H Best
Biographic Data
| ID | 11801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Best |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Best |
| SIGNATURE | BEST H |
| AFFILIATIONS | GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2200-6839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Breathing unequal air: Environmental disadvantage and residential sorting of immigrant minorities in England and Germany
Despite ongoing debates on environmental justice, the link between selective residential migration and the unequal exposure to environmental hazards remains underexplored. Previous research has often relied on spatially aggregated data and focused on single-country analyses, limiting our understanding of broader patterns. We address this gap using longitudinal household-level data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study and the German Socio-Econ…
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The air pollution disadvantage of immigrants in Germany: Partly a Matter of Urbanity
Several studies now document the disproportionate distribution of environmental pollution across different groups, but many are based on aggregated data or subjective pollution measures. In this study, we describe the air quality disadvantage of migrants in Germany using objective pollution data linked to nationally representative individual-level survey data. We intersect 1 × 1 km2 grid geo-references from the German General Social Survey (ALLBU…
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Umstieg auf öffentliche Verkehrsmittel und finanzielle Entlastung durch das 9-Euro-Ticket: Ergebnisse einer deutschlandweiten Befragung
Die Einführung des 9‐Euro-Tickets (9ET) im Sommer 2022 stellte für Politik und Forschung ein aufschlussreiches Realexperiment dar. Wir untersuchen auf Basis von Daten aus einer bundesweiten Online-Befragung im Juli 2022 (1347 Befragte, quotiert), wer das Ticket nachgefragt und wie sich die Mobilität gruppenspezifisch verändert hat. Dabei legen wir den Fokus auf Einkommens- und Stadt-Land-Unterschiede: Wurden insbesondere niedrige Einkommensgruppe…
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: Revisiting the Role of Income for Environmental Inequality
The disproportionate exposure of minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged households to environmental pollution is often explained by selective migration or sorting mechanisms. Yet, previous empirical results remain inconclusive. Here, we offer an explanation for the mixed findings by focusing on the selective out-migration stage triggered by environmental pollution. We argue that many income-independent explanations for minority disadvant…
Environmental Inequality and Residential Sorting in Germany: A Spatial Time-Series Analysis of the Demographic Consequences of Industrial Sites
Previous research has shown that low-income households bear a higher exposure to environmental pollution than high-income households. Some scholars have argued that selective siting of industrial facilities accounts for such environmental inequality, while others have argued that those citizens who can afford to move out of polluted regions do so, and the socioeconomically disadvantaged are sorted into polluted areas. Yet empirical evidence regar…
Attitudes and behavioral intentions to protect the environment: How consistent is the structure of environmental concern in cross-national comparison
This article deals with the consistency of the attitudinal structure of environmental concern in cross-national comparison using structural equation models (SEM) with International Social Survey Program (ISSP) 2010 data. Multiple group confirmatory factor analysis is used to explore measurement invariance and to test the cross-national consistency of the relationship between environmental attitudes and the willingness to sacrifice for environment…
Two Worlds of Environmentalism
This article examines cross-cultural differences in the value cluster of environmentalism and postmaterialism. Based on an extension of Ronald Inglehart’s “objective problems–subjective values” hypothesis, we posit different sources of postmaterialism and environmental concern in wealthy versus poor countries. We test hypotheses on the relationship between national wealth, postmaterialist values, and environmental concern using empirical data fro…
How Selective Migration Shapes Environmental Inequality in Germany: Evidence from Micro-level Panel Data
Socio-economically disadvantaged and ethnic minorities are affected by a disproportionately high exposure to environmental pollution. Yet, it is unclear if selective migration causes this disproportionate exposure experienced by low-income and minority households. The study uses longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the process of selective migration and its connection to the perceived exposure to air pollution in …
Theoretische und statistische Modellierung von Cross-Pressures in Kontextanalysen
Values, Beliefs, Attitudes: An Empirical Study on the Structure of Environmental Concern and Recycling Participation
Objectives Empirical studies on environmental behavior have been using a multitude of different operationalizations of environmental concern, which complicates cumulative research. In this article, we empirically explore the dimensionality of four environmental scales of different specificity, their interrelatedness, and their partial contribution to the explanation of recycling behavior. To facilitate the comparison of different studies, we inte…
Die Low-Cost-Hypothese: Theoretische Grundlagen und empirische Implikationen
Modellvergleich und Ergebnisinterpretation in Logit- und Probit-Regressionen
The impact of attitudes and behavioral costs on environmental behavior: A natural experiment on household waste recycling
