Kristopher Kyle Robison
Biographic Data
| ID | 299075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristopher Kyle Robison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristopher Kyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Robison |
| SIGNATURE | ROBISON K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6487-1118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Urbanization as a Gendered Process
This research note addresses the overlooked and undertheorized gendered dimensions of rural-urban migration in the developing world. Drawing on Ester Boserup's (1970/2007) framework, a macro-social theory is offered that links historic agricultural divisions of labor to gendered patterns of urbanization. Specifically, it is argued that nations with a history of male farming systems (MFS) are more likely to produce economic and cultural conditions…
Making War on the Fabric of Society
Statements by politicians and pundits around the world suggest that terrorism uniquely threatens social order. Unfortunately, our knowledge about how terrorism affects generalized trust and social capital, which many view as foundations of civil society, is quite limited. In this paper we theorize that terrorism damages generalized social trust via its pernicious influence on the perceptions of safety and security in urban public spaces, particul…
Forced urbanisation
This article offers a ‘first step’ toward understanding the consequences of intranational political violence on the growth of a nation’s largest cities. Theory and research from studies on forced migration and internal displacement are used to construct several hypotheses that assess the impact that various forms of intranational political violence have on the growth of major urban areas within the developing world. Hypotheses are tested using a …
Integration Into Global Society
This cross-national study of the developing world investigates those modern and historical forces that drive current forms of political and social interdependency—what scholars increasingly term “global civil society” and “the world polity.” While some explanations maintain that political and social globalization are epiphenomena of a more fundamental economic globalization and/or that globalization in most of its forms is simply Westernization i…
Whither the Love of Hunting? Explaining the Decline of a Major Form of Rural Recreation as a Consequence of the Rise of Virtual Entertainment and Urbanism
Recent journalism and scholarship have noted a years-long decline in Americans' participation in rural forms of outdoor recreation such as hunting. While some attempt has been made to understand these declines few have analyzed the causes of these changes in a theoretically rigorous empirical manner. This study addresses this issue in two empirical approaches. First, we analyze survey data on hunting and various theoretical predictors from the Ge…
Political Violence as an Object of Study
Socio-demographic Determinants of Economic Growth
This study establishes a socio-demographic theory of international development derived from selected classical and contemporary sociological theories. Four hypotheses are tested: (1. population growth's effect on development depends on age-structure; (2. historic population density (used here as an indicator of preindustrial social complexity) boosts contemporary economic performance; (3. ethnic polarization impairs economic growth; and (4. a nat…
Unpacking the Social Origins of Terrorism
The author's prior cross-national research found a negative relationship between the percent of the workforce that is female and terrorism. One explanation of this finding suggests that women are violence-averse and work to mitigate acts of political violence. Alternatively, women in the workforce may simply proxy for an economy with robust employment with fewer grievances or proxy for modernizing forces (e.g., democracy, secularism) that moderat…
Reevaluating the Global Digital Divide
The Global Digital Divide (GDD) in Internet and related forms of information technologies has gained some press and scholarly attention in recent years. Although the contours and causes of Internet diffusion around the globe are now better understood, a number of questions and avenues remain unanswered or unexplored, particularly concerning the role of socio-demographic structures and even conflict processes on Internet diffusion. This study addr…
Terror's True Nightmare? Reevaluating the Consequences of Terrorism on Democratic Governance
Some scholars argue that terrorism has few adverse consequences for political and civil liberties in democracies and that fears about a reversal of freedoms due to counterterror programs are unjustified. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that democracies respond to terrorism in ways that curtail at least some of the rights that define democratic governance. In an analysis of a large sample of the world's nations, this study finds that terroris…
Globalization and the Digital Divide
Objectives. The goal of this research is to examine the role of modernization (i.e., structural conduciveness) in the form of income, telephone price and structure, education, and political structures, and global contact in the form of world cities, trade, investment, activities of international nongovernmental organizations, and short‐term exchanges of population in driving the worldwide diffusion of the Internet. Methods. We use longitudinal re…
Ideologies of Violence
We evaluate the argument that Islamist terrorist attacks represent a distinctive “4th wave” of transnational terrorism that has supplanted Leftist terrorism. Drawing on ITERATE data for 1968–2003, the annual count of Leftist attacks has declined since the end of the Cold War while Islamist attacks have persisted and spiked upward in 2002–03. Pooled cross-sectional time-series regression demonstrates that the generation of Islamist terrorism is mo…
Post-industrial transformations and cyber-space
Ideologies of Violence
We evaluate the argument that Islamist terrorist attacks represent a distinctive “4th wave” of transnational terrorism that has supplanted Leftist terrorism. Drawing on ITERATE data for 1968–2003, the annual count of Leftist attacks has declined since the end of the Cold War while Islamist attacks have persisted and spiked upward in 2002–03. Pooled cross-sectional time-series regression demonstrates that the generation of Islamist terrorism is mo…
Terror's True Nightmare? Reevaluating the Consequences of Terrorism on Democratic Governance
Some scholars argue that terrorism has few adverse consequences for political and civil liberties in democracies and that fears about a reversal of freedoms due to counterterror programs are unjustified. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that democracies respond to terrorism in ways that curtail at least some of the rights that define democratic governance. In an analysis of a large sample of the world's nations, this study finds that terroris…
Globalization and the Digital Divide
