Merle Black
Biographic Data
| ID | 161539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merle Black |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merle |
| FAMILY NAME | Black |
| SIGNATURE | BLACK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8005-5022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Limited Deterrence: The Emerging (Preferred) Chinese Deterrence Strategy
This article explores how Chinese culture influences the Communist Party of China (CPC) leaders’ decision-making and policy setting to predict future CPC decisions and better control escalation. We investigate the question, ‘Which Chinese cultural values influence the CPC’s understanding and application of deterrence strategies to meet their cultural objectives?’ We argue that cultural influences principally explain CPC nuclear build-up and, by e…
Stabilizing post-conflict states: Evaluating the Impact of Resources
Insurgent and terrorist groups’ participation in politics reduces violence
Activities of insurgent and terrorist groups generally end in military defeat, victory, or negotiated settlement. However, what if there is another option beyond these three choices that could help explain strategies among modern-day insurgencies or terrorist organizations? Specifically, what if groups officially and legitimately renounced violence and joined the political process they initially fought? The fear, many would argue, is a return to …
Multi-domain escalation management: A North Atlantic Treaty Organisation case study
Multi-domain operations" is an emerging concept that many defence organisations are trying to define and to decide how and when to use as part of their operations and warfighting strategies. This article addresses these questions and specifically identifies how the emerging concept of multi-domain operations, along with escalation management, can fit into the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) warfighting needs. This articl…
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture
Explaining insurgency progression in Iraq, 2003–2011
Many have attempted to answer the questions of “what went wrong in Iraq” arguing that insurgency developed because there was a lack of security. However, on the ground observations and empirical data collection are proving this to not necessarily be the case. This paper tackles what went wrong in Iraq and explains why we saw violence escalate into an insurgency during postwar reconstruction. This paper argues that individuals have certain expecta…
Cyber ethnography: A critical tool for the Department of Defense
There seems to be a current push for intelligence to be more informed through sociocultural analysis. This article argues that a new variation of ethnography, cyber ethnography, is the answer to calls for additional support, and should be incorporated into the Department of Defense (DoD) methodological “tool box.” This article answers: What is cyber ethnography and how could it contribute to United States defense work? What are some of the method…
A critical reflection on the use of an embedded academic literacy program for teaching sociology
New government education policies stress both social justice and economic imperatives. The tensions between these goals for universities are familiar themes for critique. The diversity, and shift in cultural capital among university students is also a concern. The authors of this article teach sociology at an Australian university with a comparative over-representation of students with low levels of cultural capital in academic literacy: research…
The Rise of Southern Republicans
1. The Southern Transformation 2. Confronting the Democratic Juggernaut 3. The Promising Peripheral South 4. The Impenetrable Deep South 5. The Democratic Smother 6. The Democratic Domination 7. Reagan's Realignment of White Southerners 8. A New Party System in the South 9. The Peripheral South Breakthrough 10. The Deep South Challenge 11. The Republican Surge 12. Competitive South, Competitive America Notes Index
Politics and Society in the South
The Transformation of the Southern Democratic Party
The transformation of the Democratic party during the past century is an important institutional change in southern politics. Once the unchallenged majority party of the region, Democrats have declined to the level of a competitive minority party in the South as majorities of white conservatives and many white moderates have abandoned it. Even more consequential changes have occurred in its racial, ethnic, and gender composition. A party original…
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
Apsa Awards and Recipients
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The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
Journal Article The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. By Earl Black and Merle Black. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. x + 400 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-94130-6.) Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1688–1689, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080356 Publi…
The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected
Once again a southern governor has shown Democrats the road to the White House. As a native southerner, President Bill Clinton has the opportunity to rebuild Democratic strength in the region. For the Republicans, carrying the entire South still remains a crucial imperative. The Vital South is the first book to chronicle the massive shift of southern electoral power to Republican presidential candidates, while also showing how Democrats can again…
The Life & Death of the Solid South: A Political History. New Perspectives on the South
Politics and Society in the South
Politics and Society in the South
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture. Volume 2
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics, and Culture, Vol. 2
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture, Vol. 1
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture
The Rise of Southern Republicans
1. The Southern Transformation 2. Confronting the Democratic Juggernaut 3. The Promising Peripheral South 4. The Impenetrable Deep South 5. The Democratic Smother 6. The Democratic Domination 7. Reagan's Realignment of White Southerners 8. A New Party System in the South 9. The Peripheral South Breakthrough 10. The Deep South Challenge 11. The Republican Surge 12. Competitive South, Competitive America Notes Index
