Daniel Alvord
Biographic Data
| ID | 134518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Alvord |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Alvord |
| SIGNATURE | ALVORD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6728-2300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Values at the tap
Rising household water rates have made unaffordability a public-health and environmental-justice concern, yet the cultural drivers of water utility affordability policies remain unclear. Integrating Schlosberg’s three justice dimensions with Schwartz’s human values theory, we examine how organizational values inside municipal water utilities shape pricing and customer assistance. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 37 managers, staff, an…
Fictional expectations and fiscal realities
A prevailing perspective in economic sociology suggests that economic forecasts do not need to be accurate to hold political value; instead, what matters is the credibility of the accompanying narrative. However, drawing on the case of the 2012 Kansas tax cuts, I argue that the accuracy of forecasts can significantly influence forecast credibility and the associated politics of expectations. I show how initial supply-side expectations for the pol…
When do cities propose taxes? Evidence from California municipalities, 1996–2010
The Language of Immigration Coverage
Recently, several mainstream media organizations have moved away from using "illegal immigrant" in their immigration coverage. While this shift in immigration coverage is positive, seemingly positive language may still be exclusionary, particularly if the content of stories remains the same. We investigate whether newspaper articles that describe immigrants as "illegal" are more negative in content than articles that present immigrants as "undocu…
Minority Support
In the context of tight state budgets, local education funding is increasingly important. This article examines the relationship between district-level demographic characteristics and voter support for tax increases to fund the local school district. Using district-level panel data on California school district elections and demographics from 1995 to 2014, we ask the following questions: (1) What is the relationship between demographics and suppo…
No Tyson in Tongie!”
Political mobilizations in small towns have come to play a disproportionate role in today’s national politics. This article examines the conditions giving rise to small‐town mobilizations through an in‐depth case study of Tonganoxie, Kansas. Residents of this town mounted a massive campaign to block the opening of a Tyson chicken processing plant in 2017. The article draws on interviews, observations, a newspaper claims database, and extractions …
What Matters to Kansas
Why would businesses advocate for a tax increase? They may take such a position, this article argues, when tax cuts threaten their long-term economic interests. In 2012, Kansas eliminated taxes on many business owners but destabilized the economy and exposed small business to the harshness of market forces. Small businesses rely more on state services than large businesses and are more situated in local communities. The literature suggests two ma…
The Triumph of Deficits
This article explores the institutional conditions of possibility for the political articulation of fiscal crisis. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of the 2012 Kansas tax cuts, I argue that the political articulation of fiscal crisis is conditioned largely on the institutional capacity to run deficits. The ability to run deficits at the federal level delays the structural reckoning of fiscal crisis, but also delays the subjective dimensions …
The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight
In his 1926 story, The Rich Boy, F. Scott Fitzgerald memorably observed, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” And according to The Myth of Millionaire Migration by Cristobal Young, the rich are different, though in somewhat unexpected ways. Young sets out to understand whether place matters for the very wealthy. Are today’s rich “mobile millionaires” or “embedded elites?” After all, in an age of globalization…
Bad Hombres
In this article we explore the policy and legal build-up that led to the 2017 Executive Orders targeting Latino/a immigrant families and communities. We provide a historical backdrop for the merging of criminal and immigration laws that has contributed to the criminalization of the behaviors, bodies, and communities of Latino/a immigrants. We then look at the media narratives that burry immigrants’ complex identities and reproduce daily the demon…
The Legal Violence in the 2017 Executive Orders
In the past two decades, the trend toward immigrant criminalization has increased dramatically. Drawing on analysis of recent immigration-related Executive Orders as well as interviews with Latino immigrants in Kansas, we argue that these expanded forms of immigrant criminalization amount to legal violence, with an unprecedented reach. Our focus on Kansas, a state that has not been at the forefront of anti-immigration laws like other states have,…
The expansion of “crimmigration,” mass detention, and deportation
In recent years, the deportation and detention of immigrants has become a common phenomenon around the world. In this article, we shed light on the global expansion of crimmigration (the increasingly blurring of lines between immigration and criminal laws) and examine in depth the United States as an example of this trend. Crimmigration scholarship has largely focused on the processes in which laws, media narratives, and political discourses crim…
The Trafficking Continuum
