Robert A Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 128027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1163-6421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 390 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Unreliable Inferences About Unobserved Processes: A Critique of Partial Observability Models
Methodologists and econometricians advocate the partial observability model as a tool that enables researchers to estimate the distinct effects of a single explanatory variable on two partially observable outcome variables. However, we show that when the explanatory variable of interest influences both partially observable outcomes, the partial observability model estimates are extremely sensitive to misspecification. We use Monte Carlo simulatio…
The American Political Landscape
Strategic Candidates, Campaign Dynamics, and Campaign Advertising in Gubernatorial Races
Political campaigns are dynamic struggles between candidates to define the informational context for voters. Although much research describes how campaigns unfold or explores their effects on voters, less attention has been given to developing and testing a dynamic theory of candidate interaction during campaigns. In this study, the authors examine three different theories of candidate behavior, testing each using data on the TV advertisements ai…
Getting on the Rolls: Analyzing the Effects of Lowered Barriers on Voter Registration
States and the federal government have initiated reforms designed to increase voting participation. Research has focused on the effects of these reforms—specifically, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA)—on voter turnout, but little research has focused directly on voter registration. Moving beyond the question of whether the NVRA increased registration, we ask: Did its implementation diminish the influence of core demographic varia…
Examining the Possible Corrosive Impact of Negative Advertising on Citizens' Attitudes toward Politics
Negative campaign advertisements have been depicted by many observers as a scourge on American politics. One facet of the case against negative ads—that such commercials discourage voter turnout—has been studied extensively in the past decade. In contrast, a second criticism—that negative advertisements produce corrosive effects on mass attitudes—has received less attention. This is unfortunate as it would be highly consequential for American pol…
Dual Nationality Among Latinos: What Are the Implications for Political Connectedness
This study assesses the influence of dual nationality on connectedness to the American polity. Specifically, it examines whether first-generation dual national Latinos are less politically connected than their sole U.S. national counterparts. We define political connectedness as the skills, attitudes, and behaviors that attach someone to the political system. According to the traditional view on immigration and assimilation, dual nationality shou…
US Senate campaigns, negative advertising, and voter mobilization in the 1998 midterm election
Revisiting the Influence of Campaign Tone on Turnout in Senate Elections
Examining the influence of campaign tone on individual turnout in the 1990 U.S. Senate elections, this note revisits Kahn and Kenney's conclusion that the political profile of citizens (as based on partisanship, level of political interest, and level of political expertise) conditions their responsiveness. Implementing an appropriate modeling strategy for making group comparisons, our analyses do not provide statistical support for the conditiona…
Changing Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workforce, 1987–94
Recent criticisms of sexual harassment law and workplace training policies contend that they have “sanitized” the workplace through their stigmatization of sexual expression that does not amount to actual discrimination. This study assesses some of the empirical foundations for those normative arguments. Using data from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's 1987 and 1994 surveys, we examine differences over time in federal workers’ perception…
Who's not afraid of Proposal B? An analysis of exit-poll data from Michigan's vote on physician-assisted suicide
In November 1998, Michigan voters rejected Proposal B, a citizen initiative that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Although polls had long indicated overwhelming support for PAS, support for Proposal B declined before the election. We analyzed exit-poll data to characterize opponents, supporters, and cross-over voters. We then compared our results with those from earlier research that examined attitudinal and socio-demographi…
Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace Revisited: Influences on Sexual Harassment by Gender
Using data from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's most recent survey on sexual harassment, this study examines influences on sexual harassment in the federal workplace. We investigate the effect of workers’sociodemographic characteristics, aspects of their daily work environment (the sex of the supervisor and female/male ratio of coworkers), and agency location. Drawing on a variety of theoretical models and addressing a limitation of a p…
Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
What factors influence the likelihood that a federal worker will receive unwanted sexual attention? Who is most likely to be accused of sexual harassment? What factors influence federal workers' perceptions of the effectiveness of agency sexual harassment training? Using the raw data file of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's most recent survey on sexual harassment, the authors find that worker characteristics are the principal influence o…
