Kent L Tedin
Biographic Data
| ID | 274042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kent L Tedin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kent L |
| FAMILY NAME | Tedin |
| SIGNATURE | TEDIN K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 789 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Polarized Families, Polarized Parties: Contesting Values and Economics in American Politics
The Home as a Political Fortress: Family Agreement in an Era of Polarization
The manifestations of party polarization in America are well known: legislative gridlock, harsh elite rhetoric, and at the level of the electorate, increasing hostility across the partisan divide. We investigate the ramifications of polarization for processes of family socialization. Using the classic 1965 Youth-Parent Political Socialization Panel data as a baseline, we employ original national surveys of spouses and offspring conducted in 2015 …
North American Public Opinion on Health and Smoking
Public opinion regarding smoking and health has been of interest to polling companies since the 1940s. This article documents the rate of change in the public's awareness and beliefs about smoking and health in North America (the United States and Canada). It reports on four broad categories of opinions: public awareness of reports that smoking has been linked to lung cancer; beliefs that smoking is harmful to health and a cause of lung cancer; b…
American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content and Impact
Providing an in-depth analysis of public opinion, beginning with its origins in political socialization, the impact of the media, the extent and breadth of democratic values, and the role of public opinion in the electoral process, American Public Opinion goes beyond a simple presentation of data to include a critical analysis of the role of public opinion in American democracy.
American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content and Impact
Presidential "Going Bipartisan" and the Consequences for Institutional Approval
Although scholars have described how legislative efforts to spur bipartisanship fare, we have little knowledge about how bipartisanship can affect political opinions with their rhetoric or the most impactful message for opponents to respond. Using President Obama's bipartisan speech to the GOP House Issues Conference in 2010, we look at the effect of the one-sided message on President Obama's favorability rating. We then pair this message with th…
General Social Capital, Education‐Related Social Capital, and Choosing Charter Schools
Proponents of charter schools credit them with many advantages over traditional schools. One claim is that school choice yields increased parental participation in voluntary school activities—which we shall call education‐related social capital. In this article we test for the independent effect of school choice on education‐related social capital, controlling for general social capital and other potentially confounding variables. Studies of scho…
When the President Goes Public: The Consequences of Communication Mode for Opinion Change across Issue Types and Groups
Evidence is mounting that presidents find difficulty in leading public opinion. However, focusing on presidential ability to lead mass opinion may underestimate the degree to which presidents are able to rally key groups on political and personal characteristics. In this article, the authors use an experimental design to test the effect of communication mode across issue types and groups. From three of President Bush’s speeches on Iraq (the State…
Minority Student Achievement
State Tanf Spending: Predictors of State Tax Effort to Support Welfare Reform
State spending on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) greatly varies. Combined federal and state spending by the states per TANF family or recipient reflects the historic level of state generosity for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the failure of the federal government to set any minimum spending standard for the states, and the failure of the federal government to adjust federal grants for huge changes in state TANF ca…
Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Academic Quality as Components of School Choice
A common critique of school choice is that it will have the practical effect of further increasing racial and ethnic segregation in American education. Although most survey evidence indicates that the highest priority of parents in choosing schools is academic quality, with the race and ethnic composition of the student body being much less important, many critics doubt that private preferences are being publicly revealed. In this paper, we use a…
Does choice lead to racially distinctive schools? Charter schools and household preferences
A persistent fear regarding school choice is that it will lead to more racially distinctive schools. A growing number of studies compares choosing households to non‐choosing households, but few have examined the possibility that choosers sort themselves out based upon school preferences that are correlated with race and ethnicity. This report addresses this issue by analyzing the responses of 1,006 charter school households in Texas. It first exa…
Age, Race, Self-Interest, and Financing Public Schools through Referenda
