Troy C Blanchard
Biographic Data
| ID | 292389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Troy C Blanchard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Troy C |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanchard |
| SIGNATURE | BLANCHARD T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 237 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Geographically distant social networks elevate perceived preparedness for coastal environmental threats
It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, It's How You Place the Blame: Shifting Perceptions of Recreancy in the Context of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
A key theoretical concept in the study of technological disasters is 'recreancy,' which refers to perception that institutional actors have failed to carry out their responsibilities in a manner that engenders societal trust. Using household survey data from the Community Oil Spill Survey (COSS) to assess recreancy in the context of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we analyze four waves of the COSS collected between 2010 and 2013 to explore respo…
Bringing the Congregations Back in: Religious Markets, Congregational Density, and American Religious Participation
We draw on the organizational ecology tradition to frame the relationship between the religious environment of a community and local religious participation. Prior research linking religious environments to religious participation downplays a key organizational aspect of religion: the congregation. Following the organizational ecology usage of density, we argue that congregational density-the number of congregations per person within a community-…
Does time heal all wounds? Community attachment, natural resource employment, and health impacts in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster
Community Attachment and Negative Affective States in the Context of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
This study advances research on the mental health impacts of disasters by examining how a mainstay of the sociological literature, community attachment, influences negative affective states such as anxiety and fear stimulated by a technological disaster. Survey data were collected in three coastal Louisiana parishes (counties) geographically proximate to the BP oil spill of 2010 while the oil was still flowing. The data reveal that community atta…
The health and wealth of US counties: How the small business environment impacts alternative measures of development
In this paper, we evaluate the prospects of small business-driven job creation by assessing the link between small business and population health, an alternative measure of economic development. We combine two literatures from the social capital perspective of aggregate community well-being to model the effects of small-business concentration on aggregate measures of population health. We argue that entrepreneurial culture facilitates collective …
Existing Biomass Infrastructure and Theoretical Potential Biomass Production in the U.S
The recent and projected status of energy production and consumption in the U.S., resulting in substantial dependencies upon foreign oil, has continued to provide pressure on domestic energy security. All told, bio-energy systems, and biomass crop production in particular, will be important elements of national security, economic vitality, and public policy. Using biomass crop estimates based upon models developed at the Oak Ridge National Labora…
Measuring Migration: Profiling Residential Mobility across Two Decades
The demography of a local population is a central aspect of applied social science research. Although birth and death rates influence a population, the key contributing factor influencing the demographics of a locality is almost always internal migration—the movement of persons between U.S. regions, states, and localities. Current definitions of internal migration used by the U.S. Census Bureau are limited because confidentiality restrictions req…
Faith, Morality and Mortality: The Ecological Impact of Religion on Population Health
Although the past decade has witnessed increased usage of ecological data to map the community-level effects of religion, the vast majority of studies in this body of scholarship continue to be plagued by two key shortcomings. First, ecological research on religion is often conducted in an atheoretical manner, one that privileges the structural character of religion while failing to demonstrate sensitivity to the substance of collectively held re…
Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States
We explored how place shapes mortality by examining 35 consecutive years of US mortality data. Mapping age-adjusted county mortality rates showed both persistent temporal and spatial clustering of high and low mortality rates. Counties with high mortality rates and counties with low mortality rates both experienced younger population out-migration, had economic decline, and were predominantly rural. These mortality patterns have important implica…
Conservative Protestant Congregations and Racial Residential Segregation: Evaluating the Closed Community Thesis in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties
Structural explanations of residential segregation usually focus on the role of discrimination in the real estate and mortgage lending industries in generating blackwhite residential segregation in metropolitan areas. However, these explanations overlook the role of social institutions in integrating or isolating groups in a community. To address this issue, I develop the closed community thesis and argue that the theological and value orientatio…
The Configuration of Local Economic Power and Civic Participation in the Global Economy
In this paper we test the hypothesis that local economic concentration is associated with decreased levels of civic participation. We define economic concentration as a social context in which a small number of corporate establishments or industries dominate a local economy. We argue that economic concentration leads to a monolithic power structure and generates civic apathy because the needs of the corporation override those of the local populat…