Differential Influences on Latino Electoral Participation
Gubernatorial and Senatorial Camapaign Mobilization of Voters
This article examines the role of gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns in mobilizing voters in the 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996 elections. Merging contextual measures on these campaigns with data from the Voter Supplement Files of the November Current Population Surveys, I find that statewide campaigns are especially important for activating citizens in midterms. An off-year campaign environment that is associated with hotly-contested, high-spen…
Gubernatorial and Senatorial Campaign Mobilization of Voters
Group Effects on Party Identification and Party Coalitions across the United States
Most examinations of the sociodemographic group foundations of political party identification and party coalitions in the United States rely on national samples (e.g., the National Election Studies). Therefore, they fail to consider (a) state-to-state variation in the group components of party identification and party coalitions and (b) how state context structures this variation. We rely on media exit polls from the 1988, 1992, and 1996 election…
Registration, Turnout, and State Party Systems
Group Components of U.S. Presidential Voting Across the States
Registration, Turnout, and State Party Systems
This study reexamines the influence of party elite liberalism on voter participation across the American states. Incorporating Hill and Leighley's measure of liberal party control, we offer a framework that places party elites as an important component in the state electoral setting. However, this effort departs from previous work by suggesting that studies of voter mobilization should pay greater attention to participation as a multi-stage proce…
The Mobilization of U.S. State Electorates in the 1988 and 1990 Elections
Considering a range of political mobilization questions, this study examines the turnout of U S state electorates in the 1988 and 1990 elections High stimulus presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial campaigns encourage participation, controlling for the structuring influence of state sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., levels of education, age, and urbanization). Relying on an analytic framework that conceptualizes state electorates withi…
A Reassessment of Voter Mobilization
This study reexamines influences on individual turnout. Assessing the effects of the short-term campaign environment on turnout behavior, previous schol arship has failed to account for the fact that voting in the United States is a two-stage process: the preliminary act of registration followed by the act of voting. The findings from this analysis suggest that this failure has tilted exist ing research away from discovering substantively impress…
The Mobilization of Congressional Electorates
The Contrasting Effects of Social, Organizational, and Economic Variables on Farm Production
This article draws on the intellectual traditions of industrial sociology to argue that social organizational variables as well as economic inputs affect production. Using a sample of 683 North Carolina farms, varying in size from 50 acres or fewer to more than 4,500 acres, the study found that the social organization of production and the occupational community of farming significantly affect production, net of the influences of agricultural res…
Effects of Public Opinion and Political System Characteristics on State Policy Outputs
Journal Article Effects of Public Opinion and Political System Characteristics on State Policy Outputs Get access Robert A. Jackson Robert A. Jackson Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 22, Issue 4, Fall 1992, Pages 31–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038041 Published: 01 January 1992
Class Identification Processes of Married, Working Men and Women
We propose gender-specific models of class identification based on the distinctive work and occupational experiences of men and women. Using data from the General Social Surveys of the National Opinion Research Center on white married men and women who were employed full time in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, and 1980, regression analysis supports our contention that processes of class identification are gender-specific. Men's class identification is pr…
The Mobilization of U.S. State Electorates in the 1988 and 1990 Elections
Considering a range of political mobilization questions, this study examines the turnout of U S state electorates in the 1988 and 1990 elections High stimulus presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial campaigns encourage participation, controlling for the structuring influence of state sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., levels of education, age, and urbanization). Relying on an analytic framework that conceptualizes state electorates withi…
A Reassessment of Voter Mobilization
This study reexamines influences on individual turnout. Assessing the effects of the short-term campaign environment on turnout behavior, previous schol arship has failed to account for the fact that voting in the United States is a two-stage process: the preliminary act of registration followed by the act of voting. The findings from this analysis suggest that this failure has tilted exist ing research away from discovering substantively impress…
Dual Nationality Among Latinos: What Are the Implications for Political Connectedness