Using a sample of 628 white, black, and Hispanic voters in a large urban school district, we test a series of hypotheses about voting in a school bond election. We find that there is a core of similar results across racial/ethnic groups. All three groups show strong, directly measured, self-interest effects. We also find some distinct group differences. Symbolic values played a limited role for white voters, but a stronger role for minorities. In…
The Two Faces of Political Apathy. Tom DeLuca
Self-Interest, Symbolic Values, and the Financial Equalization of the Public Schools
Using a natural experiment in which some school districts stood to lose dollars due to court-ordered financial equalization and others stood to gain dollars, I test theories of self-interest and symbolic politics as predictors of dependent variables with racial overtones. The data show a substantial self-interest effect. However, even with the presence of a self-interest effect, symbolic values are still important, most notably those associated w…
Popular Support for Competitive Elections in the Soviet Union
Meaningful electoral competition was introduced into the Soviet Union beginning with the all-union elections of March 1989. Based on a survey representative of the Moscow oblast and a survey representative of the European USSR conducted in the spring of 1990, mass support for the institution of competitive elections is analyzed. Using the modernization approach to explaining regime liberalization, the author investigates the levels of this suppor…
The Gender Factor in Soviet Mass Politics: Survey Evidence from Greater Moscow
Based on a representative sample of 504 respondents from the Moscow oblast of the Soviet Union, gender differences in both political and non- political variables (which may serve to explain the connection between gender and the political) were investigated. With controls for age, edu cation, income and membership in the Communist party, women were found to be more favorable to the Communist party, less in favor of radical change, less politically…
Democratic Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union
Our purpose in this article is to determine the degree to which the cultural requisites to democracy are present in the contemporary political culture of the USSR. We focus on support for core democratic rights, liberties, and institutions. Data for this project come from a survey of 504 citizens of the Moscow Oblast conducted between February 17, 1990, and March 4, 1990. In absolute terms, support for democratic values is fairly widespread in th…
The Consequences of Regime Type for Public-Policy Outputs
Most research has shown little association between regime type and public-policy outputs. In this article we employ a multivariate model and year-by-year data from 1960-1980 in Latin America to analyze the relationship among regime type, regime age, and public policy. The analysis shows regime type to be significantly associated with policy in five areas, with regime age have an additional independent effect in several of these areas
Voter Conversion and the New Deal Realignment: A Response to Campbell
Change and Stability in Presidential Popularity at the Individual Level
This article employs a three-wave panel to examine change and stability in the popularity of the president. By survey standards, the item is found to be quite reliable, approaching the reliability of party identification. Change in the item can be predicted using measures of political interest and sophistication, partisanship, and strength of presidential approval or disapproval
Voter Conversion and the New Deal Realignment: A Response to Campbell
The Effect of Cost and Importance Factors on the Return Rate for Single and Multiple Mailings
Employing an experimental design, the effectiveness of cost and importance on the return rate for mail questionnaires is analyzed. Importance factors, notably certified mail, are shown to be of greatest consequence. Kent L. Tedin is an Associate Professor and C. Richard Hofstetter is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Houston. Public Opinion Quarteily Vol. 46 122-128 ? 1982 by The Tiustees of Columbia University Pub…
Dynamics of Candidate Choice in a State Election
The 1928-1936 Partisan Realignment: The Case for the Conversion Hypothesis
An unresolved question concerning the New Deal realignment is the extent to which the Democratic surge in the vote resulted from either the conversion of former Republicans or the mobilization of newly active voters. Analyzing survey data from the Literary Digest straw polls and from early Gallup polls, we find evidence supporting the conversion hypothesis. New voters in 1928, 1932 and 1936 were only slightly more Democratic in their voting behav…
Democratic Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union
Our purpose in this article is to determine the degree to which the cultural requisites to democracy are present in the contemporary political culture of the USSR. We focus on support for core democratic rights, liberties, and institutions. Data for this project come from a survey of 504 citizens of the Moscow Oblast conducted between February 17, 1990, and March 4, 1990. In absolute terms, support for democratic values is fairly widespread in th…
American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content and Impact
Providing an in-depth analysis of public opinion, beginning with its origins in political socialization, the impact of the media, the extent and breadth of democratic values, and the role of public opinion in the electoral process, American Public Opinion goes beyond a simple presentation of data to include a critical analysis of the role of public opinion in American democracy.
