Clayton D Peoples
Biographic Data
| ID | 240950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clayton D Peoples |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clayton D |
| FAMILY NAME | Peoples |
| SIGNATURE | PEOPLES C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0256-434X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why didn’t you tell me that before? Pluralistic ignorance inhibits Americans' adoption of sustainable behaviors
Most Americans are concerned about climate change, willing to adopt more climate-friendly lifestyles, and think government should enforce stricter mitigation policies. Yet the behaviors of most Americans do not reflect these opinions. The US public still relies on large, petroleum-powered vehicles, eats a meat-based diet, and throws most of its trash into landfills. We contend this inconsistency might be attributable to pluralistic ignorance arou…
“Incitement of insurrection”: Criminogenic antecedents and potential policy responses
Campaign Contributions as Crime: The Case of Contribution Influence on US Economic and Environmental Policy
Although the current campaign finance system in the US allows private donations to campaigns, an increasing body of evidence suggests that these contributions influence policy and could potentially lead to social injury. This leads to an important question: Do campaign contributions constitute crime? The present article takes up this question. After an overview of the famous debate between Tappan and Sutherland on the role of social injury in det…
Toward a penology of organizational offending
The punishment of organizational offending has largely been overlooked by penologists, despite the fact that organizational actors such as corporations and the state perpetrate the most serious forms of offending. Accordingly, this paper represents a step toward foregrounding organizational offending within the discipline of penology. We begin by discussing the implications of several Classical School ideals and theories of punishment for organiz…
Political opportunity, democracy, and 40 years of protest, 1981–2020: A cross‐national analysis
Objectives : Political opportunity is considered an important factor in any kind of activism, as it represents the context or norms in which a movement operates. Much of the extant literature has focused on political opportunity on a case‐by‐case basis with little consistency in its operationalization. Our goal in this study is to build toward a generalizable measure of political opportunity. To do so, we measured opportunities as democracy and u…
The ties that mobilize us: Networks, intergroup contact, and participation in the Black Lives Matter movement
Scholarship on peoples’ involvement in social movements shows that social networks predict movement participation. Research in this area has traditionally focused on connections to activists—but other kinds of social relationships, such as intergroup contact, may matter as well. In this study, unique data were collected from both a student sample and a general sample of the population to examine how intergroup contact—namely, social ties with Afr…
Congress as a Deviant Organization: An Application of Ermann and Lundman's Organizational Deviance Framework
In 1978, Ermann and Lundman put forth the most sophisticated organizational deviance framework to date. They conceptualized organizational deviance as actions by an organization that interfere with the flow of benefits to actors with legitimate claims upon that organization. Further, they stipulated that these claims are protected by "controlling organizations." We apply Ermann and Lundman's framework to Congress and conclude that it is a deviant…
The Undermining of American Democracy: How Campaign Contributions Corrupt our System and Harm Us All
Undermining of American Democracy: How Campaign Contributions Corrupt Our System and Harm Us All
The relationship between mock jurors’ religious characteristics and their verdicts and sentencing decisions
Two mock jury studies investigated whether jurors’ religious characteristics relate to verdicts and sentencing decisions. In Study 1, adding religious characteristics to a model with only demographics and authoritarianism increased the model’s explanatory power. Scoring high on devotionalism was significantly related to not guilty verdicts; scoring high on fundamentalism was significantly related to guilty verdicts. In both studies, being on a re…
Campaign Finance and Policymaking: PACs, Campaign Contributions, and Interest Group Influence in Congress
The general public is skeptical of our current system of campaign finance and feels that members of Congress are corrupt. Although the scholarly literature on campaign contribution influence is mixed, there is growing consensus that Political Action Committees (PACs) and interest groups do, indeed, have a powerful influence on policymaking in Congress. In this article, the author reviews this literature and discusses how influence occurs. Finding…
A Comparative Review of Stratification Texts and Readers
Social stratification is a core substantive area within sociology. There are a number of textbooks and readers available on the market that deal with this central topic. In this article, I conduct a comparative review of (a) four stratification textbooks and (b) four stratification readers
Friendship and Conformity in Group Opinions: Juror Verdict Change in Mock Juries
Social psychological research on group processes has consistently shown that group members adjust their views to conform to dominant and/or socially desirable stances. Studies are less clear, though, on how friendships within groups impact this tendency. Some studies suggest greater group cohesion leads to more conformity; other studies suggest friendship lessens the pressure to agree on certain issues. In this study, we use mock juries to test t…