This study assesses the influence of dual nationality on connectedness to the American polity. Specifically, it examines whether first-generation dual national Latinos are less politically connected than their sole U.S. national counterparts. We define political connectedness as the skills, attitudes, and behaviors that attach someone to the political system. According to the traditional view on immigration and assimilation, dual nationality shou…
US Senate campaigns, negative advertising, and voter mobilization in the 1998 midterm election
Examining the Possible Corrosive Impact of Negative Advertising on Citizens' Attitudes toward Politics
Negative campaign advertisements have been depicted by many observers as a scourge on American politics. One facet of the case against negative ads—that such commercials discourage voter turnout—has been studied extensively in the past decade. In contrast, a second criticism—that negative advertisements produce corrosive effects on mass attitudes—has received less attention. This is unfortunate as it would be highly consequential for American pol…
Differential Influences on Latino Electoral Participation
Registration, Turnout, and State Party Systems
This study reexamines the influence of party elite liberalism on voter participation across the American states. Incorporating Hill and Leighley's measure of liberal party control, we offer a framework that places party elites as an important component in the state electoral setting. However, this effort departs from previous work by suggesting that studies of voter mobilization should pay greater attention to participation as a multi-stage proce…
Gubernatorial and Senatorial Camapaign Mobilization of Voters
This article examines the role of gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns in mobilizing voters in the 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996 elections. Merging contextual measures on these campaigns with data from the Voter Supplement Files of the November Current Population Surveys, I find that statewide campaigns are especially important for activating citizens in midterms. An off-year campaign environment that is associated with hotly-contested, high-spen…
The Mobilization of Congressional Electorates
Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
What factors influence the likelihood that a federal worker will receive unwanted sexual attention? Who is most likely to be accused of sexual harassment? What factors influence federal workers' perceptions of the effectiveness of agency sexual harassment training? Using the raw data file of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's most recent survey on sexual harassment, the authors find that worker characteristics are the principal influence o…
Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace Revisited: Influences on Sexual Harassment by Gender
Using data from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's most recent survey on sexual harassment, this study examines influences on sexual harassment in the federal workplace. We investigate the effect of workers’sociodemographic characteristics, aspects of their daily work environment (the sex of the supervisor and female/male ratio of coworkers), and agency location. Drawing on a variety of theoretical models and addressing a limitation of a p…
Class Identification Processes of Married, Working Men and Women
We propose gender-specific models of class identification based on the distinctive work and occupational experiences of men and women. Using data from the General Social Surveys of the National Opinion Research Center on white married men and women who were employed full time in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, and 1980, regression analysis supports our contention that processes of class identification are gender-specific. Men's class identification is pr…
Strategic Candidates, Campaign Dynamics, and Campaign Advertising in Gubernatorial Races
Political campaigns are dynamic struggles between candidates to define the informational context for voters. Although much research describes how campaigns unfold or explores their effects on voters, less attention has been given to developing and testing a dynamic theory of candidate interaction during campaigns. In this study, the authors examine three different theories of candidate behavior, testing each using data on the TV advertisements ai…
Gubernatorial and Senatorial Campaign Mobilization of Voters
Revisiting the Influence of Campaign Tone on Turnout in Senate Elections
Examining the influence of campaign tone on individual turnout in the 1990 U.S. Senate elections, this note revisits Kahn and Kenney's conclusion that the political profile of citizens (as based on partisanship, level of political interest, and level of political expertise) conditions their responsiveness. Implementing an appropriate modeling strategy for making group comparisons, our analyses do not provide statistical support for the conditiona…
Getting on the Rolls: Analyzing the Effects of Lowered Barriers on Voter Registration
States and the federal government have initiated reforms designed to increase voting participation. Research has focused on the effects of these reforms—specifically, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA)—on voter turnout, but little research has focused directly on voter registration. Moving beyond the question of whether the NVRA increased registration, we ask: Did its implementation diminish the influence of core demographic varia…
Effects of Public Opinion and Political System Characteristics on State Policy Outputs
