Todd Shields
Biographic Data
| ID | 234545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Shields |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Shields |
| SIGNATURE | SHIELDS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1459-0024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 427 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Identity and the racialized politics of violence in gun regulation policy preferences
Objective In this study, we examine how attitudes about race, as well as ethno‐racial identities, influence support for various gun regulation policies. Drawing on the Racial Resentment and identity politics literature, we argue that attitudes about gun control are not simply driven by ideological, partisan, or demographic factors, but are often influenced by attitudes about race and identity, and region. Methods Using data from a 2016 national s…
Introduction to the symposium: A reexamination of southern distinctiveness through the lens of firearm policy
Objective This article reviews the extant literature on southern politics and gun/firearm ownership in the South as a precursor to three symposium papers. Methods We employ standard literature review techniques to synthesize two significant bodies of literature. The latter part of the article introduces the three papers in the symposium. Results We find that the papers in this symposium share two common themes: continued southern distinctiveness,…
Who Trusts the WHO? Heuristics and Americans’ Trust in the World Health Organization During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Objective: Why do some Americans trust the World Health Organization (WHO) during the COVID-19 pandemic, but others do not? To date, there has been no examination of trust in the WHO. Yet the global nature of the pandemic necessitates expanding our scholarship to international health organizations. We test the effects of partisanship, ideology, the cooperative internationalist foreign policy orientation, and nationalism on trust in the WHO and su…
Polls and Elections: Racial Resentment and Personal Economic Evaluations in the 2012 and 2016 Presidential Elections
Studies of recent presidential elections emphasize the importance of personal economic evaluations as well as the growing importance of racial attitudes. Less clear, however, is the degree to which economic evaluations are independent of racial considerations. The election of the first African American president offers a unique opportunity to evaluate how elite cues may trigger racial attitudes, a process called “racialization.” Once activated, r…
The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
Beginning with Barry Goldwater’s Operation Dixie in 1964, the Republican Party targeted disaffected white voters in the Democratic stronghold of the American South. To realign these voters with the GOP, the party capitalized on white racial angst that threatened southern white control. However—and this is critical—that decision was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what is cal…
Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns
The Fate of Obamacare: Racial Resentment, Ethnocentrism and Attitudes about Healthcare Reform
The Next Link in the Chain Reaction: Symbolic Racism and Obama's Religious Affiliation
Objectives During the 2008 presidential election, questions about Barack Obama's religious affiliations spread rapidly over the Internet and became a regular story in the national news. Despite Obama's repeated testimony that he is a Christian, surveys indicated that a sizeable portion of the public believed that he was a Muslim, while others indicated that they were “unsure” of his religious allegiances. We evaluate the extent to which racial at…
The Reverse Environmental Gender Gap in China: Evidence from “The China Survey”
Objectives This article explores gender differences in attitudes about the seriousness of the environment as a problem in China using the “2008 China Survey.” Methods We use generalized ordered logit models to analyze survey respondents’ environmental attitudes. Results Our results indicate that there is indeed a “gender gap” in environmental attitudes in China, but the pattern is reversed from what has been generally found in previous work condu…
What's the Matter with Arkansas? Symbolic Racism and 2008 Presidential Candidate Support
The 2008 presidential election presented voters with the nation's first African American presidential candidate. Symbolic racism theory suggests that Obama's presence on the national ticket will activate a range of racial attitudes across the electorate. The authors examine two statewide surveys from Arkansas and Georgia in order to explore the importance of symbolic racism across different campaign contexts. The findings suggest that voting beha…
Polls and Elections: Southern Dis comfort? Regional Differences in Voter Decision Making in the 2000 Presidential Election