The effects of deliberations and religious identity on mock jurors’ verdicts
Jurors may be biased toward defendants because of their group status or similarities/differences. Deliberation may minimize bias by forcing jurors to rationalize their decisions. In two experiments, mock jurors read that, at the time of the crime, the defendant was: engaged in Christian prayers, Islamic prayers, or TV watching (control). Study 1 described a crime stereotypically associated with Muslims (bombing a transportation center); Study 2 u…
Consistency in the Midst of Change: Class and Value Stability in Poland, 1988-2003
Poland has undergone radical social change since 1989. Prior research shows that despite this change, the relationship between class and values in Poland remained stable through the early 1990s, and a similar pattern held in Ukraine as well. More recent work in Ukraine in the early 2000s suggests continuing stability in the class-values relationship, but we lack a similar update for Poland. This study examines Polish data 1988-2003 and yields sig…
Social Networks and Political Analysis
Justifications of Inequality: The Normative Basis of Pay Differentials in 31 Nations
Objectives. We investigate social consensus and dissensus within and between nations in three important justifications for pay differences: family needs, performance on the job, and education/authority. Methods. Data are from 31 nations and 66,777 individual respondents analyzed using structural equation and multilevel regression methods with multiple imputation of missing data. Results. In poor countries, but not in rich, most believe that famil…
Interlegislator Relations and Policy Making: A Sociological Study of Roll‐Call Voting in a State Legislature 1
Legislative roll‐call voting is crucial in policy making. Standard approaches to studying roll‐call voting focus on legislator attributes, ignoring how social factors, such as legislator relations, may drive voting. Using original data based on a state legislature, I adopt a relational approach to examine how legislator relations impact roll‐call voting net of attributes. Results show that relations strongly influence voting, adding significantly…
Uncovering Political Influence by Using Network Analyses and Exploring Contribution/Party Interactions: The Case of Ohio Legislative Voting
Legislative roll call voting is a decisive moment in the exercise of democratic power, and understanding how campaign contributions affect roll call voting speaks directly to timely issues of influence and corruption. Methodological limitations on the question of how contributions affect voting produces mixed findings. Using original data on the Ohio Legislature, I perform uniquely sociological (network) analyses to help overcome the limitations …
Using a Hypothetical Distribution of Grades to Introduce Social Stratification
How Discriminatory Policies Affect Interethnic Violence: A Cross-National, Group-Level Analysis
Discriminatory policies are government-enacted policies mandating that certain goods, services, or opportunities be withheld from members of specific ethnic groups. Discriminatory policies are in place in many countries throughout the world today, sometimes enacted with the intent of reducing the likelihood of interethnic violence. But evidence on how discriminatory policies affect interethnic violence is inconclusive. In this study, how differen…
Justifications of Inequality: The Normative Basis of Pay Differentials in 31 Nations
Objectives. We investigate social consensus and dissensus within and between nations in three important justifications for pay differences: family needs, performance on the job, and education/authority. Methods. Data are from 31 nations and 66,777 individual respondents analyzed using structural equation and multilevel regression methods with multiple imputation of missing data. Results. In poor countries, but not in rich, most believe that famil…
Interlegislator Relations and Policy Making: A Sociological Study of Roll‐Call Voting in a State Legislature 1
Legislative roll‐call voting is crucial in policy making. Standard approaches to studying roll‐call voting focus on legislator attributes, ignoring how social factors, such as legislator relations, may drive voting. Using original data based on a state legislature, I adopt a relational approach to examine how legislator relations impact roll‐call voting net of attributes. Results show that relations strongly influence voting, adding significantly…
The effects of deliberations and religious identity on mock jurors’ verdicts
Jurors may be biased toward defendants because of their group status or similarities/differences. Deliberation may minimize bias by forcing jurors to rationalize their decisions. In two experiments, mock jurors read that, at the time of the crime, the defendant was: engaged in Christian prayers, Islamic prayers, or TV watching (control). Study 1 described a crime stereotypically associated with Muslims (bombing a transportation center); Study 2 u…
Using a Hypothetical Distribution of Grades to Introduce Social Stratification
Political opportunity, democracy, and 40 years of protest, 1981–2020: A cross‐national analysis
Objectives : Political opportunity is considered an important factor in any kind of activism, as it represents the context or norms in which a movement operates. Much of the extant literature has focused on political opportunity on a case‐by‐case basis with little consistency in its operationalization. Our goal in this study is to build toward a generalizable measure of political opportunity. To do so, we measured opportunities as democracy and u…