Religiosity, Religious Participation, and Negative Prison Behaviors
An impressive research literature has emerged that identifies linkages between religion and a wide range of attitudes, behaviors, and life events. One of the recurrent themes in this literature is that religion may operate as a force both for reducing antisocial behaviors and for increasing prosocial behaviors. We build upon this research by examining survey data of inmates at a large southeastern prison facility to determine whether religiosity …
Why People Stay: The Impact of Community Context on Nonmigration in the USA
La plupart des travaux sur les migrations américaines reposent sur des explications de la mobilité au niveau individuel. Notre étude va plus loin en examinant l’effet du contexte local sur les probabilités de ne pas migrer entre 1985 et 1990. En utilisant les données individuelles extraites des bulletins complets du recensement de 1990, nous rattachons les adultes recensés en 1990 à leur comté de résidence en 1985. Ensuite, en exploitant les cara…
Why People Stay: The Impact of Community Context on Nonmigration in the USA
Michael Irwin, Troy Blanchard, Charles Tolbert, Alfred Nucci, Thomas Lyson, Why People Stay: The Impact of Community Context on Nonmigration in the USA, Population (English Edition, 2002-), Vol. 59, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 2004), pp. 567-591
Multiple Meanings of Minority Concentration: Incorporating Contextual Explanations into the Analysis of Individual-Level U.S. Black Mortality Outcomes
Pourquoi certains ne migrent pas: L'impact du contexte local sur la sédentarité aux États-Unis
La plupart des travaux sur les migrations américaines reposent sur des explications de la mobilité au niveau individuel. Notre étude va plus loin en examinant l’effet du contexte local sur les probabilités de ne pas migrer entre 1985 et 1990. En utilisant les données individuelles extraites des bulletins complets du recensement de 1990, nous rattachons les adultes recensés en 1990 à leur comté de résidence en 1985. Ensuite, en exploitant les cara…
Suburban Sprawl, Regional Diffusion, and the Fate of Small Retailers in a Large Retail Environment, 1977–1996
Research on the decline of public life in the United States has largely overlooked the role of Main Street retailers that provide public spaces for the maintenance of informal social ties. A central factor shaping the viability of small retailers is the development of big box chain stores that offer one-stop shopping and price out smaller competitors. Although prior studies have considered the transition from small to large retailers as a nationa…
Conservative Protestant Congregations and Racial Residential Segregation: Evaluating the Closed Community Thesis in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties
Structural explanations of residential segregation usually focus on the role of discrimination in the real estate and mortgage lending industries in generating blackwhite residential segregation in metropolitan areas. However, these explanations overlook the role of social institutions in integrating or isolating groups in a community. To address this issue, I develop the closed community thesis and argue that the theological and value orientatio…
Faith, Morality and Mortality: The Ecological Impact of Religion on Population Health
Although the past decade has witnessed increased usage of ecological data to map the community-level effects of religion, the vast majority of studies in this body of scholarship continue to be plagued by two key shortcomings. First, ecological research on religion is often conducted in an atheoretical manner, one that privileges the structural character of religion while failing to demonstrate sensitivity to the substance of collectively held re…
It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, It's How You Place the Blame: Shifting Perceptions of Recreancy in the Context of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
A key theoretical concept in the study of technological disasters is 'recreancy,' which refers to perception that institutional actors have failed to carry out their responsibilities in a manner that engenders societal trust. Using household survey data from the Community Oil Spill Survey (COSS) to assess recreancy in the context of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we analyze four waves of the COSS collected between 2010 and 2013 to explore respo…
Religiosity, Religious Participation, and Negative Prison Behaviors
An impressive research literature has emerged that identifies linkages between religion and a wide range of attitudes, behaviors, and life events. One of the recurrent themes in this literature is that religion may operate as a force both for reducing antisocial behaviors and for increasing prosocial behaviors. We build upon this research by examining survey data of inmates at a large southeastern prison facility to determine whether religiosity …
Does time heal all wounds? Community attachment, natural resource employment, and health impacts in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster
The Configuration of Local Economic Power and Civic Participation in the Global Economy
In this paper we test the hypothesis that local economic concentration is associated with decreased levels of civic participation. We define economic concentration as a social context in which a small number of corporate establishments or industries dominate a local economy. We argue that economic concentration leads to a monolithic power structure and generates civic apathy because the needs of the corporation override those of the local populat…
Community Attachment and Negative Affective States in the Context of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
This study advances research on the mental health impacts of disasters by examining how a mainstay of the sociological literature, community attachment, influences negative affective states such as anxiety and fear stimulated by a technological disaster. Survey data were collected in three coastal Louisiana parishes (counties) geographically proximate to the BP oil spill of 2010 while the oil was still flowing. The data reveal that community atta…