The Influence of Parents on the Political Attitudes of Adolescents
The purpose of this paper is to specify the conditions in which parents influence the party identification and certain issue attitudes of their adolescent children (recent high school graduates). The nature and extent of the parent-adolescent attitude correspondence is first established. Next, parental as opposed to environmental explanations for this correspondence are considered. Finally, the effects on parental influence of family interaction,…
The Home as a Political Fortress: Family Agreement in an Era of Polarization
The manifestations of party polarization in America are well known: legislative gridlock, harsh elite rhetoric, and at the level of the electorate, increasing hostility across the partisan divide. We investigate the ramifications of polarization for processes of family socialization. Using the classic 1965 Youth-Parent Political Socialization Panel data as a baseline, we employ original national surveys of spouses and offspring conducted in 2015 …
Does choice lead to racially distinctive schools? Charter schools and household preferences
A persistent fear regarding school choice is that it will lead to more racially distinctive schools. A growing number of studies compares choosing households to non‐choosing households, but few have examined the possibility that choosers sort themselves out based upon school preferences that are correlated with race and ethnicity. This report addresses this issue by analyzing the responses of 1,006 charter school households in Texas. It first exa…
The 1928-1936 Partisan Realignment: The Case for the Conversion Hypothesis
An unresolved question concerning the New Deal realignment is the extent to which the Democratic surge in the vote resulted from either the conversion of former Republicans or the mobilization of newly active voters. Analyzing survey data from the Literary Digest straw polls and from early Gallup polls, we find evidence supporting the conversion hypothesis. New voters in 1928, 1932 and 1936 were only slightly more Democratic in their voting behav…
Assessing Peer and Parent Influence on Adolescent Political Attitudes
This paper treats both substantive and methodological issues in assessing agent influence on individual political attitudes. From a substantive perspective, the effect of perceptual accuracy, issue salience, and parent-peer orientation on attitude relationships among adolescents, parents, and peers is analyzed. These variables are found to affect relationships in a similar fashion, but their marginal distributions generally lead to higher correla…
Age, Race, Self-Interest, and Financing Public Schools through Referenda
Using a sample of 628 white, black, and Hispanic voters in a large urban school district, we test a series of hypotheses about voting in a school bond election. We find that there is a core of similar results across racial/ethnic groups. All three groups show strong, directly measured, self-interest effects. We also find some distinct group differences. Symbolic values played a limited role for white voters, but a stronger role for minorities. In…
The Consequences of Regime Type for Public-Policy Outputs
Most research has shown little association between regime type and public-policy outputs. In this article we employ a multivariate model and year-by-year data from 1960-1980 in Latin America to analyze the relationship among regime type, regime age, and public policy. The analysis shows regime type to be significantly associated with policy in five areas, with regime age have an additional independent effect in several of these areas
When the President Goes Public: The Consequences of Communication Mode for Opinion Change across Issue Types and Groups
Evidence is mounting that presidents find difficulty in leading public opinion. However, focusing on presidential ability to lead mass opinion may underestimate the degree to which presidents are able to rally key groups on political and personal characteristics. In this article, the authors use an experimental design to test the effect of communication mode across issue types and groups. From three of President Bush’s speeches on Iraq (the State…
State Tanf Spending: Predictors of State Tax Effort to Support Welfare Reform
State spending on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) greatly varies. Combined federal and state spending by the states per TANF family or recipient reflects the historic level of state generosity for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the failure of the federal government to set any minimum spending standard for the states, and the failure of the federal government to adjust federal grants for huge changes in state TANF ca…
Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Academic Quality as Components of School Choice
A common critique of school choice is that it will have the practical effect of further increasing racial and ethnic segregation in American education. Although most survey evidence indicates that the highest priority of parents in choosing schools is academic quality, with the race and ethnic composition of the student body being much less important, many critics doubt that private preferences are being publicly revealed. In this paper, we use a…
Self-Interest, Symbolic Values, and the Financial Equalization of the Public Schools
Using a natural experiment in which some school districts stood to lose dollars due to court-ordered financial equalization and others stood to gain dollars, I test theories of self-interest and symbolic politics as predictors of dependent variables with racial overtones. The data show a substantial self-interest effect. However, even with the presence of a self-interest effect, symbolic values are still important, most notably those associated w…
Sex Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior: The Case for Situational Factors
Popular Support for Competitive Elections in the Soviet Union