Campaign Finance and Policymaking: PACs, Campaign Contributions, and Interest Group Influence in Congress
The general public is skeptical of our current system of campaign finance and feels that members of Congress are corrupt. Although the scholarly literature on campaign contribution influence is mixed, there is growing consensus that Political Action Committees (PACs) and interest groups do, indeed, have a powerful influence on policymaking in Congress. In this article, the author reviews this literature and discusses how influence occurs. Finding…
Friendship and Conformity in Group Opinions: Juror Verdict Change in Mock Juries
Social psychological research on group processes has consistently shown that group members adjust their views to conform to dominant and/or socially desirable stances. Studies are less clear, though, on how friendships within groups impact this tendency. Some studies suggest greater group cohesion leads to more conformity; other studies suggest friendship lessens the pressure to agree on certain issues. In this study, we use mock juries to test t…
Consistency in the Midst of Change: Class and Value Stability in Poland, 1988-2003
Poland has undergone radical social change since 1989. Prior research shows that despite this change, the relationship between class and values in Poland remained stable through the early 1990s, and a similar pattern held in Ukraine as well. More recent work in Ukraine in the early 2000s suggests continuing stability in the class-values relationship, but we lack a similar update for Poland. This study examines Polish data 1988-2003 and yields sig…
Congress as a Deviant Organization: An Application of Ermann and Lundman's Organizational Deviance Framework
In 1978, Ermann and Lundman put forth the most sophisticated organizational deviance framework to date. They conceptualized organizational deviance as actions by an organization that interfere with the flow of benefits to actors with legitimate claims upon that organization. Further, they stipulated that these claims are protected by "controlling organizations." We apply Ermann and Lundman's framework to Congress and conclude that it is a deviant…
How Discriminatory Policies Affect Interethnic Violence: A Cross-National, Group-Level Analysis
Discriminatory policies are government-enacted policies mandating that certain goods, services, or opportunities be withheld from members of specific ethnic groups. Discriminatory policies are in place in many countries throughout the world today, sometimes enacted with the intent of reducing the likelihood of interethnic violence. But evidence on how discriminatory policies affect interethnic violence is inconclusive. In this study, how differen…
Using a Hypothetical Distribution of Grades to Introduce Social Stratification
Interlegislator Relations and Policy Making: A Sociological Study of Roll‐Call Voting in a State Legislature 1
Legislative roll‐call voting is crucial in policy making. Standard approaches to studying roll‐call voting focus on legislator attributes, ignoring how social factors, such as legislator relations, may drive voting. Using original data based on a state legislature, I adopt a relational approach to examine how legislator relations impact roll‐call voting net of attributes. Results show that relations strongly influence voting, adding significantly…
Uncovering Political Influence by Using Network Analyses and Exploring Contribution/Party Interactions: The Case of Ohio Legislative Voting
Legislative roll call voting is a decisive moment in the exercise of democratic power, and understanding how campaign contributions affect roll call voting speaks directly to timely issues of influence and corruption. Methodological limitations on the question of how contributions affect voting produces mixed findings. Using original data on the Ohio Legislature, I perform uniquely sociological (network) analyses to help overcome the limitations …
Social Networks and Political Analysis
Justifications of Inequality: The Normative Basis of Pay Differentials in 31 Nations
Objectives. We investigate social consensus and dissensus within and between nations in three important justifications for pay differences: family needs, performance on the job, and education/authority. Methods. Data are from 31 nations and 66,777 individual respondents analyzed using structural equation and multilevel regression methods with multiple imputation of missing data. Results. In poor countries, but not in rich, most believe that famil…
The effects of deliberations and religious identity on mock jurors’ verdicts
Jurors may be biased toward defendants because of their group status or similarities/differences. Deliberation may minimize bias by forcing jurors to rationalize their decisions. In two experiments, mock jurors read that, at the time of the crime, the defendant was: engaged in Christian prayers, Islamic prayers, or TV watching (control). Study 1 described a crime stereotypically associated with Muslims (bombing a transportation center); Study 2 u…
Consistency in the Midst of Change: Class and Value Stability in Poland, 1988-2003
Poland has undergone radical social change since 1989. Prior research shows that despite this change, the relationship between class and values in Poland remained stable through the early 1990s, and a similar pattern held in Ukraine as well. More recent work in Ukraine in the early 2000s suggests continuing stability in the class-values relationship, but we lack a similar update for Poland. This study examines Polish data 1988-2003 and yields sig…