The South has undergone dramatic changes in population, economics, and partisanship in recent decades, leading scholars to conclude that the New South has lost many of its unique patterns of voting behavior. Using an extensive data set that contains sufficient sample sizes for regional comparisons, we estimate an interactive model of vote choice in the 2000 presidential election to compare the decision making of Southern and non‐Southern responde…
The Clinton Riddle: Perspectives on the Forty-second President
Moral Issues and Voter Decision Making in the 2004 Presidential Election
President Bush's victory, the approval of every anti-gay marriage amendment on statewide ballots and an emphasis on ‘moral values’ among voters showed the power of churchgoing Americans in this election and threw the nation's religious divide into stark relief.” Associated Press, November 4, 2004
Ideological Realignment in the Contemporary U.S. Electorate Revisited
Objective. In this study, we revisit the ideological‐realignment theory proposed by Abramowitz and Saunders (1998) by assessing the varying impact a person's ideology had on his or her partisan identification for individuals in different regions and between men and women. Method. Through an examination of the NES cumulative data file and the 1992–1994 NES Panel Study, we present a series of tabular findings, an OLS regression model, and partial c…
Can I Make a Difference? Efficacy, Employment, and Disability
Political efficacy is a widely studied phenomenon and an important predictor of political participation, but little is known about the political efficacy of the millions of people with disabilities in the United States. This paper reports the results of a nationally representative telephone survey of 1,240 people—stratified to include 700 people with disabilities—following the November 1998 elections. Several measures of efficacy that help predic…
Enabling Democracy: Disability and Voter Turnout
How likely are the millions of Americans with disabilities to participate in politics? What insights do their experiences provide into overall participation levels and determinants? This article reports the results of a nationally representative household telephone survey of 1,240 peoplestratified to include 700 people with disabilities-following the November 1998 elections. Voter turnout is found to be 20 percentage points lower among people wit…
State Campaign Finance Regulations and Electoral Competition
In the following analysis, we provide an assessment of the effect of campaign finance reform on campaign spending and electoral competition in gubernatorial campaigns. The work improves on prior research by considering a longer, more comprehensive time frame (1978-1997) and by examining the effects of several different components of reform (contribution limits, public financing, and spending limits) within a single analytic framework. We find tha…
Sex, Age, and the Implementation of the Motor Voter Act: The 1996 Presidential Election
Objective . Among the existing studies of political participation, few discuss differences between men and women. Of those published, most have focused upon substantive policy preferences, perhaps noting women's newly dominant electoral presence but not probing its characteristics or limits. In this analysis we build on the work of Schlozman, Burns, and Verba (1994) by examining the compound effects of closing dates, state National Voter Registra…
The Disability Voice in American Politics: Political Participation of People With Disabilities in the 1994 Election
The health of a democracy depends on citizen involvement in political life. Unfortunately, not all citizens have an equal voice in American governance. Previous research has demonstrated that individual factors such as higher levels of educational attainment and income (as well as institutional factors and political context) are associated with higher levels of participation, but extant research does not consider the role of disability in affecti…
Influences on the Political Participation of People With Disabilities: The Role of Individual and Elite Factors in 1984 and 1986
While Americans with disabilities comprise the largest minority group in American politics, we know very little about the individual level determinants of political activity among this neglected part of the American polity In this analysis, we use data collected by Louis Harris and Associates during the 1984 and 1986 elections to begin to understand more fully the determinants of political participation among people with disabilities. We find tha…
The Effect of Gender and Race on the Political Participation of People With Disabilities in the 1994 Mid-Term Election
Research on voter turnout has uncovered important differences in the voting patterns of subgroups of the American polity. Here, we report an analysis of the 1994 Current Population Survey-Voter Supplement, indicating that once demographic factors such as income and educational attainment are controlled for, men with disabilities are less likely to register than are women with disabilities and nondisabled persons, while women with disabilities are…
Taking Credit and Avoiding Blame: Good News, Spin Control, and Democratic Accountability
