Meredith Kleykamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 256534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith Kleykamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleykamp |
| SIGNATURE | KLEYKAMP M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8593-1773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 260 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Military Systems of Justice: A Sociological Overview
Sociologists have largely ignored the study of military tribunals and justice systems. We offer a descriptive overview of military systems of justice intended for use by political and military sociologists, focusing on the case of the United States armed services. We contextualize the principal military systems of justice and provide extended discussions of how the American case connects through formal and informal channels to international legal…
Generations of Veterans: Socioeconomic Attainment from World War II to the Contemporary Era
Scholars have long examined how generations or, more technically, cohorts produce social change. According to theory, people’s lives are shaped by the years in which they were born because they experience, along with their peers, particular historical events at the same points in the life course. Despite the importance of history, however, many scholars have evaluated cohorts not defined by clear start and end dates, but rather by arbitrary cut p…
Conducive Characteristics or Anti-Racist Context? Decomposing the Reasons for Veterans’ High Likelihood of Interracial Marriage
Who Supports U.S. Veterans and Who Exaggerates Their Support
Support for U.S. military personnel appears high, but does it extend to veterans after service ends? This study evaluates public support for social engagement with veterans and spending on recent military veterans’ health care and estimates the extent of socially desirable reporting on these forms of support. It uses a list experiment to identify the extent of socially desirable reporting on topics. Findings demonstrate that the public offers ove…
Ethical Lapses and the Military Profession: Three Problems and a Solution
In a recent issue of this journal, we published an article titled 'Fault Lines of the American Military Profession'. Donald S. Travis subsequently wrote a Dipustatio Sine Fine rejoinder that raised a number of criticisms of our piece and suggested several ways forward. For our part, we detect three serious problems in Travis's analysis and offer a single syncretic response. Our solution builds on the insights of Travis's critique while avoiding t…
Fault Lines of the American Military Profession
Over the past decade, the American armed services have witnessed a near-constant stream of so-called ethical lapses. Spanning rank, specialty, and service, these 'lapses' have given rise to a flood of criticism by journalists and piercing calls for reform from politicians. In response, American military leaders have pointed to the paired concepts of profession and professionalism as the solution. In this article, we use classical conceptualizatio…
Income Inequality and the Veteran Experience
Previous researchers have evaluated how the dramatic rise in income inequality has affected the members of various groups of workers, such as those defined by gender, union status, and educational attainment. Yet apparently no researchers have yet explored how this increase may have affected people grouped by previous military service. This chapter addresses this gap by assessing trends in wage inequality between male veterans and nonveterans, an…
Coverage of Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the U.S. Media
To evaluate how the media frames veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this study systematically assesses the discourse on Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the New York Times and Washington Post from 2003 to 2011. Our analysis of a stratified sample of 151 articles featuring veterans from either the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan finds that the media frames veterans as damaged by their service but deserving of government benefits and social …
Status- and Stigma-related Consequences of Military Service and PTSD: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
This article describes an experimental study that investigates the status- and stigma-related consequences of military service and of experiences in war resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the study, participants interacted with fictitious partners whom they believed were real in four conditions: a control condition, a condition in which the 'partner' was in the military, a condition in which the 'partner' was a war veteran who …
Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq
Journal Article Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq Get access Alair MacLean, Alair MacLean Direct correspondence to: Alair MacLean, Washington State University, Vancouver, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., Vancouver, WA 98686. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Meredith Kleykamp Meredith Kleykamp Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Immigration, Organization, and the Great Recession: Structural Change or Continuity
Catron’s comment extends our 2009 ASR article, “Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007,” by analyzing CPS data through the Great Recession. He finds that Hispanic immigrants’ odds of union membership declined relative to nonimmigrant whites between 2007 and 2009, and that certain Hispanic immigrant subcategories displayed increased odds of leaving union jobs during the recent recession. Catron interprets these results as…
Of War and Men: World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families
Unemployment, earnings and enrollment among post 9/11 veterans
Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States
Why have African-American private-sector unionization rates surpassed those of white workers for decades, and how has private-sector union decline exacerbated black-white wage inequality? Using data from the Current Population Survey (1973-2007), the authors show that African-Americans join unions for protection against discriminatory treatment in nonunion sectors. A model-predicted wage series also shows that, among women, black-white weekly wag…