Journal Article Effects of Public Opinion and Political System Characteristics on State Policy Outputs Get access Robert A. Jackson Robert A. Jackson Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 22, Issue 4, Fall 1992, Pages 31–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038041 Published: 01 January 1992
Group Components of U.S. Presidential Voting Across the States
Unreliable Inferences About Unobserved Processes: A Critique of Partial Observability Models
Methodologists and econometricians advocate the partial observability model as a tool that enables researchers to estimate the distinct effects of a single explanatory variable on two partially observable outcome variables. However, we show that when the explanatory variable of interest influences both partially observable outcomes, the partial observability model estimates are extremely sensitive to misspecification. We use Monte Carlo simulatio…
Changing Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workforce, 1987–94
Recent criticisms of sexual harassment law and workplace training policies contend that they have “sanitized” the workplace through their stigmatization of sexual expression that does not amount to actual discrimination. This study assesses some of the empirical foundations for those normative arguments. Using data from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's 1987 and 1994 surveys, we examine differences over time in federal workers’ perception…
Who's not afraid of Proposal B? An analysis of exit-poll data from Michigan's vote on physician-assisted suicide
In November 1998, Michigan voters rejected Proposal B, a citizen initiative that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Although polls had long indicated overwhelming support for PAS, support for Proposal B declined before the election. We analyzed exit-poll data to characterize opponents, supporters, and cross-over voters. We then compared our results with those from earlier research that examined attitudinal and socio-demographi…
Group Effects on Party Identification and Party Coalitions across the United States
Most examinations of the sociodemographic group foundations of political party identification and party coalitions in the United States rely on national samples (e.g., the National Election Studies). Therefore, they fail to consider (a) state-to-state variation in the group components of party identification and party coalitions and (b) how state context structures this variation. We rely on media exit polls from the 1988, 1992, and 1996 election…
Guessing and Test Performance
Undergraduates' perceptions of the prestige and personality characteristics of members of selected occupations in psychology
Undergraduates' perceptions of the prestige and personality characteristics of members of selected occupations in psychology
Types of Education and the Occupational Attainmnets of Young Men
Class Identification Processes of Married, Working Men and Women
We propose gender-specific models of class identification based on the distinctive work and occupational experiences of men and women. Using data from the General Social Surveys of the National Opinion Research Center on white married men and women who were employed full time in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, and 1980, regression analysis supports our contention that processes of class identification are gender-specific. Men's class identification is pr…
The Contrasting Effects of Social, Organizational, and Economic Variables on Farm Production
This article draws on the intellectual traditions of industrial sociology to argue that social organizational variables as well as economic inputs affect production. Using a sample of 683 North Carolina farms, varying in size from 50 acres or fewer to more than 4,500 acres, the study found that the social organization of production and the occupational community of farming significantly affect production, net of the influences of agricultural res…
Effects of Public Opinion and Political System Characteristics on State Policy Outputs
Journal Article Effects of Public Opinion and Political System Characteristics on State Policy Outputs Get access Robert A. Jackson Robert A. Jackson Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 22, Issue 4, Fall 1992, Pages 31–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038041 Published: 01 January 1992
A Reassessment of Voter Mobilization
This study reexamines influences on individual turnout. Assessing the effects of the short-term campaign environment on turnout behavior, previous schol arship has failed to account for the fact that voting in the United States is a two-stage process: the preliminary act of registration followed by the act of voting. The findings from this analysis suggest that this failure has tilted exist ing research away from discovering substantively impress…
The Mobilization of Congressional Electorates
The Mobilization of U.S. State Electorates in the 1988 and 1990 Elections
Considering a range of political mobilization questions, this study examines the turnout of U S state electorates in the 1988 and 1990 elections High stimulus presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial campaigns encourage participation, controlling for the structuring influence of state sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., levels of education, age, and urbanization). Relying on an analytic framework that conceptualizes state electorates withi…
Registration, Turnout, and State Party Systems
Group Components of U.S. Presidential Voting Across the States