Relying on experimental methodology, we find that positive and negative reports of specific aspects of the economy influence the audience's assessments of political responsibility for the state of the economy. In addition, whether the president actively attempts to take credit (in the case of positive economic news) or attempts to avoid blame (in the case of negative economic news) also influences assessments. Finally, we find that effects are la…
Gender Stereotypes and Decision Context in the Evaluation of Political Candidates
Past studies investigating the effects of negative gender stereotypes on information processing about women political candidates have produced mixed results. Some studies find evidence of strong stereotypic biases against women candidates while other work fails to uncover such biases. One possible solution to these discrepant findings is the cognitive complexity of the decision task. Research from social psychology suggests that people may rely o…
Gender stereotypes and decision context in the evaluation of political candidates
The Last Suffrage Movement: Voting Rights for Persons with Cognitive and Emotional Disabilities
Journal Article The Last Suffrage Movement: Voting Rights for Persons with Cognitive and Emotional Disabilities Get access Kay Schriner, Kay Schriner University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lisa A. Ochs, Lisa A. Ochs University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Todd G. Shields Todd G. Shields University of Arkansas Search for other works by …
The intersection of race and crime in television news stories: An experimental study
Studies of media content consistently find that black criminal suspects are portrayed more frequently and more menacingly than white suspects in television news stories of violent crime. Here we investigate the impact of such portrayals on white viewers' attitudes by means of a video experiment in which we manipulate only the visual image of the race of the suspect in a television news story of violent crime. We found, consistent with our expecta…
Enabling Democracy: Disability and Voter Turnout
How likely are the millions of Americans with disabilities to participate in politics? What insights do their experiences provide into overall participation levels and determinants? This article reports the results of a nationally representative household telephone survey of 1,240 peoplestratified to include 700 people with disabilities-following the November 1998 elections. Voter turnout is found to be 20 percentage points lower among people wit…
Moral Issues and Voter Decision Making in the 2004 Presidential Election
President Bush's victory, the approval of every anti-gay marriage amendment on statewide ballots and an emphasis on ‘moral values’ among voters showed the power of churchgoing Americans in this election and threw the nation's religious divide into stark relief.” Associated Press, November 4, 2004
The Vanishing Marginals, the Bandwagon, and the Mass Media
We investigate the degree to which exposure to the mass media results in an increased likelihood to vote for the incumbent (or the winner in open-seat races). We also present experimental evidence demonstrating the influence of electoral expectations in individual--level voting decisions
Participation Rates, Socioeconomic Class Biases, and Congressional Elections: A Crossvalidation
Theory: Recently, Leighley and Nagler (1992) presented evidence indicating that class biases in voter turnout remained relatively stable across presidential elections from 1960 through 1988. Nevertheless, few investigations test for class biases (or the stability of class biases) in midterm congressional elections. Given that presidential elections are such high-intensity affairs (Campbell 1993) some lower-class citizens likely participate in pre…
State Campaign Finance Regulations and Electoral Competition
In the following analysis, we provide an assessment of the effect of campaign finance reform on campaign spending and electoral competition in gubernatorial campaigns. The work improves on prior research by considering a longer, more comprehensive time frame (1978-1997) and by examining the effects of several different components of reform (contribution limits, public financing, and spending limits) within a single analytic framework. We find tha…
Can I Make a Difference? Efficacy, Employment, and Disability
Political efficacy is a widely studied phenomenon and an important predictor of political participation, but little is known about the political efficacy of the millions of people with disabilities in the United States. This paper reports the results of a nationally representative telephone survey of 1,240 people—stratified to include 700 people with disabilities—following the November 1998 elections. Several measures of efficacy that help predic…
Gender Stereotypes and Decision Context in the Evaluation of Political Candidates
Past studies investigating the effects of negative gender stereotypes on information processing about women political candidates have produced mixed results. Some studies find evidence of strong stereotypic biases against women candidates while other work fails to uncover such biases. One possible solution to these discrepant findings is the cognitive complexity of the decision task. Research from social psychology suggests that people may rely o…