Where did the soldiers go? The effects of military downsizing on college enrollment and employment
Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007
Prior research finds that minority populations in the United States secure union employment as part of the process of economic incorporation. Yet little work systematically tests whether this pattern holds for the nation's largest minority, Hispanics, during recent decades of union decline. After juxtaposing traditional labor market position theories of unionization with solidaristic accounts, we use 1973 to 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS) d…
A Great Place to Start: The Effect of Prior Military Service on Hiring
This article examines the effect of prior military service on hiring for entry-level jobs in a major metropolitan labor market. The research employs an audit method in which resumes differing only in the presentation of military experience versus civilian work experience are faxed in response to an advertised position. Results suggest that employers exhibit preferential treatment of black military veterans with transferable skills over black nonv…
Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy
College, Jobs, or the Military? Enlistment During a Time of War
Objective. This article questions what factors are associated with joining the military after high school rather than attending college, joining the civilian labor force, or doing some other activity. Three areas of influence on military enlistment are highlighted: educational goals, the institutional presence of the military in communities, and race and socioeconomic status. Method. The analysis uses data from a recent cohort of high school grad…
Did Falling Wages and Employment Increase U.S. Imprisonment
This paper studies the effects of wages and employment on men's prison admission rates in the United States from 1983 to 2001. Research on the effects of the labor market on incarceration usually examines national- or state-level data, but our analysis studies prison admission among black and white men in specific age-education groups. We find a significant increase in educational inequality in incarceration; nearly all the growth in the risk of …
Physical and Mental Health Status of Adolescent Girls: A Comparative Ethnic Perspective
A Bayesian Change Point Model for Historical Time Series Analysis
Political relationships often vary over time, but standard models ignore temporal variation in regression relationships. We describe a Bayesian model that treats the change point in a time series as a parameter to be estimated. In this model, inference for the regression coefficients reflects prior uncertainty about the location of the change point. Inferences about regression coefficients, unconditional on the change-point location, can be obtai…
Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States
Why have African-American private-sector unionization rates surpassed those of white workers for decades, and how has private-sector union decline exacerbated black-white wage inequality? Using data from the Current Population Survey (1973-2007), the authors show that African-Americans join unions for protection against discriminatory treatment in nonunion sectors. A model-predicted wage series also shows that, among women, black-white weekly wag…
College, Jobs, or the Military? Enlistment During a Time of War
Objective. This article questions what factors are associated with joining the military after high school rather than attending college, joining the civilian labor force, or doing some other activity. Three areas of influence on military enlistment are highlighted: educational goals, the institutional presence of the military in communities, and race and socioeconomic status. Method. The analysis uses data from a recent cohort of high school grad…
Unemployment, earnings and enrollment among post 9/11 veterans
A Great Place to Start: The Effect of Prior Military Service on Hiring
This article examines the effect of prior military service on hiring for entry-level jobs in a major metropolitan labor market. The research employs an audit method in which resumes differing only in the presentation of military experience versus civilian work experience are faxed in response to an advertised position. Results suggest that employers exhibit preferential treatment of black military veterans with transferable skills over black nonv…
Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007
Prior research finds that minority populations in the United States secure union employment as part of the process of economic incorporation. Yet little work systematically tests whether this pattern holds for the nation's largest minority, Hispanics, during recent decades of union decline. After juxtaposing traditional labor market position theories of unionization with solidaristic accounts, we use 1973 to 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS) d…
A Bayesian Change Point Model for Historical Time Series Analysis
Political relationships often vary over time, but standard models ignore temporal variation in regression relationships. We describe a Bayesian model that treats the change point in a time series as a parameter to be estimated. In this model, inference for the regression coefficients reflects prior uncertainty about the location of the change point. Inferences about regression coefficients, unconditional on the change-point location, can be obtai…
Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq
Journal Article Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq Get access Alair MacLean, Alair MacLean Direct correspondence to: Alair MacLean, Washington State University, Vancouver, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., Vancouver, WA 98686. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Meredith Kleykamp Meredith Kleykamp Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Did Falling Wages and Employment Increase U.S. Imprisonment
This paper studies the effects of wages and employment on men's prison admission rates in the United States from 1983 to 2001. Research on the effects of the labor market on incarceration usually examines national- or state-level data, but our analysis studies prison admission among black and white men in specific age-education groups. We find a significant increase in educational inequality in incarceration; nearly all the growth in the risk of …