Meaningful electoral competition was introduced into the Soviet Union beginning with the all-union elections of March 1989. Based on a survey representative of the Moscow oblast and a survey representative of the European USSR conducted in the spring of 1990, mass support for the institution of competitive elections is analyzed. Using the modernization approach to explaining regime liberalization, the author investigates the levels of this suppor…
The Gender Factor in Soviet Mass Politics: Survey Evidence from Greater Moscow
Based on a representative sample of 504 respondents from the Moscow oblast of the Soviet Union, gender differences in both political and non- political variables (which may serve to explain the connection between gender and the political) were investigated. With controls for age, edu cation, income and membership in the Communist party, women were found to be more favorable to the Communist party, less in favor of radical change, less politically…
Religous Preference and Pro/Anti Activism on the Equal Rights Amendment Issue
On the Reliability of Reported Political Attitudes
Change and Stability in Presidential Popularity at the Individual Level
This article employs a three-wave panel to examine change and stability in the popularity of the president. By survey standards, the item is found to be quite reliable, approaching the reliability of party identification. Change in the item can be predicted using measures of political interest and sophistication, partisanship, and strength of presidential approval or disapproval
Dynamics of Candidate Choice in a State Election
General Social Capital, Education‐Related Social Capital, and Choosing Charter Schools
Proponents of charter schools credit them with many advantages over traditional schools. One claim is that school choice yields increased parental participation in voluntary school activities—which we shall call education‐related social capital. In this article we test for the independent effect of school choice on education‐related social capital, controlling for general social capital and other potentially confounding variables. Studies of scho…
Presidential "Going Bipartisan" and the Consequences for Institutional Approval
Although scholars have described how legislative efforts to spur bipartisanship fare, we have little knowledge about how bipartisanship can affect political opinions with their rhetoric or the most impactful message for opponents to respond. Using President Obama's bipartisan speech to the GOP House Issues Conference in 2010, we look at the effect of the one-sided message on President Obama's favorability rating. We then pair this message with th…
Voter Conversion and the New Deal Realignment: A Response to Campbell
The Effect of Cost and Importance Factors on the Return Rate for Single and Multiple Mailings
Employing an experimental design, the effectiveness of cost and importance on the return rate for mail questionnaires is analyzed. Importance factors, notably certified mail, are shown to be of greatest consequence. Kent L. Tedin is an Associate Professor and C. Richard Hofstetter is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Houston. Public Opinion Quarteily Vol. 46 122-128 ? 1982 by The Tiustees of Columbia University Pub…
Political variables in political socialization: Reply to ?the dynamics of interpersonal attitudinal influence
The Influence of Parents on the Political Attitudes of Adolescents
The purpose of this paper is to specify the conditions in which parents influence the party identification and certain issue attitudes of their adolescent children (recent high school graduates). The nature and extent of the parent-adolescent attitude correspondence is first established. Next, parental as opposed to environmental explanations for this correspondence are considered. Finally, the effects on parental influence of family interaction,…
On the Reliability of Reported Political Attitudes
Part I: Political Socialization: An Assessment of Theoretical Approaches, Methods, and Findings
Sex Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior: The Case for Situational Factors
Religous Preference and Pro/Anti Activism on the Equal Rights Amendment Issue
Political variables in political socialization: Reply to ?the dynamics of interpersonal attitudinal influence
Assessing Peer and Parent Influence on Adolescent Political Attitudes
This paper treats both substantive and methodological issues in assessing agent influence on individual political attitudes. From a substantive perspective, the effect of perceptual accuracy, issue salience, and parent-peer orientation on attitude relationships among adolescents, parents, and peers is analyzed. These variables are found to affect relationships in a similar fashion, but their marginal distributions generally lead to higher correla…
Dynamics of Candidate Choice in a State Election
The 1928-1936 Partisan Realignment: The Case for the Conversion Hypothesis
An unresolved question concerning the New Deal realignment is the extent to which the Democratic surge in the vote resulted from either the conversion of former Republicans or the mobilization of newly active voters. Analyzing survey data from the Literary Digest straw polls and from early Gallup polls, we find evidence supporting the conversion hypothesis. New voters in 1928, 1932 and 1936 were only slightly more Democratic in their voting behav…
The Effect of Cost and Importance Factors on the Return Rate for Single and Multiple Mailings
Employing an experimental design, the effectiveness of cost and importance on the return rate for mail questionnaires is analyzed. Importance factors, notably certified mail, are shown to be of greatest consequence. Kent L. Tedin is an Associate Professor and C. Richard Hofstetter is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Houston. Public Opinion Quarteily Vol. 46 122-128 ? 1982 by The Tiustees of Columbia University Pub…