The Last Suffrage Movement: Voting Rights for Persons with Cognitive and Emotional Disabilities
Journal Article The Last Suffrage Movement: Voting Rights for Persons with Cognitive and Emotional Disabilities Get access Kay Schriner, Kay Schriner University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lisa A. Ochs, Lisa A. Ochs University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Todd G. Shields Todd G. Shields University of Arkansas Search for other works by …
Ideological Realignment in the Contemporary U.S. Electorate Revisited
Objective. In this study, we revisit the ideological‐realignment theory proposed by Abramowitz and Saunders (1998) by assessing the varying impact a person's ideology had on his or her partisan identification for individuals in different regions and between men and women. Method. Through an examination of the NES cumulative data file and the 1992–1994 NES Panel Study, we present a series of tabular findings, an OLS regression model, and partial c…
What's the Matter with Arkansas? Symbolic Racism and 2008 Presidential Candidate Support
The 2008 presidential election presented voters with the nation's first African American presidential candidate. Symbolic racism theory suggests that Obama's presence on the national ticket will activate a range of racial attitudes across the electorate. The authors examine two statewide surveys from Arkansas and Georgia in order to explore the importance of symbolic racism across different campaign contexts. The findings suggest that voting beha…
Presidential Vetoes: An Event Count Model
We argue that past models of presidential veto behavior have not ade quately conceptualized the fundamental nature of the dependent variable—a count of the total number of vetoes per unit of analysis. Conse quently, ordinary least squares techniques have been employed when more appropriate statistical estimation techniques are warranted. Further, past conceptualization (and measurement) of theoretically relevant varia bles have masked important r…
Who Trusts the WHO? Heuristics and Americans’ Trust in the World Health Organization During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Objective: Why do some Americans trust the World Health Organization (WHO) during the COVID-19 pandemic, but others do not? To date, there has been no examination of trust in the WHO. Yet the global nature of the pandemic necessitates expanding our scholarship to international health organizations. We test the effects of partisanship, ideology, the cooperative internationalist foreign policy orientation, and nationalism on trust in the WHO and su…
The Fate of Obamacare: Racial Resentment, Ethnocentrism and Attitudes about Healthcare Reform
Taking Credit and Avoiding Blame: Good News, Spin Control, and Democratic Accountability
Relying on experimental methodology, we find that positive and negative reports of specific aspects of the economy influence the audience's assessments of political responsibility for the state of the economy. In addition, whether the president actively attempts to take credit (in the case of positive economic news) or attempts to avoid blame (in the case of negative economic news) also influences assessments. Finally, we find that effects are la…
Polls and Elections: Southern Dis comfort? Regional Differences in Voter Decision Making in the 2000 Presidential Election
The South has undergone dramatic changes in population, economics, and partisanship in recent decades, leading scholars to conclude that the New South has lost many of its unique patterns of voting behavior. Using an extensive data set that contains sufficient sample sizes for regional comparisons, we estimate an interactive model of vote choice in the 2000 presidential election to compare the decision making of Southern and non‐Southern responde…
The Disability Voice in American Politics: Political Participation of People With Disabilities in the 1994 Election
The health of a democracy depends on citizen involvement in political life. Unfortunately, not all citizens have an equal voice in American governance. Previous research has demonstrated that individual factors such as higher levels of educational attainment and income (as well as institutional factors and political context) are associated with higher levels of participation, but extant research does not consider the role of disability in affecti…
Gender stereotypes and decision context in the evaluation of political candidates
The Next Link in the Chain Reaction: Symbolic Racism and Obama's Religious Affiliation
Objectives During the 2008 presidential election, questions about Barack Obama's religious affiliations spread rapidly over the Internet and became a regular story in the national news. Despite Obama's repeated testimony that he is a Christian, surveys indicated that a sizeable portion of the public believed that he was a Muslim, while others indicated that they were “unsure” of his religious allegiances. We evaluate the extent to which racial at…