Coverage of Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the U.S. Media
To evaluate how the media frames veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this study systematically assesses the discourse on Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the New York Times and Washington Post from 2003 to 2011. Our analysis of a stratified sample of 151 articles featuring veterans from either the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan finds that the media frames veterans as damaged by their service but deserving of government benefits and social …
Who Supports U.S. Veterans and Who Exaggerates Their Support
Support for U.S. military personnel appears high, but does it extend to veterans after service ends? This study evaluates public support for social engagement with veterans and spending on recent military veterans’ health care and estimates the extent of socially desirable reporting on these forms of support. It uses a list experiment to identify the extent of socially desirable reporting on topics. Findings demonstrate that the public offers ove…
Fault Lines of the American Military Profession
Over the past decade, the American armed services have witnessed a near-constant stream of so-called ethical lapses. Spanning rank, specialty, and service, these 'lapses' have given rise to a flood of criticism by journalists and piercing calls for reform from politicians. In response, American military leaders have pointed to the paired concepts of profession and professionalism as the solution. In this article, we use classical conceptualizatio…
Status- and Stigma-related Consequences of Military Service and PTSD: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
This article describes an experimental study that investigates the status- and stigma-related consequences of military service and of experiences in war resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the study, participants interacted with fictitious partners whom they believed were real in four conditions: a control condition, a condition in which the 'partner' was in the military, a condition in which the 'partner' was a war veteran who …
Generations of Veterans: Socioeconomic Attainment from World War II to the Contemporary Era
Scholars have long examined how generations or, more technically, cohorts produce social change. According to theory, people’s lives are shaped by the years in which they were born because they experience, along with their peers, particular historical events at the same points in the life course. Despite the importance of history, however, many scholars have evaluated cohorts not defined by clear start and end dates, but rather by arbitrary cut p…
Ethical Lapses and the Military Profession: Three Problems and a Solution
In a recent issue of this journal, we published an article titled 'Fault Lines of the American Military Profession'. Donald S. Travis subsequently wrote a Dipustatio Sine Fine rejoinder that raised a number of criticisms of our piece and suggested several ways forward. For our part, we detect three serious problems in Travis's analysis and offer a single syncretic response. Our solution builds on the insights of Travis's critique while avoiding t…
Where did the soldiers go? The effects of military downsizing on college enrollment and employment
Conducive Characteristics or Anti-Racist Context? Decomposing the Reasons for Veterans’ High Likelihood of Interracial Marriage
Income Inequality and the Veteran Experience
Previous researchers have evaluated how the dramatic rise in income inequality has affected the members of various groups of workers, such as those defined by gender, union status, and educational attainment. Yet apparently no researchers have yet explored how this increase may have affected people grouped by previous military service. This chapter addresses this gap by assessing trends in wage inequality between male veterans and nonveterans, an…
Physical and Mental Health Status of Adolescent Girls: A Comparative Ethnic Perspective
Physical and Mental Health Status of Adolescent Girls: A Comparative Ethnic Perspective
A Bayesian Change Point Model for Historical Time Series Analysis
Political relationships often vary over time, but standard models ignore temporal variation in regression relationships. We describe a Bayesian model that treats the change point in a time series as a parameter to be estimated. In this model, inference for the regression coefficients reflects prior uncertainty about the location of the change point. Inferences about regression coefficients, unconditional on the change-point location, can be obtai…
College, Jobs, or the Military? Enlistment During a Time of War
Objective. This article questions what factors are associated with joining the military after high school rather than attending college, joining the civilian labor force, or doing some other activity. Three areas of influence on military enlistment are highlighted: educational goals, the institutional presence of the military in communities, and race and socioeconomic status. Method. The analysis uses data from a recent cohort of high school grad…
Did Falling Wages and Employment Increase U.S. Imprisonment
This paper studies the effects of wages and employment on men's prison admission rates in the United States from 1983 to 2001. Research on the effects of the labor market on incarceration usually examines national- or state-level data, but our analysis studies prison admission among black and white men in specific age-education groups. We find a significant increase in educational inequality in incarceration; nearly all the growth in the risk of …
Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy
Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007
Prior research finds that minority populations in the United States secure union employment as part of the process of economic incorporation. Yet little work systematically tests whether this pattern holds for the nation's largest minority, Hispanics, during recent decades of union decline. After juxtaposing traditional labor market position theories of unionization with solidaristic accounts, we use 1973 to 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS) d…
A Great Place to Start: The Effect of Prior Military Service on Hiring