The health and wealth of US counties: How the small business environment impacts alternative measures of development
In this paper, we evaluate the prospects of small business-driven job creation by assessing the link between small business and population health, an alternative measure of economic development. We combine two literatures from the social capital perspective of aggregate community well-being to model the effects of small-business concentration on aggregate measures of population health. We argue that entrepreneurial culture facilitates collective …
Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States
We explored how place shapes mortality by examining 35 consecutive years of US mortality data. Mapping age-adjusted county mortality rates showed both persistent temporal and spatial clustering of high and low mortality rates. Counties with high mortality rates and counties with low mortality rates both experienced younger population out-migration, had economic decline, and were predominantly rural. These mortality patterns have important implica…
Multiple Meanings of Minority Concentration: Incorporating Contextual Explanations into the Analysis of Individual-Level U.S. Black Mortality Outcomes
Suburban Sprawl, Regional Diffusion, and the Fate of Small Retailers in a Large Retail Environment, 1977–1996
Research on the decline of public life in the United States has largely overlooked the role of Main Street retailers that provide public spaces for the maintenance of informal social ties. A central factor shaping the viability of small retailers is the development of big box chain stores that offer one-stop shopping and price out smaller competitors. Although prior studies have considered the transition from small to large retailers as a nationa…
Bringing the Congregations Back in: Religious Markets, Congregational Density, and American Religious Participation
We draw on the organizational ecology tradition to frame the relationship between the religious environment of a community and local religious participation. Prior research linking religious environments to religious participation downplays a key organizational aspect of religion: the congregation. Following the organizational ecology usage of density, we argue that congregational density-the number of congregations per person within a community-…
Pourquoi certains ne migrent pas: L'impact du contexte local sur la sédentarité aux États-Unis
La plupart des travaux sur les migrations américaines reposent sur des explications de la mobilité au niveau individuel. Notre étude va plus loin en examinant l’effet du contexte local sur les probabilités de ne pas migrer entre 1985 et 1990. En utilisant les données individuelles extraites des bulletins complets du recensement de 1990, nous rattachons les adultes recensés en 1990 à leur comté de résidence en 1985. Ensuite, en exploitant les cara…
Why People Stay: The Impact of Community Context on Nonmigration in the USA
La plupart des travaux sur les migrations américaines reposent sur des explications de la mobilité au niveau individuel. Notre étude va plus loin en examinant l’effet du contexte local sur les probabilités de ne pas migrer entre 1985 et 1990. En utilisant les données individuelles extraites des bulletins complets du recensement de 1990, nous rattachons les adultes recensés en 1990 à leur comté de résidence en 1985. Ensuite, en exploitant les cara…
Geographically distant social networks elevate perceived preparedness for coastal environmental threats
Suburban Sprawl, Regional Diffusion, and the Fate of Small Retailers in a Large Retail Environment, 1977–1996
Research on the decline of public life in the United States has largely overlooked the role of Main Street retailers that provide public spaces for the maintenance of informal social ties. A central factor shaping the viability of small retailers is the development of big box chain stores that offer one-stop shopping and price out smaller competitors. Although prior studies have considered the transition from small to large retailers as a nationa…
Why People Stay: The Impact of Community Context on Nonmigration in the USA
La plupart des travaux sur les migrations américaines reposent sur des explications de la mobilité au niveau individuel. Notre étude va plus loin en examinant l’effet du contexte local sur les probabilités de ne pas migrer entre 1985 et 1990. En utilisant les données individuelles extraites des bulletins complets du recensement de 1990, nous rattachons les adultes recensés en 1990 à leur comté de résidence en 1985. Ensuite, en exploitant les cara…
Why People Stay: The Impact of Community Context on Nonmigration in the USA
Michael Irwin, Troy Blanchard, Charles Tolbert, Alfred Nucci, Thomas Lyson, Why People Stay: The Impact of Community Context on Nonmigration in the USA, Population (English Edition, 2002-), Vol. 59, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 2004), pp. 567-591
Multiple Meanings of Minority Concentration: Incorporating Contextual Explanations into the Analysis of Individual-Level U.S. Black Mortality Outcomes
Pourquoi certains ne migrent pas: L'impact du contexte local sur la sédentarité aux États-Unis
La plupart des travaux sur les migrations américaines reposent sur des explications de la mobilité au niveau individuel. Notre étude va plus loin en examinant l’effet du contexte local sur les probabilités de ne pas migrer entre 1985 et 1990. En utilisant les données individuelles extraites des bulletins complets du recensement de 1990, nous rattachons les adultes recensés en 1990 à leur comté de résidence en 1985. Ensuite, en exploitant les cara…
Religiosity, Religious Participation, and Negative Prison Behaviors
An impressive research literature has emerged that identifies linkages between religion and a wide range of attitudes, behaviors, and life events. One of the recurrent themes in this literature is that religion may operate as a force both for reducing antisocial behaviors and for increasing prosocial behaviors. We build upon this research by examining survey data of inmates at a large southeastern prison facility to determine whether religiosity …