Much of the research on human trafficking focuses on the prosecution of traffickers and protection of survivors after the crime has occurred. Less is known about the social disparities that make someone vulnerable to trafficking. This project examines human trafficking from a preventive focus, using data from a case study of service providers working with at-risk populations in the Kansas City, MO-KS area. The research team conducted 42 in-depth …
Immigration Enforcement, the Racialization of Legal Status, and Perceptions of the Police
The immigration enforcement system today affects different subgroups of Latinos; it reaches beyond the undocumented to immigrants who hold legal statuses and even to the U.S.-born. States have enacted their own enforcement collaboration agreements with federal authorities and thus Latinos may have dissimilar experiences based on where they live. This article examines the effects of enforcement schemes on Latinos' likelihood of reporting crimes to…
Milk
The expansion of “crimmigration,” mass detention, and deportation
In recent years, the deportation and detention of immigrants has become a common phenomenon around the world. In this article, we shed light on the global expansion of crimmigration (the increasingly blurring of lines between immigration and criminal laws) and examine in depth the United States as an example of this trend. Crimmigration scholarship has largely focused on the processes in which laws, media narratives, and political discourses crim…
Immigration Enforcement, the Racialization of Legal Status, and Perceptions of the Police
The immigration enforcement system today affects different subgroups of Latinos; it reaches beyond the undocumented to immigrants who hold legal statuses and even to the U.S.-born. States have enacted their own enforcement collaboration agreements with federal authorities and thus Latinos may have dissimilar experiences based on where they live. This article examines the effects of enforcement schemes on Latinos' likelihood of reporting crimes to…
The Trafficking Continuum
Much of the research on human trafficking focuses on the prosecution of traffickers and protection of survivors after the crime has occurred. Less is known about the social disparities that make someone vulnerable to trafficking. This project examines human trafficking from a preventive focus, using data from a case study of service providers working with at-risk populations in the Kansas City, MO-KS area. The research team conducted 42 in-depth …
The Legal Violence in the 2017 Executive Orders
In the past two decades, the trend toward immigrant criminalization has increased dramatically. Drawing on analysis of recent immigration-related Executive Orders as well as interviews with Latino immigrants in Kansas, we argue that these expanded forms of immigrant criminalization amount to legal violence, with an unprecedented reach. Our focus on Kansas, a state that has not been at the forefront of anti-immigration laws like other states have,…
Minority Support
In the context of tight state budgets, local education funding is increasingly important. This article examines the relationship between district-level demographic characteristics and voter support for tax increases to fund the local school district. Using district-level panel data on California school district elections and demographics from 1995 to 2014, we ask the following questions: (1) What is the relationship between demographics and suppo…
The Language of Immigration Coverage
Recently, several mainstream media organizations have moved away from using "illegal immigrant" in their immigration coverage. While this shift in immigration coverage is positive, seemingly positive language may still be exclusionary, particularly if the content of stories remains the same. We investigate whether newspaper articles that describe immigrants as "illegal" are more negative in content than articles that present immigrants as "undocu…
No Tyson in Tongie!”
Political mobilizations in small towns have come to play a disproportionate role in today’s national politics. This article examines the conditions giving rise to small‐town mobilizations through an in‐depth case study of Tonganoxie, Kansas. Residents of this town mounted a massive campaign to block the opening of a Tyson chicken processing plant in 2017. The article draws on interviews, observations, a newspaper claims database, and extractions …
What Matters to Kansas
Why would businesses advocate for a tax increase? They may take such a position, this article argues, when tax cuts threaten their long-term economic interests. In 2012, Kansas eliminated taxes on many business owners but destabilized the economy and exposed small business to the harshness of market forces. Small businesses rely more on state services than large businesses and are more situated in local communities. The literature suggests two ma…
The Triumph of Deficits
This article explores the institutional conditions of possibility for the political articulation of fiscal crisis. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of the 2012 Kansas tax cuts, I argue that the political articulation of fiscal crisis is conditioned largely on the institutional capacity to run deficits. The ability to run deficits at the federal level delays the structural reckoning of fiscal crisis, but also delays the subjective dimensions …
Milk
Bad Hombres
In this article we explore the policy and legal build-up that led to the 2017 Executive Orders targeting Latino/a immigrant families and communities. We provide a historical backdrop for the merging of criminal and immigration laws that has contributed to the criminalization of the behaviors, bodies, and communities of Latino/a immigrants. We then look at the media narratives that burry immigrants’ complex identities and reproduce daily the demon…
The Legal Violence in the 2017 Executive Orders
