A Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 12367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5981-7881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Trump Effect? Right-Wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada
Do Donald Trump’s attacks on voting by mail influence how some Canadians view mail-in ballots? The Trump effect on views and behaviors surrounding voting by mail has been well documented in the United States. North of the border, more Canadians than ever voted by mail in the last general election. In this study, we consider how right-wing populism is associated with trust in voting by mail among Canadians. Specifically, we seek to test two main h…
Political trust and democracy
This article empirically assesses competing perspectives of the relationship between democracy and political trust. We conduct multilevel analyses on a cross-national panel dataset of 82 countries for the period 1990–2020. The findings suggest that there is a strong, negative relationship between democracy and political trust that cannot easily be dismissed as an artifact of model misspecification or response bias. Moreover, we re-examine the cri…
Why is trust lower in Quebec? A cultural explanation
In this article, we provide a cultural explanation of a long-standing trust puzzle in Canada-Quebecers trust much less than their fellow Canadians. Specifically, we develop a novel approach to empirically assess the historical influence of the Catholic Church, using the Quiet Revolution (a period of abrupt modernization in Quebec) as a natural experiment. We find that older cohorts socialized prior to the Quiet Revolution are significantly less t…
Erving Goffman on Misinformation and Information Control
Misinformation is a social problem increasingly, and routinely, commanding significant political and public attention. Less well known is that Erving Goffman was writing about misinformation as early as 1953 in his PhD thesis. Subsequent to which, he wrote repeatedly about the social organization and conduct of 'information control' across several of his most influential publications. This article distils his ideas about these concepts to explore…
Foreign aid and the rule of law
This paper examines the role of bilateral foreign aid in supporting the diffusion and enactment of common models and institutions of the rule of law among aid-recipient low- and middle-income countries. We ask whether aid targeted at security-sector reform and the rule of law influences the adoption of constitutional and legal reforms over time (institutional diffusion), and whether aid also supports more effective implementation of the rule of l…
How Russia's Internet Research Agency Built its Disinformation Campaign
In this article we analyse features of the information influence operations run by the St. Petersburg based Internet Research Agency, targeted at Europe. Informed by publicly available ‘open source’ data, the analysis delineates three key tactics that underpinned their disinformation campaign: account buying; ‘follower fishing’; and narrative switching. Both individually and collectively these were designed to build the reach, impact and influenc…
Relative timing of the Storegga submarine slide, methane release, and climate change during the 8.2 ka cold event
This paper highlights the similarity in the timing between the 8.2 ka cold event across the North Atlantic region and one of the world’s largest underwater slides, the Storegga submarine landslide that took place on the continental slope west of Norway. We argue on the basis of a reinterpretation of the age of tsunami deposits that date the slide, as well as published ages of sediment directly resting upon the slide surface, that the slide occurr…
Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence
To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether a history of colonialism is related to indicators of inter-communal conflict, political rebellion and civil war in the years 1960–1999. The analysis provides evidence against sweeping claims that colonialism is a universal cause of civil violence but finds that some forms of coloniali…
A Phenomenological Study of the Gnostic Church of Brazil
Integrated increasingly within the globalizing system of late-modernity, Brazil is undergoing widespread transformation in every sphere of its economic-political, social-cultural and religiousspiritual life. Once a bastion of Roman Catholicism, Brazil is today home to some of the fastest growing non-Catholic religious movements, has greeted enthusiastically a number of homegrown and imported new religions and is witnessing the growth of alternati…
Documenting the trauma of apartheid
Journal Article Documenting the trauma of apartheid: Long Night's Journey into Day and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Get access Ashley Dawson Ashley Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 2005, Pages 473–486, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/46.4.473 Published: 01 December 2005
Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy
Preface Introduction 1. Drifting: Architecture / Migrancy 2. On Cosmopolitanism 3. Architecture as Evidence 4. Mythforms: Techniques of Migrant Place-Making 5. Why Architecture is Neither Here nor There 6. Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination 7. Building Hong Kong: from Migrancy to Disappearance 8. Conflicting Landscapes of Dwelling and Democracy in Canada 9. Too Many Houses for a Home: Narrating the House in the Chinese Diaspora 10…
Producing the Past. Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700 1850
Journal Article Producing the Past. Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850 Get access Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz (eds.). Aldershot , Ashgate , 1999 . ISBN 1-84014-275-8 . 214 pp., 51 b. & w. illus. £49.50. Aileen Dawson Aileen Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2001, Page 94, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/13.1.94 Published: 01 Ju…