This article examines the effect of prior military service on hiring for entry-level jobs in a major metropolitan labor market. The research employs an audit method in which resumes differing only in the presentation of military experience versus civilian work experience are faxed in response to an advertised position. Results suggest that employers exhibit preferential treatment of black military veterans with transferable skills over black nonv…
Where did the soldiers go? The effects of military downsizing on college enrollment and employment
Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States
Why have African-American private-sector unionization rates surpassed those of white workers for decades, and how has private-sector union decline exacerbated black-white wage inequality? Using data from the Current Population Survey (1973-2007), the authors show that African-Americans join unions for protection against discriminatory treatment in nonunion sectors. A model-predicted wage series also shows that, among women, black-white weekly wag…
Immigration, Organization, and the Great Recession: Structural Change or Continuity
Catron’s comment extends our 2009 ASR article, “Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007,” by analyzing CPS data through the Great Recession. He finds that Hispanic immigrants’ odds of union membership declined relative to nonimmigrant whites between 2007 and 2009, and that certain Hispanic immigrant subcategories displayed increased odds of leaving union jobs during the recent recession. Catron interprets these results as…
Of War and Men: World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families
Unemployment, earnings and enrollment among post 9/11 veterans
Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq
Journal Article Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq Get access Alair MacLean, Alair MacLean Direct correspondence to: Alair MacLean, Washington State University, Vancouver, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., Vancouver, WA 98686. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Meredith Kleykamp Meredith Kleykamp Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Coverage of Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the U.S. Media
To evaluate how the media frames veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this study systematically assesses the discourse on Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the New York Times and Washington Post from 2003 to 2011. Our analysis of a stratified sample of 151 articles featuring veterans from either the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan finds that the media frames veterans as damaged by their service but deserving of government benefits and social …
Status- and Stigma-related Consequences of Military Service and PTSD: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
This article describes an experimental study that investigates the status- and stigma-related consequences of military service and of experiences in war resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the study, participants interacted with fictitious partners whom they believed were real in four conditions: a control condition, a condition in which the 'partner' was in the military, a condition in which the 'partner' was a war veteran who …
Income Inequality and the Veteran Experience
Previous researchers have evaluated how the dramatic rise in income inequality has affected the members of various groups of workers, such as those defined by gender, union status, and educational attainment. Yet apparently no researchers have yet explored how this increase may have affected people grouped by previous military service. This chapter addresses this gap by assessing trends in wage inequality between male veterans and nonveterans, an…
Conducive Characteristics or Anti-Racist Context? Decomposing the Reasons for Veterans’ High Likelihood of Interracial Marriage
Who Supports U.S. Veterans and Who Exaggerates Their Support
Support for U.S. military personnel appears high, but does it extend to veterans after service ends? This study evaluates public support for social engagement with veterans and spending on recent military veterans’ health care and estimates the extent of socially desirable reporting on these forms of support. It uses a list experiment to identify the extent of socially desirable reporting on topics. Findings demonstrate that the public offers ove…
Ethical Lapses and the Military Profession: Three Problems and a Solution
In a recent issue of this journal, we published an article titled 'Fault Lines of the American Military Profession'. Donald S. Travis subsequently wrote a Dipustatio Sine Fine rejoinder that raised a number of criticisms of our piece and suggested several ways forward. For our part, we detect three serious problems in Travis's analysis and offer a single syncretic response. Our solution builds on the insights of Travis's critique while avoiding t…
Fault Lines of the American Military Profession
Over the past decade, the American armed services have witnessed a near-constant stream of so-called ethical lapses. Spanning rank, specialty, and service, these 'lapses' have given rise to a flood of criticism by journalists and piercing calls for reform from politicians. In response, American military leaders have pointed to the paired concepts of profession and professionalism as the solution. In this article, we use classical conceptualizatio…
Military Systems of Justice: A Sociological Overview
Sociologists have largely ignored the study of military tribunals and justice systems. We offer a descriptive overview of military systems of justice intended for use by political and military sociologists, focusing on the case of the United States armed services. We contextualize the principal military systems of justice and provide extended discussions of how the American case connects through formal and informal channels to international legal…
Generations of Veterans: Socioeconomic Attainment from World War II to the Contemporary Era
Scholars have long examined how generations or, more technically, cohorts produce social change. According to theory, people’s lives are shaped by the years in which they were born because they experience, along with their peers, particular historical events at the same points in the life course. Despite the importance of history, however, many scholars have evaluated cohorts not defined by clear start and end dates, but rather by arbitrary cut p…
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