Meredith Rolfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 229918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith Rolfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith |
| FAMILY NAME | Rolfe |
| SIGNATURE | ROLFE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 206 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked‐choice general elections affect political spending
Objective Ranked‐choice voting (RCV) is increasingly seen as a way to reduce political polarization and increase voter choice in elections, but little is known about its effect on candidate fundraising. In 2022, Alaska held its first election using a nonpartisan Top 4 primary followed by a ranked‐choice general election. We analyze the effect of this new system on campaign financing practices in state legislative elections. There are many reasons…
Rethinking Compassion: Toward a Political Account of the Partisan Gender Gap in the United States
Scholarship on the political gender gap in the United States has attributed women's political views to their greater compassion, yet individual‐level measures of compassion have almost never been used to directly examine such claims. We address this issue using the only nationally representative survey to include psychometrically validated measures of compassion alongside appropriate political variables. We show that even though women are more co…
Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis
The last decade has seen substantial advances in statistical techniques for the analysis of network data, as well as a major increase in the frequency with which these tools are used. These techniques are designed to accomplish the same broad goal, statistically valid inference in the presence of highly interdependent relationships, but important differences remain between them. We review three approaches commonly used for inferential network ana…
Is influence mightier than selection? Forging agreement in political discussion networks during a campaign
Social networks and labor market inequality between ethnicities and races
This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other. Our analysis is based on both the US and Estonian surveys, supplemented with the Estonian telephone communication data. In the case of Estonia we consider the regional variation in economic performance of the Russian minority, and in the US case we consider the…
Voter Turnout: A Social Theory of Political Participation
This book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others. The book shows that the standard demographic variables are not proxies for variation in the individual costs and benefits of participation, but for systematic variation in the patterns…
Collective Action
This article examines collective action, focusing on the role of social interactions, conflict, and the dynamics of interpersonal influence in shaping collective identities and interests. The discussion is based on the co-occurrence of individuals’ interest and group identity through a consistent course of action and begins with an overview of analytical models used to investigate extraordinary forms of collective action. The article then describ…
A comment on « low levels of ethnic intolerance do not create large ghettos » by Michel Forsé and Maxime Parodi
Schelling’s model of segregation has long been considered a para-digmatic example of emergent behavior, as in the model seemingly tolerant individual choices produce complete racial segregation. The Forsé and Parodi article takes issue with both the mathematical and substantive characterization of Schelling’s model. At a mathematical level, they argue that the model’s behavior is not emergent, paradoxical, non-linear or otherwise complex. Instead…
Measurement of Political Discussion Networks: A Comparison of Two "Name Generator" Procedures
Journal Article Measurement of Political Discussion Networks: A Comparison of Two "Name Generator" Procedures Get access Casey A. Klofstad, Casey A. Klofstad Address correspondence to Casey A. Klofstad; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott D. McClurg, Scott D. McClurg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Meredith Rolfe Meredith Rolfe Search f…
Measurement of Political Discussion Networks: A Comparison of Two "Name Generator" Procedures
Journal Article Measurement of Political Discussion Networks: A Comparison of Two "Name Generator" Procedures Get access Casey A. Klofstad, Casey A. Klofstad Address correspondence to Casey A. Klofstad; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott D. McClurg, Scott D. McClurg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Meredith Rolfe Meredith Rolfe Search f…
Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis
The last decade has seen substantial advances in statistical techniques for the analysis of network data, as well as a major increase in the frequency with which these tools are used. These techniques are designed to accomplish the same broad goal, statistically valid inference in the presence of highly interdependent relationships, but important differences remain between them. We review three approaches commonly used for inferential network ana…
Is influence mightier than selection? Forging agreement in political discussion networks during a campaign
Rethinking Compassion: Toward a Political Account of the Partisan Gender Gap in the United States
Scholarship on the political gender gap in the United States has attributed women's political views to their greater compassion, yet individual‐level measures of compassion have almost never been used to directly examine such claims. We address this issue using the only nationally representative survey to include psychometrically validated measures of compassion alongside appropriate political variables. We show that even though women are more co…
A comment on « low levels of ethnic intolerance do not create large ghettos » by Michel Forsé and Maxime Parodi
Schelling’s model of segregation has long been considered a para-digmatic example of emergent behavior, as in the model seemingly tolerant individual choices produce complete racial segregation. The Forsé and Parodi article takes issue with both the mathematical and substantive characterization of Schelling’s model. At a mathematical level, they argue that the model’s behavior is not emergent, paradoxical, non-linear or otherwise complex. Instead…
Measurement of Political Discussion Networks: A Comparison of Two "Name Generator" Procedures
Journal Article Measurement of Political Discussion Networks: A Comparison of Two "Name Generator" Procedures Get access Casey A. Klofstad, Casey A. Klofstad Address correspondence to Casey A. Klofstad; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott D. McClurg, Scott D. McClurg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Meredith Rolfe Meredith Rolfe Search f…
A comment on « low levels of ethnic intolerance do not create large ghettos » by Michel Forsé and Maxime Parodi
Schelling’s model of segregation has long been considered a para-digmatic example of emergent behavior, as in the model seemingly tolerant individual choices produce complete racial segregation. The Forsé and Parodi article takes issue with both the mathematical and substantive characterization of Schelling’s model. At a mathematical level, they argue that the model’s behavior is not emergent, paradoxical, non-linear or otherwise complex. Instead…
Collective Action
This article examines collective action, focusing on the role of social interactions, conflict, and the dynamics of interpersonal influence in shaping collective identities and interests. The discussion is based on the co-occurrence of individuals’ interest and group identity through a consistent course of action and begins with an overview of analytical models used to investigate extraordinary forms of collective action. The article then describ…
Voter Turnout: A Social Theory of Political Participation
This book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others. The book shows that the standard demographic variables are not proxies for variation in the individual costs and benefits of participation, but for systematic variation in the patterns…
Is influence mightier than selection? Forging agreement in political discussion networks during a campaign
Social networks and labor market inequality between ethnicities and races
This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other. Our analysis is based on both the US and Estonian surveys, supplemented with the Estonian telephone communication data. In the case of Estonia we consider the regional variation in economic performance of the Russian minority, and in the US case we consider the…
Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis
The last decade has seen substantial advances in statistical techniques for the analysis of network data, as well as a major increase in the frequency with which these tools are used. These techniques are designed to accomplish the same broad goal, statistically valid inference in the presence of highly interdependent relationships, but important differences remain between them. We review three approaches commonly used for inferential network ana…
Rethinking Compassion: Toward a Political Account of the Partisan Gender Gap in the United States
Scholarship on the political gender gap in the United States has attributed women's political views to their greater compassion, yet individual‐level measures of compassion have almost never been used to directly examine such claims. We address this issue using the only nationally representative survey to include psychometrically validated measures of compassion alongside appropriate political variables. We show that even though women are more co…
Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked‐choice general elections affect political spending
Objective Ranked‐choice voting (RCV) is increasingly seen as a way to reduce political polarization and increase voter choice in elections, but little is known about its effect on candidate fundraising. In 2022, Alaska held its first election using a nonpartisan Top 4 primary followed by a ranked‐choice general election. We analyze the effect of this new system on campaign financing practices in state legislative elections. There are many reasons…
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