Objectives. The goal of this research is to examine the role of modernization (i.e., structural conduciveness) in the form of income, telephone price and structure, education, and political structures, and global contact in the form of world cities, trade, investment, activities of international nongovernmental organizations, and short‐term exchanges of population in driving the worldwide diffusion of the Internet. Methods. We use longitudinal re…
Unpacking the Social Origins of Terrorism
The author's prior cross-national research found a negative relationship between the percent of the workforce that is female and terrorism. One explanation of this finding suggests that women are violence-averse and work to mitigate acts of political violence. Alternatively, women in the workforce may simply proxy for an economy with robust employment with fewer grievances or proxy for modernizing forces (e.g., democracy, secularism) that moderat…
Reevaluating the Global Digital Divide
The Global Digital Divide (GDD) in Internet and related forms of information technologies has gained some press and scholarly attention in recent years. Although the contours and causes of Internet diffusion around the globe are now better understood, a number of questions and avenues remain unanswered or unexplored, particularly concerning the role of socio-demographic structures and even conflict processes on Internet diffusion. This study addr…
Post-industrial transformations and cyber-space
Post-industrial transformations and cyber-space
Globalization and the Digital Divide
Objectives. The goal of this research is to examine the role of modernization (i.e., structural conduciveness) in the form of income, telephone price and structure, education, and political structures, and global contact in the form of world cities, trade, investment, activities of international nongovernmental organizations, and short‐term exchanges of population in driving the worldwide diffusion of the Internet. Methods. We use longitudinal re…
Ideologies of Violence
We evaluate the argument that Islamist terrorist attacks represent a distinctive “4th wave” of transnational terrorism that has supplanted Leftist terrorism. Drawing on ITERATE data for 1968–2003, the annual count of Leftist attacks has declined since the end of the Cold War while Islamist attacks have persisted and spiked upward in 2002–03. Pooled cross-sectional time-series regression demonstrates that the generation of Islamist terrorism is mo…
Terror's True Nightmare? Reevaluating the Consequences of Terrorism on Democratic Governance
Some scholars argue that terrorism has few adverse consequences for political and civil liberties in democracies and that fears about a reversal of freedoms due to counterterror programs are unjustified. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that democracies respond to terrorism in ways that curtail at least some of the rights that define democratic governance. In an analysis of a large sample of the world's nations, this study finds that terroris…
Political Violence as an Object of Study
Socio-demographic Determinants of Economic Growth
This study establishes a socio-demographic theory of international development derived from selected classical and contemporary sociological theories. Four hypotheses are tested: (1. population growth's effect on development depends on age-structure; (2. historic population density (used here as an indicator of preindustrial social complexity) boosts contemporary economic performance; (3. ethnic polarization impairs economic growth; and (4. a nat…
Unpacking the Social Origins of Terrorism
The author's prior cross-national research found a negative relationship between the percent of the workforce that is female and terrorism. One explanation of this finding suggests that women are violence-averse and work to mitigate acts of political violence. Alternatively, women in the workforce may simply proxy for an economy with robust employment with fewer grievances or proxy for modernizing forces (e.g., democracy, secularism) that moderat…
Reevaluating the Global Digital Divide
The Global Digital Divide (GDD) in Internet and related forms of information technologies has gained some press and scholarly attention in recent years. Although the contours and causes of Internet diffusion around the globe are now better understood, a number of questions and avenues remain unanswered or unexplored, particularly concerning the role of socio-demographic structures and even conflict processes on Internet diffusion. This study addr…
Whither the Love of Hunting? Explaining the Decline of a Major Form of Rural Recreation as a Consequence of the Rise of Virtual Entertainment and Urbanism
Recent journalism and scholarship have noted a years-long decline in Americans' participation in rural forms of outdoor recreation such as hunting. While some attempt has been made to understand these declines few have analyzed the causes of these changes in a theoretically rigorous empirical manner. This study addresses this issue in two empirical approaches. First, we analyze survey data on hunting and various theoretical predictors from the Ge…
Integration Into Global Society
This cross-national study of the developing world investigates those modern and historical forces that drive current forms of political and social interdependency—what scholars increasingly term “global civil society” and “the world polity.” While some explanations maintain that political and social globalization are epiphenomena of a more fundamental economic globalization and/or that globalization in most of its forms is simply Westernization i…
Forced urbanisation
This article offers a ‘first step’ toward understanding the consequences of intranational political violence on the growth of a nation’s largest cities. Theory and research from studies on forced migration and internal displacement are used to construct several hypotheses that assess the impact that various forms of intranational political violence have on the growth of major urban areas within the developing world. Hypotheses are tested using a …
Making War on the Fabric of Society
Statements by politicians and pundits around the world suggest that terrorism uniquely threatens social order. Unfortunately, our knowledge about how terrorism affects generalized trust and social capital, which many view as foundations of civil society, is quite limited. In this paper we theorize that terrorism damages generalized social trust via its pernicious influence on the perceptions of safety and security in urban public spaces, particul…
Urbanization as a Gendered Process
This research note addresses the overlooked and undertheorized gendered dimensions of rural-urban migration in the developing world. Drawing on Ester Boserup's (1970/2007) framework, a macro-social theory is offered that links historic agricultural divisions of labor to gendered patterns of urbanization. Specifically, it is argued that nations with a history of male farming systems (MFS) are more likely to produce economic and cultural conditions…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (5 works)