The Transformation of the Southern Democratic Party
The transformation of the Democratic party during the past century is an important institutional change in southern politics. Once the unchallenged majority party of the region, Democrats have declined to the level of a competitive minority party in the South as majorities of white conservatives and many white moderates have abandoned it. Even more consequential changes have occurred in its racial, ethnic, and gender composition. A party original…
The Wallace Vote in Alabama: A Multiple Regression Analysis
Regional and Partisan Bases of Congressional Support for the Changing Agenda of Civil Rights Legislation
Cyber ethnography: A critical tool for the Department of Defense
There seems to be a current push for intelligence to be more informed through sociocultural analysis. This article argues that a new variation of ethnography, cyber ethnography, is the answer to calls for additional support, and should be incorporated into the Department of Defense (DoD) methodological “tool box.” This article answers: What is cyber ethnography and how could it contribute to United States defense work? What are some of the method…
A critical reflection on the use of an embedded academic literacy program for teaching sociology
New government education policies stress both social justice and economic imperatives. The tensions between these goals for universities are familiar themes for critique. The diversity, and shift in cultural capital among university students is also a concern. The authors of this article teach sociology at an Australian university with a comparative over-representation of students with low levels of cultural capital in academic literacy: research…
Politics and Society in the South
Blacks and Southerners: A Research Note
The Wallace Vote in Alabama: A Multiple Regression Analysis
Spindles and Spires
Regional and Partisan Bases of Congressional Support for the Changing Agenda of Civil Rights Legislation
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture
Blacks and Southerners: A Research Note
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture, Vol. 1
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics, and Culture, Vol. 2
Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture. Volume 2
Politics and Society in the South
Politics and Society in the South
The Life & Death of the Solid South: A Political History. New Perspectives on the South
The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected
Once again a southern governor has shown Democrats the road to the White House. As a native southerner, President Bill Clinton has the opportunity to rebuild Democratic strength in the region. For the Republicans, carrying the entire South still remains a crucial imperative. The Vital South is the first book to chronicle the massive shift of southern electoral power to Republican presidential candidates, while also showing how Democrats can again…
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
Apsa Awards and Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
Journal Article The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. By Earl Black and Merle Black. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. x + 400 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-94130-6.) Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1688–1689, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080356 Publi…
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
The Transformation of the Southern Democratic Party
The transformation of the Democratic party during the past century is an important institutional change in southern politics. Once the unchallenged majority party of the region, Democrats have declined to the level of a competitive minority party in the South as majorities of white conservatives and many white moderates have abandoned it. Even more consequential changes have occurred in its racial, ethnic, and gender composition. A party original…
Politics and Society in the South
The Rise of Southern Republicans
1. The Southern Transformation 2. Confronting the Democratic Juggernaut 3. The Promising Peripheral South 4. The Impenetrable Deep South 5. The Democratic Smother 6. The Democratic Domination 7. Reagan's Realignment of White Southerners 8. A New Party System in the South 9. The Peripheral South Breakthrough 10. The Deep South Challenge 11. The Republican Surge 12. Competitive South, Competitive America Notes Index
A critical reflection on the use of an embedded academic literacy program for teaching sociology
New government education policies stress both social justice and economic imperatives. The tensions between these goals for universities are familiar themes for critique. The diversity, and shift in cultural capital among university students is also a concern. The authors of this article teach sociology at an Australian university with a comparative over-representation of students with low levels of cultural capital in academic literacy: research…
Cyber ethnography: A critical tool for the Department of Defense
There seems to be a current push for intelligence to be more informed through sociocultural analysis. This article argues that a new variation of ethnography, cyber ethnography, is the answer to calls for additional support, and should be incorporated into the Department of Defense (DoD) methodological “tool box.” This article answers: What is cyber ethnography and how could it contribute to United States defense work? What are some of the method…
Explaining insurgency progression in Iraq, 2003–2011
Many have attempted to answer the questions of “what went wrong in Iraq” arguing that insurgency developed because there was a lack of security. However, on the ground observations and empirical data collection are proving this to not necessarily be the case. This paper tackles what went wrong in Iraq and explains why we saw violence escalate into an insurgency during postwar reconstruction. This paper argues that individuals have certain expecta…
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