The Configuration of Local Economic Power and Civic Participation in the Global Economy
In this paper we test the hypothesis that local economic concentration is associated with decreased levels of civic participation. We define economic concentration as a social context in which a small number of corporate establishments or industries dominate a local economy. We argue that economic concentration leads to a monolithic power structure and generates civic apathy because the needs of the corporation override those of the local populat…
Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States
We explored how place shapes mortality by examining 35 consecutive years of US mortality data. Mapping age-adjusted county mortality rates showed both persistent temporal and spatial clustering of high and low mortality rates. Counties with high mortality rates and counties with low mortality rates both experienced younger population out-migration, had economic decline, and were predominantly rural. These mortality patterns have important implica…
Conservative Protestant Congregations and Racial Residential Segregation: Evaluating the Closed Community Thesis in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties
Structural explanations of residential segregation usually focus on the role of discrimination in the real estate and mortgage lending industries in generating blackwhite residential segregation in metropolitan areas. However, these explanations overlook the role of social institutions in integrating or isolating groups in a community. To address this issue, I develop the closed community thesis and argue that the theological and value orientatio…
Faith, Morality and Mortality: The Ecological Impact of Religion on Population Health
Although the past decade has witnessed increased usage of ecological data to map the community-level effects of religion, the vast majority of studies in this body of scholarship continue to be plagued by two key shortcomings. First, ecological research on religion is often conducted in an atheoretical manner, one that privileges the structural character of religion while failing to demonstrate sensitivity to the substance of collectively held re…
Existing Biomass Infrastructure and Theoretical Potential Biomass Production in the U.S
The recent and projected status of energy production and consumption in the U.S., resulting in substantial dependencies upon foreign oil, has continued to provide pressure on domestic energy security. All told, bio-energy systems, and biomass crop production in particular, will be important elements of national security, economic vitality, and public policy. Using biomass crop estimates based upon models developed at the Oak Ridge National Labora…
Measuring Migration: Profiling Residential Mobility across Two Decades
The demography of a local population is a central aspect of applied social science research. Although birth and death rates influence a population, the key contributing factor influencing the demographics of a locality is almost always internal migration—the movement of persons between U.S. regions, states, and localities. Current definitions of internal migration used by the U.S. Census Bureau are limited because confidentiality restrictions req…
The health and wealth of US counties: How the small business environment impacts alternative measures of development
In this paper, we evaluate the prospects of small business-driven job creation by assessing the link between small business and population health, an alternative measure of economic development. We combine two literatures from the social capital perspective of aggregate community well-being to model the effects of small-business concentration on aggregate measures of population health. We argue that entrepreneurial culture facilitates collective …
Community Attachment and Negative Affective States in the Context of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
This study advances research on the mental health impacts of disasters by examining how a mainstay of the sociological literature, community attachment, influences negative affective states such as anxiety and fear stimulated by a technological disaster. Survey data were collected in three coastal Louisiana parishes (counties) geographically proximate to the BP oil spill of 2010 while the oil was still flowing. The data reveal that community atta…
Does time heal all wounds? Community attachment, natural resource employment, and health impacts in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster
Bringing the Congregations Back in: Religious Markets, Congregational Density, and American Religious Participation
We draw on the organizational ecology tradition to frame the relationship between the religious environment of a community and local religious participation. Prior research linking religious environments to religious participation downplays a key organizational aspect of religion: the congregation. Following the organizational ecology usage of density, we argue that congregational density-the number of congregations per person within a community-…
It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, It's How You Place the Blame: Shifting Perceptions of Recreancy in the Context of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
A key theoretical concept in the study of technological disasters is 'recreancy,' which refers to perception that institutional actors have failed to carry out their responsibilities in a manner that engenders societal trust. Using household survey data from the Community Oil Spill Survey (COSS) to assess recreancy in the context of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we analyze four waves of the COSS collected between 2010 and 2013 to explore respo…
Geographically distant social networks elevate perceived preparedness for coastal environmental threats
Geography (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Demography (5 works)