Registration, Turnout, and State Party Systems
This study reexamines the influence of party elite liberalism on voter participation across the American states. Incorporating Hill and Leighley's measure of liberal party control, we offer a framework that places party elites as an important component in the state electoral setting. However, this effort departs from previous work by suggesting that studies of voter mobilization should pay greater attention to participation as a multi-stage proce…
Gubernatorial and Senatorial Camapaign Mobilization of Voters
This article examines the role of gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns in mobilizing voters in the 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996 elections. Merging contextual measures on these campaigns with data from the Voter Supplement Files of the November Current Population Surveys, I find that statewide campaigns are especially important for activating citizens in midterms. An off-year campaign environment that is associated with hotly-contested, high-spen…
Gubernatorial and Senatorial Campaign Mobilization of Voters
Group Effects on Party Identification and Party Coalitions across the United States
Most examinations of the sociodemographic group foundations of political party identification and party coalitions in the United States rely on national samples (e.g., the National Election Studies). Therefore, they fail to consider (a) state-to-state variation in the group components of party identification and party coalitions and (b) how state context structures this variation. We rely on media exit polls from the 1988, 1992, and 1996 election…
Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
What factors influence the likelihood that a federal worker will receive unwanted sexual attention? Who is most likely to be accused of sexual harassment? What factors influence federal workers' perceptions of the effectiveness of agency sexual harassment training? Using the raw data file of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's most recent survey on sexual harassment, the authors find that worker characteristics are the principal influence o…
Differential Influences on Latino Electoral Participation
Who's not afraid of Proposal B? An analysis of exit-poll data from Michigan's vote on physician-assisted suicide
In November 1998, Michigan voters rejected Proposal B, a citizen initiative that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Although polls had long indicated overwhelming support for PAS, support for Proposal B declined before the election. We analyzed exit-poll data to characterize opponents, supporters, and cross-over voters. We then compared our results with those from earlier research that examined attitudinal and socio-demographi…
Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace Revisited: Influences on Sexual Harassment by Gender
Using data from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's most recent survey on sexual harassment, this study examines influences on sexual harassment in the federal workplace. We investigate the effect of workers’sociodemographic characteristics, aspects of their daily work environment (the sex of the supervisor and female/male ratio of coworkers), and agency location. Drawing on a variety of theoretical models and addressing a limitation of a p…
Revisiting the Influence of Campaign Tone on Turnout in Senate Elections
Examining the influence of campaign tone on individual turnout in the 1990 U.S. Senate elections, this note revisits Kahn and Kenney's conclusion that the political profile of citizens (as based on partisanship, level of political interest, and level of political expertise) conditions their responsiveness. Implementing an appropriate modeling strategy for making group comparisons, our analyses do not provide statistical support for the conditiona…
Changing Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workforce, 1987–94
Recent criticisms of sexual harassment law and workplace training policies contend that they have “sanitized” the workplace through their stigmatization of sexual expression that does not amount to actual discrimination. This study assesses some of the empirical foundations for those normative arguments. Using data from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's 1987 and 1994 surveys, we examine differences over time in federal workers’ perception…
Dual Nationality Among Latinos: What Are the Implications for Political Connectedness
This study assesses the influence of dual nationality on connectedness to the American polity. Specifically, it examines whether first-generation dual national Latinos are less politically connected than their sole U.S. national counterparts. We define political connectedness as the skills, attitudes, and behaviors that attach someone to the political system. According to the traditional view on immigration and assimilation, dual nationality shou…
US Senate campaigns, negative advertising, and voter mobilization in the 1998 midterm election
Getting on the Rolls: Analyzing the Effects of Lowered Barriers on Voter Registration
States and the federal government have initiated reforms designed to increase voting participation. Research has focused on the effects of these reforms—specifically, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA)—on voter turnout, but little research has focused directly on voter registration. Moving beyond the question of whether the NVRA increased registration, we ask: Did its implementation diminish the influence of core demographic varia…
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