Environmental Concern and the Adoption of Organic Agriculture
In an empirical study on the adoption of organic agriculture, hypotheses on the relation between environmental concern and environmental behavior are tested. The study is based on a postal survey of farmers conducted 2004 in Western Germany (n = 657). The results indicate that there is a direct as well as an indirect effect of environmental concern on the probability of an adoption of organic farming. The indirect effect is increasing the prefere…
Structural and Ideological Determinants of Household Waste Recycling: Results from an Empirical Study in Cologne, Germany
This article aims to empirically test the so called low-cost hypothesis. The hypothesis posits that cost moderates the strength of the relationship between environmental concern and behavior. The effects of the behavioral cost and environmental concern on household waste recycling were evaluated, using empirical data collected from 2,695 respondents in Cologne, Germany. Empirically, a clear effect of both behavioral cost and environmental concern…
Kommt erst das Fressen und dann die Moral? / Eating Comes First and Then Morality: Eine feldexperimentelle Überprüfung der Low-Cost-Hypothese und des Modells der Frame-Selektion / A Field Experiment o…
In den Jahren 2006 und 2007 wurde in Köln die Sammlung von Wertstoffen schrittweise, Bezirk für Bezirk, von einem Bringsystem (Container an der Straße) auf ein Holsystem (Gelbe/Blaue Tonnen mit unentgeltlicher Hausabholung) umgestellt. Diese Umstellung wird als Basis eines Feldexperimentes herangezogen, mit dem Hypothesen zum Zusammenhang von Umweltbewusstsein und Umweltverhalten überprüft werden. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchungen stehen die „Low…
Organic Farming as a Rational Choice: Empirical Investigations in Environmental Decision Making
Based on a postal survey of farmers conducted in 2004 in Western Germany (n = 657), a rational choice model of the adoption of organic farming is tested. Using methods of direct utility measurement, rational choice (RC) theory is applied directly in the empirical study. By that, questionable assumptions on the variability of preferences and the type of preferences to use in RC explanations can be avoided. The results indicate that the subjectivel…
Die Umstellung auf ökologische Landwirtschaft: Empirische Analysen zur Low-Cost-Hypothese des Umweltverhaltens
Organic agriculture and the conventionalization hypothesis: A case study from West Germany
Modellvergleich und Ergebnisinterpretation in Logit- und Probit-Regressionen
Organic agriculture and the conventionalization hypothesis: A case study from West Germany
Division of labour and gender differences in metropolitan car use
How Selective Migration Shapes Environmental Inequality in Germany: Evidence from Micro-level Panel Data
Socio-economically disadvantaged and ethnic minorities are affected by a disproportionately high exposure to environmental pollution. Yet, it is unclear if selective migration causes this disproportionate exposure experienced by low-income and minority households. The study uses longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the process of selective migration and its connection to the perceived exposure to air pollution in …
The impact of attitudes and behavioral costs on environmental behavior: A natural experiment on household waste recycling
The Transformation of Legislative Elites: The Cases of Britain and Germany since the 1860s
Drawing on databases going back to the middle of the nineteenth century, this article examines how changes in the opportunity structures in political recruitment have influenced the socio-economic backgrounds and career patterns of British and German MPs. Extending opportunity structures enables legislatures to respond to socio-economic changes in society, but there may be a significant time-lag before they are reflected in the legislature. In sp…
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: Revisiting the Role of Income for Environmental Inequality
The disproportionate exposure of minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged households to environmental pollution is often explained by selective migration or sorting mechanisms. Yet, previous empirical results remain inconclusive. Here, we offer an explanation for the mixed findings by focusing on the selective out-migration stage triggered by environmental pollution. We argue that many income-independent explanations for minority disadvant…
Die Low-Cost-Hypothese: Theoretische Grundlagen und empirische Implikationen
Values, Beliefs, Attitudes: An Empirical Study on the Structure of Environmental Concern and Recycling Participation
Objectives Empirical studies on environmental behavior have been using a multitude of different operationalizations of environmental concern, which complicates cumulative research. In this article, we empirically explore the dimensionality of four environmental scales of different specificity, their interrelatedness, and their partial contribution to the explanation of recycling behavior. To facilitate the comparison of different studies, we inte…
Environmental Concern and the Adoption of Organic Agriculture
In an empirical study on the adoption of organic agriculture, hypotheses on the relation between environmental concern and environmental behavior are tested. The study is based on a postal survey of farmers conducted 2004 in Western Germany (n = 657). The results indicate that there is a direct as well as an indirect effect of environmental concern on the probability of an adoption of organic farming. The indirect effect is increasing the prefere…
Attitudes and behavioral intentions to protect the environment: How consistent is the structure of environmental concern in cross-national comparison