The Net Impact of Media Exposure on Individual Voting Decisions in U. S. Senate and House Elections
We examine the impact of media exposure in United States Senate and House elections and find that high levels of media exposure are associated with an increased likelihood that individual respondents will vote for House incumbents. In addition, we find that the effects of media exposure in Senate elections are mediated by challenger political quality. We also find that, within House elections, media exposure appears to have its most dramatic impa…
Influences on the Political Participation of People With Disabilities: The Role of Individual and Elite Factors in 1984 and 1986
While Americans with disabilities comprise the largest minority group in American politics, we know very little about the individual level determinants of political activity among this neglected part of the American polity In this analysis, we use data collected by Louis Harris and Associates during the 1984 and 1986 elections to begin to understand more fully the determinants of political participation among people with disabilities. We find tha…
Sex, Age, and the Implementation of the Motor Voter Act: The 1996 Presidential Election
Objective . Among the existing studies of political participation, few discuss differences between men and women. Of those published, most have focused upon substantive policy preferences, perhaps noting women's newly dominant electoral presence but not probing its characteristics or limits. In this analysis we build on the work of Schlozman, Burns, and Verba (1994) by examining the compound effects of closing dates, state National Voter Registra…
Campaign Finance Reform and the 1994 Congressional Elections
Based on partisan arguments regarding the likely effect of campaign finance reform on electoral competition, one might suspect that, had spending limits been in place prior to the 1994 midterm elections, Republicans would not have been able to gain control of the House of Representatives. To examine this proposition, we first create a regression model designed to explain the Democratic percentage of the vote as a function of candidate spending, i…
The President and Congress as Sources in Television News Coverage of the National Debt
A content analysis of the Vanderbilt Television News Abstracts of stories dealing with the national debt between January 1990 and December 1993 advances our understanding of media coverage of political issues. By focusing on a single issue it permits analyzing coverage over a longer period than earlier studies. This permits deeper analysis of the differences in coverage accorded to the House and the Senate. The findings confirm the general consen…
Introduction to the symposium: A reexamination of southern distinctiveness through the lens of firearm policy
Objective This article reviews the extant literature on southern politics and gun/firearm ownership in the South as a precursor to three symposium papers. Methods We employ standard literature review techniques to synthesize two significant bodies of literature. The latter part of the article introduces the three papers in the symposium. Results We find that the papers in this symposium share two common themes: continued southern distinctiveness,…
The Vanishing Marginals, the Bandwagon, and the Mass Media
We investigate the degree to which exposure to the mass media results in an increased likelihood to vote for the incumbent (or the winner in open-seat races). We also present experimental evidence demonstrating the influence of electoral expectations in individual--level voting decisions
The Net Impact of Media Exposure on Individual Voting Decisions in U. S. Senate and House Elections
We examine the impact of media exposure in United States Senate and House elections and find that high levels of media exposure are associated with an increased likelihood that individual respondents will vote for House incumbents. In addition, we find that the effects of media exposure in Senate elections are mediated by challenger political quality. We also find that, within House elections, media exposure appears to have its most dramatic impa…
Presidential Vetoes: An Event Count Model
We argue that past models of presidential veto behavior have not ade quately conceptualized the fundamental nature of the dependent variable—a count of the total number of vetoes per unit of analysis. Conse quently, ordinary least squares techniques have been employed when more appropriate statistical estimation techniques are warranted. Further, past conceptualization (and measurement) of theoretically relevant varia bles have masked important r…
The President and Congress as Sources in Television News Coverage of the National Debt
A content analysis of the Vanderbilt Television News Abstracts of stories dealing with the national debt between January 1990 and December 1993 advances our understanding of media coverage of political issues. By focusing on a single issue it permits analyzing coverage over a longer period than earlier studies. This permits deeper analysis of the differences in coverage accorded to the House and the Senate. The findings confirm the general consen…