In the past two decades, the trend toward immigrant criminalization has increased dramatically. Drawing on analysis of recent immigration-related Executive Orders as well as interviews with Latino immigrants in Kansas, we argue that these expanded forms of immigrant criminalization amount to legal violence, with an unprecedented reach. Our focus on Kansas, a state that has not been at the forefront of anti-immigration laws like other states have,…
The expansion of “crimmigration,” mass detention, and deportation
In recent years, the deportation and detention of immigrants has become a common phenomenon around the world. In this article, we shed light on the global expansion of crimmigration (the increasingly blurring of lines between immigration and criminal laws) and examine in depth the United States as an example of this trend. Crimmigration scholarship has largely focused on the processes in which laws, media narratives, and political discourses crim…
The Trafficking Continuum
Much of the research on human trafficking focuses on the prosecution of traffickers and protection of survivors after the crime has occurred. Less is known about the social disparities that make someone vulnerable to trafficking. This project examines human trafficking from a preventive focus, using data from a case study of service providers working with at-risk populations in the Kansas City, MO-KS area. The research team conducted 42 in-depth …
Immigration Enforcement, the Racialization of Legal Status, and Perceptions of the Police
The immigration enforcement system today affects different subgroups of Latinos; it reaches beyond the undocumented to immigrants who hold legal statuses and even to the U.S.-born. States have enacted their own enforcement collaboration agreements with federal authorities and thus Latinos may have dissimilar experiences based on where they live. This article examines the effects of enforcement schemes on Latinos' likelihood of reporting crimes to…
The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight
In his 1926 story, The Rich Boy, F. Scott Fitzgerald memorably observed, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” And according to The Myth of Millionaire Migration by Cristobal Young, the rich are different, though in somewhat unexpected ways. Young sets out to understand whether place matters for the very wealthy. Are today’s rich “mobile millionaires” or “embedded elites?” After all, in an age of globalization…
No Tyson in Tongie!”
Political mobilizations in small towns have come to play a disproportionate role in today’s national politics. This article examines the conditions giving rise to small‐town mobilizations through an in‐depth case study of Tonganoxie, Kansas. Residents of this town mounted a massive campaign to block the opening of a Tyson chicken processing plant in 2017. The article draws on interviews, observations, a newspaper claims database, and extractions …
What Matters to Kansas
Why would businesses advocate for a tax increase? They may take such a position, this article argues, when tax cuts threaten their long-term economic interests. In 2012, Kansas eliminated taxes on many business owners but destabilized the economy and exposed small business to the harshness of market forces. Small businesses rely more on state services than large businesses and are more situated in local communities. The literature suggests two ma…
The Triumph of Deficits
This article explores the institutional conditions of possibility for the political articulation of fiscal crisis. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of the 2012 Kansas tax cuts, I argue that the political articulation of fiscal crisis is conditioned largely on the institutional capacity to run deficits. The ability to run deficits at the federal level delays the structural reckoning of fiscal crisis, but also delays the subjective dimensions …
The Language of Immigration Coverage
Recently, several mainstream media organizations have moved away from using "illegal immigrant" in their immigration coverage. While this shift in immigration coverage is positive, seemingly positive language may still be exclusionary, particularly if the content of stories remains the same. We investigate whether newspaper articles that describe immigrants as "illegal" are more negative in content than articles that present immigrants as "undocu…
Minority Support
In the context of tight state budgets, local education funding is increasingly important. This article examines the relationship between district-level demographic characteristics and voter support for tax increases to fund the local school district. Using district-level panel data on California school district elections and demographics from 1995 to 2014, we ask the following questions: (1) What is the relationship between demographics and suppo…
When do cities propose taxes? Evidence from California municipalities, 1996–2010
Values at the tap
Rising household water rates have made unaffordability a public-health and environmental-justice concern, yet the cultural drivers of water utility affordability policies remain unclear. Integrating Schlosberg’s three justice dimensions with Schwartz’s human values theory, we examine how organizational values inside municipal water utilities shape pricing and customer assistance. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 37 managers, staff, an…
Fictional expectations and fiscal realities
A prevailing perspective in economic sociology suggests that economic forecasts do not need to be accurate to hold political value; instead, what matters is the credibility of the accompanying narrative. However, drawing on the case of the 2012 Kansas tax cuts, I argue that the accuracy of forecasts can significantly influence forecast credibility and the associated politics of expectations. I show how initial supply-side expectations for the pol…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)