goals of schooling are being contested. In this study we assess the prevalence of key collective goals as expressed in school mission statements. We seek to understand whether the incidence of these …
More than Meets the Eye? Using Text Analytic Techniques to Unpack School Mission Statements
Schools develop mission statements in part to communicate their purposes of schooling to internal and external audiences. The goal of this study is to employ text analytic techniques to analyze school mission statements. Focusing on Arizona and New Jersey’s schools, we seek to understand: 1) what themes (topics) emerge from their mission statements, 2) whether local context (politics) and institutional factors (being a charter) mediate topic prev…
What Motivates People to Vote? The Role of Selfishness, Duty, and Social Motives When Voting
This study assesses the relative importance and explanatory power of five fundamental psychological motives for voting. Using United States survey data, we analyze self-reports on the motives of selfishness, duty, altruism, belonging, and social approval in relation to turnout. These motives have precedents in the literature, but they have not yet been evaluated simultaneously. We find that altruism and duty are the most important reported motive…
International Terrorism and the Political Survival of Leaders
This study examines whether transnational terrorist attacks impact the political survival of leaders. We argue that external security threats, such as those from transnational terrorist incidents, can undermine incumbent target governments by exposing foreign policy failures and damaging society’s general well-being. Yet, terrorism may not destabilize democratic governments as a result of citizens rallying around their elected leaders in threaten…
The effects of the electoral calendar on terrorist attacks
Tinkering Toward a National Identification System
The REAL ID Act was passed in 2005 by Congress in part to address preoccupations with breaches to homeland security after the 9/11 attacks. The Act requires states to introduce more standardized state driver's licenses by 2008. The goal of this paper is to understand citizens' opinions in the area of personal identification and how these opinions may be shaped by alternative framings of the issue. Using survey responses from Michigan residents pr…
One More Piece to Make Us Puzzle
This article examines how the presence and usage of the initiative process impact the electoral chances of state legislators. Using individual-level data on state legislators across the states from 1970 to 1989, the authors find that the presence and frequency of use of the initiative do not hurt legislators' electoral chances. In fact, under certain institutional settings, the initiative process can have a small beneficial impact on legislator's…
Terror and elections
Politics, Race, and American State Electoral Reforms after Election 2000
The controversial presidential election of 2000 triggered a wide variety of electoral reforms in many states. We examine the impact of a state's politics, ethnicity, and fiscal health on the passage of these reforms. Using state-level data from 2001 and 2002, we find that the partisan make-up of state government frequently influenced the fate of these reforms. States with a divided government or high party competition tended not to adopt several …
The Race Gap in Student Achievement Scores
Black and Hispanic students often display substantial gaps in test scores when compared to White students at all levels of education. In this article, we examine when and how the Black‐White and Hispanic‐White test score gaps develop in the early elementary grades in a California school district with a large minority population, where more than 80% of the students are Black or Hispanic. We use multivariate analysis to predict the annual reading a…
Schools and Educational Outcomes
Objective. African‐American and Hispanic students often have lower test scores than white students at all levels of education. In this article, we examine whether school factors impact racial groups differentially, helping reduce the test score gaps, and whether school policies benefit one racial group at the expense of another. Methods. The data is individual‐level data from a school district in California. Multivariate analysis (FGLS) is used t…
Implementing Popular Initiatives
The purpose of this research is to understand what matters for compliance with a popular initiative. While scholars of policy implementation have identified many factors that play a role in explaining compliance with a new law, these explanatory variables have not been collectively tested, in particular, in the context of the initiative process. Focusing on an initiative in education, I examine compliance with California's Proposition 227 that ai…
Sink or Swim
Proposition 227, passed by California voters in 1998, aimed to dismantle bilingual programs in public schools and to replace them with English-only programs. Bilingual education, a long-standing program in California, involved mostly Hispanic students of limited English skills who were taught initially in their native language, and then were gradually transitioned into English-only classes. Using individual-level data from one southern California…
Terror and elections
The Race Gap in Student Achievement Scores
Black and Hispanic students often display substantial gaps in test scores when compared to White students at all levels of education. In this article, we examine when and how the Black‐White and Hispanic‐White test score gaps develop in the early elementary grades in a California school district with a large minority population, where more than 80% of the students are Black or Hispanic. We use multivariate analysis to predict the annual reading a…
International Terrorism and the Political Survival of Leaders
This study examines whether transnational terrorist attacks impact the political survival of leaders. We argue that external security threats, such as those from transnational terrorist incidents, can undermine incumbent target governments by exposing foreign policy failures and damaging society’s general well-being. Yet, terrorism may not destabilize democratic governments as a result of citizens rallying around their elected leaders in threaten…
Implementing Popular Initiatives
The purpose of this research is to understand what matters for compliance with a popular initiative. While scholars of policy implementation have identified many factors that play a role in explaining compliance with a new law, these explanatory variables have not been collectively tested, in particular, in the context of the initiative process. Focusing on an initiative in education, I examine compliance with California's Proposition 227 that ai…
Tinkering Toward a National Identification System
The REAL ID Act was passed in 2005 by Congress in part to address preoccupations with breaches to homeland security after the 9/11 attacks. The Act requires states to introduce more standardized state driver's licenses by 2008. The goal of this paper is to understand citizens' opinions in the area of personal identification and how these opinions may be shaped by alternative framings of the issue. Using survey responses from Michigan residents pr…
Politics, Race, and American State Electoral Reforms after Election 2000
The controversial presidential election of 2000 triggered a wide variety of electoral reforms in many states. We examine the impact of a state's politics, ethnicity, and fiscal health on the passage of these reforms. Using state-level data from 2001 and 2002, we find that the partisan make-up of state government frequently influenced the fate of these reforms. States with a divided government or high party competition tended not to adopt several …