The intersection of race and crime in television news stories: An experimental study
Studies of media content consistently find that black criminal suspects are portrayed more frequently and more menacingly than white suspects in television news stories of violent crime. Here we investigate the impact of such portrayals on white viewers' attitudes by means of a video experiment in which we manipulate only the visual image of the race of the suspect in a television news story of violent crime. We found, consistent with our expecta…
Gender Stereotypes and Decision Context in the Evaluation of Political Candidates
Past studies investigating the effects of negative gender stereotypes on information processing about women political candidates have produced mixed results. Some studies find evidence of strong stereotypic biases against women candidates while other work fails to uncover such biases. One possible solution to these discrepant findings is the cognitive complexity of the decision task. Research from social psychology suggests that people may rely o…
Gender stereotypes and decision context in the evaluation of political candidates
The Last Suffrage Movement: Voting Rights for Persons with Cognitive and Emotional Disabilities
Journal Article The Last Suffrage Movement: Voting Rights for Persons with Cognitive and Emotional Disabilities Get access Kay Schriner, Kay Schriner University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lisa A. Ochs, Lisa A. Ochs University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Todd G. Shields Todd G. Shields University of Arkansas Search for other works by …
Campaign Finance Reform and the 1994 Congressional Elections
Based on partisan arguments regarding the likely effect of campaign finance reform on electoral competition, one might suspect that, had spending limits been in place prior to the 1994 midterm elections, Republicans would not have been able to gain control of the House of Representatives. To examine this proposition, we first create a regression model designed to explain the Democratic percentage of the vote as a function of candidate spending, i…
Participation Rates, Socioeconomic Class Biases, and Congressional Elections: A Crossvalidation
Theory: Recently, Leighley and Nagler (1992) presented evidence indicating that class biases in voter turnout remained relatively stable across presidential elections from 1960 through 1988. Nevertheless, few investigations test for class biases (or the stability of class biases) in midterm congressional elections. Given that presidential elections are such high-intensity affairs (Campbell 1993) some lower-class citizens likely participate in pre…
The Disability Voice in American Politics: Political Participation of People With Disabilities in the 1994 Election
The health of a democracy depends on citizen involvement in political life. Unfortunately, not all citizens have an equal voice in American governance. Previous research has demonstrated that individual factors such as higher levels of educational attainment and income (as well as institutional factors and political context) are associated with higher levels of participation, but extant research does not consider the role of disability in affecti…
Influences on the Political Participation of People With Disabilities: The Role of Individual and Elite Factors in 1984 and 1986
While Americans with disabilities comprise the largest minority group in American politics, we know very little about the individual level determinants of political activity among this neglected part of the American polity In this analysis, we use data collected by Louis Harris and Associates during the 1984 and 1986 elections to begin to understand more fully the determinants of political participation among people with disabilities. We find tha…
The Effect of Gender and Race on the Political Participation of People With Disabilities in the 1994 Mid-Term Election
Research on voter turnout has uncovered important differences in the voting patterns of subgroups of the American polity. Here, we report an analysis of the 1994 Current Population Survey-Voter Supplement, indicating that once demographic factors such as income and educational attainment are controlled for, men with disabilities are less likely to register than are women with disabilities and nondisabled persons, while women with disabilities are…
Taking Credit and Avoiding Blame: Good News, Spin Control, and Democratic Accountability
Relying on experimental methodology, we find that positive and negative reports of specific aspects of the economy influence the audience's assessments of political responsibility for the state of the economy. In addition, whether the president actively attempts to take credit (in the case of positive economic news) or attempts to avoid blame (in the case of negative economic news) also influences assessments. Finally, we find that effects are la…
Sex, Age, and the Implementation of the Motor Voter Act: The 1996 Presidential Election