Voter Conversion and the New Deal Realignment: A Response to Campbell
Change and Stability in Presidential Popularity at the Individual Level
This article employs a three-wave panel to examine change and stability in the popularity of the president. By survey standards, the item is found to be quite reliable, approaching the reliability of party identification. Change in the item can be predicted using measures of political interest and sophistication, partisanship, and strength of presidential approval or disapproval
Voter Conversion and the New Deal Realignment: A Response to Campbell
The Consequences of Regime Type for Public-Policy Outputs
Most research has shown little association between regime type and public-policy outputs. In this article we employ a multivariate model and year-by-year data from 1960-1980 in Latin America to analyze the relationship among regime type, regime age, and public policy. The analysis shows regime type to be significantly associated with policy in five areas, with regime age have an additional independent effect in several of these areas
Democratic Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union
Our purpose in this article is to determine the degree to which the cultural requisites to democracy are present in the contemporary political culture of the USSR. We focus on support for core democratic rights, liberties, and institutions. Data for this project come from a survey of 504 citizens of the Moscow Oblast conducted between February 17, 1990, and March 4, 1990. In absolute terms, support for democratic values is fairly widespread in th…
The Gender Factor in Soviet Mass Politics: Survey Evidence from Greater Moscow
Based on a representative sample of 504 respondents from the Moscow oblast of the Soviet Union, gender differences in both political and non- political variables (which may serve to explain the connection between gender and the political) were investigated. With controls for age, edu cation, income and membership in the Communist party, women were found to be more favorable to the Communist party, less in favor of radical change, less politically…
Self-Interest, Symbolic Values, and the Financial Equalization of the Public Schools
Using a natural experiment in which some school districts stood to lose dollars due to court-ordered financial equalization and others stood to gain dollars, I test theories of self-interest and symbolic politics as predictors of dependent variables with racial overtones. The data show a substantial self-interest effect. However, even with the presence of a self-interest effect, symbolic values are still important, most notably those associated w…
Popular Support for Competitive Elections in the Soviet Union
Meaningful electoral competition was introduced into the Soviet Union beginning with the all-union elections of March 1989. Based on a survey representative of the Moscow oblast and a survey representative of the European USSR conducted in the spring of 1990, mass support for the institution of competitive elections is analyzed. Using the modernization approach to explaining regime liberalization, the author investigates the levels of this suppor…
The Two Faces of Political Apathy. Tom DeLuca
Does choice lead to racially distinctive schools? Charter schools and household preferences
A persistent fear regarding school choice is that it will lead to more racially distinctive schools. A growing number of studies compares choosing households to non‐choosing households, but few have examined the possibility that choosers sort themselves out based upon school preferences that are correlated with race and ethnicity. This report addresses this issue by analyzing the responses of 1,006 charter school households in Texas. It first exa…
Age, Race, Self-Interest, and Financing Public Schools through Referenda
Using a sample of 628 white, black, and Hispanic voters in a large urban school district, we test a series of hypotheses about voting in a school bond election. We find that there is a core of similar results across racial/ethnic groups. All three groups show strong, directly measured, self-interest effects. We also find some distinct group differences. Symbolic values played a limited role for white voters, but a stronger role for minorities. In…
Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Academic Quality as Components of School Choice
A common critique of school choice is that it will have the practical effect of further increasing racial and ethnic segregation in American education. Although most survey evidence indicates that the highest priority of parents in choosing schools is academic quality, with the race and ethnic composition of the student body being much less important, many critics doubt that private preferences are being publicly revealed. In this paper, we use a…
Minority Student Achievement
State Tanf Spending: Predictors of State Tax Effort to Support Welfare Reform
State spending on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) greatly varies. Combined federal and state spending by the states per TANF family or recipient reflects the historic level of state generosity for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the failure of the federal government to set any minimum spending standard for the states, and the failure of the federal government to adjust federal grants for huge changes in state TANF ca…
General Social Capital, Education‐Related Social Capital, and Choosing Charter Schools
Proponents of charter schools credit them with many advantages over traditional schools. One claim is that school choice yields increased parental participation in voluntary school activities—which we shall call education‐related social capital. In this article we test for the independent effect of school choice on education‐related social capital, controlling for general social capital and other potentially confounding variables. Studies of scho…
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