Schools and Educational Outcomes
Objective. African‐American and Hispanic students often have lower test scores than white students at all levels of education. In this article, we examine whether school factors impact racial groups differentially, helping reduce the test score gaps, and whether school policies benefit one racial group at the expense of another. Methods. The data is individual‐level data from a school district in California. Multivariate analysis (FGLS) is used t…
The effects of the electoral calendar on terrorist attacks
What Motivates People to Vote? The Role of Selfishness, Duty, and Social Motives When Voting
This study assesses the relative importance and explanatory power of five fundamental psychological motives for voting. Using United States survey data, we analyze self-reports on the motives of selfishness, duty, altruism, belonging, and social approval in relation to turnout. These motives have precedents in the literature, but they have not yet been evaluated simultaneously. We find that altruism and duty are the most important reported motive…
One More Piece to Make Us Puzzle
This article examines how the presence and usage of the initiative process impact the electoral chances of state legislators. Using individual-level data on state legislators across the states from 1970 to 1989, the authors find that the presence and frequency of use of the initiative do not hurt legislators' electoral chances. In fact, under certain institutional settings, the initiative process can have a small beneficial impact on legislator's…
Sink or Swim
Proposition 227, passed by California voters in 1998, aimed to dismantle bilingual programs in public schools and to replace them with English-only programs. Bilingual education, a long-standing program in California, involved mostly Hispanic students of limited English skills who were taught initially in their native language, and then were gradually transitioned into English-only classes. Using individual-level data from one southern California…
Sink or Swim
Proposition 227, passed by California voters in 1998, aimed to dismantle bilingual programs in public schools and to replace them with English-only programs. Bilingual education, a long-standing program in California, involved mostly Hispanic students of limited English skills who were taught initially in their native language, and then were gradually transitioned into English-only classes. Using individual-level data from one southern California…
Schools and Educational Outcomes
Objective. African‐American and Hispanic students often have lower test scores than white students at all levels of education. In this article, we examine whether school factors impact racial groups differentially, helping reduce the test score gaps, and whether school policies benefit one racial group at the expense of another. Methods. The data is individual‐level data from a school district in California. Multivariate analysis (FGLS) is used t…
Implementing Popular Initiatives
The purpose of this research is to understand what matters for compliance with a popular initiative. While scholars of policy implementation have identified many factors that play a role in explaining compliance with a new law, these explanatory variables have not been collectively tested, in particular, in the context of the initiative process. Focusing on an initiative in education, I examine compliance with California's Proposition 227 that ai…
The Race Gap in Student Achievement Scores
Black and Hispanic students often display substantial gaps in test scores when compared to White students at all levels of education. In this article, we examine when and how the Black‐White and Hispanic‐White test score gaps develop in the early elementary grades in a California school district with a large minority population, where more than 80% of the students are Black or Hispanic. We use multivariate analysis to predict the annual reading a…
Politics, Race, and American State Electoral Reforms after Election 2000
The controversial presidential election of 2000 triggered a wide variety of electoral reforms in many states. We examine the impact of a state's politics, ethnicity, and fiscal health on the passage of these reforms. Using state-level data from 2001 and 2002, we find that the partisan make-up of state government frequently influenced the fate of these reforms. States with a divided government or high party competition tended not to adopt several …
One More Piece to Make Us Puzzle
This article examines how the presence and usage of the initiative process impact the electoral chances of state legislators. Using individual-level data on state legislators across the states from 1970 to 1989, the authors find that the presence and frequency of use of the initiative do not hurt legislators' electoral chances. In fact, under certain institutional settings, the initiative process can have a small beneficial impact on legislator's…
Terror and elections
Tinkering Toward a National Identification System
The REAL ID Act was passed in 2005 by Congress in part to address preoccupations with breaches to homeland security after the 9/11 attacks. The Act requires states to introduce more standardized state driver's licenses by 2008. The goal of this paper is to understand citizens' opinions in the area of personal identification and how these opinions may be shaped by alternative framings of the issue. Using survey responses from Michigan residents pr…
The effects of the electoral calendar on terrorist attacks
International Terrorism and the Political Survival of Leaders
This study examines whether transnational terrorist attacks impact the political survival of leaders. We argue that external security threats, such as those from transnational terrorist incidents, can undermine incumbent target governments by exposing foreign policy failures and damaging society’s general well-being. Yet, terrorism may not destabilize democratic governments as a result of citizens rallying around their elected leaders in threaten…
What Motivates People to Vote? The Role of Selfishness, Duty, and Social Motives When Voting
This study assesses the relative importance and explanatory power of five fundamental psychological motives for voting. Using United States survey data, we analyze self-reports on the motives of selfishness, duty, altruism, belonging, and social approval in relation to turnout. These motives have precedents in the literature, but they have not yet been evaluated simultaneously. We find that altruism and duty are the most important reported motive…
More than Meets the Eye? Using Text Analytic Techniques to Unpack School Mission Statements
Schools develop mission statements in part to communicate their purposes of schooling to internal and external audiences. The goal of this study is to employ text analytic techniques to analyze school mission statements. Focusing on Arizona and New Jersey’s schools, we seek to understand: 1) what themes (topics) emerge from their mission statements, 2) whether local context (politics) and institutional factors (being a charter) mediate topic prev…
Diverging Collective Goals
Public education in the U.S. has traditionally aimed to balance both individual success, by fostering academic and personal growth, and collective benefits, by cultivating a responsible, tolerant, and skilled citizenry. Increasingly, these collective goals of schooling are being contested. In this study we assess the prevalence of key collective goals as expressed in school mission statements. We seek to understand whether the incidence of these …
Political science (13 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Public Administration (5 obras) · Political economy (4 obras)