A Comparative Review of Stratification Texts and Readers
Social stratification is a core substantive area within sociology. There are a number of textbooks and readers available on the market that deal with this central topic. In this article, I conduct a comparative review of (a) four stratification textbooks and (b) four stratification readers
Friendship and Conformity in Group Opinions: Juror Verdict Change in Mock Juries
Social psychological research on group processes has consistently shown that group members adjust their views to conform to dominant and/or socially desirable stances. Studies are less clear, though, on how friendships within groups impact this tendency. Some studies suggest greater group cohesion leads to more conformity; other studies suggest friendship lessens the pressure to agree on certain issues. In this study, we use mock juries to test t…
Campaign Finance and Policymaking: PACs, Campaign Contributions, and Interest Group Influence in Congress
The general public is skeptical of our current system of campaign finance and feels that members of Congress are corrupt. Although the scholarly literature on campaign contribution influence is mixed, there is growing consensus that Political Action Committees (PACs) and interest groups do, indeed, have a powerful influence on policymaking in Congress. In this article, the author reviews this literature and discusses how influence occurs. Finding…
The relationship between mock jurors’ religious characteristics and their verdicts and sentencing decisions
Two mock jury studies investigated whether jurors’ religious characteristics relate to verdicts and sentencing decisions. In Study 1, adding religious characteristics to a model with only demographics and authoritarianism increased the model’s explanatory power. Scoring high on devotionalism was significantly related to not guilty verdicts; scoring high on fundamentalism was significantly related to guilty verdicts. In both studies, being on a re…
The Undermining of American Democracy: How Campaign Contributions Corrupt our System and Harm Us All
Undermining of American Democracy: How Campaign Contributions Corrupt Our System and Harm Us All
Congress as a Deviant Organization: An Application of Ermann and Lundman's Organizational Deviance Framework
In 1978, Ermann and Lundman put forth the most sophisticated organizational deviance framework to date. They conceptualized organizational deviance as actions by an organization that interfere with the flow of benefits to actors with legitimate claims upon that organization. Further, they stipulated that these claims are protected by "controlling organizations." We apply Ermann and Lundman's framework to Congress and conclude that it is a deviant…
The ties that mobilize us: Networks, intergroup contact, and participation in the Black Lives Matter movement
Scholarship on peoples’ involvement in social movements shows that social networks predict movement participation. Research in this area has traditionally focused on connections to activists—but other kinds of social relationships, such as intergroup contact, may matter as well. In this study, unique data were collected from both a student sample and a general sample of the population to examine how intergroup contact—namely, social ties with Afr…
Campaign Contributions as Crime: The Case of Contribution Influence on US Economic and Environmental Policy
Although the current campaign finance system in the US allows private donations to campaigns, an increasing body of evidence suggests that these contributions influence policy and could potentially lead to social injury. This leads to an important question: Do campaign contributions constitute crime? The present article takes up this question. After an overview of the famous debate between Tappan and Sutherland on the role of social injury in det…
Toward a penology of organizational offending
The punishment of organizational offending has largely been overlooked by penologists, despite the fact that organizational actors such as corporations and the state perpetrate the most serious forms of offending. Accordingly, this paper represents a step toward foregrounding organizational offending within the discipline of penology. We begin by discussing the implications of several Classical School ideals and theories of punishment for organiz…
Political opportunity, democracy, and 40 years of protest, 1981–2020: A cross‐national analysis
Objectives : Political opportunity is considered an important factor in any kind of activism, as it represents the context or norms in which a movement operates. Much of the extant literature has focused on political opportunity on a case‐by‐case basis with little consistency in its operationalization. Our goal in this study is to build toward a generalizable measure of political opportunity. To do so, we measured opportunities as democracy and u…
“Incitement of insurrection”: Criminogenic antecedents and potential policy responses
Why didn’t you tell me that before? Pluralistic ignorance inhibits Americans' adoption of sustainable behaviors
Most Americans are concerned about climate change, willing to adopt more climate-friendly lifestyles, and think government should enforce stricter mitigation policies. Yet the behaviors of most Americans do not reflect these opinions. The US public still relies on large, petroleum-powered vehicles, eats a meat-based diet, and throws most of its trash into landfills. We contend this inconsistency might be attributable to pluralistic ignorance arou…
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