This article deals with the consistency of the attitudinal structure of environmental concern in cross-national comparison using structural equation models (SEM) with International Social Survey Program (ISSP) 2010 data. Multiple group confirmatory factor analysis is used to explore measurement invariance and to test the cross-national consistency of the relationship between environmental attitudes and the willingness to sacrifice for environment…
Environmental Inequality and Residential Sorting in Germany: A Spatial Time-Series Analysis of the Demographic Consequences of Industrial Sites
Previous research has shown that low-income households bear a higher exposure to environmental pollution than high-income households. Some scholars have argued that selective siting of industrial facilities accounts for such environmental inequality, while others have argued that those citizens who can afford to move out of polluted regions do so, and the socioeconomically disadvantaged are sorted into polluted areas. Yet empirical evidence regar…
Kommt erst das Fressen und dann die Moral? / Eating Comes First and Then Morality: Eine feldexperimentelle Überprüfung der Low-Cost-Hypothese und des Modells der Frame-Selektion / A Field Experiment o…
In den Jahren 2006 und 2007 wurde in Köln die Sammlung von Wertstoffen schrittweise, Bezirk für Bezirk, von einem Bringsystem (Container an der Straße) auf ein Holsystem (Gelbe/Blaue Tonnen mit unentgeltlicher Hausabholung) umgestellt. Diese Umstellung wird als Basis eines Feldexperimentes herangezogen, mit dem Hypothesen zum Zusammenhang von Umweltbewusstsein und Umweltverhalten überprüft werden. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchungen stehen die „Low…
The air pollution disadvantage of immigrants in Germany: Partly a Matter of Urbanity
Several studies now document the disproportionate distribution of environmental pollution across different groups, but many are based on aggregated data or subjective pollution measures. In this study, we describe the air quality disadvantage of migrants in Germany using objective pollution data linked to nationally representative individual-level survey data. We intersect 1 × 1 km2 grid geo-references from the German General Social Survey (ALLBU…
Organic Farming as a Rational Choice: Empirical Investigations in Environmental Decision Making
Based on a postal survey of farmers conducted in 2004 in Western Germany (n = 657), a rational choice model of the adoption of organic farming is tested. Using methods of direct utility measurement, rational choice (RC) theory is applied directly in the empirical study. By that, questionable assumptions on the variability of preferences and the type of preferences to use in RC explanations can be avoided. The results indicate that the subjectivel…
Die Umstellung auf ökologische Landwirtschaft: Empirische Analysen zur Low-Cost-Hypothese des Umweltverhaltens
Breathing unequal air: Environmental disadvantage and residential sorting of immigrant minorities in England and Germany
Despite ongoing debates on environmental justice, the link between selective residential migration and the unequal exposure to environmental hazards remains underexplored. Previous research has often relied on spatially aggregated data and focused on single-country analyses, limiting our understanding of broader patterns. We address this gap using longitudinal household-level data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study and the German Socio-Econ…
Our Halting Criminal Statistics
Journal Article Our Halting Criminal Statistics Get access Harry Best Harry Best University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 12, Issue 1, October 1933, Pages 65–68, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570118 Published: 01 October 1933
The Melting Pot in the United States
Journal Article The Melting Pot in the United States Get access Harry Best Harry Best University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 14, Issue 4, May 1936, Pages 591–596, https://doi.org/10.2307/2571127 Published: 01 May 1936
Elite Structure and Regime (Dis)continuity in Germany 1867-1933: The Case of Parliamentary Leadership Groups
Elite Structure and Regime (Dis)continuity in Germany 1867–1933: The Case of Parliamentary Leadership Groups Get access Heinrich Best Heinrich Best Forschungsinstitut für Soziologie der Universität zu Köln Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 1990, Pages 1–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/8.1.1 Published: 01 January 1990
Elite Structure and Regime (Dis)continuity in Germany 1867-1933: The Case of Parliamentary Leadership Groups
The Transformation of Legislative Elites: The Cases of Britain and Germany since the 1860s
Drawing on databases going back to the middle of the nineteenth century, this article examines how changes in the opportunity structures in political recruitment have influenced the socio-economic backgrounds and career patterns of British and German MPs. Extending opportunity structures enables legislatures to respond to socio-economic changes in society, but there may be a significant time-lag before they are reflected in the legislature. In sp…
Division of labour and gender differences in metropolitan car useAn empirical study in Cologne, Germany
Division of labour and gender differences in metropolitan car use
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Organic agriculture and the conventionalization hypothesis: A case study from West Germany
Die Umstellung auf ökologische Landwirtschaft: Empirische Analysen zur Low-Cost-Hypothese des Umweltverhaltens
Structural and Ideological Determinants of Household Waste Recycling: Results from an Empirical Study in Cologne, Germany