The Human Geography of Eastern Europe
Section One: Trade Transport and Energy 1. Trade, Transport and Energy: An Introduction 2. Non-Comecon Trade and Cooperation 3. Transport Services by Rail and Water 4. Electrification and the Prospects for Nuclear Power Section Two: Settlement Patterns 5. Socialist Cities and their Housing Policies 6. Planning the Growth of Large Towns 7. Continuity and Change in the Rural Areas 8. Problems of Pollution and Conservation
Soviet Geography Studies in Our Time
Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy
Preface Introduction 1. Drifting: Architecture / Migrancy 2. On Cosmopolitanism 3. Architecture as Evidence 4. Mythforms: Techniques of Migrant Place-Making 5. Why Architecture is Neither Here nor There 6. Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination 7. Building Hong Kong: from Migrancy to Disappearance 8. Conflicting Landscapes of Dwelling and Democracy in Canada 9. Too Many Houses for a Home: Narrating the House in the Chinese Diaspora 10…
How Russia's Internet Research Agency Built its Disinformation Campaign
In this article we analyse features of the information influence operations run by the St. Petersburg based Internet Research Agency, targeted at Europe. Informed by publicly available ‘open source’ data, the analysis delineates three key tactics that underpinned their disinformation campaign: account buying; ‘follower fishing’; and narrative switching. Both individually and collectively these were designed to build the reach, impact and influenc…
Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence
To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether a history of colonialism is related to indicators of inter-communal conflict, political rebellion and civil war in the years 1960–1999. The analysis provides evidence against sweeping claims that colonialism is a universal cause of civil violence but finds that some forms of coloniali…
Political trust and democracy
This article empirically assesses competing perspectives of the relationship between democracy and political trust. We conduct multilevel analyses on a cross-national panel dataset of 82 countries for the period 1990–2020. The findings suggest that there is a strong, negative relationship between democracy and political trust that cannot easily be dismissed as an artifact of model misspecification or response bias. Moreover, we re-examine the cri…
Foreign aid and the rule of law
This paper examines the role of bilateral foreign aid in supporting the diffusion and enactment of common models and institutions of the rule of law among aid-recipient low- and middle-income countries. We ask whether aid targeted at security-sector reform and the rule of law influences the adoption of constitutional and legal reforms over time (institutional diffusion), and whether aid also supports more effective implementation of the rule of l…
Relative timing of the Storegga submarine slide, methane release, and climate change during the 8.2 ka cold event
This paper highlights the similarity in the timing between the 8.2 ka cold event across the North Atlantic region and one of the world’s largest underwater slides, the Storegga submarine landslide that took place on the continental slope west of Norway. We argue on the basis of a reinterpretation of the age of tsunami deposits that date the slide, as well as published ages of sediment directly resting upon the slide surface, that the slide occurr…
Why is trust lower in Quebec? A cultural explanation
In this article, we provide a cultural explanation of a long-standing trust puzzle in Canada-Quebecers trust much less than their fellow Canadians. Specifically, we develop a novel approach to empirically assess the historical influence of the Catholic Church, using the Quiet Revolution (a period of abrupt modernization in Quebec) as a natural experiment. We find that older cohorts socialized prior to the Quiet Revolution are significantly less t…
Erving Goffman on Misinformation and Information Control
Misinformation is a social problem increasingly, and routinely, commanding significant political and public attention. Less well known is that Erving Goffman was writing about misinformation as early as 1953 in his PhD thesis. Subsequent to which, he wrote repeatedly about the social organization and conduct of 'information control' across several of his most influential publications. This article distils his ideas about these concepts to explore…
The Human Geography of Eastern Europe
Section One: Trade Transport and Energy 1. Trade, Transport and Energy: An Introduction 2. Non-Comecon Trade and Cooperation 3. Transport Services by Rail and Water 4. Electrification and the Prospects for Nuclear Power Section Two: Settlement Patterns 5. Socialist Cities and their Housing Policies 6. Planning the Growth of Large Towns 7. Continuity and Change in the Rural Areas 8. Problems of Pollution and Conservation
The Trump Effect? Right-Wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada
Do Donald Trump’s attacks on voting by mail influence how some Canadians view mail-in ballots? The Trump effect on views and behaviors surrounding voting by mail has been well documented in the United States. North of the border, more Canadians than ever voted by mail in the last general election. In this study, we consider how right-wing populism is associated with trust in voting by mail among Canadians. Specifically, we seek to test two main h…
Soviet Geography Studies in Our Time
Soviet Geography Studies in Our Time
The Human Geography of Eastern Europe
Section One: Trade Transport and Energy 1. Trade, Transport and Energy: An Introduction 2. Non-Comecon Trade and Cooperation 3. Transport Services by Rail and Water 4. Electrification and the Prospects for Nuclear Power Section Two: Settlement Patterns 5. Socialist Cities and their Housing Policies 6. Planning the Growth of Large Towns 7. Continuity and Change in the Rural Areas 8. Problems of Pollution and Conservation
