Eric Bjorklund
Biographic Data
| ID | 177897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Bjorklund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Bjorklund |
| SIGNATURE | BJORKLUND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1977-4420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The needle and the damage done: Deaths of despair, economic precarity, and the white working-class
Institutional Arrangements and Power Threat: Diversity, Democracy, and Punitive Attitudes
This research synthesizes studies on crime and punishment, work in political sociology, and race and ethnicity scholarship in order to theorize and empirically examine the democratic foundations of group threat theory. We argue that ethnic diversity is particularly threatening when coupled with robust democratic institutions that empower individuals to pose challenges to the extant political and social order. Making use of recent measurement adva…
Conservatism and infrequent mask usage: A study of US counties during the novel coronavirus (Covid‐19) pandemic
Objective Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eventually recommended wearing masks in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the practice has been unevenly distributed in the United States. Methods In this article, we model county‐level infrequent mask usage as a function of three pillars of conservatism: (1) Republican political leadership (percentage of votes for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election), (2) co…
Out of many, one? U.S. sub-national political-economies in the post-welfare reform era
Despite increased research on social policy variation among U.S. states, few have examined U.S. state-level political-economies in the wake of welfare reform. This is problematic given the ability of state-level political-economies to solidify patterns of stratification. I address this by analyzing four dimensions of U.S. state-level political-economies in the welfare reform era: labor policy, family/social policy, tax policy, and state imposed f…
Income Inequality and Chronic Health Conditions: A Multilevel Analysis of the U.S. States
Recently, scholarly work has examined the effect of rising income inequality on health outcomes. However, this work is somewhat inconclusive. The mechanisms that could produce such an association are still being sorted out. Much of this work focuses on mortality outcomes with little attention to how this process operates for actual health conditions, including chronic health problems—arguably the main public health concerns of the developed world…
Urine or You're Out: Racialized Economic Threat and the Determinants of Welfare Drug Testing Policy in the United States, 2009-2015
Since 2009, fifteen U.S. states have passed some sort of restrictive drug-testing program for welfare-applicants and/or suspected recipients. Sociologists are often concerned with identifying the conditions under which states implement a particular social policy. As such, we ask what conditions separate states that have implemented drug testing policies for welfare applicants from those that have not. Using discrete-time event history analysis mo…
Just One Click Away: The Politics of E-Commerce Sales Tax Policy
E-commerce has altered the relationship between consumers, businesses, and U.S. states. E-retailers are not required to collect sales tax from their customers, thus depriving fiscally insecure states of tax revenue, and providing a competitive advantage for e-retailers, like Amazon Inc., in their struggle for market share with brick-and-mortar stores, like Walmart. Attempts at e-commerce sales tax policy by state legislators and brick-and-mortar …
Conservatism and infrequent mask usage: A study of US counties during the novel coronavirus (Covid‐19) pandemic
Objective Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eventually recommended wearing masks in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the practice has been unevenly distributed in the United States. Methods In this article, we model county‐level infrequent mask usage as a function of three pillars of conservatism: (1) Republican political leadership (percentage of votes for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election), (2) co…
Urine or You're Out: Racialized Economic Threat and the Determinants of Welfare Drug Testing Policy in the United States, 2009-2015
Since 2009, fifteen U.S. states have passed some sort of restrictive drug-testing program for welfare-applicants and/or suspected recipients. Sociologists are often concerned with identifying the conditions under which states implement a particular social policy. As such, we ask what conditions separate states that have implemented drug testing policies for welfare applicants from those that have not. Using discrete-time event history analysis mo…
Income Inequality and Chronic Health Conditions: A Multilevel Analysis of the U.S. States
Recently, scholarly work has examined the effect of rising income inequality on health outcomes. However, this work is somewhat inconclusive. The mechanisms that could produce such an association are still being sorted out. Much of this work focuses on mortality outcomes with little attention to how this process operates for actual health conditions, including chronic health problems—arguably the main public health concerns of the developed world…
The needle and the damage done: Deaths of despair, economic precarity, and the white working-class
Just One Click Away: The Politics of E-Commerce Sales Tax Policy
E-commerce has altered the relationship between consumers, businesses, and U.S. states. E-retailers are not required to collect sales tax from their customers, thus depriving fiscally insecure states of tax revenue, and providing a competitive advantage for e-retailers, like Amazon Inc., in their struggle for market share with brick-and-mortar stores, like Walmart. Attempts at e-commerce sales tax policy by state legislators and brick-and-mortar …
Income Inequality and Chronic Health Conditions: A Multilevel Analysis of the U.S. States
Recently, scholarly work has examined the effect of rising income inequality on health outcomes. However, this work is somewhat inconclusive. The mechanisms that could produce such an association are still being sorted out. Much of this work focuses on mortality outcomes with little attention to how this process operates for actual health conditions, including chronic health problems—arguably the main public health concerns of the developed world…
Urine or You're Out: Racialized Economic Threat and the Determinants of Welfare Drug Testing Policy in the United States, 2009-2015
Since 2009, fifteen U.S. states have passed some sort of restrictive drug-testing program for welfare-applicants and/or suspected recipients. Sociologists are often concerned with identifying the conditions under which states implement a particular social policy. As such, we ask what conditions separate states that have implemented drug testing policies for welfare applicants from those that have not. Using discrete-time event history analysis mo…
Out of many, one? U.S. sub-national political-economies in the post-welfare reform era
Despite increased research on social policy variation among U.S. states, few have examined U.S. state-level political-economies in the wake of welfare reform. This is problematic given the ability of state-level political-economies to solidify patterns of stratification. I address this by analyzing four dimensions of U.S. state-level political-economies in the welfare reform era: labor policy, family/social policy, tax policy, and state imposed f…
Conservatism and infrequent mask usage: A study of US counties during the novel coronavirus (Covid‐19) pandemic
Objective Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eventually recommended wearing masks in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the practice has been unevenly distributed in the United States. Methods In this article, we model county‐level infrequent mask usage as a function of three pillars of conservatism: (1) Republican political leadership (percentage of votes for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election), (2) co…
Institutional Arrangements and Power Threat: Diversity, Democracy, and Punitive Attitudes
This research synthesizes studies on crime and punishment, work in political sociology, and race and ethnicity scholarship in order to theorize and empirically examine the democratic foundations of group threat theory. We argue that ethnic diversity is particularly threatening when coupled with robust democratic institutions that empower individuals to pose challenges to the extant political and social order. Making use of recent measurement adva…
The needle and the damage done: Deaths of despair, economic precarity, and the white working-class
Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Demography (2 works)