Objective . Among the existing studies of political participation, few discuss differences between men and women. Of those published, most have focused upon substantive policy preferences, perhaps noting women's newly dominant electoral presence but not probing its characteristics or limits. In this analysis we build on the work of Schlozman, Burns, and Verba (1994) by examining the compound effects of closing dates, state National Voter Registra…
Enabling Democracy: Disability and Voter Turnout
How likely are the millions of Americans with disabilities to participate in politics? What insights do their experiences provide into overall participation levels and determinants? This article reports the results of a nationally representative household telephone survey of 1,240 peoplestratified to include 700 people with disabilities-following the November 1998 elections. Voter turnout is found to be 20 percentage points lower among people wit…
State Campaign Finance Regulations and Electoral Competition
In the following analysis, we provide an assessment of the effect of campaign finance reform on campaign spending and electoral competition in gubernatorial campaigns. The work improves on prior research by considering a longer, more comprehensive time frame (1978-1997) and by examining the effects of several different components of reform (contribution limits, public financing, and spending limits) within a single analytic framework. We find tha…
Ideological Realignment in the Contemporary U.S. Electorate Revisited
Objective. In this study, we revisit the ideological‐realignment theory proposed by Abramowitz and Saunders (1998) by assessing the varying impact a person's ideology had on his or her partisan identification for individuals in different regions and between men and women. Method. Through an examination of the NES cumulative data file and the 1992–1994 NES Panel Study, we present a series of tabular findings, an OLS regression model, and partial c…
Can I Make a Difference? Efficacy, Employment, and Disability
Political efficacy is a widely studied phenomenon and an important predictor of political participation, but little is known about the political efficacy of the millions of people with disabilities in the United States. This paper reports the results of a nationally representative telephone survey of 1,240 people—stratified to include 700 people with disabilities—following the November 1998 elections. Several measures of efficacy that help predic…
The Clinton Riddle: Perspectives on the Forty-second President
Moral Issues and Voter Decision Making in the 2004 Presidential Election
President Bush's victory, the approval of every anti-gay marriage amendment on statewide ballots and an emphasis on ‘moral values’ among voters showed the power of churchgoing Americans in this election and threw the nation's religious divide into stark relief.” Associated Press, November 4, 2004
Polls and Elections: Southern Dis comfort? Regional Differences in Voter Decision Making in the 2000 Presidential Election
The South has undergone dramatic changes in population, economics, and partisanship in recent decades, leading scholars to conclude that the New South has lost many of its unique patterns of voting behavior. Using an extensive data set that contains sufficient sample sizes for regional comparisons, we estimate an interactive model of vote choice in the 2000 presidential election to compare the decision making of Southern and non‐Southern responde…
What's the Matter with Arkansas? Symbolic Racism and 2008 Presidential Candidate Support
The 2008 presidential election presented voters with the nation's first African American presidential candidate. Symbolic racism theory suggests that Obama's presence on the national ticket will activate a range of racial attitudes across the electorate. The authors examine two statewide surveys from Arkansas and Georgia in order to explore the importance of symbolic racism across different campaign contexts. The findings suggest that voting beha…
The Reverse Environmental Gender Gap in China: Evidence from “The China Survey”
Objectives This article explores gender differences in attitudes about the seriousness of the environment as a problem in China using the “2008 China Survey.” Methods We use generalized ordered logit models to analyze survey respondents’ environmental attitudes. Results Our results indicate that there is indeed a “gender gap” in environmental attitudes in China, but the pattern is reversed from what has been generally found in previous work condu…
The Next Link in the Chain Reaction: Symbolic Racism and Obama's Religious Affiliation
Objectives During the 2008 presidential election, questions about Barack Obama's religious affiliations spread rapidly over the Internet and became a regular story in the national news. Despite Obama's repeated testimony that he is a Christian, surveys indicated that a sizeable portion of the public believed that he was a Muslim, while others indicated that they were “unsure” of his religious allegiances. We evaluate the extent to which racial at…
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