Producing the Past. Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700 1850
Journal Article Producing the Past. Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850 Get access Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz (eds.). Aldershot , Ashgate , 1999 . ISBN 1-84014-275-8 . 214 pp., 51 b. & w. illus. £49.50. Aileen Dawson Aileen Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2001, Page 94, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/13.1.94 Published: 01 Ju…
Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy
Preface Introduction 1. Drifting: Architecture / Migrancy 2. On Cosmopolitanism 3. Architecture as Evidence 4. Mythforms: Techniques of Migrant Place-Making 5. Why Architecture is Neither Here nor There 6. Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination 7. Building Hong Kong: from Migrancy to Disappearance 8. Conflicting Landscapes of Dwelling and Democracy in Canada 9. Too Many Houses for a Home: Narrating the House in the Chinese Diaspora 10…
Documenting the trauma of apartheid
Journal Article Documenting the trauma of apartheid: Long Night's Journey into Day and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Get access Ashley Dawson Ashley Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 2005, Pages 473–486, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/46.4.473 Published: 01 December 2005
A Phenomenological Study of the Gnostic Church of Brazil
Integrated increasingly within the globalizing system of late-modernity, Brazil is undergoing widespread transformation in every sphere of its economic-political, social-cultural and religiousspiritual life. Once a bastion of Roman Catholicism, Brazil is today home to some of the fastest growing non-Catholic religious movements, has greeted enthusiastically a number of homegrown and imported new religions and is witnessing the growth of alternati…
Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence
To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether a history of colonialism is related to indicators of inter-communal conflict, political rebellion and civil war in the years 1960–1999. The analysis provides evidence against sweeping claims that colonialism is a universal cause of civil violence but finds that some forms of coloniali…
Relative timing of the Storegga submarine slide, methane release, and climate change during the 8.2 ka cold event
This paper highlights the similarity in the timing between the 8.2 ka cold event across the North Atlantic region and one of the world’s largest underwater slides, the Storegga submarine landslide that took place on the continental slope west of Norway. We argue on the basis of a reinterpretation of the age of tsunami deposits that date the slide, as well as published ages of sediment directly resting upon the slide surface, that the slide occurr…
How Russia's Internet Research Agency Built its Disinformation Campaign
In this article we analyse features of the information influence operations run by the St. Petersburg based Internet Research Agency, targeted at Europe. Informed by publicly available ‘open source’ data, the analysis delineates three key tactics that underpinned their disinformation campaign: account buying; ‘follower fishing’; and narrative switching. Both individually and collectively these were designed to build the reach, impact and influenc…
Foreign aid and the rule of law
This paper examines the role of bilateral foreign aid in supporting the diffusion and enactment of common models and institutions of the rule of law among aid-recipient low- and middle-income countries. We ask whether aid targeted at security-sector reform and the rule of law influences the adoption of constitutional and legal reforms over time (institutional diffusion), and whether aid also supports more effective implementation of the rule of l…
Why is trust lower in Quebec? A cultural explanation
In this article, we provide a cultural explanation of a long-standing trust puzzle in Canada-Quebecers trust much less than their fellow Canadians. Specifically, we develop a novel approach to empirically assess the historical influence of the Catholic Church, using the Quiet Revolution (a period of abrupt modernization in Quebec) as a natural experiment. We find that older cohorts socialized prior to the Quiet Revolution are significantly less t…
Erving Goffman on Misinformation and Information Control
Misinformation is a social problem increasingly, and routinely, commanding significant political and public attention. Less well known is that Erving Goffman was writing about misinformation as early as 1953 in his PhD thesis. Subsequent to which, he wrote repeatedly about the social organization and conduct of 'information control' across several of his most influential publications. This article distils his ideas about these concepts to explore…
The Trump Effect? Right-Wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada
Do Donald Trump’s attacks on voting by mail influence how some Canadians view mail-in ballots? The Trump effect on views and behaviors surrounding voting by mail has been well documented in the United States. North of the border, more Canadians than ever voted by mail in the last general election. In this study, we consider how right-wing populism is associated with trust in voting by mail among Canadians. Specifically, we seek to test two main h…
Political trust and democracy
This article empirically assesses competing perspectives of the relationship between democracy and political trust. We conduct multilevel analyses on a cross-national panel dataset of 82 countries for the period 1990–2020. The findings suggest that there is a strong, negative relationship between democracy and political trust that cannot easily be dismissed as an artifact of model misspecification or response bias. Moreover, we re-examine the cri…
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