This article aims to empirically test the so called low-cost hypothesis. The hypothesis posits that cost moderates the strength of the relationship between environmental concern and behavior. The effects of the behavioral cost and environmental concern on household waste recycling were evaluated, using empirical data collected from 2,695 respondents in Cologne, Germany. Empirically, a clear effect of both behavioral cost and environmental concern…
Kommt erst das Fressen und dann die Moral? / Eating Comes First and Then Morality: Eine feldexperimentelle Überprüfung der Low-Cost-Hypothese und des Modells der Frame-Selektion / A Field Experiment o…
In den Jahren 2006 und 2007 wurde in Köln die Sammlung von Wertstoffen schrittweise, Bezirk für Bezirk, von einem Bringsystem (Container an der Straße) auf ein Holsystem (Gelbe/Blaue Tonnen mit unentgeltlicher Hausabholung) umgestellt. Diese Umstellung wird als Basis eines Feldexperimentes herangezogen, mit dem Hypothesen zum Zusammenhang von Umweltbewusstsein und Umweltverhalten überprüft werden. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchungen stehen die „Low…
Organic Farming as a Rational Choice: Empirical Investigations in Environmental Decision Making
Based on a postal survey of farmers conducted in 2004 in Western Germany (n = 657), a rational choice model of the adoption of organic farming is tested. Using methods of direct utility measurement, rational choice (RC) theory is applied directly in the empirical study. By that, questionable assumptions on the variability of preferences and the type of preferences to use in RC explanations can be avoided. The results indicate that the subjectivel…
Environmental Concern and the Adoption of Organic Agriculture
In an empirical study on the adoption of organic agriculture, hypotheses on the relation between environmental concern and environmental behavior are tested. The study is based on a postal survey of farmers conducted 2004 in Western Germany (n = 657). The results indicate that there is a direct as well as an indirect effect of environmental concern on the probability of an adoption of organic farming. The indirect effect is increasing the prefere…
The impact of attitudes and behavioral costs on environmental behavior: A natural experiment on household waste recycling
Die Low-Cost-Hypothese: Theoretische Grundlagen und empirische Implikationen
Modellvergleich und Ergebnisinterpretation in Logit- und Probit-Regressionen
Values, Beliefs, Attitudes: An Empirical Study on the Structure of Environmental Concern and Recycling Participation
Objectives Empirical studies on environmental behavior have been using a multitude of different operationalizations of environmental concern, which complicates cumulative research. In this article, we empirically explore the dimensionality of four environmental scales of different specificity, their interrelatedness, and their partial contribution to the explanation of recycling behavior. To facilitate the comparison of different studies, we inte…
Theoretische und statistische Modellierung von Cross-Pressures in Kontextanalysen
Two Worlds of Environmentalism
This article examines cross-cultural differences in the value cluster of environmentalism and postmaterialism. Based on an extension of Ronald Inglehart’s “objective problems–subjective values” hypothesis, we posit different sources of postmaterialism and environmental concern in wealthy versus poor countries. We test hypotheses on the relationship between national wealth, postmaterialist values, and environmental concern using empirical data fro…
How Selective Migration Shapes Environmental Inequality in Germany: Evidence from Micro-level Panel Data
Socio-economically disadvantaged and ethnic minorities are affected by a disproportionately high exposure to environmental pollution. Yet, it is unclear if selective migration causes this disproportionate exposure experienced by low-income and minority households. The study uses longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the process of selective migration and its connection to the perceived exposure to air pollution in …
Attitudes and behavioral intentions to protect the environment: How consistent is the structure of environmental concern in cross-national comparison
This article deals with the consistency of the attitudinal structure of environmental concern in cross-national comparison using structural equation models (SEM) with International Social Survey Program (ISSP) 2010 data. Multiple group confirmatory factor analysis is used to explore measurement invariance and to test the cross-national consistency of the relationship between environmental attitudes and the willingness to sacrifice for environment…
Environmental Inequality and Residential Sorting in Germany: A Spatial Time-Series Analysis of the Demographic Consequences of Industrial Sites
Previous research has shown that low-income households bear a higher exposure to environmental pollution than high-income households. Some scholars have argued that selective siting of industrial facilities accounts for such environmental inequality, while others have argued that those citizens who can afford to move out of polluted regions do so, and the socioeconomically disadvantaged are sorted into polluted areas. Yet empirical evidence regar…
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: Revisiting the Role of Income for Environmental Inequality
The disproportionate exposure of minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged households to environmental pollution is often explained by selective migration or sorting mechanisms. Yet, previous empirical results remain inconclusive. Here, we offer an explanation for the mixed findings by focusing on the selective out-migration stage triggered by environmental pollution. We argue that many income-independent explanations for minority disadvant…
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